English Title: Chungking Express
Jet Tone Production
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung
Directed by: Kar-Wai Wong
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a major spoiler for this film!
Synopsis: Two stories of love between two policemen and two very different kind of women.
Kitty Cameos: At the end of the first story, a drug dealer (Thom Baker) in a bar hears a noise and goes outside to the alley where there is a group of scruffy and dirty stray calico kittens. He squats down to open up a can of sardines for them.
The mysterious woman in the blonde wig (Brigitte Lin) approaches and shoots him. He falls and the kittens are seen gathered around the hand of the fallen man as the sardine can is seen to one side. The camera then pans in on the expiration date, which has been a running theme throughout the story.
Final Mewsings: Starving kittens don’t care about expiration dates.
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