“Ash is Purest White” Blu-ray Cover
RELEASE DATE: July 16, 2019
On July 16th, 2019, Cohen Media Group will release the Blu-ray & DVD for Ash is Purest White (read our review), a gangster epic from Jia Zhangke, the cricitally acclaimed director of festival favorites Still Life and A Touch of Sin.
Ash is Purest White is the story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017. Qiao (Zhao Tao, Still Life) is in love with her boyfriend Bin (Liao Fan, The Master), a small-time gangster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Ash is Purest White also stars Xu Zheng (Lost in Thailand), Feng Xiaogang (Aftershock) and Diao Yinan (Black Coal, Thin Ice).
Pre-order Ash is Purest White from Amazon.com today!
Am I the only one utterly bored buy this indistinct Mainland blockbuster stuff? Am I just locked in the past, the cinema of Hong Kong pre-handover? And is that a bad place to be locked up when Mainland cinema apes Hollywood banality?
Plus, Cantonese is such a more engaging language, it dances as much as its past stars once did. Now its shakycam doing the dancing, gliding over the figures of first person shooters.
I’m bored by the likes of ‘Switch’ and ‘Bounty Hunters’, which are the manifestation of Mainland monotony, but for the production in question here, I don’t think your comments apply.
Jia Zhangke is an amazing director (just check out ‘A Touch of Sin’) and Liao Fan is one of the best actors working today (just check out ‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’). I’m pretty excited to see them working together on ‘Ash is Purest White’, and have high expectations.
It’s not released by Cohen Media Group, but bèy COOOOHHHHEEEENNNN media group. The logo is HILARIOUS, that or those Cohen must have a pretty nice ego !
“Am I just locked in the past, the cinema of Hong Kong pre-handover?”
Yes. That was 22 years ago.
“Plus, Cantonese is such a more engaging langage”
Evil Chinese people. They date to speak their own langage !
That logo. Awesome. By the way, if you by huge chance don’t see it, they mention a SECOND time the name of that HUGE company on the cover. A strange tribute to the Cohen Brother?