Still haven't caught that. I did however get to see Hou's Flowers of Shanghai (1998) , and I must say this film impressed me quite a lot. Watching the opening scene I wondered if this was just another modern film with a long opening tracking shot, or if this was setting the mood for the film. I found it was the latter, Hou didn't abandon this approach after the intro, he kept the film uniformed. The film is tightly structured as an Ozu film, and there are no noticeable in scene edits, which transforms a potentially boring and predictable story into a truly remarkable film. Of the four films I've seen from him, this stands as the clear best, I will admit however that I saw City of Sadness without English subs, so that has a bit of a handicap.