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Ashes of Time (1994)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Brigitte Lin
Leslie Cheung
Maggie Cheung
Jacky Cheung
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Ching Hsia
Movie Details
Genre Action; Adventure; Drama
Director Kar Wai Wong; Wong Kar-Wai
Writer Wong Kar-Wai
Studio CAV
Language English
Audience Rating NR (Not Rated)
Running Time 95 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
In Chinese with English Subtitles

Shot in mainland China, this perversely lavish, self-consciously new martial arts film...is a languorous, sultry, sensuous action reverie. Accompanied by wailing flutes or solo electric guitar, it's set in a desert wilderness populated by a gang of angst ridden, lovelorn swordsmen-for-hire. One is going blind, another turning amnesiac, the rest are haunted by their various memories. The names Kurosawa and Leone come tripping to the tongue in attempting to describe this brooding melange of extreme tilts and outlandish angles...Ashes of Time is mostly anticipation with sudden inexplicable episodes of slo-mo zap blurs of martial art tumult, as well as mystically congruent earthquakes and geysers.--J. Hoberman Village Voice
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 215
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
DVD Empire
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Layers Single side, Single layer
UPC 639518600121
Release Date 1/1/2001
Subtitles English
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks CHINESE: Dolby Digital Stereo
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Color