With Brigitte Lin, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro. Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro. Join the Satori Screen Facebook Group to be kept up to date on East Asian film screenings at QUAD. Chungking Express: Directed by Kar-Wai Wong. Tickets for that screening can be purchased here. 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. Screening in a new 4K restoration, supervised and approved by Wong Kar Wai.Īlso screening on Friday 6 August at 8:00pm with an introduction from Satori Screen's Peter Munford. 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.
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After four decades in entertainment, Hong Kong acting legend Tony Leung Chiu-wai makes his American major movie debut with Shang-Chi and and the Legend of the Ten Rings.Even audiences who have never seen Leung on-screen before will gravitate towards the human vulnerability he brings to his antagonist role in the Marvel blockbuster. “Wong's dreamlike tone and Doyle's stunning cinematography make this strange love story a joy to watch” - Empire Magazine. (Photo by Focus) 15 Fresh Tony Leung Movies. 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. In the first tale young cop Takeshi Kaneshiro falls for a mysterious figure in the Hong Kong criminal underworld (Brigitte Lin). Whilst the other tale follows cop Tony Leung, struggling after a break-up, who finds himself getting involved with the girl who regularly serves him at the local lunch counter (Faye Wong). 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. The film follows two broken-hearted policemen and the women they find themselves involved with. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Bridget Lin Chin-Hsia, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Faye Wang. And when Fayes server turns up The Mamas & The Papas. Thanks to titles like 'In the Mood for Love,' 'Chungking Express,' and 'Hero,' Leung Chiu-wai has an incredible track record of appearing in critically beloved motion pictures that have been. The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer roused from his gloom. Director Wong Kar-wai made his international breakthrough with this film which combines elements of comedy, romance and crime cinema into a unique experience, gorgeously photographed by the acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Even the water dripping from a towel evokes tears (at least thats how Leungs cop describes it). Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong romantic crime comedy-drama film written and directed.
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