Two of some of my favorite foreign movies of all time are Fallen Angels and Chungking Express. Both of these movies were directed by the renowned filmmaker Wong Kar Wai. Both of these movies take place in the city of Hong Kong in the early 90s. I like Fallen Angels (or les Anges Dechus as it was called and released in France) because it has a beautiful cinematography and a very unconventional storyline, even for a Hong Kong flick. Fallen Angels has two stories, one about a killer and his unorthodox relationship with his clean up lady, who literally places all the material in black garbage bags, and the second is about an ex convict who lives with his old father and forces people to buy his services that he renders to them at night, and his romantic, tryst, with a psychotic young lady bent on exacting her revenge on the blondie who took her boyfriend away from her. It is great stuff. Very avante-garde.
Chungking Express was made a year or two before Fallen Angels (and is it's prequel) and it involves a tale of a female drug smuggler and her excursions into her operations in HK or Hong Kong, and the unlikely meet up of her and a cop at a bar, and a hotel room. The second story that more or less intertwines in the movie is the young woman who dreams of moving to California and works in a HK take-out cafeteria style eatery, and her romantic relations with another cop. These movies star big names in Hong Kong cinema and even music -Tony Leung, Bridgette Lin, Charlie Yeung, Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Karen Mok and last but not least, Faye Wong. These are some of my favorite movies in the world. Long live Hong Kong, Asia and the Philippines!
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