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Ashes of Time

Dung che sai duk (Ashes of Time) (Ashes of Time Redux)

1994

Wong Kar-Wai

Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai ...

6.0

1,643

Action. Drama. Romance 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It's great-looking, and the characters all know what they would, although we do not. Wong Kar-Wai doesn't supply much of a plot with a narrative engine to pull us through. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)."

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