Days of Being Wild details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan, Jacky Cheung |
| Directors: | Kar Wai Wong, Wong Kar-Wai |
| Genres: | Drama - General, World Cinema - German |
| Original title | A Fei jingjyuhn |
| Name | Discs | |
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Days of Being Wild |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 34 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Main languages: | Mandarin |
| Subtitles: | English |
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In the mood for Wong Kar Wei?
By Waterboy (34 reviews) from Hertfordshire , 06 Apr 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
If you like Wong Kar Wai you will probably enjoy this film, but for me it wasn't in the same league as his later work. I started to watch this with a friend from Hong Kong and we gave up because of the dubbed mandarin. I returned to it later and enjoyed it, despite the loss of the actors original vocal performances. One for WKW completests. I suggest seeing 'In the mood for love first' to find out if you are in the mood for this directors other work, I'm a fan.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(18)5 stars for the film, 1 for the dub...
By a customer , 20 Sep 2012I'd read the warnings about this DVD being a Mandarin dub but I thought it would be fine. After all, the film is a lot about visuals, and I'd be reading the subtitles anyway.
How I wish I had taken the warnings more seriously! The Mandarin dub HUGELY affected my enjoyment of the film. Instead of feeling involved with the film, it was as though the bad dub had put a wall between me and it. I love to sink into films, and that was impossible with this distracting, distancing dub. Not only that, I'd greatly underestimated how much Leslie Cheung's beautiful voice adds to a film - how I missed hearing him speak!
After watching this version of the film, I watched clips of the original Cantonese version on the internet, and it was a completely different experience. A thousand times better.
Be warned....- Was this review helpful to you?
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terrible mandarin dub of great movie
By a customer , 11 Apr 2011This is a terrible mandarin dub of a great movie - the music soundtrack (an essential component of wong kar wai film style) has been completely changed - it's now Kenny G! All the drama/tension and emotion are removed from the film - avoid renting this unless you are a mandarin speaker and don't want to read subtitles.- Was this review helpful to you?
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NOT THE ORIGINAL VERSION.
By a customer from London , 26 Feb 2010The Watch-It-Now viewing is showing a DUBBED Mandarin version with English subtitles, NOT the original Cantonese version with English subtitles. The absence of the original voices (of Leslie Cheung, of Maggie Cheung!) diminishes this film's beauty. Please put up the original version of this masterpiece!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Really awful version of this film....
By a customer from Liverpool , 12 Jun 2009The issue of this being a dubbed version of the film seems to be quite a common gripe amongst reviewers - I too had major issues with this and had to give up after about 10 mins. The dubbing from Cantonese into Mandarin is appalling. REALLY appalling. I'm far from being fluent in Cantonese or Mandarin but it's so painfully obvious that something honks to high heaven with this issue of the film. I'd really like to see the original version sometime as I've enjoyed several of the director's other films... Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood For Love (and 2046..)- Was this review helpful to you?
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Boring.!
By Luckyluke (74 reviews) from London , 23 May 2009One of the most boring films i've seen. Being made in Japanese doesn't help either. ~A complete waste of time and effort.- Was this review helpful to you?
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