Details

Release year: 2005

Storyline

A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.

Top credits

Directors

Peter Ho-Sun Chan

Writers

Cast

Takeshi Kaneshiro — Lin Jian-dong, Zhang Yang
Xun Zhou — Sun Na, Xiaoyu
Jacky Cheung — Nie Wen, The Circus Master
Ji Jin-hee — Monty

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Did you know

• The Shanghai sequences were lensed by Peter Pau, while Christopher Doyle lensed the Beijing sequences.

• In an interview with the Malaysian newspaper The Star, director Peter Chan said that "Perhaps Love" is a love story, not a musical. It's not even being promoted as a musical. It's not a musical in the conventional sense. His characters don't break out into song. Initially, it was a challenge for him to balance the over-the-top element in musicals and the subtleties of a movie. In the end, the method he used to overcome that was to make a movie-within-a-movie. The interview appeared in the 25 November 2005 edition of The Star, as Peter Chan was in Kuala Lumpur to promote his film.

• Ji Jin-hee's role as the angel was offered to Andy Lau originally.