The essential Tony Leung: Where to find the 'Shang-Chi' standout's best movies
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 03, 2021
4 minutes
In the swooningly beautiful 1990 film "Days of Being Wild," Tony Leung gets one of the greatest entrances — and exits — ever accorded an actor in a single movie. Remarkably, the entrance and the exit are the same scene.
In the movie's final moments, the writer-director Wong Kar-wai turns the camera on a character we haven't met yet: a handsome young cardsharp in a low-ceilinged flat, preparing for a night on the town. Who this man is and how he relates to the other characters in this drifty '60s Hong Kong roundelay is a mystery. Still, you can tell a lot about him just from the way he buffs his nails, runs a comb through his hair and
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