Happy Together (Chun gwong cha sit)Chun gwong cha sit (1997)

	Leslie Cheung	Ho Po-wing
	Tony Leung Chiu Wai	Lai Yiu-fai
	Chen Chang	Chang
	Gregory Dayton	Lover
	Shirley Kwan	Lai Yiu-fai's Girlfriend
	Chang Chen
	Tony Leung
	Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Director

Kar Wai Wong
Wong Kar-Wai

Producer

Kar Wai Wong
Wong Kar-Wai

Writer/Composer

Kar Wai Wong
Wong Kar-Wai

Cinematography

Christopher Doyle

Music

Danny CHUNG

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

Edition Details
Original Title	Chun gwong cha sit
Distributor	BNT Entertainment, Bangkok
Release Date	May 2007
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	2/20/2020
Location	Personal Library
Owner	Deitz
Store	Amazon
Purchase Price	$36.83
Condition	New
Order	Order# 112-8261776-3576260
Links	+ Review: TimeOut magazine Happy Together at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org Rotten Tomatoes

References
Lists	‡ 50 Outstanding GLBT-Themed Films by Jim Clark, ‡ 175 Essential Films for GLBT Viewers from Advocate (6/23/2014), ‡ IMDB Gay Themed by carl75205, ‡ Rotten Tomatoes: 200 Best LGBT Movies of All Time, ‡ TimeOut Magazine London: 50 best gay movies (11/24/15)
Festivals & Awards	Cannes 1997
Rotten Critics Rating % (2021)	0

TimeOut Magazine Best Gay Films #3
Best Director Cannes 1997
"Wong Kar-Wai and cameraman Chris Doyle have crafted their most lyrical film. The romance between two gay men from Hong Kong ends soon after they arrive in Argentina. Lai (Leung) gets a job as a doorman at a Buenos Aires tango bar and starts saving for his ticket home. Ho (Cheung) turns tricks for fun and profit, but comes running back to Lai for comfort when one of his clients leaves him bruised and bleeding. Lai befriends - and somehow draws emotional strength from - a Taiwanese kid on his way south to 'the end of the world'. The three main characters give Wong all he needs for a piercing meditation on the meaning of partings, reunions, and attempts to start over. From afar (Buenos Aires is Hong Kong's antipodes), he crystallises the anxieties and hopes of Hong Kong people on the eve of the return to China." [Time Out]