Fallen Angels ( Duo luo tian shi )

Fallen Angels (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Duo luo tian shi
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Featurette
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
Hong Kong ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Kar Wai Wong

Written By:
Kar Wai Wong

Actors:
Leon Lai ..... Wong Chi-Ming/Killer
Michelle Reis ..... The Killer's Agent (as Michele Reis)
Takeshi Kaneshiro ..... He Zhiwu
Charlie Yeung ..... Charlie/Cherry
Karen Mok ..... Punkie/Blondie/Baby
Fai-hung Chan ..... The Man Forced to Eat Icecream
Man-Lei Chan ..... He Zhiwu's father (as Chen Man Lei)
Toru Saito ..... Sato
To-hoi Kong ..... Ah-hoi
Lee-na Kwan ..... Woman Pressed to Buy Vegetables
Yuk-ho Wu ..... Man forced to have his clothes washed

Synopsis:

Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is a sequel of sorts to the director's 1994 U.S. breakthrough Chungking Express. Expanding on the latter's style, themes, and mood, Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong. As with the filmmaker's other features, plot takes a back seat to mood. The wisp of a narrative intercuts two story lines. The first follows a hitman (Leon Lai) who finds that the assassin's life has slowly lost its allure. Complicating his life is his beautiful contact (Michele Reis, a former Miss Hong Kong winner) who pines after him with fetishistic ardor, although the two have never met in their nearly three-year partnership. In another part of the city, He (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a mute, boyish ex-convict, makes a living by sneaking into and running businesses after hours. Still living with his father who runs the Chungking Mansions hotel, the restless Ho falls for Cherry (Charlie Yeung), a woman getting over her breakup with the offscreen Johnny. The movie follows these episodic romances almost half-heartedly as with Wong's other films, and digressionary moments attract much of the camera's distracted gaze. This visually stylish and unabashedly effusive work is considered by some critics to be the quintessential Wong film.

Fallen Angels is the story of a professional killer in Hong Kong. It follows the in's and out's of his job and his partner in crime who he rarely sees. After 3 years of working together he wants out. Another sub-plot is about a mute (caused by eating an outdated can of pineapples when he was 5!) who breaks into restaurants, cafes and ice-cream trucks at night and forces people to buy his goods!

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 31 May, 2007.

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