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Chungking Express

What a difference a day makes.

8.0 / 10

103 minutes

1994-07-14

Cantonese

HK

Actors :

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Valerie Chow, Piggy Chan Kam-Chuen, Kwan Lee-na, Leung San, Zhiming Huang, Liang Zhen, Vickie Eng, Lynne Langdon, Thom Baker, Rico Chu, Wong Chi-Ming

Description

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Reviews

eliasmata

eliasmata

6/23/2021, 3:58:08 PM

A week has passed since I watched this film. I wanted to let it sit with me for a bit before watching it again and giving it a proper response. Films like this, which are hyped to an unbelievable degree, end up sending an audience to end up watching it with elevated expectations, only to be ultimately disappointed afterwards. It’s a fact that many films suffer considerably from this aspect of o...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

8/26/2023, 3:34:55 PM

This is probably my favourite film from Kar-Wai Wong. It tells the stories of two Hong Kong Police officers. The former, the dashing Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is struggling to come to terms with his recently ended relationship of five years. By way of a means to closure, he purchases a tin of pineapple each day with the expiry date of May 1st (then he will be 25 years old). Either they will have reco...

BornKnight

BornKnight

1/30/2024, 7:27:12 PM

Filmed into the post production of two years of filming the Wuxia epic "Ashes of Time", with low resources, this movie is another example that we don't need millions of USD to make a masterpiece. Wong Kar-Wai have a personal style of using melancholic characters distorted stories, using elaborate soundtracks in the background. This movie show two drama and crime stories about two lovesick polic...

Aardbol

Aardbol

2/14/2024, 8:20:16 PM

A total surprise, in the negative sense. The story was very random with little logic in it. Weird characters that also made little sense, and the conversations were poor and uninteresting. It was more like a Japanese anime story because of its randomness, but then not even interesting to watch. One soundtrack kept being played over and got me to the point that further watching was giving me a head...