Wong Kar Wai, the award-winning Hong Kong film director, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his production company, Jet Tone Films, with a two-day auction at Sotheby’s of collectibles from his movies.
The star lot of the first of the two auctions on October 9 is the debut of Wong’s first-ever non-fungible token (NFT) creation, In the Mood for Love—Day One, edited from never-before-seen footage shot on the first production day of In The Mood For Love. The 2000 romance film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Technical Prize and where Tony Leung Chiu-wai became the first Hong Kong actor to be awarded Best Actor. The work, which features Leung and his costar Maggie Cheung, is the first Asian film NFT to be offered in international auction houses.
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