Fallen Angels

"The night's full of weirdos."

1995 1h 38m CN

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7.7

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★7.7TMDB · 1,392

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An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

“The night's full of weirdos.”

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Cast

Leon Lai Ming
Wong Chi-Ming
Michele Reis
Killer's Agent
Takeshi Kaneshiro
He Zhiwu
Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei
Charlie
Karen Mok Man-Wai
Blondie
Chan Man-Lei
Wu's Father
Toru Saito
Sato
Benz Kong To-Hoi
Ah Hoi

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Behind the camera

Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Writers: Wong Kar-Wai
Languages: Japanese, Cantonese, English, Mandarin
Countries: Hong Kong

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ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Japanese, Cantonese, English, Mandarin.

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3 / 8

AWARDS

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Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, shot by Christopher Doyle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Roel A. García. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor William Chang Suk-Ping shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Leon Lai Ming and Michele Reis and Takeshi Kaneshiro carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The night's full of weirdos.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0112913 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Wong Kar-Wai directs. Christopher Doyle behind the camera. Roel A. García scores. William Chang Suk-Ping cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Hong Kong. Dialogue in Japanese, Cantonese, English, Mandarin.

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131 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Japanese, Cantonese, English, Mandarin.
3Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, shot by Christopher Doyle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Roel A. García. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor William Chang Suk-Ping shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Leon Lai Ming and Michele Reis and Takeshi Kaneshiro carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The night's full of weirdos.".
8IMDB entry: tt0112913 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 14 themes, including "assassin", "hitman", "gambling", "cigarette".
10Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Christopher Doyle
Original score: Roel A. García
Editing: William Chang Suk-Ping
Production design: William Chang Suk-Ping
Makeup / hair: Kwan Lee-Na
Runtime: 98 min · 1h 38m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: CN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Fallen Angels (1995)

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BornKnight2024-01-31
★ 9/10
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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