Chow Yun-fat (left) and Danny Lee in a still from The Killer (1989). The action film “is definitely a bromance, it is John Woo doing chivalry in modern times”, says expert on Hong Kong film Frank Djeng.
How John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow launched action-film era in Hong Kong, and the wuxia and kung fu roots of hits like The Killer and City on Fire
- John Woo’s 1986 film A Better Tomorrow triggered a new era of action films in Hong Kong, with gunplay replacing swordplay
- As film expert Frank Djeng explains, much of the fight choreography and brotherhood themes of wuxia and kung fu films remained intact in the new genre
Chow Yun-fat (left) and Danny Lee in a still from The Killer (1989). The action film “is definitely a bromance, it is John Woo doing chivalry in modern times”, says expert on Hong Kong film Frank Djeng.
