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Chungking Express. Roel. A Garcia. Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong arthouse [5] romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. [6] [7] The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop ...
Mar 8, 1996 · With Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro. Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
- (97K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Kar-Wai Wong
- 1996-03-08
Apr 7, 2022 · In “Chungking Express”, he focuses on four lonely, separated, antisocial and daydreaming characters, who desperately try to share their desolation, with the megalopolis being the link that connects their stories.
Mar 4, 2021 · Chungking Express is arguably his pièce de résistance. Almost three decades on, it is regarded as one of the defining works of Hong Kong cinema and continues to grip our imagination. It lays out two separate tales that in unison, tell a story of love and loss with an affective subtlety.
Two interweaving stories take place around Chungking House, a mazelike commercial complex in Hong Kong. A cop falls for a mysterious, blond-wigged, gun-toting femme fatale, while a second cop remains oblivious to the attention of a California-dreaming waitress at a fast food counter.
A romantic comedy about two lonely cops and a waitress in Hong Kong, Chungking Express is a stylish and inventive masterpiece of 1990s cinema. Watch the trailer, listen to the commentary, and read the essay by critic Amy Taubin on The Criterion Collection.
While navigating heartbreak in their own ways, two police officers become enamored with two mysterious women. Watch trailers & learn more.
