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2 August 1986 (Hong Kong) moreTagline:
The movie that began it all......... morePlot:
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
4 wins & 12 nominations moreUser Comments:
the start of a trend more (72 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Lung Ti | ... | Sung Tse-Ho (as Ti Lung) | |
| Leslie Cheung | ... | Sung Tse-Kit | |
| Yun-Fat Chow | ... | Mark Gor / Mark Lee (as Chow Yun Fat) | |
| Emily Chu | ... | Jackie | |
| Waise Lee | ... | Shing (as Lee Chi Hung) | |
| Fui-On Shing | ... | Shing's right hand man | |
| Kenneth Tsang | ... | Ken | |
| Hark Tsui | ... | Music Judge (as Tsui Hark) | |
| John Woo | ... | Inspector Wu | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| 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) | |
| Sai Gwan Yeung | ... | Triad Member in Parking Lot | |
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Also Known As:
A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong: English title)Gangland Boss
Rapid Fire (Philippines: English title)
The Essence of Heroes (Hong Kong: English title) (literal title)
Ying xiong ben se (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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95 minCountry:
Hong KongColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Australia:MA (TV rating) | Malaysia:18PL | South Korea:15 (2008) | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Austria:18 (not rated) | Canada:18A | France:-12 | Hong Kong:IIB | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | West Germany:18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | USA:R | Iceland:16Fun Stuff
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Hark Tsui instructed the screenwriters to portray the mobsters as counterfeiters rather than drug traffickers to up the "hero" factor. moreQuotes:
Mark Gor: Mark, even with my two legs broken, I could never make it up to you.Mark Gor: Stupid, I just had some back luck. Don't worry about it. I'm so happy to see you again. It's been so long. You still look good.
Ho Tse Sung: Mark, this is not our world anymore. Why are you still staying here?
Mark Gor: I've waited for you for three years! Three years!
Ho Tse Sung: We can start over again.
Mark Gor: Don't worry about me. Look after your brother. He's been following Shing everyday. It's getting dangerous. Anyhow, you two are real brothers.
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In the 1980s, Chinese and Taiwanese films stormed into European and American art-house theatres, while for less fastidious audiences, Hong Kong provided cult action films, first Kung Fu pictures then gangster flicks. John Woo became the Crown Colony's hottest director through his kinetic crime flicks that filtered the lyrical violence of Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Walter Hill through an Asian sensibility and re-exported it to the States where Quentin Tarantino became a major admirer. Woo's trademarks are the stand-off, where two or more gunmen hold each other at bay, and the ferocious gunfight in which dozens of people are killed and restaurants blown apart as the hero pirouettes and somersaults while blasting away with two automatic pistols to throbbing, synthesized Western music. "A Better Tomorrow" is a characteristic fable of male friendship, stoicism, courage, and men living by a personal code, in which women are marginalized. It made an overnight star of Chow Yun Fat, who appeared in most of Woo's pictures. The handsome, reserved, athletic Chow is the epitome of Hong Kong movie cool, a moral man in an amoral world, his character is much the same whatever side of the law he is on. The movie also introduced Leslie Cheung, who was to become an iconic figure in mainland Chinese cinema.