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How Wong Kar-wai – Hong Kong director of In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express and Happy Together – inspired filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Barry Jenkins

His films are regarded as modern day classics, and have had a profound influence on the making of other great movies like Lost in Translation and Moonlight

Hong Kong cinema has provided the world with some of the greatest filmmakers of the last 50 years. If you want kung fu there’s Jackie Chan and Jet Li, if you want comedy there’s Stephen Chow, if you want gangster flicks there’s Johnnie To, if you want all-out action there’s John Woo.

Standing above all of them, though, is Wong Kar-wai. The director of In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express and Happy Together is the only Hongkonger to have won the best director award at Cannes. Whatever tremendously entertaining films other Hong Kong directors may have made, Wong is arguably the only director from the city to be treated as an auteur worthy of serious study.

As he celebrates his 62nd birthday on July 17 here are 5 things to know about the auteur.

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