In the strikingly stylized 'Chungking Express', two police officers (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) are both suffering from a broken heart. One fights his heartbreak by running, the other is so affected by the departure of his girlfriend that he fails to notice that snack bar girl Faye is madly in love with him.

'Chungking Express' is an iconic work of the 1990s and the film that made Wong Kar-Wai an instant crowd-pleaser. Anything is possible in Wong's gloriously filmed masterpiece, which forever made the combination of canned pineapple and The Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreaming" the epitome of romantic longing.

Christophe Verbiest is editor of Espresso (Klara) en film critic for De Morgen.