Production
Production on Time and Tide began in 1999. It was written by director Tsui Hark and Koan Hui. Hui and Hark had collaborated previously on the screenplay for The Blade. Actor Nicholas Tse opted out of appearing in the sequel to Gen-X Cops to be in Time and Tide. Tse announced that it would be his last action film as he desired to focus on his musical career. It was not his last action film as he starred in Wong Jing's My Schoolmate The Barbarian in 2001. After seeing Wu Bai in the Taiwanese film The Personals, Tsui offered Wu the role in Time and Tide. Wu's character was rewritten with him in mind by making him more of a sad loner to match the music he made with his band in China Blue. Cathy Tsui was cast as Ah Jo in the film. She found a scene involving her playing with a dog difficult as she was afraid of them. To make her more comfortable, she was sent to a dog farm where she played with dogs every day to become comfortable around them.
The film was radically altered in post-production. The original cut was over three hours long, which Tsui Hark considered to be too slow-paced. He reorganized the entire script including cutting many of Nicholas Tse and Anthony Wong Chau Sang's scenes, leaving Wu Bai's sequences as they were.
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