Chungking Express - Criterion Collection Blu-Ray

Chungking Express is one of the most important films of the 1990s and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartbreaking Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both of whom have been abandoned by former lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express food stall, where the ethereal waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Everything is perfect in Wong's beautifully filmed and utterly unexpected charms, which cemented the sex appeal of its wonderful stars and forever made canned pineapple and Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin' to symbols of romantic longing.

• 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai

   

• A Blu-ray disc with the film and special features

   

• 2002 interview with cinematographer Christopher Doyle

   

• Episodes of Moving Pictures from 1996 featuring interviews with Wong and Doyle

   

• Deleted scenes

   

• Trailer

   

• PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin

   

• Cover by Sarah Habibi, based on an original design by Nessim Higson