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	Leon Lai	Wong Chi-Ming
	Michelle Reis	The Killer's Agent
	Takeshi Kaneshiro	He Zhiwu
	Charlie Yeung	Charlie
	Karen Mok	Punkie
	Fai-hung Chan	The Man Forced to Eat Icecream
	Man-Lei Chan	He Zhiwu's father
	Toru Saito	Sato
	To-hoi Kong	Ah-hoi
	Lee-na Kwan	Woman Pressed to Buy Vegetables
	Yuhao Wu	Man forced to have his clothes washed

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Director	Kar Wai Wong
Writer	Kar Wai Wong
Producer	Jeffrey Lau, Norman Law, Jacky Yee Wah Pang, Kar Wai Wong
Musician	Mandingo, Roel A. Garcia
Photography	Christopher Doyle

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Part of the World of Wong Kar Wai collection

With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. Joined by such key collaborators as cinematographer Christopher Doyle; editor and production and costume designer William Chang Suk Ping; and actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, Wong (or WKW, as he is often known) has written and directed films that have enraptured audiences and critics worldwide and inspired countless other filmmakers with their poetic moods and music, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory. Whether tragically romantic, soaked in blood, or quirkily comedic, the seven films collected here are an invitation into the unique and wistful world of a deeply influential artist.


Fallen Angels
Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering 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, Fallen Angels plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man (Leon Lai Ming) 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 hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

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