- A Better Tomorrow 3
Infobox Film
name = A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon
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director =Tsui Hark
producer = Tsui HarkJohn Woo
writer = Yiu Ming Leung Foo Ho Tai Tsui Hark (novel)
narrator =
starring =Chow Yun Fat
music = Lowell Lo
cinematography = Wing-Hung Wong
editing = Marco Mak Tsui Hark David Wu
distributor = Golden Princess
released = flagicon|Hong Kong 1989
runtime = 145 min.
country =
language = English Vietnamese Cantonese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =A Better Tomorrow
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amg_id =
imdb_id = 0098691"A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon" (Chinese: 英雄本色3-夕陽之歌;
Pinyin : Yīngxióng běnsè sān – xīyáng zhī gē;Jyutping : Jing1hung4 bun2sik1 saam – zik6joeng4 zi1 go1) is a 1989 Hong Kong action film co-produced and directed byTsui Hark . It is a loosely-basedprequel toJohn Woo 's "A Better Tomorrow ", though it was released after "A Better Tomorrow 2 ".The film was directed by Tsui Hark, the producer behind the first two films in the series.
John Woo wrote a screenplay for a third installment, but he never got to direct it due to having had artistic differences withTsui Hark during the filming of the second film. Instead, the original screenplay would later become "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 Gor from the first film,Tony Leung Ka-Fai andAnita Mui . Set during the Vietnam War, it sets up the story of 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 this movie, sung by the late Anita Mui, who was also the leading lady in this third instalment.Plot
Mark heads to Saigon 1974 and hooks up with his cousin Mun (Tony Leung Ka-Fai). Together, he and Tony run into tough-as-nails gangster Anita Mui, who takes a shine to the two boys. She teaches Chow his gun moves and begins to fall for him, but Chow is oblivious. Meanwhile, Mun gets the idea that Anita fancies him. This love triangle creates most of the drama for a good two-thirds of the film before the darkness of their world crashes in on them. It seems Anita’s last lover was a gang boss, so he doesn’t take kindly to the idea of Mark romancing his former flame. Even worse, the VC are taking Saigon, so it isn’t the best time to be hanging around Vietnam.
Box office
The film grossed HK$18,476,116 at the Hong Kong box office.
Alternate versions
The Taiwan version runs 145 minutes long which is the complete uncut version. The Hong Kong version runs only 114 minutes long despite saying 130 minutes on the cover. On a special 2004 DVD release, there's a few minutes of scenes that were deleted from the Hong Kong version as a separate feature.
ee also
* "
A Better Tomorrow "
* "A Better Tomorrow 2 "
*List of Hong Kong films External links
*imdb title|id=0098691|title=A Better Tomorrow 3
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