Dung che sai duk (1994)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Escritores:

Louis Cha (novel)
Kar Wai Wong (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 noviembre 1995 (South Korea)

Género:

Drama | Acción

Plot:

A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.

Plot Keywords:

Desert | Swordsman | China | Narration | One Man Army

Premios:

10 wins & 6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Slow, beautiful and intense... best viewed if you are alone

Reparto

Brigitte Lin	...	Mu-rong Yin / Mu-rong Yang
Leslie Cheung	...	Ou-yang Feng
Maggie Cheung	...	The Woman
Tony Leung Chiu Wai	...	Blind Swordsman
Jacky Cheung	...	Hung Chi
Tony Leung Ka Fai	...	Huang Yao-shi
Li Bai	...	Hung Chi's Wife
Carina Lau	...	Peach Blossom
Charlie Yeung	...	Young Girl
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Joey Wang	...	(scenes deleted)

También conocida como:

Ashes of Time Redux (International: English title) (International: English title) (recut version)
Ashes of Time (Hong Kong: English title)
Dong xie xi du (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Dong xie xi du zhongji ban (China: Mandarin title) (recut version)
Dung che sai duk redux (Hong Kong: Cantonese title) (recut version)
Cenizas del tiempo redux (Argentina) (festival title) [es]
Este contraveneno del Oeste (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence.

Duración:

100 min | 93 min (Redux version) | 93 min

País:

Hong Kong | China | Taiwan

Idioma:

Cantonés | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital (Redux version) | Mono

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | UK:15 | USA:R (Redux version) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (Redux version) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) (Redux version) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Hong Kong:II | Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) (Redux version) | Hong Kong:IIB (Redux version) | Finland:K-15

Locaciones de Filmación:

China

Compañía:

Beijing Film Studio

Trivialidades:

This film had an exhausting effect on Kar Wai Wong. While on hiatus during the editing process he wrote and shot Chung Hing sam lam (1994) (Chungking Express) to "clear his head".

Citas:

Ou-yang Feng: [to a potential customer] For all these years, there must be some people who you don't want to mention or you don't want to meet again. Because they did something really awful to you. Maybe you want to kill them. But you dare not. In fact, it's really easy to kill a person. Not difficult at all. I have a friend who is great at solving problems. But he has been a little short lately. If you can give him some money, he must be able to solve your problems. Indeed you can think my proposal over. But be quick!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (2001)

Slow, beautiful and intense... best viewed if you are alone

Although I enjoy them, I seldom re-watch slow and introspective movies. Ashes of Time is the exception to the rule, as it haunts me so much that I have already given it three viewings! It may be because of the wonderful pictures, the essential yet poignant dialogues or the grave & epic music, nevertheless Ashes of Time is a fascinating movie!

Set in a tavern in the middle of the desert, it tells us stories of different swordsmen and deals with the theme of unrequited love. All the people, in fact, had to face a rejection.. and now strive to find a way to overcome the delusion and go on with their life. Swordsmanship is mostly viewed as an outlet to bring out the inner passions and frustrations.

The protagonist, Ouyang Feng [Leslie Cheung] is one of those swordsmen, who left his lady [Maggie Cheung] and his village to pursue fame and glory, convinced that she would have waited for him to return. Now instead he faces loneliness and the fact that she has married his elder brother.

The most peculiar aspect of the movie is the pictures, so beautifully shot that each still can make a wonderful portrait. Even the battles, rather than being filmed continuously, are rendered as a sequence of separate shots, thus remaining more indelibly impressed in our head. Indeed, the movie also focuses about memory (whom the movie title probably refers to) and its power to keep alive moments of the past, that otherwise would perish in the flow of time. Highly recommended! 9/10