A Better Tomorrow 3 (1989)

Original title

英雄本色3：夕阳之歌

Directed by

Tsui Hark

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film, romance film, thriller film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

18

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 160 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1970s Saigon, Mark Lee gets drawn into a dangerous love triangle and a violent conflict with the local underworld. The film follows his journey with a mysterious woman and his cousin as they navigate war and betrayal.

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What happens

A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (Chinese: 英雄本色3-夕陽之歌) is a 1989 Hong Kong action drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Tsui Hark, the producer behind the first two films in the series. It is a prequel to John Woo's A Better Tomorrow and A Better Tomorrow II. John Woo wrote a screenplay for a third installment, but he never got to direct it due to artistic differences with Tsui during the filming of the second film. Instead, the original screenplay later became Bullet in the Head. The two films have many parallels, most notably, both being set in the Vietnam War. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, who reprises his role of Mark Lee from the first film, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Anita Mui. The story shows how Mark became the character he was in the original film. The second part of the title, Love & Death in Saigon (夕陽之歌 or Song of the Setting Sun in Chinese), is also the title song for the movie and was sung by Mui. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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