Watching 2046, I wonder what it could possibly mean to anyone not familiar with Wong's work and style.

In 2004, Philip Leibfried and Chei Mi Lane's exhaustive examination of Wong's career, Anna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television Work was published, as well as a second full-length biography, Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend by Graham Russell Hodges.

Wong's most famous disciples included Wong Hon-hei ( his son ), Lam Sai-wing, Leung Foon, Dang Fong, Wong Sai-wing and Ling Wan-kai.

Wong's wife Mok Kwai-lan ( 莫桂蘭 ) and his two sons, along with his students Lam Sai-wing and Dang Sai-king ( 鄧世瓊 ), later moved to Hong Kong and established martial arts schools there.

Wong's career took off when he directed the film Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), despite losing Alan Tang millions of invested dollars.

A crime melodrama of the kind then hugely popular, it heavily borrowed from Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1974 ), but already displayed one of Wong's principal trademarks in its atmospheric and sometimes expressionistic color palette.

Wong's fourth movie, Ashes of Time ( 1994 ), released between Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, applied his approach to a star-studded wuxia ( martial arts swordplay ) story ; the desert shoot in Mainland China dragged on for over a year and resulted in one of contemporary Hong Kong cinema's most notorious commercial disasters.

Popular venues have included Comerica Theatre, Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, Marquee Theater, The Clubhouse ( no longer open due to shooting ), Nile Theater, Long Wong's, Nita's Hideaway, The Mason Jar, Modified Arts, Trunk Space, Paper Heart Gallery, Club Red, and Compton Terrace.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family — Dana's father William ( Don S. Davis ), mother Margaret ( Sheila Larken ) and sister Melissa ( Melinda McGraw )— as well as conspiracy-buff trio The Lone Gunmen.

These are available on the Japanese laserdisc release of Wong's Fallen Angels ( 1995 ), as well as various bootlegged VCD releases of Wong's features.

It consists of a 2m 28s montage of scenes from vintage Chinese films, most of which were considered lost until some nitrate prints were discovered in a California warehouse during the 1990s, set to a song from the soundtrack of Wong's In the Mood for Love ( 2000 ), a golden oldie by Zhou Xuan.

Hong played Jeff Wong, Cassandra Wong's father ( who happens to be a martial arts expert ), in the 1993 comedy sequel Wayne's World 2.

The area also appeared in Anna Mae Wong's 1929 film Piccadilly, where, as the toughly alluring Shosho, Ms. Wong was said to embody the Limehouse Chinatown mystique.

Rosenbaum, in a summary of the film, criticised it for having a vague plotline and chastised Wong's " lurching around ".

Wong's father also quoted her daughter saying that acting in the film were her best memories.

During this time it transpired there would be difficulties in securing the necessary permission to shoot in Beijing with Wong's spontaneous methods of working and potential political sensitivities in setting his film in mid-20th century China.

The cast of Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in A Story of Food, soon to become In the Mood for Love, provided an opportunity to pick up a loose thread of Days of Being Wild, as both actors had appeared in that film, although never together, and Leung's few scenes had been left incomplete, awaiting Wong's planned sequel that was never made.

Wong's plan to make a film set primarily in Hong Kong did not simplify matters when it came to the shoot, because the city's appearance was much changed since the 1960s, and Wong's personal nostalgia for the time added to his desire for historical accuracy.

Further, a brief portion later in the film is set in Singapore ( one of Wong's initial inspirations on the story of the film had been a short story set in Singapore, Intersection, by the Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang ).

For Wong's film, Cheung, playing a married woman in her thirties who had carried over the elegance of her younger years in the pre-revolutionary mainland, would again wear qipao, known in Cantonese as cheongsam, and spoke of it as the way of understanding her character Su Li-zhen, whose quiet strength Cheung felt was unlike her own more spontaneous spirit.

The critic Tony Rayns, on the other hand, noted in a commentary on another Wong film that the differing styles of the two cinematographers were blended seamlessly by Wong's own fluid aesthetic.

