This year, as Wong’s first English-language feature, “The Lady from Shanghai,” begins shooting, Chang will pour Nicole Kidman into his film noir vision of the “Paris of the East” in its heyday. “Actually, I don’t like period that much, but I can do it,” he said with a laugh. His secrets: research on eBay and watching old films on local television and the Turner Classic Movies cable channel. For ideas, he said, “I just walk around, watch TV, just live and let things come.” He doesn’t think his work has a signature, saying, “If you can tell that it is mine, then I should stop. Each time, I have to have moved on.”

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