Chungking Express (重慶森林)

We rub elbows with a lot of people every day.

You may not know anything about them.

But they might become your friends or even confidants one day.

I'm a cop. No. 223. My name's Ho Chi Moo.

Freeze!

This was the closest we ever got.

Just 0.01 of a centimeter between us.

But 57 hours later,

I fell in love with this woman.

Mrs. Chen? This is Chi Moo.

Oh, it's not May I'm looking for. It's you I'm calling!

How are you?

I'm okay. Yes, I'll give her time

to get over it.

I'm sure she'll call me when she's ready.

Please don't tell her I called.

You're going to a movie?

I won't keep you. Is Mr. Chen there?

Mr. Chen? This is Chi Moo.

No, don't get May! How's your cough?

You're going to the movie with your wife?

I won't keep you then.

Don't tell May I called! Is her sister there?

No? Please pass on my regards.

We all have our habits.

Mine is to wait here for May to get off work.

The boss here says May looks like a Japanese star.

I split up with her recently.

She complained I no longer looked like one myself.

Any messages for account 368?

Password is "Undying Love".

Ming called? Or you mean May?

Spell it. "M-I-N-G" or "M-A-Y"?

You sure you got it right?

Yes? Don't you know English?

Ming? I guess May asked you to call.

Tell her not to worry, I'm fine.

I'm taking good care of myself.

She can call me any time she wants.

No need to trouble you.

She didn't?

So why are you paging me?

Jogging?

Are you heartbroken again? No?

Then why go jogging?

A race? You're crazy!

Jogging is something private.

You don't jog with an audience.

Forget it!

We're all unlucky in love at times.

When I am, I go jogging.

The body loses water when you jog

so you have none left for tears.

Me, shed tears?

May always thought of me as "Mr. Cool".

Still no go with your girlfriend?

It's been a month!

Get another one!

How about May here? She's not bad.

She's off early tonight, give it a go.

She likes you.

Not tonight, I have a date.

You look terrible.

I’m not sleeping.

Why don't you quit?

Are you sure you want to do it?

Yes.

Give me your passports.

Next.

Next.

Okay. Next. Come.

Hey you! Hey you!

Sit down!

Miss, is this okay?

Give me a bigger one, but nothing fancy.

Put it down!

I said don't shoot, put it down.

Don't touch!

Check, please.

I spent the night at May's from time to time.

In order to keep it from her parents,

I'd always climb down from the balcony.

Will I ever get to do that again?

Okay...

Go away!

How much?

$2500.

Later, okay?

What are you doing? Go!

Wait, you two come here!

Follow me. Go check.

Put these in the bag as well.

He's not here.

Do you know where he is?

Nope. But he left this for you.

The date on the can tells me

I don't have much time left.

If I don't find those Indians,

I'll be in deep trouble.

Why the raincoat?

I think it'll rain.

I've become very cautious somehow.

When I put on a rain coat,

I put on sunglasses too.

Who knows when it will rain

or when the sun will come out?

Any messages for Account 368?

Password, please.

Undying Love.

Any messages?

No, there isn't any today.

Thanks, anyway.

As we split up

on April Fool's Day,

I decided to let the joke run for a month.

Every day I bought

a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1st.

May loves pineapple

and May 1st is my birthday.

If May doesn't change her mind

by the time I've bought thirty cans,

our love will expire.

Sir, this can's going to expire tomorrow.

Why don't you get another one?

No thanks.

When is the earliest flight tomorrow morning?

I want to make a reservation.

Just one...

Have you seen these people?

No.

Look carefully, they're with their kids.

Can't help you.

Have you seen these people?

No.

This? -No.

No?

No.

You really don't know?

I've no idea where he is.

But he's a friend of yours!

No… -Papa

My daughter!

Hello, what do you want?

If you don't tell me within the hour,

you'll never see your daughter again.

An ice cream for her, please.

Some men might sacrifice a kid to save their own skin.

But he wasn't one of them.

An hour later, I set out...

Police!

Freeze!

It's been six months since I nabbed anyone.

I finally caught a wanted man today.

Whenever I made an arrest,

I wanted May to be the first to know.

Hello? Hello?

Miura Tomokazu! I will kill you!

Do you have any canned pineapple that expires on May 1st?

You know what day it is today?

April 30th!

Right!

You think we sell out-dated stock?

There're still two hours to go.

Nobody would buy it! Get a fresh one.

People like you are hung up on freshness.

You realize what goes into a can of pineapple?

The fruit must be grown, harvested, sliced...

And you just throw it away!

How do you think the can feels about that?

Buddy, I only work here.

Who cares what the can feels?

What about how I feel?

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I too wish cans would not expire!

It'd save me loads of work.

You like expired cans? Help yourself!

Take as many as you like! On the house!

Somehow everything comes with an expiry date.

Swordfish expires.

Meat sauce expires.

Even plastic wrap expires.

Is there anything in the world that doesn't?

Want some mackerel?

It's expired. I don't want it.

You sure?

I finally found my thirtieth can.

As May 1st begins, I come to realize,

in May's eyes,

I am no different from this can of pineapple.

Come on, try it!

People say dogs are men's best friends.

How come mine won't share my grief

when I most need it?

This must be some kind of record.

I ate all thirty cans that evening.

It's just as well May wasn't into garlic!

I'd love to go out on the town.

May should have been in bed by now.

But what about the other May?

Back again?