Like all of Wong's previous work, this one was shot on film, not digitally.

Leung also stars in Wong's film currently in progress as of 2012, The Grandmasters.

The 1946 song, used in Wong's film, is a paean to a happy past and an oblique metaphor for the darkness of Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

Wong's film was also the highest ranked film by a Chinese filmmaker, and the highest ranked film from a post-colonial region outside the United States, Japan and Europe.

Wong's biographer, Graham Russell Hodges, commented that this may be why the film remained one of Wong's personal favorites.

Wong's sister, Mary Liu Heung Wong, appeared in the film in the role of the Little Bride.

In contrast to the usual official Chinese condemnation of Wong's film roles, the Chinese consul to Los Angeles gave his approval to the final scripts of two of these films, Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 ) and King of Chinatown ( 1939 ).

Nevertheless, the importance of Wong's legacy within the Asian-American film community can be seen in the Anna May Wong Award of Excellence, which is given yearly at the Asian-American Arts Awards ; the annual award given out by the Asian Fashion Designers was also named after Wong in 1973.

For decades following her death, Wong's image remained as a symbol in literature as well as in film.

David Wong's book John Dies at the End, the book opens with David musing about the continual identity of an axe which has its handle replaced after it is damaged in the course of the slaying of a man, and then the head replaced after being used to slay a half-badger, half-anaconda monstrosity.

In the Village Voice, J. Hoberman wrote :" The acme of neo-new-wavism, the ultimate in MTV alienation, the most visually voluptuous flick of the fin de siécle, a pyrotechnical wonder about mystery, solitude, and the irrational love of movies that pushes Wong's style to the brink of self-parody.

National candidate Pansy Wong filed a complaint to the electoral commission about Wang's billboards which exhorted " Vote for Wang, get Wang and Wong " ( because Pansy Wong's high rank on the National Party List assured her of a seat in parliament ).

Jake Wong's cafe operated from about 1920 until early 1950s when his daughter Lily and son-in-law Tommy Chow took it over.

* Fei Fong Wong, the lead character in the Square video game Xenogears, was named after Wong Fei-hung ( his name being written the same in katakana as Wong's name is written ).

It was an indirect way of expression without compromising the possibility of arrest by security forces ( see Jan Wong's account of these poems in Red China Blues ).

Stephen Holden, of the New York Times, said it was a more coherent, heartfelt movie than Wong's previous films, without losing the stylism and brashness of his earlier efforts.

" He deprecated Wong's cinematography, labelling it " random experimentation " and went on to say this was " unbearably tedious " due to the lack of narrative.

He received a telephone call at the last minute from Wong's father, stating that the actress was in poor health and not in good condition to attend the premiere.

It was Wong's intention to make two films, one of which would be titled Beijing Summer, the plot unclear at the time, but eventually taking form in Macau.

Following Wong's death, councillor Doug Craig served as interim chair until he was succeeded by Frank Mazzuca, a former mayor of Capreol, in a 1998 by-election.

The video was shot by famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who has worked on most of Wong's films and has also shot films by directors Gus Van Sant, Barry Levinson and Phillip Noyce.

Wong's character was a dealer in Chinese art whose career involved her in detective work and international intrigue.

Wong's character in Shanghai Express was the subject of John Yau's 1989 poem " No One Ever Tried to Kiss Anna May Wong ", which interprets the actress ' career as a series of tragic romances.

In David Cronenberg's 1993 film version of David Henry Hwang's 1986 play, M. Butterfly, Wong's image was used briefly as a symbol of a " tragic diva ".

Wong's first encounter with Bruce Lee was in 1967, in Los Angeles, California, where Lee was giving a Kung Fu seminar.

The closest thing to a concrete, open implementation of the system is Meng Weng Wong's StubMail, which was presented at Google in July 2006.

Though he was a student of Wong in Wing Chun, he was actually Wong's sifu in the pole fighting skill.