As Tears Go By

Fun to watch, but not very memorable (the experience wasn't improved by the fact that the imported print had been damaged, and so was sans subtitles at various points). Gangster films, Asian or otherwise, don't generally particularly excite me, though there are a few nice touches (the delicately played encounter between Ah Wah and his old girlfriend, sheltering from the rain, comes to mind) which lift As Tears Go By above the run of the mill. (Of course, I was watching it as a Wong Kar-Wai film, rather than strictly as a genre piece, which must have coloured my response to it...)