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Have you seen Fallen Angels (1995)?

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Fallen angels (1995)

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Leon Lai-Ming, also one of the Four Heavenly Kings, had his greatest acting role in Fallen Angels, Wong Kar-Wai’s unofficial follow-up to Chungking Express. In the film, Lai’s Killer meets Karen Mok’s Blondie after hours in a basement McDonald’s. As they leave the restaurant, ascending to street level with the red and yellow glow of the logo suddenly rendered dream-like behind them, it begins to rain.

This song playing during this scene is Shirley Kwan’s rendition of “Forget Him,” a song that first appeared on the 1980 Cantonese album by Teresa Teng, the undisputed queen of Chinese pop. Kwan’s version took the original ballad and twisted it, drenching the vocals in atmosphere. This gave the song the otherworldly quality that is as essential to a Wong Kar-Wai film as McDonald’s is to a Hong Kong romance.

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A Hero Never Dies (Review)

A Hero Never Dies (Review)

A Hero Never Dies

aka 真心英雄 aka Chan Sam Ying Hung 1998 Written by Yau Nai-Hoi and Szeto Kam-Yuen Directed by Johnnie To Kei-Fung Johnnie To takes the heroic bloodshed genre and does a three card monte of deconstruction and chaos to make an entry that is a great example of all the genre’s tropes while simultaneously lampooning them and also pointing out how serious and sad they are in reality. It’s…

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