[5][6][7] It is based loosely on Zhang's own best-selling book Passing From Your World in the collection I Belonged to You.

[8] It stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro and singer and actress Angelababy (Angela Yeung Wing (Chinese: 杨颖; pinyin: Yáng Yǐng).

[10] A bar owner helps lonely people through their heartbreaks and takes a radio DJ under his wing.

[11] Maggie Lee of Variety called the film "an over-the-top and indigestible romantic comedy produced and co-scripted by Wong Kar-wai lacking any of the auteur's usual finesse".

[12] Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter said that the film is an "impermeable melange of shapeless storytelling, rehashed gags, vacuous relationships and painfully over-the-top performances from its usually top-notch cast".