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Celebrated director Wong Kar-Wai revisits his 1994 film ASHES OF TIME, the Hong Kong filmmaker's only entry into the martial arts genre. Based on the novel by Louis Cha, this film follows a lone swordsman (Leslie Cheung) as time passes. ASHES OF TIME REDUX also stars Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and it features an appearance by Maggie Cheung.
Probably not our best idea to 'compare' these older DVD editions with this new Blu-ray ReDux. Although the ReDux is not technically a remake, it is a 'redone' version of the 1994 film as Wong discuss this in the supplemental interviews. It does, however have some extraordinary differences - especially visually. He claims it took 4 years as much of the older film was scattered , damaged or difficult to obtain. After the DVD editions that we reviewed I was always anxious to actually 'see' a decent edition of 'Ashes of Time' as the original transfers were unwatchable. The ReDux represents what Wong calls the 'definitive' version as the early releases were altered, by Asian distributors, without his consent (another reason why the ReDux was made at all.)
S"My Blueberry Nights is not Wong Kar-wai's worst film to date (that distinction belongs to the inscrutable Ashes of Time), but it's certainly nothing less than a comedown after the consecutive triumphs of 2000's In the Mood for Love, 2004's 2046, and the short film Wong made as part of the Eros anthology, 'The Hand.'3"2—from Judge Ben Saylor's review of My Blueberry Nights
Ashes of Time was first released in 1994. The film, adapted from the Louis Cha novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes, was writer-director Wong Kar-wai's first (and as of 2009 only) foray into martial arts cinema. The film took a great deal of time to shoot, so much in fact that its director took a break during production to write and direct Chungking Express.
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