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Ashes of Time Redux

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
Certificate 15, 93 mins

In Chinese culture, the jianghu is the parallel world familiar to lovers of Hong Kong swordplay movies in which heroic martial arts swordsmen and women fly through the air in combat. This cinematic genre grew from a literary tradition dating back to the Ming Dynasty.

Ashes Of Time though showcases its generic elements in a very different form. Wong Kar-wai's previous movies - the ...

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