"A movie of extraordinary visual power! Wong Kar-wai's quintessential work"
-- J .Hoberman, Village Voice

Originally conceived as the "third story" of Chungking Express, this just-as-dazzling film comments and expands on the first. The fallen angels herein inhabit the space in between days, eking out haphazard livings until they manage to take control of their existence. There's He Zhiwu (Takeshi Kaneshiro at his most adorable) as a mute who breaks into other's businesses at night and then forces passersby to serve as customers. He falls for Charlie (Charlie Yeung) who's busy seeking romantic vengeance. (Eventually in a jokey reference to the first film, she will become a stewardess.) Smitten down to his follicles, He Zhiwu goes blond when love struck. It's an appropriate manifestation for a movie about costumes and postures.

Posing cool in an intercut story is Wong Chi-Ming (Leon Lai), a suave hitman waiting around for faxed instructions from his agent (Michelle Ries) who also cleans his pad, supplies him with beer, loves him. This killer is just passing time, sensing he should move on.

Strikingly, the ultra-hip, visually stunning Fallen Angels is something of an adolescent boy film, as the not-quite-adultish heroes wonder about their dads, know they should move on, and flounder compellingly.

Writer and Director: Wong Kar-wai (1999 90 min.)
Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok