Chungking Express
1994 • 103 min • Drama · Comedy · Romance
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 75 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
- 80 Audience · 2240 · 40%
Dos policías de Hong Kong, cada uno lidiando con una ruptura amorosa, encuentran conexiones inesperadas en el vibrante mundo nocturno de la ciudad. Uno se cruza con una misteriosa mujer involucrada en el hampa, mientras que el otro se enreda con una excéntrica empleada de un puesto de comida. Es una historia sobre encuentros fortuitos y seguir adelante.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 4/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 3/10
- Scary moments
- 2/10
Heads up
- Algo de violencia estilizada con armas de fuego
- Los personajes fuman y beben alcohol
- Breves situaciones sugerentes
What it models well
- Esperanza y seguir adelante
- Encontrar conexión
- Aceptar el cambio
Talk about it after
- Lidiar con la soledad
- La naturaleza de la memoria
- Diferentes tipos de amor
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Top billed cast
Director: Wong Kar-Wai • Crew: Wong Kar-Wai
Trailers & clips
Quentin Tarantino on Chungking Express
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Reviewer notes
Not recommendedA total surprise, in the negative sense. The story was very random with little logic in it. Weird characters that also made little sense, and the conversations were poor and uninteresting. It was more like a Japanese anime story because of its randomness, but then not even interesting to watch. One soundtrack kept being played over and got me to the point that further watching was giving me a headache.…
RecommendedFilmed into the post production of two years of filming the Wuxia epic "Ashes of Time", with low resources, this movie is another example that we don't need millions of USD to make a masterpiece. Wong Kar-Wai have a personal style of using melancholic characters distorted stories, using elaborate soundtracks in the background.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersThis is probably my favourite film from Kar-Wai Wong. It tells the stories of two Hong Kong Police officers. The former, the dashing Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is struggling to come to terms with his recently ended relationship of five years. By way of a means to closure, he purchases a tin of pineapple each day with the expiry date of May 1st (then he will be 25 years old).…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersA week has passed since I watched this film. I wanted to let it sit with me for a bit before watching it again and giving it a proper response. Films like this, which are hyped to an unbelievable degree, end up sending an audience to end up watching it with elevated expectations, only to be ultimately disappointed afterwards.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 8.0/10 (2,240)
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $160,000
- IMDb
- tt0109424
