#WayneWang's love letter to Hong Kong coincides with its 1997 handover to China from the British rule. #JeremyIrons is a Brit journalist who never figured out the place where everyone speaks money. #GongLi is a business woman who can't get out of the shadows of her past & #MaggieCheung is a young woman, can't get over her first love. Thanks to Wang and Jean-Claude Carrière, they are not merely stand-ins for the dying empire, old generation bound by tradition & bitter new generation. #chinesebox