Fallen Angels poster

1995·98 min·Released

Fallen Angels

“The night's full of weirdos.”

Action
Romance
Crime

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

7.7(1,318 votes)

Popularity6

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Official Trailer [Subtitled]

Cast & Crew

Leon Lai Ming

Leon Lai Ming

Wong Chi-Ming

Michele Reis

Michele Reis

Killer's Agent

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Takeshi Kaneshiro

He Zhiwu

Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei

Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei

Charlie

Karen Mok Man-Wai

Karen Mok Man-Wai

Blondie

Chan Man-Lei

Chan Man-Lei

Wu's Father

Toru Saito

Toru Saito

Sato

Benz Kong To-Hoi

Benz Kong To-Hoi

Ah Hoi

Chan Fai-Hung

Chan Fai-Hung

Man Forced to Eat Ice-cream

Kwan Lee-Na

Kwan Lee-Na

Woman Pressed to Buy Vegetables

Wu Yuk-Ho

Wu Yuk-Ho

Man Forced to Have His Clothes Washed

Johnnie Kong

Johnnie Kong

Victim

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BornKnight

Written on 1/31/2024

The complimentary movie to Chungking Express (1994), this is a neo-noir thriller that was shooted as a different movie because of the length of the total movie and differences between the two. As in the first this one also tells two stories: of a hitman (Leon Lai Ming) that wants to detach from his activities and his partner, a woman that cleans his apartment while he is out, and have a secret love for him, while he meets another girl nicknamed blondie. The second one is from a ex-convict escaped from prison, Ho Chi-mo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) that is mute and works and lives with his father, also breaking into other works at night to sell their goods and services (here we have a meet with the Chungking Express with the first movie) and keeps finding another girl Charlie that lost his girlfriend for blondie), aside from a sequence that he meets another character from the first story in the end. While having its themes along with Chungking, it differentiates from he first one by the use of cinematographer Christopher Doyle shooting mainly at night and using extreme wide-angle lenses, keeping the camera as close to the talents as possible to give a detached effect from the world around them, giving an wide-angle distortion of images creates an effect of distance-in-proximity, conveying the characters' solitude. The visuals are frantic, out-of-focus, and neon-lit. The camera also follows the characters and segments of B&W and heldcam camera also are used. Another difference is the use of voice overs (as in thoughts) in the place of dialogues and pop songs this time mainly Cantonese versions of many musics, some of them also being ocidental (like the instrumental "Speak My Language" by American avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and Flying Pickets version of "Only You" by member Vince Clarke, while he was still with Depeche Mode). To me a score of 8,7 out of 10,0 / A along side with the previous one a must to watch movie of an bygone era before the delivery of the city back to China in 97.

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Official Trailer [Subtitled]

Official Trailer [Subtitled]