Ashes
of
Time
(1994)
Hanyu Pinyin :Dong Xie Xi Du, Literal: East
Evil West Poison
French : Les cendres du temps
Based on the "East, South, West, North" characters from Jing's
Condor
saga. Brigitte acts as Mu Rong Yin/Mu Rong Yang. Leslie is
Ouyang Feng who is notorious as an agent for hitmen. Brigitte as
Mu Rong Yin is in love with Huang Yao Shi (Tony Leung Ka Fai) who is a
swordsman who drinks to forget the woman he loves which happens to be
Maggie
Cheung. Maggie Cheung married Ouyang Feng's brother after Ouyang
Feng prefer the swordsmen lifestyle to her. Mu Rong Yin becomes
unstable
and her male personality, Mu Rong Yang, wants to kill Huang Yao
Shi
for rejecting her. As Mu Rong Yin still loves Huang Yao Shi, she
wants Ouyang Feng to kill her brother Mu Rong Yang. She even
mistakes
Ouyang Feng for Huang Qi and spends the night with him.
As usual, another misinterpretation of the book Condor Heroes.
The scenary is beautiful, the music is haunting, the fighting is
stylish,
all the main actors and actresses from Hong Kong in 1990s acted in the
movie and the plot is based on one of the most popular wuxia books in
the
Chinese culture. The story is a tad slow. For Condor
Heroes,
it is best to stick to the TV series and the comics. This story
is
too complicated to be compressed into a movie.
The Ashes of Time Soundtrack
picts is available on CD. New age style.
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and LD covers. picts
The Ashes of Time book
picts is a wonderful book with many beautiful pictures.
There is a Ashes of Time lobby card.
picts
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Gallery.picts
There are beautiful Ashes of Time
postcards.
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With our previous movie polls, 35 people voted with 68% (24 votes)
who
thought it was excellent, 11% (4 votes) who thought it was good, 11% (4
votes) who thought it was OK, 2% (1 vote) who thought it was bad and 5%
(2 votes) who thought it was terrible.
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Awards won by Ashes of Time
- Golden Horse 1994 - Best Photography by Christopher Doyle
- Golden Horse 1994 - Best Editing by Hai Kit Wai, Patrick Tam
- Hong Kong Film Awards 1994 - Best Photography by Christopher Doyle
- Hong Kong Film Awards 1994 - Best Art Direction by William Chang
Suk
Ping
- Hong Kong Film Awards 1994 - Best Costume Design by William Chang
Suk
Ping
- Hong Kong Film Critics Society 1994 - Best Picture
- Venice Film Festival 1994 - Special Jury Award
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Ka Fai) , Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia,
Tony Leung ChiuWai, Carina Lau Ka Ling, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung,
Charlie
Yeung
Director : Wong Kar Wai
Writer : Wong Kar Wai
Producer : Tsai Sung Lin
Action Director : Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Cinematographer : Christopher Doyle
Art Director : Cheung Suk Ping (William Chang), Yau Wai Ming
Editors : Tam Patrick, Cheung Suk Ping, Hai Git Wai, Kong Chi Leung
Music Score : Frankie Chan, Roal A. Garcia
Costume : Cheung Suk Ping
Spoken : Mandarin, Cantonese
Subtitles : English on VCD & DVD, Chinese on DVD.
Film : Hong Kong
Distributor : Mei Ah Laser Disc Co. Ltd
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