Chungking Express

Chungking Express
Original title 重慶森林
CantoneseCung4 Hing3 Sam1 Lam4
Directed byWong Kar-wai
Written byWong Kar-wai
Produced byChan Yi-kan
StarringBrigitte Lin
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Faye Wong
Takeshi Kaneshiro
CinematographyChristopher Doyle
Andrew Lau (Lau Wai-Keung)
Edited byWilliam Chang
Kai Kit-wai
Kwong Chi-Leung
Music byFrankie Chan
Roel. A Garcia
Production
company
Jet Tone Production
Distributed byOcean Shores Video (HK) Miramax Films
Rolling Thunder Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 14 July 1994 (1994-07-14) (Hong Kong)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin Chinese
English
Japanese
Hindi
Box office$600,200 (US)
$7,678,549 (HK)

Chungking Express is a 1994 drama movie made in Hong Kong. It was directed by Wong Kar-wai. The movie has two stories, one after the other. Each story is about a policeman who is unlucky in love. The main actors in the first half were Takeshi Kaneshiro and Brigitte Lin. The second half of the movie stars Tony Leung as a different policeman. Valerie Chow plays the flight attendant. The movie features the American song "California Dreamin'" and other songs by Faye Wong. The movie received good reviews.

References

  1. 1 2 "Hong Kong film archive database: ''Chungking Express''". Ipac.hkfa.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved 3 February 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ "''Chunking Express'' at Box Office Mojo". Boxofficemojo.com. 16 April 1996. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 Janet Maslin (26 September 1994). "Chungking Express (1994) FILM REVIEW; Mocking MTV Style And Paying Homage to It". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Chungking Express 1996". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster Inc. Retrieved 2 March 2015.