Chungking Express - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Chungking Express"
重慶森林 (1994)
Timing: 1:43 (103 min)
Chungking Express - TMDB rating
7.964/10
2155
Chungking Express - Kinopoisk rating
7.789/10
47313
Chungking Express - IMDB rating
7.9/10
110000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Yi-kan Chan
Producer

Executive Producer

Jessica Chan Pui-Wah
Executive Producer

Editor

Hai Kit-Wai
Editor

Costume Design

Production Design

Makeup Artist

Photo Kwan Lee-na #87390
Kwan Lee-na
Makeup Artist

Original Music Composer

Photo Michael Galasso #15333
Michael Galasso
Original Music Composer
Roel A. García
Original Music Composer
Photo Frankie Chan Fan-Kei #82208
Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
Original Music Composer

Production Supervisor

Photo Jacky Pang #87397
Jacky Pang
Production Supervisor

Director of Photography

Photo Christopher Doyle #87395

Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle
Director of Photography

First Assistant Director

Photo Johnnie Kong #87391Photo Johnnie Kong #87392Photo Johnnie Kong #87393
Johnnie Kong
First Assistant Director

Screenplay

Special Effects

Jackie Tang
Special Effects

Colorist

Joe Gawler
Colorist

Sound

Photo Ronny Ching Siu-Lung #111216
Ronny Ching Siu-Lung
Sound

Sound Recordist

Tat Leung
Sound Recordist

Theme Song Performance

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Faye Wong

Faye Wong
Theme Song Performance

What's left behind the scenes

  • Wong Kar-wai created the character of Bridget Lin, a mysterious woman in a white wig, based on the images of Greta Garbo and Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' "Gloria" (1980).
  • In 1995, Quentin Tarantino specifically organized a distribution company for the American release to promote the film in the United States.
  • In the film, Takeshi Kaneshiro speaks four languages: his character's voiceover is in Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua), he utters several phrases in Cantonese (Hong Kong dialect), he communicates with his former girlfriend in Japanese, and he addresses the enigmatic Bridget Lin in English on one occasion.
  • The director initially intended the film to have three stories. Later, the third, unused part was included in the film "Fallen Angels" (1995).
  • Apartment number 663, belonging to the police officer, was filmed in the apartment of cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
  • Wong Kar-wai worked on this film simultaneously with the project "Ashes of Time" (1994) during breaks in filming – it took only 23 days for the script, staging, editing, and post-production. Kar-wai took on this film to immediately fulfill a contract for two films. He later described "Chungking Express" as a film similar to a road movie – he invented and wrote each new scene at night, and filmed it in the morning.
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro's character is named He Zhiwu, or Policeman #223. In "Fallen Angels" (1995), Wong Kar-wai's next film, Takeshi Kaneshiro also played a role. His character is also named He Zhiwu, and while hiding from the police, he states that his prison number was 223.
  • The disc the policeman gives at the end is a Japanese edition of the album «The Best of Francoise Hardy».
  • A more accurate localization of the title is «Chongqing Express».
  • The correct localization of the title is 'Chongqing Express'.
  • Quentin Tarantino specifically created a distribution company for the film's release in America.
  • Actor Takeshi Kaneshiro speaks four languages in the film: his character's voiceover is in Mandarin Chinese, he pronounces several phrases in Cantonese, he communicates with his ex-girlfriend in Japanese, and he addresses the mysterious heroine Brigitte Lin in English once.
  • Apartment #663 of the police officer was filmed in the apartment of cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
  • Wong Kar-wai worked on this film simultaneously with the project "Ashes of Time," in between filming – it took only 23 days for the script, staging, editing, and post-production. Kar-wai took on this film to immediately fulfill a contract for two films. He came up with and recorded each new scene at night, and filmed it in the morning.
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro's character is named He Zhiu, or Policeman #223. In "Fallen Angels," his character is also called He Zhiu, and while hiding from the police, he says his number in prison was 223.
  • The correct localization of the title is "Chungking Express".
  • Wong Kar-wai created Brigitte Lin's character, the mysterious woman in the white wig, based on the images of Greta Garbo and Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' "Gloria" (1980).
  • Police officer No. 663's apartment was filmed in the apartment of cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
  • Wong Kar-wai worked on this film concurrently with the project "Ashes of Time," in between shooting – only 23 days were spent on the screenplay, directing, editing, and post-production. Kar-wai took on this film to immediately fulfill a contract for two films. He would come up with and record each new scene at night, and film it in the morning.
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro's character is named He Zhiu, or Policeman No. 223. In "Fallen Angels," his character is also called He Zhiu, and while hiding from the police, he says his number in prison was 223.
  • The disc that the policeman gives at the end is a Japanese edition of the album "The Best of Francoise Hardy."
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