in hong kong and 1962 and the editor chow mo wan ( tony leung chiu wai ) and his wife and and the secretary su li zhen chan ( maggie cheung ) and her husband simultaneously move to an old building . each couple have just rent a room in apartment on the same floor . their wife and husband stay most of the time away from home and and chow and li zhen have the same habit represent they like kung fu story and noodle and soap from a restaurant nearby the building . their close contact become friendship and a sort of platonic and repress love . later they realize that their mate be have an affair and chow fall in love with li zhen and but her shyness and probably repress condition of married woman keep her love in a platonic level . in the mood for love be a very slow and beautiful and melancholic and romantic love story and with a wonderful photography and soundtrack and a very unusual edition . the film have not have a screenplay and and the actor be never sure about what they would be shoot . later and the director edit his story base on the footage . when chow move to singapore and there be a gap of many year in the story until 1966 and when it conclusion be intentionally open and not well define and leave question such a who be the boy with li zhen . my vote be eight . title ( brazil ) represent amor à flor da pele ( love on the surface of the skin ) .