

Chungking Express
If my memory of her has an expiration date, let it be 10,000 years...
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
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8.0/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $160K
- Box office
- $1M
- Language
- English
- drug smuggling
- police
- ex-girlfriend
- girlfriend
- snack bar
- romance
- hong kong
- expiration date
- flight attendant
- cleaning
- joyful
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Behind the camera
Director
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Produced in
Hong Kong
Where to watch
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePG-13New York Film Festival26 Sept 1994
- TheatricalPG-138 Mar 1996
- Digital / OTTPG-13Film at Lincoln Center (Restored Version)4 Dec 2020
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM26 Dec 1995
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTTCinéma en ligne18 Dec 2020
BrazilBR
- Theatrical19 Jan 1996
CzechiaCZ
- TheatricalU21 Aug 1997
- Theatrical12+26 Feb 2026
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical (limited)1514 Jul 1994
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-128 Dec 1995
- TheatricalK-1227 Aug 2021
FranceFR
- TheatricalU22 Mar 1995
- TheatricalRe-release (Restored Version)18 Oct 2017
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1228 Mar 1996
- TV12Sat.119 Aug 1998
- Physical124K-Ultra HD15 Sept 2022
GreeceGR
- Theatrical26 Apr 1996
- Digital / OTTK15Cinobo22 Mar 2021
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalIIB14 Jul 1994
- PremiereHong Kong International Film Festival27 Mar 2016
- PremiereHong Kong International Film Festival4 Apr 2018
IndonesiaID
- Theatrical (limited)17th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival30 Nov 2022
Frequently asked questions
Chungking Express was released on 14 July 1994.
Audience reviews
4- E10/10
eliasmata
5/16/2018
A week has passed since I watched this film. I wanted to let it sit with me for a bit before watching it again and giving it a proper response. Films like this, which are hyped to an unbelievable degree, end up sending an audience to end up watching it with elevated expectations, only to be ultimately disappointed afterwards. It’s a fact that many films suffer considerably from this aspect of our cinephile culture…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/26/2023
This is probably my favourite film from Kar-Wai Wong. It tells the stories of two Hong Kong Police officers. The former, the dashing Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is struggling to come to terms with his recently ended relationship of five years. By way of a means to closure, he purchases a tin of pineapple each day with the expiry date of May 1st (then he will be 25 years old). Either they will have reconciled by then, or h…
- B9/10
BornKnight
1/30/2024
Filmed into the post production of two years of filming the Wuxia epic "Ashes of Time", with low resources, this movie is another example that we don't need millions of USD to make a masterpiece. Wong Kar-Wai have a personal style of using melancholic characters distorted stories, using elaborate soundtracks in the background. This movie show two drama and crime stories about two lovesick policeman and their searc…
- A3/10
Aardbol
2/11/2024
A total surprise, in the negative sense. The story was very random with little logic in it. Weird characters that also made little sense, and the conversations were poor and uninteresting. It was more like a Japanese anime story because of its randomness, but then not even interesting to watch. One soundtrack kept being played over and got me to the point that further watching was giving me a headache. I tried to fin…
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