Ashes of Time 1994 123movies

Watch: 東邪西毒 1994 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ou-yang Feng lives in the middle of a desert, where he acts as a middle man to various swordsmen in ancient China. One of those swordsmen is Huang Yao-shi, who has found some magic wine that causes one to forget the past. At another time, Huang met Mu-rong Yin and under the influence of drink, promised to marry Mu-rong’s sister Mu-rong Yang. Huang jilts her, and Mu-rong Yin hires Ou-yang to kill Huang. But then Mu-rong Yang hires Ou-yang to protect Huang. This is awkward, because Mu-rong Yang and Mu-rong Yin are in reality the same person. Other unrelated plot lines careen about. Among them is Ou-yang’s continuing efforts to destroy a band of horse thieves. Oy-yang recruits another swordsman, a man who is going blind and wants to get home to see his wife before his sight goes completely. The swordsman is killed. Ou-yang then meets another swordsman who doesn’t like wearing shoes. Oy-yang sends this man after the horse thieves, with better results. We then find out what a man must give up to follow the martial path..
Plot: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients’ unrequited loves and unusual acts of bravery.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 15,702
	78% | RottenTomatoes
	69/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 247 Popularity: 11.833 | TMDB

Reviews:

When Audacity becomes Pretension…
“Ashes of Time” was an audacious project but ended up being a pretentious movie. This film is a good example of how to tell a simple story in a complex manner. The plot of “Ashes of Time” is fairly simple and comes down to two words: “love triangle”. Because of those “love triangles” crossing stories, jealousy, hate and love are the main dynamics displayed by the characters. The narrative part is seen through Ou-yang Feng’s eyes (Leslie Cheung). Ou-yang Feng lives in the desert, where he acts as middleman to various swordsmen and becomes the tool of Destiny through which vengeance is achieved. Unfortunately “Ashes of Time” fails in telling these simple stories of love and hate. Wong Kar-wai lost himself driven by a desire to make each frame of the film a painting and an aesthetic experience. In fact beside the casting of beautiful actors (men and women) everything else is a failure in this movie. Dialogs are minimalists and not original at all. Picture’s quality is very much unequal, the editing is one of the worst ever seen (at least by me) in the “swordplay” genre and finally the filming of the rare sword fight is very confusing and unappealing. Even the attempt of building artistic scenes is not always achieved: the so call erotic “women on a horse” scene is ridiculous, not erotic and useless. Wong Kar-wai wanted to deliver 100 minutes of pure aesthetic experience and forgot that a film is first about how a plot is told. By forgetting that he delivers an awkward movie that doesn’t even fulfill its artistic objective.

Other Information:

Original Language cn
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min), 1 hr 33 min (93 min) (Redux)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Drama
Director Kar-Wai Wong
Writer Louis Cha, Kar-Wai Wong
Actors Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung
Country Hong Kong, Taiwan
Awards 9 wins & 16 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital (Redux version), Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras
Laboratory Kantana, Bangkok, Thailand (prints) (re-release), Universal Laboratory Ltd., Hong Kong
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Agfa)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (remastered version), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical)