A Better Tomorrow
| Release Date: | Aug 1986 |
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| Genre: | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller |
| Awards: | 4 wins & 12 nominations |
| Cast: | Lung Ti (Sung Tse-Ho), Leslie Cheung (Sung Tse-Kit), Yun-Fat Chow (Mark (as Chow Yun Fat)), Emily Chu (Jackie), Waise Lee (Shing), Fui-On Shing (Shing's right hand man), Kenneth Tsang (Ken), Hark Tsui (Music Judge (as Tsui Hark)), John Woo (Inspector Wu), Chi Fai Chan ('Little' Wang), Kwok Leung Cheung (), San Nam Hung (Triad Member), Hing Ying Kam (Mr. Mok), Shung Fung Lau (), Ming Leung (), Patrick Leung (), Yangzi Shi (Mr. Yiu), Feng Tien (Father Sung), Wei Ho Tu (), Hsieh Wang (Mr. Wang (as Hap Wong)), Hsi-chun Yang (Triad Member in Parking Lot), Stephen Chow (Taiwanese Triad (uncredited)), Gregory Snegoff (Sung Tse-Ho) |
This John Woo film tells the tale of Mark and Ho, friends and couriers for a Hong Kong crime syndicate with a large counterfeiting operation. Ho is double-crossed during a set-up and turns himself in to the police and Mark is shot during the firefight of a retribution hit. The plot is complicated by the fact that Ho's younger brother, Kit, is a rookie cop whose reputation is tarnished by his gangster brother. When Ho gets out of prison, he wants to start a new life, free of crime. Unfortunately, he is haunted by his past, with the crime bosses leaning on him and Mark encouraging him to return to a life of crime as his partner. In typical Woo fashion, the various factions clash and our protagonists engage both the police and the gangsters in a bloody bullet-fest.