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Sep 16, 1994 · Movie: Ashes of Time Chinese: Dung che sai duk (東邪西毒) Director: Wong Kar-Wai; Writer: Louis Cha (novel), Wong Kar-Wai; Producer: Wong Kar-Wai; Cinematographer; Release Date: September 16, 1994 Runtime: 100 min Language: Cantonese Country: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan Plot
Ashes of Time incorporates Ouyang Feng’s musings on his own life with chapters devoted to the stories of the broken-hearted swordsmen he hires. Identity, memory and unrequited love are all recurring motifs, as they are in other Wong films like In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild. But mostly this is a movie that wants to linger on ...
Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features a virtual who's who of the Hong Kong film world. Conceived as a prequel to the popular martial arts novel The Eagle-Shooting Hero by Jin Yong, the movie is less a straightforward action thriller than a visually striking meditation ...
Ashes of Time represents a prequel to the novel, with two of the main characters relegated to secondary status (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's Blind Swordsman and Jacky Cheung's Hong Qi) and everyone else much younger and inexperienced. Wong's goal is focusing on the psychological and emotional reasons that brought the characters to the behavior we see in the novel.
HD $3.59. Buy. HD $12.99. More purchase. options. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Details. From Director Wong Kar Wai comes the definitive version of Ashes of Time, an epic martial arts masterpiece of larger-than-life characters, breathtaking landscapes and exquisite fight scenes.
Duration. 1h 40m. Ouyang Feng is a native of White Camel Mountain. Raised by his elder brother, Ouyang's ambition is to become a famous swordsman. But faced with a choice between the woman he loves and martial adventures, he chooses the latter. Frustrated, the woman marries his brother.
Mar 14, 2012 · Ashes of Time. Wednesday 14 March 2012. Share. Copy Link. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp. Written by TR. Advertising. Time Out says. An all-star cast, Chris Doyle's extraordinary ...
