A Better Tomorrow Collection {Big_A_Little_A} {Samurai RG}

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A Better Tomorrow Collection
John Woo's classic "A Better Tomorrow",a ground breaking movie which had a profound influence on the Hong Kong film-making industry. Plus the two sequels, "A Better Tomorrow II", "A Better Tomorrow III",and a movie made more to cash in on the previous three movies, success, "Return to a Better Tomorrow" and the 2010 Korean remake of "A Better Tomorrow"

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Ying hung boon sik
AKA
A Better Tomorrow/City Wolf
True Colors of a Hero/Gangland Boss
Rapid Fire/The Essence of Heroes
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1986
Genre................: Action/Drama/Crime
IMDb rating..........: 7.5/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092263/
HKMDB Link...........: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6819&display_set=eng
Language.............: Chinese Cantonese/Mandarin/English
Subtitles............: English softcoded and .srt
Duration.............: 1h 33mn
Source...............: DVD R0 Bootleg
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 559 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 832 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5

A Better Tomorrow is a 1986 Hong Kong action film which had a profound influence on the Hong Kong film-making industry, and later on an international scale.Directed by John Woo, it stars Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung. Although the movie was made with a tight budget and was relatively unknown until it went on screen due to virtually no advertising, it broke Hong Kong's box office record and went on to become a blockbuster in Asian countries. It is highly regarded, ranking at #2 of the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. Its success also ensured the sequel A Better Tomorrow 2, also directed by Woo, and A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon, a prequel directed by producer Tsui Hark.
John Woo established himself as one of Hong Kong's premiere action directors with this ultra-hip, ultra-violent action classic. The film centers around the complex relationship between two brothers: Sung Tse-kit (Leslie Cheung) is a recent graduate of the police academy while Tse-ho (Ti Lung) runs a massive counterfeiting ring along with his gangland associate, Mark Lee (Chow Yun-fat). Tension between the two brothers comes to a head when their father is murdered after a crime deal goes sour and Tse-ho lands in jail after being double-crossed. In perhaps the most influential scene in Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, Mark avenges his friend by staging a dinner table assassination. As Mark tries to shoot his way out of the restaurant, pulling a series of hidden pistols from potted plants and alcoves, he gets horribly injured. With both founding members of the counterfeiting syndicate incapacitated, the operation falls into the hands of Shing (Waise Lee Chi-hung), Tse-ho's former underling who has little of his boss' élan or experience. When Tse-ho gets out of jail, he reunites with his now-crippled comrade, Mark, to take out Shing and to protect Tse-kit whose life is in danger for investigating their former subordinate.

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Ying hung boon sik II
AKA
A Better Tomorrow II/City Wolf 2
Better Tomorrow: Rapid Fire II
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1987
Genre................: Action/Drama/Crime
IMDb rating..........: 7.3/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094357/
HKMDB Link...........: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6980&display_set=eng
Language.............: Chinese(Cantonese)/English
Subtitles............: English softcoded and .srt
Duration.............: 1h 40mn
Source...............: DVD R0 Bootleg
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 551 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 768 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5

A Better Tomorrow 2 is a 1987 Hong Kong action crime drama thriller film directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun-fat, Dean Shek, Leslie Cheung and Ti Lung. A follow-up to its popular predecessor, A Better Tomorrow. A Better Tomorrow 2 is notoriously known for its over-the-top violence, exaggerated blood and gore, and body counts nearing the hundreds.Although the film was initially panned for its rather campy feel and a much more soap opera-like plot than its predecessor, with Chow Yun-fat going on an over-the-top tirade in one point of the film over a bowl of rice, it is now considered a cult classic, with many fans considering it as equaling the first A Better Tomorrow.Director John Woo and producer Tsui Hark had disagreements over the focus of this film. Tsui felt that the film should focus more on the Dean Shek character. This led to the film being edited in halves by both Tsui and Woo. Woo has all but disowned this film apart from the final gun battle.
A few years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Ho is drafted from prison by federal agents to spy on his former master, Lung, who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Ho considers this traitorous and declines with disgust. He changes his mind when he discovers that his younger brother, Kit, now an aspiring police lieutenant, and expecting a child with his wife Jackie, is on the same case. Ho takes the job to protect his brother. After being framed for murder, Lung seeks Ho's help. Ho helps him escape to New York, but Lung becomes temporarily insane after receiving news of his daughter's murder and witnessing his friend being killed. Mark's twin brother, Ken, comes to the rescue, and the two go into hiding in a hotel. After a shoot-out with mobsters, Ken and Lung find themselves cornered. Lung snaps out of insanity and gets Ken and himself out of trouble. The two return to Hong Kong and link up with Ho and Kit. The team then discovers that one of Lung's former employees, Ko, is responsible for trying to kill Lung. After doing some reconnaissance in Ko's mansion alone, Kit is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time that his child is born.
He is rescued by Ken and manages, just before he dies, to name his child(in Chinese,"the Spirit of Righteousness"). The remaining three take revenge on Ko by attacking his mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. At the climax of the film, an enormous gun battle ensues. The three kill approximately 90 others (including one man shot by Ken approximately 40 times). All three are terribly wounded. After killing Ko, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police led by Inspector Wu, the officer who asked for Ho's help in bringing down the syndicate

