"Days of Being Wild" Somewhere other than here - Why does Yodi, played by Leslie Cheung, dream of a southern paradise? ※note! It touches on the end of the movie.

Tony Léon: The Professional and Wong Kar-wai's passionate dream of "somewhere but here"

However, something happens.

In April 1990, one of the main cast members, Carina Lau, was almost forced to appear in a film sponsored by the black community, and when she flatly refused, she was abducted in retaliation. At that time, the Hong Kong film industry was in a situation where Southeast Asian organizations were creating film companies one after another with the aim of money laundering, and the situation was such that they were financially controlled, and if directors and actors refused to appear in the movie, they would be harassed with violence. There were many incidents of people receiving the same.

For example, bullets were fired into the agency that had an exclusive contract with Chow Hsin Chi, Jet Li's manager was shot dead, and bloody riots continued. Even Jackie Chan was caught up in the contract scandal and became the victim of an abduction incident. Karina was also caught up in the vortex.

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This incident was a huge trauma for her, but the person who dealt with it resolutely was Tony Léon: The Professional, who was in a relationship with Karina at the time, and later Karina realized that he was trying to protect her. He confessed that he had withdrawn from Wong Kar-wai's film. His decision was to provide emotional support to Kareena, who at one point even considered suicide, and he even suggested that they both quit acting. Karina testified to Tony's statements in Hong Kong media in the 2010s. "I'm quitting acting, so let's go to another country together. We've never been in a place like this." (RECORD CHINA broadcast on November 18, 2013)

Wong Kar-wai himself was fed up with the situation surrounding the Hong Kong film industry at the time, and was looking for a way to make films that did not rely on funding from the black community.

Somewhere other than here - that was the resolve that Tony Léon: The Professional and Wong Kar-wai had so earnestly wished for, and in place of Tony, the role was left to Leslie Cheung, who became the main character of this film.

The Birds flying towards paradise became a symbol of Leslie Cheung's way of life.