'Ashes of Time Redux'

Rating: Wong Kar-wai's "Ashes of Time," released in 1994, became one of the first Hong Kong films to piqué the imagination of Western audiences, who later flocked to martial-arts epics like Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Zhang Yimou's "Hero." Over the years, several versions of "Ashes" have appeared - some sanctioned, some not - leading Wong, a notoriously meticulous director, to re-edit the mater...

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