Days of Being Wild

– The movie is set in Hong Kong and the Philippines in 1960. Yuddy, or 'York' in English, is a playboy..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 34 Minutes
Release Year:
1990
Original Name:
阿飛正傳
Days of Being Wild (1990) - Also known as 阿飛正傳

The movie is set in Hong Kong and the Philippines in 1960. Yuddy, or 'York' in English, is a playboy in Hong Kong and is well-known for stealing girls' hearts and breaking them. His first victim is Li Zhen who suffered emotional and mental depression as a result of Yuddy's wayward attitude. Li Zhen eventually seeks much-needed solace from a sympathetic policeman named Tide.

Days of Being Wild (1990) - Trailer

Release Date:

15 Dec 1990

Language:

Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tagalog, English, Mandarin

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Kar-Wai Wong

Writer:

Jeffrey Lau, Kar-Wai Wong

Main Actors:

Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau

Plot:

Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.

Awards:

17 wins & 9 nominations.

Gross profit:

$18,090

Production:

Rim

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
Metacritic:
96%