World of Wong Kar Wai (The Criterion Collection) (As Tears Go By / Days of Being Wild / Chungking Express / Fallen Angels / Happy Together / In the Mood for Love / 2046) [Blu-ray]

Seven-disc set includes: As Tears Go By (1988)The directorial debut of filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, this crime drama blends what would become his trademark lyricism and romance with the Hong Kong action style. Tough Triad hood Wah (Andy Lau) finds himself torn between loyalty to his trouble-prone pal and partner Fly (Jacky Cheung) and his attraction to ailing cousin Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who offers Wah a way out of his dead-end life. 102 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NRC/Rtg: Days Of Being Wild (1991)Leslie Cheung is Yuddy, a handsome womanizer in 1960s Hong Kong who reserves his true feelings for the birth mother he never knew. As Yuddy searches for his mother, he woos and abandons a beautiful shopgirl (Maggie Cheung), setting in motion a chain of dramatic confrontations. Writer/director Wong Kar-Wai's emotional character study also stars Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung. 89 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NRC/Rtg: Chungking Express (1994)At once funny and touchin