Screening of “Ashes of Time” and “Swordsman II”

Screening of “Ashes of Time”: Fri 28 Mar 2014, 7.30 pm
Screening of “Swordsman II”: Sat 29 Mar 2014, 2 pm
TPD

From TPD:

You are invited to the screening of 2 Hongkong wuxia films this weekend “Ashes of Time” and “Swordsman II”. Both of them cannot illustrate the whole picture but somewhat portray the wuxia film genre in the early 90s at Hongkong.

Original language with Vietnamese subtitles. The screening is for educational purpose and supportive to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

About films

Ashes of Time

Ashes of Time is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and loosely based on four characters from Jin Yong’s novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
Wong completely eschews any plot adaptation from the novel, using only the names to create his own vision of an arguably unrelated film. During the film’s long-delayed production, Wong produced a parody of the same novel with the same cast titled The Eagle Shooting Heroes.
Although it received limited box office success, the parallels Ashes of Time drew between modern ideas of dystopia imposed on a wuxia film has led many critics to cite it as one of Wong Kar-wai’s most under-appreciated works.

In 2008, Wong re-edited and re-released the film under the title Ashes of Time Redux that presents a shorter cut. The redux version is at the moment the only good-quality edition available on the market (theatres and home video).

Swordsman II

Swordsman II, also known as The Legend of the Swordsman, is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film very loosely adapted from Louis Cha’s novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. It was the second part of a trilogy: preceded by The Swordsman (1990) and followed by The East is Red (1993). Directed by Ching Siu-tung and Stanley Tong, Swordsman II starred Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan and Michelle Reis in the leading roles.
(Wikipedia)

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