Chungking Express Esquivel and His Orchestra "A hopeful graphic novel about

"A hopeful graphic novel about fighting social compulsions to conform and finding strength in one's own identity

Original sense of reading

While things may seem grim

all lovingly and grotesquely drawn by Hanawalt in obsessive

perseverance

Chungking Express Esquivel and His Orchestra "A hopeful graphic novel about*This is NOT a comic! But I did go to film school! By Wong Kar Wai. Published by Criterion. Blu ray Disc, 102 minutes, 1. 66: 1 aspect ratio, Colour, 1994 (2025 printing) The whiplash, double pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express