(Wong Kar Wai, 1995, Hong Kong, 99 minutes) 

Like 1994’s Chungking Express, 1995’s Fallen Angels follows two separate plotlines. One is about a killer (Leon Lai) and his agent (Michelle Reis) and was originally intended to be a third story in Chungking Express. The other is the much lighter tale of a mute petty criminal (Takeshi Kaneshiro), whose reasons for losing the ability to speak will resonate with Chungking Express fans, and his interactions with a woman (Charlie Yeung) whom he often runs into. Echoing Chungking Express with character names, plot points, and more, Fallen Angels makes for both an interesting companion piece to that film or as a standalone work, one of the darker entries in Wong’s oeuvre. 

In Cantonese with English subtitles.