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Chungking Express

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This tale of two Hong Kong cops is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.
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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. 
 
Fun fact: The apartment belonging to Cop 663 (Tony Leung) is in fact the one where cinematographer Christopher Doyle lived at the time. 

Director
Wong Kai Wai
Duration
102 min
Year
1994
Country
Hong Kong
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