Perhaps Love (2005)
如果·愛
A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.
- Date of release
- 2005-12-01
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (58)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Director
- Peter Chan
Casting
- Takeshi Kaneshiro — Lin Jian-Dong
- Zhou Xun — Sun Na
- Jacky Cheung Hok-yau — Nie Wen
- Ji Jin-hee — Monty
- Eric Tsang Chi-wai — Producer
- Sandra Ng Kwan-yu — Lin's Manager
- Hans Zhang — Hsian Ping
- Zhang Jiayi — Crossroad Hooker
- Shang Tielong — Jin
- Lü Xiaolin — "Forget Me Not" Film Crew
- Yiqun Zhang — Press Con MC
- Zhang Lei
Interesting facts
- Box office: $7M
- Budget: $10M
- Earned 0.7× its budget
- Awards: 3 · Nominations: 8. Including: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress; Hong Kong Film Award for Best Cinematography; Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song
Perhaps Love is a 2005 Hong Kong musical film directed by Peter Chan, written by Lam Oi-wah and Raymond To, choreographed by Farah Khan and starring Zhou Xun, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jacky Cheung. It was funded by Astro Shaw and TVB, and was distributed by Celestial Pictures. The film closed the 62nd Venice International Film Festival. It was submitted by Hong Kong as its official entry for the 78th Academy Awards.
Production
Perhaps Love was filmed in Beijing and Shanghai. The film is the first musical blockbuster film to be produced in China in 35 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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