To add a Hong Kong dimension, Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film In the Mood for
Love, starring Maggie Cheung as Su Lizhen, a character that appeared in
Wong's earlier film Days of Being Wild (1990), played by the same Maggie
Cheung.
Yiman Wang
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Robert Koehler wrote:
> To the question asked: I am looking for examples of a character reappearing
> in a later film, played by the same actor, but where the later film is not a
> sequel.
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> One of the most interesting recent experiments in recurring characters in
> non-sequels made by the same director is Tsai Ming-liang's films, starting
> with "Rebels of the Neon God" and continuing through "Goodbye, Dragon Inn,"
> although most thoroughly through "What Time Is It There?" Lee Kang-sheng
> continually plays Hsiao-kang, the dissolute, sometimes aimless but gradually
> maturing young man and son to Miao Tien's Father and Lu Yi-ching's Mother,
> who both reappear prominently in several of Tsai's films, particuarly in
> "The River" and "What Time Is It There?" As an interesting related note to
> Adrian's mention of Antoine Doinel, Leaud's Doinel character reappears in
> the extraordinary Paris sequence that concludes "What Time Is It There?"
> That makes a double set of recurring characters in non-sequels, in the same
> film!
> Also, Tarantino has been planning to use Travolta's Vincent Vega
> character from "Pulp Fiction" again, and Michael Madsen's character in
> "Reservoir Dogs" is Vincent's brother.
> Robert Koehler
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