Sorting through obscure sources and decades of conflicting rumors to finally identify the ultra-wide lens used to shoot Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels.

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Works Cited:
"It's All About Trust." Cinema Papers, No. 111 (p.28-33, 62-63), Aug. 1996
Teo, Stephen. "Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film." (p.79, 259), 2007
Gary. "A Coin of Wong Kar-wai." City Entertainment (Hong Kong) No. 427 (p.33-35), 1995
Brunette, Peter. "Wong Kar-wai." (p.61, 62, 116, 144), 2005

Links:
Part 1: An Introduction
"Fallen Angels"
https://esfilmstylesandmovements.word...
"Not back to the future, but ahead to the past"
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/200...
"Wong Kar Wai's "Fallen Angels" and 6.5mm non-fisheye lenses" (Jan. 16, 2013)
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...
"Gel/lighting choice for dream sequence in bathroom: tips/advice?" (July 28, 2015)
https://cinematography.com/index.php?...
"Are Wong Kar-wai's new 4k restorations better than the originals?"
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/...

Part 2: The 6.5mm
"Anyone have any info about the lens(es) used by Christopher Doyle on Wong Kar Wai's 'Fallen Angels'?" (r/cinematography, Aug. 22, 2018)
  / anyone_have_any_info_about_the_lenses_used_by  
"Zoom lenses..." (Jan. 21, 2004)
https://cinematography.com/index.php?...
Cinema Papers, No. 111
https://issuu.com/libuow/docs/cinemap...
"Repair: Cine-Nikkor 6.5mm f/1.9" (Apr. 14, 2021)
https://richardhaw.com/2021/04/14/rep...
"Cine-Nikkor" (lens series brocure)
http://www.savazzi.net/download/manua...

Part 3: Kinoptik 9.8mm
"Film Products from Century Precision Optics" (Sep. 1, 1995)
https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/0...
Carvalho. "The ambivalent identity of Wong Kar-wai's cinema." (p.162, 243), 2009
https://ateve.files.wordpress.com/201...
Motion Picture Lens Database
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Part 4: The 6.8mm
Protsenko. "The Emotional Cinema of Wong Kar-wai" (p.65, 156), 2018
https://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/...
"Fallen Angels in the city of metaphors" (Feb. 28, 2014)
https://movie.douban.com/review/6566498/

Part 5: Deductions & Conclusions
Vantage Lens Table (Nov. 2014)
https://www.vantagefilm.com/file/edee...
Century 9.8mm Kinoptik Product Info
https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/0...

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Timestamps:
00:00 Opening
00:40 Lens primer
03:37 An Introduction
04:48 The 6.5mm
08:51 Kinoptik 9.8mm
13:10 The 6.8mm
15:07 Deductions & Conclusions