Time and Tide is a 2000 Hong Kong action film directed, produced and co-written by Tsui Hark. The film is set in Hong Kong where a young man becomes a bodyguard and befriends a mercenary determined to begin life anew with the woman he just married. The two men find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt which propels them toward confrontation with each other.

Plot

During an alcohol-fueled night, drunk Tyler Yim impregnates inebriated Ah Jo, a lesbian undercover cop who had gone to the bar after a fight with her girlfriend. He joins an unlicensed bodyguard service led by Uncle Ji to earn money to give to Ah Jo, who wants nothing to do with him. Nearly nine months later, Tyler meets up with a butcher named Jack Chow and his pregnant wife, Ah Hui, who helps Tyler prevent her father's assassination at his birthday. Tyler tries to convince Jack to start a bodyguard service with him, but Jack turns him down.