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Days of Being Wild ()

Ah fei jing juen (original title)
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A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
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Yuddy
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Su Li-zhen
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Tide
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Leung Fung-ying
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Rebecca (as Tik-Wa Poon)
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Zeb
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Chow Mo-wan (as Tony Chiu Wai Leung)
Danilo Antunes ...
Rebecca's Lover
Mei-Mei Hung ...
The Amah
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Nurse
Tita Muñoz ...
Yuddy's Mother
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Housekeeper
Elena Lim So ...
Hotel Manageress
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Hotel Maid
Angela Ponos ...
Prostitute
Nonong Talbo ...
Train Conductor

Directed by

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Kar-Wai Wong

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Jeffrey Lau ... ()
 
Kar-Wai Wong ... ()

Produced by

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Wing-Kwong Chan ... associate producer (as Joseph Chan)
Candy Leung ... executive producer
Alan Tang ... executive producer
Rover Tang ... producer

Music by

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Terry Chan

Cinematography by

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Christopher Doyle

Editing by

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Kit-Wai Kai
Patrick Tam
William Chang ... (uncredited)

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Stanley Wing Siu ... post-production coordinator (as Stanley Siu)

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William Chang

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Shui-Lin Lo ... makeup artist
Ming-Fai Tsang ... makeup artist

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JoAnn Cabalda Banaga ... first assistant director: Philippine (as JoAnn Cabalda-Banaga)
Johnnie Kong ... first assistant director
Rosanna Ng ... first assistant director

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Steve Chan ... sound mixer (as Wai Hung Chan)
Benny Chu ... sound recordist
Chung-Wai Leung ... assistant sound
Ching Siu-Lung ... sound mixer
Tak-Wing Tam ... assistant sound
King-Bing Wong ... dubbing editor: mandarin

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Joseph Chi ... special effects coordinator (as Joseph Chu)

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To-Hoi Kong ... action coordinator
Kin-Kwan Poon ... action coordinator
Wei Tung ... action coordinator

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Tat-Chuen Cheung ... gaffer
Oli Laperal Jr. ... steadicam operator
Calmen Lui ... focus puller
Hon-Leung Tong ... gaffer

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Eddie Gujman ... dance orchestrator
Leurona-Lombardo Óflyne ... composer: theme music

Script and Continuity Department

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Bo Shun Chan ... script supervisor
Tuan Lin ... continuity (as Shui Lin)
Wai-Hung Wong ... script supervisor

Additional Crew

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Wing-Kwong Chan ... planner
Je Fong ... caterer
Ji-Chiang Kuo ... production assistant
Romuald Lagoude ... delivery manager: reissue
Rover Tang ... presenter
Patricia Yew ... production advisor

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Plot Summary

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. Written by van_whistler@hotmail.com

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Also Known As
  • 阿飛正傳 (Hong Kong, Cantonese title)
  • Ah fei zing zyun (Hong Kong, Cantonese title)
  • Days of Being Wild (Hong Kong, English title)
  • The True Story of a Hoodlum (Hong Kong, English title)
  • The True Story of a Hoodlum (World-wide, English title)
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Runtime
  • 100 min
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Cumulative Worldwide Gross $4,353,792

Did You Know?

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Trivia The film was supposed to be the first part of a project. But due to its relatively poor performance at the box office when it was first released, the producers decided not to finish the second part. The nameless character that appears in the last scene played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai is supposedly the main character in the second part. See more »
Goofs When Tide checks into the hotel, the hotel manageress hands him the key to Room 206. However, in the next scene, Tide uses the key to enter Room 204. This, however, may not be so much a 'goof' as another recurrence of the number '2046' seen so often in Wong Kar-Wai's films. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Still Love You After All These (1997). See more »
Soundtracks Jungle Drums (Cantonese cover) See more »
Quotes Yuddy: I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere. It was dead from the beginning.
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