東邪西毒 (1994)

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Ashes of Time (東邪西毒) is a 1994 Hong Kong wuxia film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Carina Lau, Charlie Yeung, Jacky Cheung, and Maggie Cheung. The film serves as a backstory for some characters from the novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong. It was selected in September 1994 to compete for the Golden Lion at the 51st Venice International Film Festival.

Production

In the 1960s, King Hu's Come Drink with Me raised the artistic level of wuxia films. Wong Kar-wai grew up immersed in wuxia culture. In 1972, Bruce Lee's The Way of the Dragon brought jianghu culture to the global stage. In the mid-1990s, wuxia films entered a new stage. Wong selected characters from wuxia novelist Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes and created an unprecedented wuxia story.

The film serves as a backstory to The Legend of the Condor Heroes as it imagines some of the older characters when they were younger. It focuses on a villain (Ouyang Feng) and humanises him while retaining his despicable qualities. Ouyang Feng, known as the Western Venom, crosses paths with the other powerful martial arts masters.

During the film's long-delayed production, Wong produced a parody of the same novel with much of the same cast (in different roles) titled The Eagle Shooting Heroes.

Using negatives from around the world, Wong re-edited and re-scored the film in 2008 for future theater, DVD and Blu-ray releases under the title Ashes of Time Redux. The film was reduced from 100 to 93 minutes.

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