Chinese Box
Chinese Box is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, and Michael Hui. It is set and was made at the time of Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China on June 30, 1997. The film credits Paul Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explores in his 1997 novel Kowloon Tong. It enjoyed modest box office success in the United States.
Plot
The movie unfolds at least nine different stories on very different levels.
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| author | Jean-Claude Carrière Larry Gross Wayne Wang |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Hong Kong |
| director | Wayne Wang |
| editor | Christopher Tellefsen |
| genre | drama romance |
| keywords | force modern life move rachel ingalls run away short story suffer true love trying to escape understand wed |
| musicBy | Graeme Revell |
| producer | Lydia Dean Pilcher |
| publisher | Trimark Pictures |
| theme | romantic drama |