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Days of Being Wild
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #817
- IMDb #1354
- Rotten Tomatoes #622
- Metacritic #136
- Letterboxd #1061
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #956
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #821
- Metacritic Critics #111
- Metacritic Audience #447
- Criticker #513
- Kinopoisk #1848
- AlloCiné #1661
- Trakt #1941
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Metacritic critics on 93. Critics average 92, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1960s Hong Kong, a narcissistic and restless man drifts through relationships, emotionally damaging a shy woman and a glamorous dancer. He is obsessed with finding his birth mother, who abandoned him, a search that fuels his self-destructive behavior. The film follows the interconnected lives of those he leaves in his wake.
Details
- Director
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Writers
- Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai, Wong Kar-Wai
- Released
- 15 December 1990
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language
- Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tagalog, English, Mandarin
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $3.3M
- Awards
- 12 wins, 8 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (16) →
Awards & nominations
See all 20 →12 wins from 20 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Golden Bauhinia Awards 1997 | Best Hong Kong film of the last 10 years | N/a | Winner |
| 37th Asia Pacific Film Festival 1992 | Best Actor | Leslie Cheung | Nominee |
| Golden Horse Awards 1991 | Best Director | Wong Kar-wai | Winner |
| Golden Horse Awards 1991 | Best Art Direction | William Chang | Winner |
| Golden Horse Awards 1991 | Best Makeup and Costume Design | William Chang | Winner |
| Golden Horse Awards 1991 | Best Editing | Patrick Tam and Kai Kit-wai | Winner |
| Golden Horse Awards 1991 | Best Sound Recording | 陳偉雄 | Winner |
| Golden Horse Awards 1991 | Best Leading Actor | Leslie Cheung | Nominee |
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20 awards — Days of Being Wild
×| Best Art Direction | William Chang | Winner |
| Best Director | Wong Kar-wai | Winner |
| Best Editing | Patrick Tam and Kai Kit-wai | Winner |
| Best Makeup and Costume Design | William Chang | Winner |
| Best Sound Recording | 陳偉雄 | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Rebecca Pan | Winner |
| Best Feature Film | N/a | Nominee |
| Best Leading Actor | Leslie Cheung | Nominee |
| Best Leading Actress | Carina Lau | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Leslie Cheung | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | William Chang | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Christopher Doyle | Winner |
| Best Director | Wong Kar-Wai | Winner |
| Best Film | N/a | Winner |
| Best Actress | Carina Lau | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Patrick Tam | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Wong Kar-wai | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Rebecca Pan | Nominee |
| Best Hong Kong film of the last 10 years | N/a | Winner |
| Best Actor | Leslie Cheung | Nominee |