The idea they'd been noodling on — providing a rewards layer for real life — started to take on a life of its own, and Guertin saw in Wong a perfect business compliment.
What Wong hopes to illuminate in Wong Street, is the patronizing way that Americans view Africans.
By David Denby Ziyi Zhang and Tony Leung in Wong Kar-wai's gorgeous film.
An art gallery in Central will soon open in Wong Chuk Hang, too.
Those buttoned-up dresses with their come-hither, thigh-high side split might have looked the epitome of chic in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love, but rarely did they translate on to the high street.
These two lonely souls (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung), apartment-next-door neighbors in Wong Kar-wei's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2001), keep running into each other when Mrs. Chang runs out late at night to buy noodles.
Mr. Yau and Ms. Li's Ip Man is a far cry from the hero popularly portrayed by Donnie Yen in two earlier hit movies, or by Tony Leung as the smoldering fighter in Wong Kar-wai's film "The Grandmaster".
An upscale restaurant called Culinart took up residency earlier this year in a somewhat down-at-the-heels industrial building in Wong Chuk Hang, an anything-but-fashionable neighborhood that is not on Hong Kong's efficient subway system.
Mega-famous she may be – she has sold nearly 40 million albums and in 2007 she made her film debut in Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights, alongside Jude Law and Natalie Portman – but she does not court the limelight.
Sometimes the reversals are biting, as in last year's decision in Wong v. Belmontes, a death penalty case concerning a 1981 murder by Fernando Belmontes in the course of a burglary.
Leaving room to improvise, Mr. Lee talked through the physical and emotional content of each scene with Mr. Leung (the Hong Kong star best known here for his roles in Wong Kar-wai's films) and Ms. Tang (who had never before acted in a film).
