The film takes place in Hong Kong, 1962. Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung), a journalist, rents a room in an apartment of a building on the same day as So Lai-zhen (Maggie Cheung), a secretary from a shipping company. They become next-door neighbors. Each has a spouse who works and often leaves them alone on overtime shifts. Despite the presence of a friendly Shanghainese landlady, Mrs. Suen, and bustling, mahjong-playing neighbours, Chow and So often find themselves alone in their rooms. Their lives continue to intersect in everyday situations: a recurring motif in this film is the loneliness of eating alone, and the film documents the leads' chance encounters, each making their individual trek to the street noodle stall. Chow and So each nurse suspicions about their own spouse's fidelity; each comes to the conclusion that their spouses have been seeing each other. So wonders aloud how their spouse's affair might have began, and together, So and Chow re-enact what they imagine might have happened. [wikipedia]

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• Jul 3, 2012 1 of 1 episodes seen

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  • Overall  10
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  wonderful photography and soundtrack and a very unusual edition. melancholic, slow beautiful story. complicated, full of turns and tricks.
  
  acting is outstanding and sizzling and chemistry between lead actors is going to make you crazy.
  
  OST is a definite 10. this is a music which is going to stay with you for many years.
  No summary can do it justice then watch it.

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  2046

  2046 is loose sequel of 'In the Mood for Love'. Both are from same director and have same lead actor. Both have beautiful music and many more similarities.

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