Action

Romance

Crime

墮落天使

Jet Tone Production

Hong Kong

广州话 / 廣州話

普通话

English

日本語

Fallen Angels

Leon Lai

Michele Reis

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei

Karen Mok

Chan Man-Lei

Toru Saito

Benz Kong To-Hoi

Chan Fai-Hung

Kwan Lee-Na

Wu Yuk-Ho

Johnnie Kong

Chun Kang Wang

Mak Shu-San

Choi Kwok-Ping

Chan Siu-Wah

Chow Gam-Kong

Leung Shing-Hung

Wong Kim-Wai

Wong Kim-Bun

Choi Kwok-Keung

Lee Tat-Chiu

Cheung Chi-Ping

Jeffrey Lau

Jacky Pang

Roel A. García

Christopher Doyle

Wong Ming-Lam

Wong Kar-Wai

William Chang

Frankie Chan Fan-Kei

Tommy Wong

Mark Lee Ping-Bing

The complimentary movie to Chungking Express (1994), this is a neo-noir thriller that was shooted as a different movie because of the length of the total movie and differences between the two.

As in the first this one also tells two stories: of a hitman (Leon Lai Ming) that wants to detach from his activities and his partner, a woman that cleans his apartment while he is out, and have a secret love for him, while he meets another girl nicknamed blondie. 

The second one is from a ex-convict escaped from prison, Ho Chi-mo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) that is mute and works and lives with his father, also breaking into other works at night to sell their goods and services (here we have a meet with the Chungking Express with the first movie) and keeps finding another girl Charlie that lost his girlfriend for blondie), aside from a sequence that he meets another character from the first story in the end.

While having its themes along with Chungking, it differentiates from he first one by the use of cinematographer Christopher Doyle shooting mainly at night and using extreme wide-angle lenses, keeping the camera as close to the talents as possible to give a detached effect from the world around them, giving an wide-angle distortion of images creates an effect of distance-in-proximity, conveying the characters' solitude. 

The visuals are frantic, out-of-focus, and neon-lit. The camera also follows the characters and segments of B&W and heldcam camera also are used.

Another difference is the use of voice overs (as in thoughts) in the place of dialogues and pop songs this time mainly Cantonese versions of many musics, some of them also being ocidental (like the instrumental "Speak My Language" by American avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and  Flying Pickets version of "Only You" by member Vince Clarke, while he was still with Depeche Mode).

To me a score of 8,7 out of 10,0 / A along side with the previous one a must to watch movie of an bygone era before the delivery of the city back to China in 97.

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Leon Lai

Michele Reis

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei

Karen Mok

Chan Man-Lei

Toru Saito

Benz Kong To-Hoi

Chan Fai-Hung

Kwan Lee-Na

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