'Express' refers to the food stand Midnight Express, located in Lan Kwai Fong, an area in Central, Hong Kong.
' Chungking' in the title refers to Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, where Wong grew up in the 1960s. The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer roused from his gloom over the loss of his flight attendant girlfriend ( Valerie Chow) by the attentions of a quirky snack bar worker ( Faye Wong). The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop obsessed by his breakup with a woman named May, and his encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler ( Brigitte Lin). The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong romantic crime comedy-drama anthology film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai.