Chungking Express
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Release Date: 21/04/2025
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. 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 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 & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
Film Info
Hong Kong
1994
102 minutes
Color
1.66:1
Cantonese
Spine #453
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai
Interview from 2002 with cinematographer Christopher Doyle
Episode of Moving Pictures from 1996 featuring interviews with Wong and Doyle
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin
Cover by Sarah Habibi, based on an original design by Nessim Higson