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A Better Tomorrow

Year:

1986

Duration:

95 min

Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

John Woo

Awards:

4 wins & 12 nominations

Details

Country: Hong Kong

Release Date: 1986-08-02

Filming Locations: Hong Kong, China

Earnings

Gross: HKD 34,651,324 (Hong Kong) ( 1986)

Cast

Actor

Character

Kenneth Tsang

Lung Ti

Sung Tse-Ho

Yun-Fat Chow

Mark

Leslie Cheung

Sung Tse-Kit

Emily Chu

Jackie

Waise Lee

Shing

Feng Tien

Father Sung

John Woo

Inspector Wu

Yanzi Shi

Mr. Yiu

Fui-On Shing

Shing's right hand man

Hsieh Wang

Mr. Wang (as Hap Wong)

Chi Fai Chan

'Little' Wang

Ming Leung

Uncle Chan

Hing-Yin Kam

Mr. Mok

Pierre Tremblay

Interpol Officer

Hark Tsui

Music Judge (as Tsui Hark)

Shung Fung Lau

Taiwanese Triad

Wei Ho Tu

Taiwanese Triad

Yung-sheng Pan

Taiwanese Triad

Seng-Kwong Chang

Taiwanese Triad

Foo-wai Lam

Taiwanese Triad

Stephen Chow

Taiwanese Triad

Hsin Nan Hung

Triad Member

Hsi-chun Yang

Triad Member in Parking Lot

Wai Tong Wong

Shing's Gangster

Te-wei Chu

Shing's Gangster

Ming-Wai Chan

Shing's Gangster

Wing-Hon Cheung

Shing's Gangster

Wai Cheung Mak

Brawl Extra

Han-yuan Ma

Brawl Extra

Gregory Snegoff

Sung Tse-Ho

Patrick Leung

Kwok Leung Cheung

Did you know?

Trivia

John Woo chose gangsters as the heroes because he felt there were no other viable "men of action" in the Hong Kong popular consciousness.

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Some theatre owners originally expressed concern to producer Hark Tsui about the casting of Yun-Fat Chow. Even though he was popular on TV, most of his films had been flops. Chow's nickname in industry circles for many years was "box-office poison".

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The English title, "A Better Tomorrow", is the translated title of the song sung by the two school kids (in Mandarin) in the middle of the movie. It's a New Year's Eve song, usually sung by large groups.

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Goofs

The cello playing at the "audition" (c.11 minutes) is inaccurately mimed.

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Quotes

Ho Tse Sung: Do you believe there's a God?

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Ho Tse Sung: Mark, this is not our world anymore.

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Jackie: Why won't you look at me? You'll look at a vase, but not at me!

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