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Ying huang boon sik (Better Tomorrow I, A)
poster Réalisateur: John Woo
Acteurs: Lung Ti (as Ho Tse Sung), Leslie Cheung (as Kit Sung), Yun-Fat Chow (as Mark Gor/Mark Lee), Emily Chu (as Jackie), Waise Lee (as Shing), Fui-On Shing (as Shing's right hand man), Kenneth Tsang (as Ken), Hark Tsui (as Music Judge), John Woo (as Inspector Wu), Yangzi Shi, Feng Tien (as Father Sung)
Pays: Hong Kong
Catégorie: Action
Année: 1986
Résumé: 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.
Commentaire: 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.

Langue: Cantonese/mandarin
Sous-titres: English
Durée: 95 Min
Format vidéo: XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Format audio: AC3
Nombre de CD: 2