Chungking Express (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (US Version) Blu-ray Region A

From director Wong Kar Wai comes Chungking Express, a charming and breezy Hong Kong classic that's considered by some to be the director's signature work! Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro star as a pair of cops who roam Hong Kong's Tsimshatsui and Central districts at night. However, it's not crime that occupies their thoughts, but failed relationships and missed romantic chances. Each finds their own possibilities in Hong Kong's fast-moving neon cityscape, among them a mysterious runaway smuggler (a blond-wigged Brigitte Lin) and a flighty but utterly charming counter-girl (Faye Wong) at the 24-hour Midnight Express deli. Using a full compliment of stylish and enthralling cinema powers, Wong Kar Wai manages to create a poetic, emotional, and endearingly quirky look at love in the big city that's both contemplative and breathlessly effervescent. A New Wave masterpiece with a dash of MTV sprinkled in, Chungking Express is a pop-culture valentine to a city that never sleeps, and the lovelorn individuals who look for - and sometimes find - love in the most unexpected of places!

This edition comes with a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin, plus a new and improved subtitle translation, audio commentary from Asian cinema critic Tony Rayns, and a 1996 episode of the British television series Moving Picture featuring interviews with Wong Kar Wai and cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

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Product Title:	Chungking Express (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (US Version) 重慶森林 (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (美國版) 重庆森林 (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (美国版) Chungking Express (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (US Version) Chungking Express (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection) (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Faye Wong (Actor) | Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Actor) | Kaneshiro Takeshi (Actor) | Brigitte Lin (Actor) | Christopher Doyle 王靖雯 王菲 (Actor) | 梁 朝偉 (Actor) | 金城 武 (Actor) | 林青霞 (Actor) | 杜可風 王靖雯 王菲 (Actor) | 梁 朝伟 (Actor) | 金城 武 (Actor) | 林青霞 (Actor) | 杜可风 王菲 （フェイ・ウォン）　 (Actor) | 梁朝偉 （トニー・レオン） (Actor) | 金城武 (Actor) | 林青霞 （ブリジット・リン） (Actor) | 杜可風 （クリストファー・ドイル） Faye Wong (Actor) | 양조위 (Actor) | 금성무 (Actor) | Brigitte Lin (Actor) | Christopher Doyle
Director:	Wong Kar Wai 王 家衛 王 家卫 王家衛 （ウォン・カーウァイ）　 왕가위
Blu-ray Region Code:	A - Americas (North, Central and South except French Guiana), Korea, Japan, South East Asia (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) What is it?
Release Date:	2008-12-16
UPC Code:	715515033329
Language:	English, Cantonese, Mandarin
Subtitles:	English
Country of Origin:	Hong Kong
Aspect Ratio:	1.66 : 1
Sound Information:	DTS-HD Master Audio, Hi-Fi Stereo
Disc Format(s):	Blu-ray
Duration:	102 (mins)
Publisher:	The Criterion Collection (US)
Package Weight:	127 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1023179706

* Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Audio commentary by noted Asian cinema critic Tony Rayns
- U.S. theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from a 1996 Sight and Sound interview with Wong by Rayns
- More!

Directors: Wong Kar-Wai

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant 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 and the Papas California Dreamin into tokens of romantic longing.

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