Story-telling cinema at it's best. It's such a popular story that people seem to overlook their usual predjudices over 'arty' cinema. Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong are perfect in the leads and who dares not worship at the feet of 'Swordsman Yen'. Again, amazing defiance of the chains of 'genre' ...at one point it just bursts into a musical style song about Taoism for no definable reason ...Great! - it just goes ahead and tells the story with no regard for if it's following the unwritten rules of film editing and genre etc. The director gives us some great set-peices too, especially the scene in Hell, and the soundtrack is also perfectly judged. The greatest credit to the film is that you are genuinely moved by the plight of the lovers and that, like all classily told storys ...it gets better with every veiwing.

[Reviewed by Andrew Best]