ASHES
OF TIME CAST & STORY
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CAST (ij½ºÆ®) Brigitte Lin (ÀÓûÇÏ) - Mu-rong Yin/Mu-rong Yang Leslie Cheung (Àå±¹¿µ) - Ou-yang Feng Maggie Cheung (À常¿Á) - The Woman Tony Leung Chiu Wai (¾çÁ¶À§) - Blind Swordsman Jacky Cheung (ÀåÇпì)- Hung Chi Tony Leung Ka Fai (¾ç°¡ÈÖ) - Huang Yao-shi Charlie Yeung (¾çä´Ï) - Young Girl Carina Lau (À¯°¡·É)- Peach Blossom |
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STORY OF ASHES OF TIME (FROM ASHES OF TIME PHOTOBOOK)
OUYANG
Feng
(played by Leslie CHEUNG is a native of White Camel Mountain.
Brought up by his elder brother.
Ouyan's ambition is to become a famous swordsman.
But faced with a choice between the woman he loves and maritial
adventures, he chooses the lattter.
Frustrated, the woman (Maggie CHEUNG) marries his brother.
After ten years of
adventures, Ouyang, now a cynical and materialistic middleage man
goes to the desert and opean an inn.
He becomes an agent for killers, hiring youg but pinniless
swordmen with a buming passion for fame to odo the dirty work of
others.
Ouyang has a close
friend, HUANG Yaoshi (Tony LEUNG Kar-fai), who, like Ouyang,
also has a sad love story to tell-he once had an unconsummated
affair with the wife of his best friend at Peach Blossom Land.
Huang comes to drink with Ouyang every year at the peach blossom
season.
Afterwards, he goes to White Camel Mountain to visit the woman
Ouyang loved. The woman has a ten-year-okd boy now and still
thinks of Ouyang a lot.
A year ago, outside Fusu
City, Huang met and befriended a man who called himself MURONG Yang (Brigitte LIN Ching-hsia).
Huang jokingly promised that he'd marry his sister. They made an
appointment to meet her, but Huang did not turn up.
Now MURONG Yin (also played by Lin), Yang's
sister, comes to Ouyang. She wants him to kill Yang for her
because he wouldn't allow her t obe with Huang. As soon as she
leaves, Yang and offers a handsome amount to Ouyang for the life
of Huang.
It is obvious that Yang loves his sister passionately.
But as the conversation carries on, Ouyang cannot but suspect
that Yin and Yang are in fact the same person with two
personalities.
A young
girl
(Charlie Young) comes to Ouyang, begging him to avenge her
brother. But all she has are a basket of eggs and a mule.
Ouyang rejects her, but she insists on waiting until someone
who'll help her comes along.
A down-and-out swordsman with failing eyesight (Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai) from Peach Blossom Land offers himself to Ouyang for a killing job. He needs money to go home to see the peach blossoms bloom once more before he turns blind. He left home because his wife (Carina LAU) had fallen in love with hise best friend, who turns out to be Huang.
The swordsman
demonstrates his martial arts skill by defeating a proud samural.
He then agrees to fight a gang of horse thieves for the
villagers.
During the combat, the sun suddenly turns dark-actually it's the
swordsman going blind completely. He is slaughtered.
A year later, Ouyang,
out of curiosity, pays a visit to Peach Blossom Land. There
aren't any peach blossoms.
Instead, he meets the swordsman's wife, who turns out to be
called Peach Blossom.
Hong Qi (Jacky CHEUNG) is fast with his
sword. Ouyang immediately hires him to fight the horse thieves.
Hong smashes them. He also kills the group of swordsmen
responsible for the death of the young girl's brother over the
price of an egg, which makes Ouyang very unhappy. Hong's wife has
followed her husband to the desert begging him to take her on his
martial adventures. Hong complies in the end and the couple
leaves Ouyang.
At their departure, Ouyang suddenly feels very jealous and for
the first time, starts to reflect on his lift.
The woman whom Ouyang
loved dies out of sickness. Just before her death, she asks Huang
to take a magic wine to Ouyang, which makes one forget one's
past. Drinking half a jar of the wine, Huang, indeed, starts to
lose his memory.
Despite this, he can never forget the woman-he's destined to
always fall in love with some other person's woman...
A few years later, Huang returns to Peach Blossom land and leads a hermit's life.
Meanwhile, Ouyang receives a letter informing him of the woman's death. It is signed Ouyang Ke, who claims to be the woman's son.
Ouyang leaves the desert. He is returing to White Camel Mountain.
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