Chungking Express -- a lush masterpiece and an HK film classic

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong and Tony Leung are masterful in this classic Wong Kar-wai movie.

Wong made the film during a two month break from the editing of his wuxia film Ashes of Time. He has said, "While I had nothing to do, I decided to make Chungking Express following my instincts."[1], and that "After the very heavy stuff, heavily emphasized in Ashes of Time, I wanted to make a very light, contemporary movie, but where the characters had the same problems." Originally, Wong envisioned the two stories as similar but with contrasting settings: "One would be located in Hong Kong [that is, Hong Kong Island] and the other in Kowloon; the action of the first would happen in daylight, the other at night. And despite the difference, they are the same stories."

-- Chungking Express via Wikipedia

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Dec 31, 2008

Rany Keddo said...

love this film. fantastic camera by christopher doyle: http://video.google.de/videosearch?q=christopher+doyle&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

Dec 31, 2008