Chungking Express
- Wong Kar-Wai
- 1994
- 1h 42m
- Hong Kong
"At our closest point, we were just 0.01 centimeters away from each other." Wong Kar Wai delivers a filmic nuclear bomb of emotion about lost love, memory, loss, and the places where we move in our cities. With Tony Leung, Faye Wong and "California Dreaming".
Synopsis
Every day, officer 223 buys a can of pineapple with the expiration date May 1st, symbolizing the day he will finally get over his lost love. At the same time he cannot take his eyes off a mysterious woman with a blonde wig, not knowing that she is a drug dealer. Officer 663 is consumed by grief because of a break up. But when his ex leaves a set of keys for his apartment in a neighbouring café, a waitress will use them to enter his house and brighten up his life.
Official Selection
Locarno International Film Festival
1994
Best Picture
Hong Kong Film Awards
1995
Best Director
Hong Kong Film Awards
1995
Best Actor (Tony Leung)
Hong Kong Film Awards
1995
Best Actress (Faye Wong)
Stockholm Film Festival
1994