Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes) : .flv file, sound |
Summary |
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 |
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Title from title frames |
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Performer |
Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai |
Event |
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1994 |
Notes |
In English |
Subject |
Foreign films.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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Romance
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Drama
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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Drama.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures.
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Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Kar Wai, Wong, film director
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Lin Ching Hsia, Brigitte, actor
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Wong, Faye, actor
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Kaneshiro, Takeshi, actor
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Leung Chiu Wai, Tony, actor
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The Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Kanopy (Firm)
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