With the re-release of the critically acclaimed Chungking Expres can Wong Kar-Wai repeat his succes stateside? Edmund leeward finds out as America braces for the impact.
Wong Kar-Wai doesn't like to be interviewed. Forget that he's a media darling in Hong Kong and that he's the scalding;-very warm new property being wooed by Miramax and HK-cinema-geek Quentin Tarantino to re-release his 1994 film Chungking Expres He instead addresss to focus on the mundane details of everyday life.
"What is this `X-Girl'?" he asks, pointing to a sticker forward the wall ...
