A Better Tomorrow

…gangster film Yingxiong bense (A Better Tomorrow). A huge box-office success, it initiated a series of action films that won Woo international acclaim for their unprecedented mixture of expressive slow motion, nostalgia for lost codes of honour, Christian symbolism, melodramatic emotions, and hyperbolic violence. Chow Yun-Fat (Zhou Runfa) became…

…Woo in Yingxiong bense (1986; A Better Tomorrow). The movie made Chow a box-office superstar in Asia and launched a series of Chow-Woo pairings that included Yingxiong bense II (1987; A Better Tomorrow II ), Diexue shangxiong (1989; The Killer), Zongheng sihai (1991; Once a Thief), and Lat sau san…