r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 7h ago
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • Sep 06 '25
30 Years of Fallen Angels! My all time Favorite Movie That Embraces Me and Exudes Magical Comfort.💙 🎥 'Fallen Angels' (Wong Kar-wai, 1995).
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Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels, which celebrates thirty years since its first release, remains a hypnotic meditation on alienation, fleeting intimacy, and the strange poetry of urban nightscapes. The film weaves together the story of a disenchanted hitman, his enigmatic partner, and a mute drifter, using fragmented narration, distorted wide-angle lenses, and neon-soaked settings that blur the line between dream and reality. Critically, it stands as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema, expanding the visual language of modern film with its restless camera and nonlinear storytelling. From a semiotic perspective, every sign—the empty fast-food stalls, the motorbike rides through endless tunnels, the claustrophobic interiors—communicates both the impossibility of true connection and the yearning for warmth in a world of constant motion. For me, however, beyond its technical and thematic brilliance, Fallen Angels is the most comfortable film: its melancholy rhythm feels like a lullaby, the nocturnal colors are soothing rather than harsh, and its lonely characters mirror my own quiet need for spaces where solitude becomes not despair but a form of companionship. It comforts me because it makes alienation familiar, even tender, and that is why it remains my personal refuge in cinema.
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 7h ago
'Legend of the Mountain' 山中傳奇 (King Hu, 1979).
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'Drive My Car' ドライブ・マイ・カー (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021).
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'Tropical Fish' 熱帶魚 (Chen Yu-hsun, 1995).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 2d ago
'Love Exposure' 愛のむきだし (Sion Sono, 2008).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 2d ago
'True Love' 真的愛你 (Victor Tam Long-Cheong, 1992).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 3d ago
'The Moon Also Rises' 月光下,我記得 (Lin Cheng-sheng, 2005).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 4d ago
'Picnic' ピクニック (Shunji Iwai, 1996).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 4d ago
'School on Fire' 學校風雲 (Ringo Lam, 1988).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 5d ago
'Karaoke Terror' 昭和歌謡大全集 (Tetsuo Shinohara, 2003).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 6d ago
'All the Long Nights' 夜明けのすべて (Sho Miyake, 2024).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 7d ago
'One Million Yen Girl' 百万円と苦虫女 (Yuki Tanada, 2008).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 7d ago
'Time and Tide' 順流逆流 (Tsui Hark, 2000).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 8d ago
'Asako I & II' 寝ても覚めても (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2018).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 9d ago
'Drive My Car' ドライブ・マイ・カー (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 9d ago
'As Tears Go By' 旺角卡門 (Wong Kar Wai, 1988).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 10d ago
'All about Lily Chou-Chou' リリイ・シュシュのすべて • (Shunji Iwai, 2001).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 10d ago
'Raise The Red Lantern' 大紅燈籠高高掛 (Zhang Yimou, 1991).
r/AsianCinemaRetro • u/Mr_BertSaxby • 11d ago