{{Short description|2009 Hong Kong film by Wai Ka-fai}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use Hong Kong English|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox film | name = Written By | image = Written By poster.jpg | caption = | producer = Wai Ka-Fai | director = [[Wai Ka-Fai]] | writer = Wai Ka-Fai<br>[[Au Kin-Yee]] | starring = [[Lau Ching-Wan]]<br>[[Kelly Lin]]<br>Mia Yam | editing = [[Tina Baz]] | cinematography = Wong Wing-Hung | music = Xavier Jamaux | studio = Creative Formula Ltd. | distributor = [[China Star Entertainment Group]] | released = {{Film date|df=y|2009|7|10}} | runtime = | country = Hong Kong | language = Cantonese | budget = }} '''''Written By''''' ({{lang-zh|t=再生號|s=再生号|first=t}}) is a 2009 Hong Kong fantasy drama film co-written, produced, and directed by [[Wai Ka-Fai]], and starring [[Lau Ching-Wan]] and [[Kelly Lin]]. Lau plays a lawyer who is killed in an accident, leaving behind his wife, daughter, and son. He is resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel, where he finds himself a grieving husband who lost his family and his sight during a car accident, living in an [[Parallel universe (fiction)|alternate reality]]. The film premiered at the [[New York Asian Film Festival]] in June 2009, and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 10 July 2009.
==Plot== "[[Lau Ching-Wan]] plays a lawyer who dies in a car wreck just before answering his daughters question about ghosts, leaving behind his wife, daughter and son. To console herself, his daughter (blind from the crash) writes a novel where she, her mother and brother have died in a car wreck but her father(but blind) has survived. To her surprise, the character of her father in her book decides that HE needs to write a novel to console himself and in his novel he has died but his wife and daughter have lived...and on and on in an endlessly recursive loop, as wounded characters desperately apply fiction to try and dull the sharp edges of their grief."<ref name="NYAFF">[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2009-05-20/new-york-asian-film-festival-june-19-july-5-announces-opening-night-closing-night-and-centerpiece-presentation-films New York Asian Film Festival (19 June – 5 July) Announces Opening Night, Closing Night and Centerpiece Presentation Films - Anime News Network]</ref>
==Cast== * [[Lau Ching-Wan]] as Tony <ref name="cuhkacs">[http://www.cuhkacs.org/~hegu/Bo-Blog/read.php?449 2009.06.05．跟韋家輝+劉青雲對談《再生號》@中文大學 - 風雪中的故居～何故之火鍋約會 - 創意文化，共冶一爐，跨媒體美味饗宴！]</ref> * [[Kelly Lin]] as Mandy <ref name="cuhkacs" /> * Mia Yam as Melody <ref name="cuhkacs" /> * Yeung Shuk Man as Maid <ref name="cuhkacs" /> * Bonnie Wong as a Ghost Whisperer <ref name="cuhkacs" /> * [[Jo Kuk]] as Meng Por <ref name="cuhkacs" />
==Production== To prepare for his role as a blind man, Lau Ching-Wan studied [[braille]], a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. He joked that now with his eyes open he did not understand a single word in braille, but when he closed his eyes to touch it he could read it smoothly. Even after filming, Lau still felt attached to his character, and often engaged in mood swings.<ref>[https://hktopten.blogspot.com/search?q=Lau+Ching+Wan HKSAR Film No Top 10 Box Office: Search results for Lau Ching Wan]</ref>
==Release== ''Written By'' made its world premiere as an "Opening film" at the [[New York Asian Film Festival]] in June 2009.<ref name="NYAFF"/> The film was later released theatrically in Hong Kong on 10 July 2009.<ref>[https://hktopten.blogspot.com/2009/06/20090603-wai-ka-fai-risks-his-life-for.html HKSAR Film No Top 10 Box Office: (2009.06.03) WAI KA FAI RISKS HIS LIFE FOR HIS OPENING FILM]</ref> Director [[Wai Ka-Fai]] attended the premiere. Lau Ching-Wan was originally set appear at the festival, but decided to stay in Hong Kong due to the [[2009 flu pandemic]].
==Awards and nominations== '''16th [[Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award]]''' * '''Won: Best Screenplay (Wai Ka Fai and Au Kin Yee)''' * '''Film of Merit'''
'''[[4th Asian Film Awards]]''' * Nominated: Best Screenwriter (Wai Ka Fai and Au Kin Yee)
'''[[29th Hong Kong Film Awards]]''' * Nominated: Best Screenplay (Wai Ka Fai and Au Kin Yee) * Nominated: Best Visual Effects (Teddy Mak Tak Man, Ken Law Wai Ho and Mary Ng Sze Sze)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=1451620|title=Written By}}
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