In the Mood for Love (Blu-ray)

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Chungking Express’s Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Irma Vep’s Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk) move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

• 4k Digital restoration with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai
• Documentary from 2001 by Wong, chronicling the making of the film
• Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong
• Interview and cinema lesson from 2001 featuring Wong
• Press conference from the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival with actors Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and Tony Leung Chiu-wai
• Interview from 2012 with critic Tony Rayns about the soundtrack
• Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wong
• Music video
• Trailer
• PLUS: A new essay by novelist Charles Yu