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Happy Together (1997)

★ 7.6 · 795 ratings on TMDB

Lonely people are all the same.

Happy Together poster★ 7.6

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

DirectorWong Kar-Wai
CastChang Chen, Gregory Dayton, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Happy Together keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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