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``A Better Tomorrow'' The passion of the men changed the history of action movies!

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``A Better Tomorrow'' The passion of the men changed the history of action movies!

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“A Better Tomorrow” Synopsis

Ho, an executive in a counterfeit money syndicate in Hong Kong, has mixed feelings about his younger brother Kit, who aims to become a police officer without knowing anything about it. One day, Ho is betrayed by the other party's organization in Taiwan, where counterfeit money is being traded, and is arrested by the waiting police. After that, he is released from prison and decides to wash his brother's feet...


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It's actually a remake of the 1967 version.



In 2005, in the ``100 Best Chinese Movies'' announced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese-language films, the film that took second place was ``Hero Honshoku,'' also known as ``A Better Tomorrow" (86). This film made director John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat, who played Mark, famous, and created the genre of ``hero movies'' from the original title, which means ``a true hero.'' When it landed in Japan the following year in 1987, it even coined the term ``Hong Kong Noir.'' How was this world-famous masterpiece created?


Ho, an executive in a counterfeit money syndicate in Hong Kong, has mixed feelings about his younger brother Kit, who aims to become a police officer without knowing anything about it. One day, Ho is betrayed by the other party's organization in Taiwan, where counterfeit money is being traded, and is arrested by the waiting police. After that, he is released from prison and decides to wash his brother's feet...


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``Elegy A Better Tomorrow'' is a remake of a 1967 film directed by Patrick Long and starring Patrick Tse, Nicholas Tse's father, which was never released in Japan (ranked 39th in the previous ranking). . The plot revolves around the protagonist, who was captured after failing to crack a safe, and after being released from prison, tries to be more honest for the sake of his beloved younger brother, but ends up being noticed by a big name in black society. And the theme of ``It's not easy to be formal'' can be said to be almost the same as the ``86 remake.''





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  1. CINEMORE
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  3. A Better Tomorrow
  4. ``A Better Tomorrow'' The passion of the men changed the history of action movies!