Chungking Express (1994) - (The Criterion Collection - #453) [DVD9] [2008]

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.





MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Wong Kar-wai
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
YEAR: 1994

Cast & Credits

Cast
Woman in blonde wig Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia
Cop 663 Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Faye Faye Wong
Cop 223 Takeshi Kaneshiro
Stewardess Valerie Chow
Midnight Express manager Piggy Chan Kam-chuen

Credits
Director Wong Kar-wai
Screenplay Wong Kar-wai
Producer Yi-kan Chan
Cinematography Christopher Doyle and Wai-keung Lau
Executive producer Chan Pui-wah
Art direction William Chang Suk-ping
Editing William Chang Suk-ping, Hai Kit-wai and Kwong Chi-leung
Music Frankie Chan, Roel A. Garcia and Michael Galasso






DVD:
DVD RELEASE: November 25, 2008
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 453
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.66:1
Color
AUDIO: Cantonese Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 102 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS file
FILE SIZE: 6.82 GB
SCANS HQ PDF: 34.7 MB


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Disc Features:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack supervised by director Wong Kar-wai
Audio commentary by noted Asian cinema critic Tony Rayns
U.S. theatrical trailer
Episode excerpt from the BBC Television series Moving Pictures, featuring Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle
New and improved English subtitle translation