Days of Being Wild
Movie, 1990, Named by critics, Set in First in the trilogy
Days of Being Wild is #16 of 48 in release order and #22 of 48 in chronological order in the Spiritual Trilogies.
The story
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
Days of Being Wild recap
In Hong Kong in 1960, Yuddy, a handsome idler, charms Su Li-zhen, who works a counter at a sports stadium, by asking her to remember one minute they spent together. He then drops her and takes up with Mimi, a cabaret dancer. His friend Zeb loves Mimi without hope. Yuddy fights with his adoptive mother Rebecca, a former courtesan who will not tell him who his birth mother is. Heartbroken, Li-zhen talks through the night with Tide, a lonely police officer on patrol who tells her to call a public phone he passes each night. Tide later leaves the police after his mother dies and goes to sea. Rebecca finally tells Yuddy his mother is in the Philippines; he leaves without telling Mimi and finds his mother's house, but she refuses to see him. It opens Wong Kar-wai's Love Trilogy, set in the same 1960s Hong Kong as In the Mood for Love and 2046.
Days of Being Wild ending explained
Yuddy is shot dead on a train in the Philippines. Tide, now a sailor, finds him drunk in Manila and helps him. Yuddy tries to buy a fake passport, stabs a man in a dispute, and the two flee onto a train. Yuddy admits he remembers Li-zhen but tells Tide to say he forgot. Moments later he is shot dead on the train. In Hong Kong the phone Tide gave Li-zhen rings with no one to answer, and in a final scene a stranger in a low room dresses carefully to go out.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Where to watch Days of Being Wild
Days of Being Wild is streaming on HBO Max in the US.
Ratings
IMDb 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Prince of Darkness, before Three Colours: Blue.
- Chronological order: after Three Colours: Red, before In the Mood for Love.
Cast
- Leslie Cheung as Yuddy
- Maggie Cheung as Su Li-zhen
- Andy Lau as Tide
- Carina Lau as Leung Fung-ying
- Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau as Zeb
- Rebecca Pan as Rebecca
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Chow Mo-wan
- Hung Ling-Ling as Nurse
- Angela Ponos as Prostitute
- Danilo Antunes as Rebecca's Lover
- Elena Lim So as Hotel Manageress
- Mei-Mei Hung as Amah
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai.