Возможно, это любовь (Vozmozhno, eto lyubov')

2005 film

Perhaps Love is a 2005 Hong Kong musical film directed by Peter Chan, written by Lam Oi wah and Raymond To, choreographed by Farah Khan and starring Zhou Xun, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jacky Cheung. It was funded by Astro Shaw and TVB, and was distributed by Celestial Pictures. The film closed the 62nd Venice International Film Festival. It was submitted by Hong Kong as its official entry for the 78th Academy Awards.

A Chinese director Mr. Wen decides to make a musical movie starring his Chinese girlfriend Sun Na and Hong Kong actor Jian dong. Unknown to him, Sun has met Jiandong before ten years ago when she was a cabaret singer in Beijing. The two had a short time relationship together then, when Jiandong was a film student. Ten years later, now a huge movie star, Sun refuses to acknowledge they have met before. Mr. Wen plans his musical, which includes a plot where a girl lost her memory and comes to live with a circus troupe. Sun plays the amnesiac girl and Jiandong tried to get back the old past. As the shooting of the film starts, movie life and real life overlap. Jiandong tried desperately to get back Sun's lost love, while Mr. Wen discovered their past story. Mr. Wen himself played the role of the obsessive circus owner in the musical, who was involved in a love impossibility. In the end of the movie, all characters, specially the character "Jiandong" grew up and found the truth and the meaning of "let the past be gone" and live with "the present. "

Perhaps Love was filmed in Beijing and Shanghai. The film is the first musical blockbuster film to be produced in China in 35 years. Estimates put the cost of the film at about US$10 million to produce. The film earned US$2.2 million on its opening weekend.

The soundtrack was released in two versions: a single disc version in a jewel case and a limited edition, double disc, boxed set version. The double disc version was marketed as a "Special Deluxe Edition" and included a bright red slipcase (embossed to look like leather) with gold lettering. The slipcase was seven and three fourths inches tall, one and three fourths inches deep, and five and three fourths inches wide. It included a twenty eight page hardcover book, printed on thick paper, which included a synopsis of the film and brief biographies of its stars in both Mandarin and English. The book also included eighteen color photographs. The soundtrack was presented in a folding case with the music on a compact disc and a "making of" movie on a DVD disc. The folding case also included five postcards (including one for each of the film's four major stars) and a poster.

In an interview with media, director Peter Chan stressed that "Perhaps Love is a love story, not a musical. It's not even being promoted as a musical. It's not a musical in the conventional sense. My characters don't break out into song. Initially, it was a challenge to balance the over the top element in musicals and the subtleties of a movie. In the end, the method I used to overcome that was to make a movie within a movie." The film has also drawn comparisons to Bollywood, the Indian film industry famous for its musical films. The Hollywood Reporter described Perhaps Love as "Bollywood meets Bob Fosse." Bollywood director and choreographer Farah Khan choreographed the film, which featured nine Indian dancers who appeared in several musical numbers. The double disc Region 3 editions of the film also contained a feature on the film's Bollywood dancers on the second disc.

The DVD of the film was released in four different Region 3 DVD editions, including three versions released in Hong Kong and China: a single disc edition, a double disc "Special Edition", and a double disc "Golden Limited Edition." A single disc edition was also released in Korea and had Korean subtitles. The "Special Edition" included a gold colored cardboard slipcase and a digipak with two DVDs. The first disc, in DVD 9 format, contained the film with optional subtitles in English, traditional Chinese, or simplified Chinese. The second disc, in DVD 5 format, contained sixty minutes of bonus material, including a "making of" feature, a b roll, additional information on the cast, an extended credit list, and a feature on the film's Bollywood dancers, as well as other clips. The "Golden Limited Edition" was limited to only 4,000 copies and was essentially the same as the "Special Edition", except that it also included a hardcover book of nearly two dozen pages with a gold coloured cover. The film was also released on VCD in a three disc set. Unauthorized DVDs of the film appeared within days of the film being released in theatres, and were available for purchase for US$2 US$3.