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Wong Kar-Wai

Film & Intro

Chungking Express

Drama, Romance, Comedy

1994

Chungking Express

Two police officers are suffering from a broken heart.

Hong Kong Film Awards - Best Film, Director and Actor (Tony Leung)
Golden Horse Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival

In the strikingly stylized 'Chungking Express', two police officers (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) are both suffering from a broken heart. One fights his heartbreak by running, the other is so affected by the departure of his girlfriend that he fails to notice that snack bar girl Faye is madly in love with him.


'Chungking Express' is an iconic work of the 1990s and the film that made Wong Kar-Wai an instant crowd-pleaser. Anything is possible in Wong's gloriously filmed masterpiece, which forever made the combination of canned pineapple and The Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreaming" the epitome of romantic longing.

102 min

Cantonese

Subtitles: English


"Most of my films are about people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. I think it's mostly love that makes them break out of their routines and move on.”

Wong Kar-Wai

About the Director

Wong Kar-Wai is one of the most internationally successful filmmakers from Hong Kong and uses recognizable elements from commercial cinema to find his own style: big stars, romance, music and violent confrontations. With this he creates a poetic and lyrical filmuniverse. 'Chungking Express' was the film that really put Wong Kar-Wai on the international map. Not least because of the support of Quentin Tarantino and the leading French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema.

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