A kaleidoscopic look into the bustling (night)life of Hong Kong. Director Wong Kar Wai weaves together city life, Eastern culture, crime, love, and the music of The Mama's and the Papa's (California Dreamin') into a mesmerizing dream clip. In Wong Kar Wai's strikingly stylized breakthrough film, two policemen both suffer from broken hearts. One copes with his heartache by running, while the other is so affected by his girlfriend's departure that he doesn't notice the snack bar girl Faye is madly in love with him.
Chungking Express is an iconic work from the 90s and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant favorite in the film world. Everything is possible in Wong's gloriously filmed masterpiece, which forever transformed the combination of canned pineapple and The Mama's and the Papa's California Dreamin’ into the epitome of romantic longing. Eye, in collaboration with Cinéart, is re-releasing six films by Wong Kar Wai nationwide, all restored in 4K except for The Hand.