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Ashes of Time
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NR,1hr 35min
Genres:
Action,Drama
Released:
May 17, 1996
Director:
Wong Kar-Wai
Distributor:
Cav Distribution
Starring:
Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung  ...more
Synopsis: 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 on memory ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow
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Combining elements of Sergio Leone and Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar-wai's masterful Ashes of Time is both a lively recasting of Chinese martial art conventions and a fascinating meditation on memory. Like Wong's Chungking Express, which he shot during Ashes's famously troubled production, this film concerns a handful of lonely, isolated souls who are so absorbed in their own melancholy world that ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Leslie Cheung
Ou-yang Feng
Brigitte Lin
Mu-Rong Yang, Mu-Rong Yin
Maggie Cheung
The Woman
Jacky Cheung
Hung Chi
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