Ashes of Time Page #2

Synopsis: 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
Genre: Action, Drama
Director(s): Kar-Wai Wong
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  9 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1994
100 min
Website
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Sibling rivalry? Very interesting!

Your sure you hate your

brother that much?

Yes.

He won't let me be with Huang Yaoshi!

He thinks I belong to him.

Therefore he must die!

Has my sister been here?

Yes.

If you so much as lay a hand on her,

I'll kill you.

You seem to care for her a lot.

She's my only sibling. I must protect her.

What did she want from you?

To kill someone for her...

It's you!

Huang Yaoshi must be behind this.

I reckon that even without Huang,

she still wants you dead.

She wants to get away from you.

I'll never allow that,

as long as I live!

Did you talk to my brother?

He told you so?

Why didn't you kill him?

I want the money up front.

It's easy to kill your brother...

because he has a weak spot.

Do you know what it is?

It's you.

I told him you want to kill him

to test his reaction.

Why is he against you and Huang?

Is it because he loves you?

And if he does, how deeply?

He wants me to be with him forever.

He loves you very much then.

I know.

But I don't love him.

I love Huang.

He must be broken-hearted.

Who cares?

I'm unhappy, too.

Why should I be alone in my misery?

I want him to know what it's like to

lose the one you love.

How cruel!

He may commit suicide.

Serve him right!

Why should I tell you all this?

Yang once asked what's the

cruelest way to kill.

It took me a long time to

figure out the answer.

The cruelest way to kill a person

is to kill the person he loves most first.

But I won't do that.

If you die, no one pays me.

Right?

Someone is after my life.

Why do they have to kill you?

Because I'm the women

Huang Yaoshi loves.

Don't let them kill me.

Yin refused to leave that evening.

To calm her down,

I treated her to a few drinks.

Afterwards she fell asleep.

Where are you hiding my sister?

What makes you think that?

I know she was here. You're the last

person she saw before she disappeared.

She came one evening, said someone

was after her life and asked for shelter.

But she left the next morning.

I thought she must have gone home.

My sister doesn't have any enemies.

Why should people be after her?

She said... it's because

she's Huang Yaoshi's beloved.

Bullshit! If Huang loves her,

why did he leave her alone?

Sometimes you won't realise how

deeply you're in love...

with someone until you're

separated from her.

Maybe that's the case with

Huang and Yin.

No!

Why are you so sure?

Because he's in love with another woman.

One always finds an excuse for failure.

I finally reckoned that.

Yin and Yang are actually two persons in one.

Behind these two identities was

hidden someone with a wounded soul.

You're drunk, Mr. Murong.

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