Fallen Angels |  | Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok, Michelle Reis, Leon Lai
Studio: Kino Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: Cantonese (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: KICD03792D
UPC: 738329037925
EAN: 0738329037925
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: October 19, 2004
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Product Description
Set in the neon-washed underworld of present day hong kong fallen angels intertwines two exhilarating tales of love and isolation: the unconsummated love affair between a contract killer and his ravishing female agent and the story of ex-convict ho. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 10/19/2004 Run time: 96 minutes
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 Stunning images, enigmatic stories -- an exceptional and exciting film about love and longing in Hong Kong April 12, 2008
Nathan Andersen (Florida)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Three individuals whose lives intersect and parallel form the core of this stunningly photographed, moody and intense cinematic masterpiece. A hitman who is getting tired of the messiness of his job; his partner, who plans everything out for him in meticulous detail but would really like to cross the line with him between business and pleasure; a mute, who breaks into other people's businesses at night and forces unwitting passersby to purchase his wares. They rarely ever meet, but they share the same spaces, and sleep the same hours. The film alternates between: the intensely cool portrayal of a hitman with all the style of a Hollywood badboy, and all of the mellow of a Spaghetti Western antihero -- the femme fatale lonely longing that simmers with an undercurrent of anger of his partner -- and the slapstick comic silliness of the mute. The faded neon lights, the eclectic and moody music, the kinetic and flowing camera -- this is unlike anything you've seen unless you've seen a Wong Kar-Wai film and if you have you know that he doesn't ever quite repeat himself. This film shares a good deal with the atmosphere of Chungking Express, but is darker and more moody, and in many ways more intense and exciting -- I love both films but this one has an edginess that you don't find in the other -- you might say that Chungking is the day film and this is the night. One connection between the films is that the mute in this film is played by the same actor as the pineapple-eating policeman in Chungking Express. Their characters share the same name, He Xiwu, and this one lost his voice as a result of eating bad pineapple from an expired can -- but they are not exactly the same as this one never was a policeman and allegedly lost his voice at age 5. A beautiful and exciting film -- definitely one to see for lovers of the art of film.
 Fallen Standards November 26, 2007
James A. Leopard (Brooklyn, New York)
0 out of 15 found this review helpful
One more pretentious exercise in pointlessness. Don't bother, unless your cinematic sensibilities never exceeded the nihilism of an adolescent.
One of the Best Wong Kar Wai Films! July 15, 2007
Sheeba (NY, NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This has to be my very favorite Wong Kar Wai Film. It's beautifully shot like all his films. He's a genius.
Must have for Wong Kar Wai fans! April 2, 2007
raeve (tulsa, ok)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a sort of 'sequel' to Chungking Express, it definitely holds it's own quirkiness & action-packed fun! Viewers also get to enjoy watching Takeshi Kaneshiro once again. Definitely a Must-Have!
The Daddy of the Kar Wai Canon October 18, 2006
Adrian Stranik (London)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Fallen Angels could have been so named due to its dropped origin as part of director Wong Kar Wai's previous film Chunking Express, emerging afterwards as a follow up. To hear the critics tell it, `Express' is his masterpiece, regularly making the `best movies ever made' lists along side such exalted company as your Citizens Kane's and Casablanca's. But for me Fallen Angels is, to date, the daddy of the Wong Kar Wai canon.
Fallen Angel tells of a not quite burnt-out hit man, Leon, who begins to tire of the whole `gun for hire' malarkey and decides to quit on account of his burgeoning feelings for the female operative who he has never met, but who plans his jobs for him. The female operative, Michelle, also emotes for our existential assassin but somehow they both realise that if they ever did come face to face the fantasy would evaporate. The unrequited love thing is Kar Wai's forte but here it is more a case of "As long as you don't look at it, it won't disappear." So their love continues on the basis of ensuring that it never really exists. Anxious to avoid an inevitable unprofessional encounter, our navel gazing killer goes off on an adventure into the Kowloon night where he crosses paths with a series of likable reprobates before embarking on that fatal "one last job."
This takes us not so neatly into a `mad as a hatter' subplot about a petty criminal who was rendered mute as a boy by a can of `out of date' pineapples. He goes out at night and gets up to a range of activities such as massaging a dead pig and kidnapping a family and forcing them to eat ice cream. He too falls in love, with a girl who believes she has been beaten to the altar by someone called Blondie. He helps her go in search of the usurper of her affections resulting in a hilarious beating up of a blow up doll!
Cinematographer and Kar Wai regular Christopher Doyle engages a warped and gaudy neon look throughout; something of a trade mark in Kar Wai films. This is the world from inside a Wurlitzer juke box - or, at least, through the eyes of a tranquilised goldfish and this, incidentally, is not a complaint. The other thing I like about this film is that it walks the line between the art house `heart warmers' of the best of European cinema and the `Glock Opera' pyrotechnics of John Woo and Ringo Lam.
Genre clash - it's the future.
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