Ashes of Time

“Fear of rejection leads to a life of exile.”

Why does a man who sells swordsmen to the vengeful spend his days alone in a desert, keeping count of the seasons? Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) brokers the killings, and his clients, among them a Blind Swordsman (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), arrive carrying old loves and grudges. Wong Kar-wai makes the grudges and the loves look like the same wound.