Fallen Angels (1995)

19951h 36mdir. Wong Kar-waiCantoneseHong Kongdrama filmromance film

With Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok, Michelle Reis, Chan Fai-hung

Directed by Wong Kar-wai

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Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong neo-noir crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It features two intertwined storylines—one tells the story of a hitman wishing to leave the criminal underworld (Leon Lai), the eccentric woman he starts a relationship with (Karen Mok), and his agent that remains unnamed throughout the movie (Michele Reis), who is infatuated with him. The other story is of a mute ex-convict on the run from the police (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and a mentally unstable woman dumped by her boyfriend (Charlie Yeung). Set in 1995 pre-Handover Hong Kong, Fallen Angels explores the characters' loneliness, their alienation from the situations around them, and yearning

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