Leslie Cheung (left) and Tony Leung in a still from Happy Together. Wong Kar-wai’s film won him the prize for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
Classic Hong Kong movie Happy Together, 25 years on: Wong Kar-wai on his Cannes-winning gay romance, starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung
- Happy Together was a Hong Kong story set in Argentina, Wong said, but had little in common with the gay-themed films that were starting to appear in the city
- Tony Leung was thrown by the sex scene he had to perform, worried about what his mother would think. He did the scene, but demanded he kept his underwear on
Leslie Cheung (left) and Tony Leung in a still from Happy Together. Wong Kar-wai’s film won him the prize for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
