CHUNGKING EXPRESS
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“Wong Kar-wai is one of the best filmmakers from one of the most significant film movements… And, in my opinion, Chungking Express is his best film. Supposing one plus one still equals two, that makes this one of the best films ever made” – Boston Hassle
The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
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- Genre Comedy
- Director Kar-Wai Wong
- Released 1994
- Runtime 1h 42m
- Rated PG-13
- Studio Janus Films
- CountryHong Kong
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