CHUNGKING EXPRESS (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1994
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
• Plot: The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant 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 and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
• Cast: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow, Chen Jinquan, Lee-na Kwan, Zhiming Huang, Liang Zhen, Songshen Zuo, Vickie Eng, Lynne Langdon, Kar Wai Wong
• Director: Kar Wai Wong
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Miramax Films, Rolling Thunder, Jet Tone Films
• Media Format: Movie