Hua Yang De Nian Hua

shidaiqu track performed by Zhou Xuan for a 1946 film, composed by Lin Mei. the song became part of the solitary island period repertoire, functioning as what the wikipedia entry for In the Mood for Love calls a paean to a happy past and an oblique metaphor for the darkness of japanese-occupied shanghai. the track's afterlife far exceeded the original film: Wong Kar-wai heard it late in post-production, abandoned his working title Secrets, and renamed both his 2000 feature and a related short film after the song.