A Better Tomorrow 1-3 (1986-1989)

A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Directed by John Woo, A Better Tomorrow stars Ti Lung, Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung in a Hong Kong action crime film about brotherhood, loyalty and redemption. Ti Lung plays a counterfeiter trying to leave his criminal life behind, while Chow Yun-fat’s Mark became one of Hong Kong cinema’s defining heroic-bloodshed characters. The film helped establish John Woo’s international reputation and won major Golden Horse Awards, including Best Director for Woo and Best Leading Actor for Ti Lung.


A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Directed by John Woo, A Better Tomorrow II brings back Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat for a larger, more explosive continuation of the Hong Kong action crime saga. The sequel follows new betrayals, revenge and underworld conflict, with Dean Shek joining the cast in a story that pushes the series further into operatic gunplay and loyalty-driven action. Produced by Tsui Hark, the film continues the heroic-bloodshed style that made the first film a landmark of Hong Kong cinema.


A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (1989)
Directed by Tsui Hark, A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon stars Chow Yun-fat, Anita Mui and Tony Leung Ka-fai in a prequel set during the final days of the Vietnam War. The film follows Mark before the events of the first A Better Tomorrow, combining wartime danger, crime melodrama and romantic tragedy in Saigon. With Tsui Hark behind the camera and Anita Mui in a central role, the third film gives the series a different tone while keeping its focus on loyalty, sacrifice and doomed relationships.

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In 1986, a chance encounter between producer Tsui Hark and director John Woo led both men to collaborate on the revolutionary A Better Tomorrow, an unexpected smash hit that spawned sequels, remakes and legions of imitators, gave birth to a new genre - the "heroic bloodshed" film - and firmly established Woo as a master of action cinema.

In the first film, money-launderer Ho (Ti Lung) keeps his criminal endeavours a secret from his younger brother, police officer Kit (Leslie Cheung); but when Ho and his loyal friend Mark (Chow Yun-Fat in an effortlessly cool breakthrough performance) turn the tables on their triad boss, the brothers must put aside their differences to defeat the gang once and for all. Woo and his cast return for the sequel, in which the brothers unite to bring down another gang and save Ho's former mentor from droves of hitmen, presented in its original theatrical cut and the recently unearthed workprint cut. Finally, Tsui's prequel A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon focuses on Mark's past during the final days of the Vietnam War, laying the foundations of the gangster he will become.

Woo and Tsui's magnificent crime trilogy is finally here in glorious new restorations and fully loaded with new and archival extras, reminding everyone that in the action movie game, Hong Kong cinema reigns supreme!