Chungking Express
If my memory of her has an expiration date, let it be 10,000 years...
1994 • 103 min • Drama · Comedy · Romance
Synopsis
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 75 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
- 80 Audience · 2240 · 40%
Two Hong Kong policemen, each navigating a breakup, find unexpected connections in the city's vibrant, late-night world. One encounters a mysterious woman involved in the underworld, while the other becomes entangled with a quirky snack bar worker. It's a story about chance encounters and moving forward.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 4/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 3/10
- Scary moments
- 2/10
Heads up
- Some stylized violence with guns
- Characters smoke and drink alcohol
- Brief suggestive situations
What it models well
- Hope and moving on
- Finding connection
- Embracing change
Talk about it after
- Coping with loneliness
- The nature of memory
- Different kinds of love
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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
