“Having the atomic bomb as a theme is a serious endeavor - even more so if you were born in Hiroshima in 1938. And yet, if you’ve seen Obayashi’s ‘House’ what you probably remember is the silliness - like the head of the hungry girl who takes one final bite, or the skeleton dance sequence, or the hungry piano. What you might not recall is any serious engagement with the atomic bomb. There’s the World War II backstory that the…
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Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together' 1999
"After Leslie passed, I continued keeping his number in my cellphone. There was a time I accidentally pressed the number and heard a very familiar voice asking to ‘leave a message’. I left a message saying, ‘Why don’t we start over from the beginning?’ When we filmed Happy Together, that was a line Ho Po Wing often used when speaking to Lai Yiu Fai."
--Tony Leung
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