Ashes of Time

Year:1994

Section:Movies

Genre:Fantasy, Martial Arts, Period

Language: Chinese (Cantonese)

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Ashes of Time

A very good friend of mine absolutely hates "Ashes of Time", and for some very good reasons too. Firstly, he is a huge Jin Yong fan, and finds Wong Kar Wai's (WKW) re-imagination of the legendary characters out of "Legend of the Condor Heroes" mind-boggling (in particular, he cannot get over the fact that Ouyang Feng has been reduced to becoming an assassination middle-man), and secondly, he characterizes the film as being "diced and spliced together" as if WKW ran...

Ashes of Time

Directed by Wong Kar Wai Starring: Leslie Cheung Maggie Cheung Tony Leung Chiu Wai Tony Leung Ka Fai Brigitte Lin Jacky Cheung Charlie Yeung Carina Lau Many people have tried to adapt Jin Yong's epics down to a reasonable size so as to make a movie from them. But unfortunately, since Jin Yong's books frequently goes up to the thousands of pages of length and one page in a novel usually translates to about one minute of screen time, it is an almost impossible...