Chungking Express

The Colourful World of Wong Kar-wai

By: Lester Leong, SFU Student 1. Chungking Express (1994) This is the film that arguably gained widespread recognition for Wong Kar-wai. Featuring two loosely connected segments about two individual cops yearning for love in the nighttime streets of Hong Kong, Chungking Express is a breezy, fun, and playful film that is part crime thriller and part romcom. While the first segment — featuring Takeshi Kaneshiro as a detective who finds one night of solace in a mysterious woman from the criminal underworld — is fun in its own right, it’s really the second segment that makes the film memorable. It features…

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