![]() ![]() Three years later, Ho is released from jail. Ho's brother Kit keeps training at the police academy. Ho is imprisoned in Taiwan while Mark is left a cripple. He is walking out thinking that he finished all of them when their leader crawls out from under a table and shoots him in the knees. Mark attacks the Taiwanese gangsters in a restaurant: alone he coldly kills most of them. The triad's boss tells him that his own nephew betrayed them and joined the Taiwanese gang. Mark learns of the failed mission from the newspapers. Kit arrives and a lengthy fist fight ensues which ends with Kit's father being stabbed to death by the hitman.īefore dying, the old man's last words are a plea that Kit forgive his brother. Jackie tries to defend the old man as the old man fights with the hitman. Hours later a hitman enters Kit's home and tells their father that Ho crossed the line by killing those men. The police chases them and Ho decides to give himself up in order to help Shing escape. Ho and Shing, trapped in the house, are indirectly saved by the cops that rush in, and give them an opportunity to escape. Ho and Shing meet the Taiwanese gang in a remote area of Taiwan and deliverīut it is an ambush: Ho is wounded in the shootout and kills several of the Taiwanese gangsters. Ho has decided to abandon the criminal career: this will be his last job. Jackie fails her examination because of Kit's comical disasters as he tries to help her.ĭuring a lunch with Shing, Mark tells him of when gangsters made him drink urine. Knows of Ho's criminal life and, when he remains alone with him, makes him ![]() They are meeting at Kit's home where their father is dying. ![]() Ho congratulates his little brother and meets his girlfriend Jackie, who Kit has just graduated to police detective. Ho tells Mark that he wants his little brother to live a honest life, get married and have children. The boss also asks Ho to take the rookie Shing with him to a mission in Taiwan. The boss reminds Ho that his brother Kit is graduating that day. Mark flirts with a secretary, Linda, who doesn't pay attention to him. They deliver the money to their boss who runs a large business office. Wearing a suit and tie, and driving in a Rolls Royce, they deliver a briefcaseįull of such counterfeit money to a Western businessman who pays with a briefcase full of real Hong Kong money. They inspect a laboratory where scientists Ho and Mark are gangsters and very good friends. The Wild Bunch and of Ford's western movies. So did the generally melancholy atmosphere mixed with comical scenes. (exagerated gunplay, slow-motion sequences, actions filmed in a mirror) The intense, visceral and at the same time stylish narrative of this film The themes of duty, honor, loyalty, revenge were recast in a cruel, industrial Gun shootouts were assimilated to the ethics of martial arts. Thanks to characters that were tragic if not moral heroes, Marked the beginning of the "hero film" genre in Hong Kong.Īcrobatic gunplay replaced acrobatic kung-fu moves. Yingxiong Bense/ A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that Take the druglord hostage and escape through the jungle chased by the Yingxiong Wu Lei/ Heroes Shed No Tears (1986), in whichĬhinese commandos are sent to fight a Thai drug ring, Run Tiger Run (1985), his first collaboration with Tsui Hark (who acts in it). Herbert Ross' The Sunshine Boys (1975), and The Time You Need a Friend (1984), which is basically a remake of The supernatural comedy Mo Deng Tian Shi/ To Hell with the Devil (1981), roughly modeled after Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (1967), came theīa Cai Lin Ya Zhen/ Plain Jane to the Rescue (1982), Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979), possibly the best of his kungfu movies.Īfter the farce From Riches to Rags (1980) and Gwong Law Yau Gwai Yan/ Hello Late Homecomers (1978).Īfter the thriller Follow the Star (1978), he returned to martial arts Woo found success with light-hearted comedies a` la Jerry Lewis such asįa Qian Han/ The Pilferer's Progress/ Money Crazy (1977) and Influenced by the martial-arts films of Chang Cheh (for whom he had been assistant director), His first film was Tie Han Rou Qing/ The Young Dragons (1973), a kung-fu movie thatĬharacterized by highly-complex action sequencesĪfter more minor ventures into martial arts films and Chinese opera, Woo started working in 1969 as a scriptwriter and assistant director. John was raised in poverty,īut developed a passion for western cinema that resulted in forming a group When he was five, his parents moved to Hong Kong. Yu-Sum "John" Woo was born in 1946 in China in a Christian family. ![]() ( Copyright © 1999-2020 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use)ĥ.0 Once a Thief - Brother Against Brother (1996), John Woo: biography, filmography, reviews, ratings ![]()
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