2046: Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuade wjw1967 (Faye Wong) to travel back in time with him, the film soon shifts to the year 1966 in which Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a struggling author, asks the woman he loves, Su Li-Zhen (Gong Li) to sail with him from Singapore to Hong Kong on Christmas Eve. She declines, and over the next three years, we return to Chow Mo-Wan on December 24 as he finds himself with another woman each year: lighthearted Lulu (Carina Lau) in 1967, eccentric hotel heiress Wang Jing Wen (Faye Wong) in 1968, and high-class prostitute Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi) in 1969.
In time, Chow Mo-Wan and Wang Jing Wen become re-acquainted, and a love affair blooms, but the fates are not on their side...
Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he re-examines and amplifies the themes from his film 'In the Mood For Love' in this offbeat romantic drama.
As Tears Go By: Low-level triad "big brother" Wah (Andy Lau) has a hot-tempered "little brother" Fly (Jacky Cheung) who can't keep out of trouble, and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his protector. Wah is super cool, but lacks the ambition to rise in the ranks of the triad societies, and once he meets his cousin (Maggie Cheung), and falls in love with her, he decides he wants to leave "the life". But it turns out that he has to bail out Fly one more time. And this time, Fly may have gone too far....
Days Of Being Wild: Hong Kong 1960. In a sweltering hot summer, York (Leslie Cheung), an amoral disillusioned and cruel young man, is kept in luxury by his foster mother, a retired courtesan who gives him everything but the one thing he needs to know; the identity of his natural mother.
A self-obsessed man desperately seeking his true identity, York plays carelessly with his lovers, a lonely submissive bargirl (Maggie Cheung) and a beautiful club hostess/dancer (Carina Lau) and his friends, before leaving them all for Taiwan in search of the truth that has been denied and may ultimately destroy him....