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HEROES SHED NO TEARS (1983/87)
Sunset Warriors
 

This was Woo's first 'bloodshed' styled film. It was originally shot in 1983, but Woo didn't like the final result. So left it on shelft.Many years later - after A Better Tomorrow succeee - it was 'found' again and after re-editing it was released in 1987 retitled as Heroes Shed No Tears. In this Eastern Condors-style film a group of Chinese commandos goes into the jungle, kidnaps a drug kingpin, and fights its way out. A bloody drug-war in jungle. Drug wars rage in northern Thailand. The US Drug Enforcement Agency hires an ex-soldier and his henchmen to get hold of the major drug baron. Though a flop commercially, this movie already shows some of Woo's talent in directing action scenes he soon would become famous for with A Better Tomorrow or The Killer.

 

Genre: Action  
Studio:   
Golden Harvest 
Running time:
93 min
Cast:
Eddy Ko Hung ... Chan Chung 'Kirk'
                     (ex-Vietnam soldier)      
Lam Ching-Ying  ... Vietnamese colonel      
Chen Yue-Sang (Ching yut Sang)      
Lau Chau-Sang 
Lee Hoi Suk 
Lau Chau-sang      
Jang Doo Hee 
Kum Ho-kon      
Pjillip Loffrede      
Cecile Le Bailly ... French tourist 
Ma Ying-shung      
Kuo Shengg
Written:    
John Woo
Directed:    
John Woo 
Producer:    
Peter Chan Ho-San
Photography (scope): 
Narakawa Kenichi
Editor:
 
Peter Cheung Yiu Chung
Music composed by:
 
Chung Siu Fung
Music by: 
Tang Siu Lam
Art Director: 

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Original working title (1983): 
Wongfan Chinsi
Original English Title: 
Sunset Warriors
Hong Kong release (1987)
Standard Mandarin Romanization Title: 
Yingxiong Wu Lei
Standard Cantonese Romanization Title: 
Ying Hung Mo Lui
literal translation of Chinese title: 
Heroes No Tears
Official English Title:
 
Heroes Shed No Tears 




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