He is a writer and director, known for In the Mood for Love (2000), The Grandmaster (2013) and My Blueberry Nights (2007).
Kar Wai Wong was born on Jin Shanghai, China. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. This 1994 crime-romance from legendary filmmaker Wong Kar-wai follows two melancholic Hong Kong. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. Chungking Express (1996) - Information, trailers, ratings, reviews, actor ratings, videos, synopsis, box office, cast, poster, social networks, length. Find where to watch Chungking Express in United Kingdom. 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. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. The opening and end credits have been redone and while they are a bit odd and stick out because they’ve clearly been computer generated, I can live with it in comparison to the alterations in a couple of the other films here. Janus Films is proud to present a touring retrospective that includes brand-new restorations of seven of the master’s most dazzling films, including the US premiere of ‘Chungking Express. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. Chungking Express has had its own set of alterations, like the rest of the films in the set, though I’d say they’re some of the milder ones in comparison.
Wong Kar-Wai’s movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the. 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. The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.