Perhaps Love (2005 film)
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DVD cover of Perhaps Love
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| Traditional | 如果·愛 |
| Simplified | 如果·爱 |
| Mandarin | Rúguǒ. Ài |
| Directed by | Peter Chan |
| Produced by | Peter Chan Andre Morgan |
| Written by | Lam Oi-wah Raymond To |
| Starring |
Zhou Xun Takeshi Kaneshiro Jacky Cheung |
| Music by |
Peter Kam Leon Ko |
| Cinematography |
Christopher Doyle Peter Pau |
| Edited by | Wenders Li Kwong Chi-leung |
| Distributed by | Celestial Pictures |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language |
Cantonese Mandarin |
| Budget | US$10 million |
| Box office | US$7 million |
| Perhaps Love - Original Soundtrack [Special Deluxe Edition] | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | November 21, 2005 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | EMI Music |
Perhaps Love is a 2005 Hong Kong musical film directed by Peter Chan, written by Lam Oi-wah and Raymond To, and choreographed by Farah Khan. It was funded by Astro Shaw and TVB, and was distributed by Celestial Pictures.
The film was submitted by Hong Kong as its official entry for the 2006 Academy Awards. It closed the Venice Film Festival in 2005.
A Chinese director Nie Wen (Jacky Cheung) decides to make a musical film starring his Chinese girlfriend Sun Na (Zhou Xun) and Hong Kong actor Lin Jian-dong (Takeshi Kaneshiro). Unknown to him, Sun has met Lin before ten years ago when she was a cabaret singer in Beijing. The two had a relationship together then, when Lin was a film student. Ten years later, now a huge movie star, Sun refuses to acknowledge they have met before.
Nie plans his musical, which includes a plot where a girl loses her memory and comes to live with a circus troupe. Sun plays the amnesiac girl and Lin her former boyfriend who tries to revive her memories. As the shooting of the film starts, reel life and real life overlap. Lin tries desperately to win back Sun's lost love, while Nie discovers their past romance. Nie himself plays the role of the obsessive circus owner in the musical, who is involved in a love triangle. Just like in real life, he has Lin as his rival.
Ji Jin-hee plays Monty, a fantasy character who has a number of different roles in the film including a noodle shop owner and a reporter.
Perhaps Love was filmed in Beijing and Shanghai. The film is the first musical to be produced in China in over forty years.
Estimates put the cost of the film at about US$10 million to produce. The film earned US$2.2 million on its opening weekend.
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