Directed by John Woo • 1991 • Hong Kong
Starring Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung
Having established himself as Hong Kong cinema’s master of the heroic bloodshed genre, director John Woo took a detour into lighter territory with this rollicking, typically stylish comic caper, which casts superstars Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung as a trio of orphans raised by a crime lord to be professional art thieves. When they jet off to Paris to steal a Modigliani masterpiece, their high-risk heist is complicated not only by the curse that has supposedly been placed on the painting but by romantic rivalry.
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A Better Tomorrow
Directed by John Woo • 1986 • Hong Kong
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A Better Tomorrow II
Directed by John Woo • 1987 • Hong Kong
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