Chungking Express

Originaltitel: Chung Hing sam lam

1994
12
1 Std. 42 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,0/10

100.514

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.904

195

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, and Faye Wong in Chungking Express (1994)

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Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Romance

Zwei melancholische Hongkonger Polizisten verlieben sich: einer mit einer mysteriösen weiblichen Unterweltfigur, der andere mit einem schönen und ätherischen Server in einem Late-Night-Resta... Alles lesenZwei melancholische Hongkonger Polizisten verlieben sich: einer mit einer mysteriösen weiblichen Unterweltfigur, der andere mit einem schönen und ätherischen Server in einem Late-Night-Restaurant, das er besucht.Zwei melancholische Hongkonger Polizisten verlieben sich: einer mit einer mysteriösen weiblichen Unterweltfigur, der andere mit einem schönen und ätherischen Server in einem Late-Night-Restaurant, das er besucht.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,0/10

100.514

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.904

195

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 8 Gewinne & 19 Nominierungen insgesamt

Woman in Blonde Wig
(as Ching-hsia Lin)

Takeshi Kaneshiro

He Zhiwu, Cop 223

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Cop 663
(as Tony Chiu Wai Leung)

Faye Wong

Faye

Valerie Chow

Air Hostess

Piggy Chan

Manager of 'Midnight Express'
(as Jinquan Chen)

Lee-Na Kwan

Richard
(as Guan Lina)

Zhiming Huang

Liang Zhen

The 2nd May

Songshen Zuo

Thom Baker

Drug Dealer
(Nicht genannt)

Rico Chu

Man
(Nicht genannt)

Vickie Eng

Barmaid
(Nicht genannt)

Lynne Langdon

Complaining Customer
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
Since 'Chungking Express' was filmed in sequence or "like a road movie" as Kar-Wai Wong has said, Wong wrote each scene either the night before or in the morning of the day of filming.

Patzer
In the part where Faye leaves the apartment and the camera shows her going out, a portion of the camera is seen in the mirror for a brief moment.

Zitate
He Zhiwu, Cop 223: If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

Alternative Versionen
The original Hong Kong release ran 98 minutes. 'Kar Wai Wong' made several changes to the international version, bringing the running time to 102 minutes:
The international version expands the scenes where The Blonde prepares for the smuggling trip and later searches for the smugglers.
Indian music plays during the smugglers' arrival at the airport in international prints; in the Hong Kong version, the title theme plays.
The international version includes the kidnapping of an Indian girl, which does not occur in the Hong Kong version.
The sequence with Zhiwu loitering outside his girlfriend's window appears earlier in the international edit.
In the Hong Kong version, the Faye Wong cover of "Dreams" plays over the shot of 663 drinking coffee. The international version strips out the music (leaving only ambient noise), although "Dreams" still appears at the end of the film. The international cut is Wong's preferred version and has been used for most home video releases. The Hong Kong cut was released on VHS/laserdisc by World Video and on VHS/LD/DVD by Mei Ah.

Verbindungen
Edited into 365 days, also known as a Year (2019)

Soundtracks
Dream Person
Written by Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan
Performed by Faye Wong
(cover of "Dreams" by The Cranberries)

Benutzerrezensionen267

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Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

The way men love!

There is something very personal and intimate about this film that I missed the first time I saw it. Chunking was recommended to me by a friend of mine whose opinion I value, so I tried it again - and I believe I got it.

Looking back on many of the romantic films I have enjoyed, I noticed that the main characters are usually women. Even those with men don't delve with any sophistication into the male heartbreak. As a result, I am not sure I know how to properly grieve a failed relationship. LOL.

Here the heroes both suffer from failed relationships. In the first story we don't really see anything of his relationship, we just see that he held on a little too long. More important than the relationship or the reason it didn't work is the aftermath and the acute dysfunction with which he approaches the next. In his first 'May Relationship' he claims the failing was not knowing enough about her so he tries to 'get to know' more about his new 'blonde' love.

In the second story, the cop falls in love with a woman he doesn't even know. How about that for consistency of the way many of us dudes love? When we fall for women, we often fall for the idea of what they represent to us at the beginning rather than the reality of what she is. The shot that Wong Kar-Wai captured in the second cop's apartment in which the heroine hid on the wall in plain sight and the cop looked in the bathroom missing her completely was a fair characterization of the film. --- The male characters fell in love with the idea of a predefined woman and missed, in essence the women that were right under their noses.

Ultimately fascinating.