Time and Tide

Time and Tide

  • Director: Hark Tsui
  • Writer: Koan Hui,Hark Tsui
  • Countries of origin: Hong Kong, China
  • Language: Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, English, Portuguese
  • Release date: October 19, 2000
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: 順流逆流
  • "Countercurrent" is an action/thriller drama directed by Tsui Hark, featuring Nicholas Tse and Wu Bai. It was released in Hong Kong in 2000.
    "Down with the Current" tells the story of two men who are at a loss for life, a young man, Ajie, who is restless, unwilling to compromise with society, and pursues an extraordinary life, and a killer who is disillusioned with life and tries to escape from his dark past. A Zheng, they met by accident. 

    Details

    • Release date October 19, 2000
    • Production companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Film Workshop

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $10,770

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,770

    Gross worldwide

    $243,978

    Movie reviews

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    • By Eula 2022-12-29 00:06:59

      Up and Down is my top ten Hong Kong movies, although I haven't figured out what the other nine will be

      Azheng seems to have the ability to detect the killer's breath as if his eyes are bright. In fact, the first time he saw Hanhan Ajie in the toy store, he had already been deceived. When the three of them were in the car with Huihui, he asked if it was Huihui Hui deceives Applejack, and Applejack sings "A lot of wine glasses hanging in the air".

      Azheng repeatedly changed guns in the toy store and tried the guns. Tsui Hark arranged two times for the...

    • By Adelbert 2022-12-20 13:05:58

      TIDES

      This is the second time I've watched this film. In the past few years, there have not been many films that I have calmed down and watched for the second time, but today I want to read "Downstream and Countercurrent" again.
          In fact, many films are fresh and trendy the first time you watch them. Downstream and Countercurrent opens with gays and a one-night stand in a bar, and throughout the film are rivers and lakes, underworld and gunfights, and there are men who help women deliver...

    • By Carmine 2022-12-18 20:54:27

      <Countercurrent>South America is a yearning

      Going with the current and going against the current, those who follow prosper and those who go against perish, and the fittest survive, how to flow is an attitude, not talking about the ideal of the killer, but only about the real situation. If it weren't for the detailed and comprehensive killer's battle, the film would have been rotten to the limit, the editing was messed up, the rhythm was bad, the characters were flat, Tsui Hark's story was very borderline, obscure, jumping, the killer...

    • By Rubie 2022-12-18 11:34:03

      The wine fight in "The Ferryman" was played by Tsui Hark more than ten years ago

      As a new type of urban shootout film, "Downstream and Countercurrent" is not inferior to To Qifeng's "Three Heroes of the East" and other similar works. However, when it premiered in 2000, it suffered double cold reception in terms of box office and word of mouth. As a director who grew up in sync with the "Hong Kong 79 New Wave" film movement, although Tsui Hark's early works were mainly martial arts films, he had a great subversion of the traditional oriental aesthetics. Although "Green...

    • By Ervin 2022-12-14 00:27:55

      countercurrent

      I haven't watched a Hong Kong movie for a while, but today I watched Tsui Hark's 2000 work "Down with the Current".

      In the impression, Tsui Hark gives people the feeling of more chivalry in the rivers and lakes, accompanied by the martial arts movements of flowing clouds and flowing water, and the martial arts atmosphere of pleasure and hatred. However, this work of the new millennium era instead incorporates his thinking about the new century. The film also reveals unknown...

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    • By Amely 2023-09-23 01:32:32

      Elegance and confusion, free movement and tight editing make the images roll over and over. The lens is like an eye that is constantly possessing the body and moving the soul. The viewpoint is broken and incoherent, and the disorder and madness are expressed with the "wrong" technique at the visual and perceptual level. HK is a transit station for all kinds of killers, peeping and ambush are everywhere, and the local bodyguards who are struggling to survive greet the new born in...

    • By Janae 2023-08-22 00:29:49

      This is a movie with an inexplicable charm, it's really good, and it's so impressive. A few years have passed, and I still remember the details in it, and the movies like Transformers and Huo Yuanjia I watched a few months ago, I can't remember the plot for a long...

    • By Cade 2023-08-17 09:45:02

      The narration and dry action scenes that appear at any time are like a cross between a small fresh and an action movie. Before reading the introduction, I didn't feel that it was a gangster fighting movie at all. Several public-faced mercenaries flashed their faces. Blind, with so many flaws, popcorn chips have to be...

    • By Athena 2023-08-14 15:43:41

      I can't believe HK can make such a top-notch...

    • By Britney 2023-08-07 00:44:44

      This movie is so real, I also want to give birth to a child to Nicholas Tse, shit, even though he is the most idiot in the whole movie, what Wu Baigong Shuoliang is more stylish than him, but he was a good spirit in that year, and he will never be anymore. When there is such a spirit. Counting cockroaches, flying pigeons, chug, bang, bang, gliding between houses in the city, bullets flying, death and new life, did you think of her when giving birth? Thinking of hope, of God's last creation, of...

    Movie quotes

    • Tyler: [First Lines] It is said in the beginning there was nothing. Everything was pitch black. The one in charge said that wouldn't do. Then there was light. Light is good. It lets you see the world around you. The next day, sky appeared. That same sky has rainbows. And lightning, too. Very interesting. On the third day, there was water. Water brought plants... and animals. Then began the game of survival of the fittest. On the sixth day, He created man. Most imperfect. After that, woman. He thought such a big world could accommodate one more. But this was not the case. It turned out this combination was uncontrollable indeed. On the seventh day, He'd planned to rest. But he had to start all over again. He's not the only one to start all over. The whole world has to do it with him too.

    • Tyler: If I had a real gun I'd come out and shoot you!