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Fallen Angels
98 minutes | Hong Kong | 1995
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Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking Express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman (Leon Lai) looking to go straight, his business partner (Michelle Reis) who secretly yearns for him, and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps. Description courtesy of Janus Films.

  • Year:
    1995
  • Runtime:
    98 minutes
  • Language:
    Cantonese, English, Japanese, Mandarin
  • Country:
    Hong Kong
  • Director:
    Wong Kar-wai
  • Screenwriter:
    Wong Kar-wai
  • Producer:
    Jeffrey Lau
  • Executive Producer:
    Jacky Pang, Wong Kar-wai
  • Cast:
    Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Takeshi Kaneshiro
  • Cinematographer:
    Christopher Doyle
  • Editor:
    William Chang Suk-Ping, Wong Ming-Lam
  • Production Design:
    William Chang Suk-Ping
  • Composer:
    Roel A. García, Frankie Chan Fan-Kei