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Chungking Express (1994)
"Chung Hing sam lam" (original title)

PG-13  |   |  Comedy, Drama, Romance  |  8 March 1996 (USA)
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Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

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Woman in blonde wig (as Ching-hsia Lin)
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The 2nd May
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Storyline

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>

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If my memory of her has an expiration date, let it be 10,000 years...

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Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Rated PG-13 for some violence, sexuality and drug content | See all certifications »

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SGD 167,000 (Singapore)
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Trivia

This film was shot, edited and released while Kar Wai Wong was on hiatus from the shooting of his epic Dung che sai duk (1994). See more »

Goofs

The woman in the blonde wig had no apparent opportunity to get the beeper number except from Cop 223 himself the night before, and he wouldn't have started to abandon his beeper as useless if he had just given someone new the number. See more »

Quotes

[633 on the previous owner of his restaurant]
Cop663: He has great business sense. First he sold me fish and chips, then the whole thing.
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Baroque
Written and performed by Michael Galasso
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Wong Kar-Wei's Best
26 April 2002 | by (Los Angeles, CA) – See all my reviews

Flawless tale of brief encounters and abstract moments. Far superior than most of Hong Kong's bullet ridden action fests, Chungking Express takes you on an emotional journey of love, loss, and chance excursions. Cinematography and editing is groundbreaking as this drama unfolds soap-opera-like stories without all the overacting and melodrama. Wong Kar-Wei has sealed his place in cinematic history with this tour de force.


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