67 years ago today, July 17, 1958 (June 1, 1958 in the lunar calendar), Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was born. Famous Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was born in Shanghai on July 17, 1958. He moved to Hong Kong with his father in 1963. After Wong Kar-wai graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1980, majoring in graphic design, Wong Kar-wai directed the film "Carmen in Mong Kok" for the first time in 1988. In 1988, he first directed the film "Carmen in Mong Kok"; he was selected for the 1989 Cannes Film Festival (Cannes Film Festival) Film Critics Week Exhibition Works Series. His unique personal style and keen tentacles were praised as a cutting-edge director with extraordinary talent at the time. In 1990, he gathered six of Hong Kong's most popular actors to direct the film "The True Story of A Fei". The film won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor. In 1992, with his astonishing courage, he filmed a large-scale ancient martial arts film "Evil of the East and Evil of the West" in two years. With its surging momentum and a brilliant epic that seemed like magic and fantasy, he was selected for the first time at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. In the same year, during the post-production period of "The Evil of the East and the Poison of the West", he completed another popular film "Chongqing Forest" in just two months, which made him deeply recognized in the international film industry. In 1995, he completed "The Fallen Angel" and premiered it at the Toronto International Film Festival. Its alternative and refined style became the focus of the film festival. In 1997,"Spring Flows Together" was selected for the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival (Cannes Film Festival) and received unanimous praise. Wong Kar-wai became the first Chinese director to win the Best Director Award at the film exhibition. A film "In the Mood for Love", which is set in the 1960s, with Hong Kong as the backdrop, and reflects on the old dreams of previous years and remembers the colorful warmth of the floating world. Maggie Cheung and Leung Chiu-wai collaborated again, has been presented in the international and Hong Kong film circles in the millennium. It has also won the Best Special Technology Award and Best Actor Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival (Cannes Film Festival). In the last two decades of the 20th century, the Chinese film industry contributed many outstanding works and directors to the world film industry, and Wong Kar-wai is undoubtedly one of the most noteworthy film authors. His six works so far have successfully constructed a unique "Wong Kar-wai" film aesthetics based on their extremely stylized visual images, postmodern expressions and keen grasp of the spiritual temperament of urban people. In his early years, when he studied graphic design at the Hong Kong Arts and Crafts School, he was madly fascinated by photography. In particular, the works of masters such as Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Richard Avedon had a profound impact on him. After graduating from school in 1980, he entered the television production training class run by Hong Kong TVB to learn script writing and film and television production, and later served as a production assistant and screenwriter in a series of TVB TV series. In 1982, Wong Kar-wai left Wireless and officially entered the film industry. He first worked as a film screenwriter for nearly five years. In 1987, Wong Kar-wai wrote the script for the series "Gangster Trilogy" for Tam Kar-ming, the main star of Hong Kong's new wave films. As a result, Tam Kar-ming only used the last one to make "The Last Victory", and the first one became the script for Wong Kar-wai's first director's work "Carmen Mong Kok" in 1988. The uniqueness of Wong Kar-wai's films lies first of all in his deep understanding of the city and era in which he lived. Wong Kar-wai relied on these iconic elements to compose Hong Kong at the end of a century. The most obvious examples are "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angel"(Of course, you can also regard the lonely and indifferent desert in "The Evil of the East" as a allegorized modern city, and the rootless feeling of being far away in a foreign land in "Spring Flows Together" is also a reflection of Hong Kong, a colonial city in another foreign time and space). Of course, when it comes to Wong Kar-wai's films, you will immediately think of the trance and dazzling shaking shots taken by handheld cameras, irregular picture compositions and bright but indifferent color tones. The irony of fast-food love in "Chongqing Forest", the delicate entanglement of feelings in "Spring Flows Together", and the scene in "The Fallen Angel" where Jin Chengtakeshi makes ice cream for his father are all unforgettable.