Better Tomorrow, A  (1986)
영웅본색

Also Known As: 英雄本色
Starring: Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat
Director:John Woo
Genre:Action, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Crime
Production:Cinema City Film Productions
Distribution:Dong-A Exports
Language:Cantonese
Country:Hong Kong

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About Better Tomorrow, A
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.