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==Plot== ===First story=== Hong Kong police officer He Zhi Wu's girlfriend, May, breaks up with him on 1 April. To verify her earnestness about ending the relationship, Zhi Wu chooses to wait for a month.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chungking Express |url=https://www.criterion.com/films/226-chungking-express |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Criterion Collection}}</ref><ref name="nottingham.ac.uk">{{Cite thesis |last=Gan |first=Wendy |title=0.01cm: Affectivity and Urban Space in Chungking Express |date=November 2003 |publisher=[[University of Hong Kong]] |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2003/november-2003/gan.pdf |access-date=15 June 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215074117/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2003/november-2003/gan.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Every day he buys a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of 1 May, because May enjoyed pineapples and 1 May is his birthday. Meanwhile, a woman in a blonde wig tries to survive in the drug underworld after a smuggling operation goes sour. On 1 May, Zhi Wu approaches the woman in the blonde wig at the [[Bottoms Up Club]]. She is exhausted and falls asleep in a hotel room, leaving him to watch TV and order food. He shines her shoes before leaving her still asleep. She leaves in the morning and shoots the drug baron who set her up. Zhi Wu goes jogging and receives a message from her on his pager wishing him a happy birthday. He visits his usual food store in [[Chungking Mansions]], where he collides with a new staff member, Faye. ===Second story=== Another police officer, Cop 663, is also dealing with a breakup—with a flight attendant. Faye secretly falls for him. One day, the flight attendant visits the food store and waits for the man. She learns it is his day off and leaves a letter for him with the store owner containing a set of keys to the officer's apartment. Faye tells the officer of the letter, but he delays reading it and asks the store to keep it for him. Faye uses the keys to repeatedly enter the man's apartment to clean and redecorate. Gradually, her ploys help him cheer up. He finds Faye coming to his apartment and realises that she likes him; he arranges a date at a restaurant named California. Faye does not arrive, and the store owner, her cousin, goes to the restaurant to tell him that Faye has left for the US state of California. She leaves him a [[boarding pass]] drawn on a paper napkin dated one year later. Faye, now a flight attendant, returns to Hong Kong. She finds that the officer has bought the food store and is converting it into a restaurant. He asks her to stay for the grand opening, and to send him a postcard if she leaves. As Faye is about to leave, he presents the boarding pass, wrinkled and water-stained, and she writes him a new one. She asks him what he wants the destination to be, to which he replies, "Wherever you want to take me."
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