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Ying hung boon sik III jik yeung ji gor
AKA
A Better Tomorrow III/City Wolf III
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1989
Genre................: Action/War
IMDb rating..........: 5.8/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098691/
HKMDB Link...........: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7178&display_set=eng
Language.............: Chinese(Cantonese)
Subtitles............: English softcoded and .srt
Duration.............: 1h 58mn
Source...............: DVD R2
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 595 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 699 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5

A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon is a 1989 Hong Kong action film co-produced and directed by Tsui Hark. It is a loosely-based prequel to John 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 with Tsui Hark 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 Gor from the first film, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Anita 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 is also the title song for this movie, sung by the late Anita Mui, who was also the leading lady in this third instalment.
Tsui Hark takes the reigns of this series following a much-publicized rift between himself and John Woo, the director of the first two A Better Tomorrow films, to direct this prequel based around Chow Yun-Fat's memorable Mark character. Set in 1974, Mark ventures to Saigon after his cousin, Cheung Chi-mun (Tony Leung Kar-fai), gets into hot water with the local police. Using a contact in the Vietnamese army, the two soon start trafficking black market weapons with a beautiful female assassin named Chow Ying-kit (Anita Mui). After a deal goes horribly wrong, the three, along with Ying-kit's father, try to leave Vietnam, only to have Ying-kit be detained by customs. Back in Hong Kong, Mark and Chi-mun set up a small garage. When Ying-kit returns, her old mobster boyfriend, Ho (Saburo Tokito), also makes an unwelcome appearance. Though Ying-kit has fallen for Mark, he refuses to reciprocate because Chi-mun has fallen for her. Ho hates them both and tries to kill them with a well-placed bomb. Though the attempt fails, Ho promises more if the two don't leave town. Instead, Ho leaves for Saigon with Ying-kit who is quietly plotting revenge. Mark and Chi-mun soon follow them, hoping to save Ying-kit and kill Ho themselves.


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Sun ying hong boon sik
AKA
Return to a Better Tomorrow
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1995
Genre................: Action/Drama
IMDb rating..........: 5.9/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111778/
HKMDB Link...........: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7866&display_set=eng
Language.............: Chinese Cantonese/Mandarin
Subtitles............: English softcoded and .srt
Duration.............: 1h 39mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 546 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 765 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5

Except for some similarities in the plot, Return to a Better Tomorrow really doesn't have anything to do with John Woo's classic A Better Tomorrow. Ekin Cheng may try to look cool but he sure as hell isn't Chow Yun-Fat. But director Wong Jing has never been one to shy away from some cheap publicity, so the title stuck. At least it's not as shameless an attempt to cash in on Woo's name as another Wong Jing film, The Last Blood (called Hard Boiled 2 for international release) which had absolutely nothing to do with Hard-Boiled.
Return to a Better Tomorrow attempts to ride the coattails of the famous film franchise. However, instead of Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo, we get Ekin Cheng and Wong Jing.
Ekin Cheng is the hero, a too-cool triad guy with a hot girlfriend (Chingmy Yau) and much respect in the underworld. His runway model good looks and extreme righteousness earn him great pals like the dopey Lau Ching-Wan (with floppy pre-Milkyway Image hair), as well as the esteem of his sleazy boss (Lam Kwok-Bun). Like in the later Young and Dangerous films, being a triad guy can be a fulfilling, respectable career. Or, at least that's how Wong Jing makes it look.
Unfortunately, being a golden boy triad has its negatives. Cheng becomes the victim of a frame-up when bad, bad drugs are found in his possession. Of course, an awesome triad fella like Cheng would never traffic in drugs; he just engages in all sorts of other illegal activities. That factual nugget swept aside, Cheng gets freed by Holland Boy (Ngai Sing), the psycho lackey of his boss.
The two escape to the mainland, but Holland Boy tries to grease Cheng, which makes the obvious even more obvious: Cheng's boss is evil, and wants him out of the picture because he's so damn righteous and makes him look bad. Also, he's incredibly good looking and has a hot girlfriend like Chingmy Yau. Cheng is forced to regroup and exact his revenge

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Mujeogja
AKA
Invincible/A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow 2K12
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 2010
Genre................: Action/Drama
IMDb rating..........: 5.4/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1138442/
Language.............: Korean
Subtitles............: English softcoded and .srt
Duration.............: 2h 03mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 620 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 703 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5

A Better Tomorrow an official remake of the 1986 Hong Kong film. In South Korea, the film was released with the title Mujeokja, which translates to mean "Invincible." Internationally, the film was released with the same title as the original Hong Kong version of the film. It was produced by John Woo, who was the director of the original 1986 version of the film.
Kim Hyuk(Ju Jin-mo) is a detective in the South Korean National Police Agency, having escaped from North Korea as a teenager. Unbeknownst to his superiors, he also works as an illegal arms smuggler with his best friend and partner in crime, Lee Young-Choon(Song Seung-hun), who also defected from the North.Hyuk has a younger brother, Chul(Kim Kang-woo), whom he was forced to leave behind (along with their mother) during his escape. Guilt-ridden over leaving his brother behind, Hyuk has spent the past few years searching for his brother.Eventually, he finds Chul in an internment camp. Chul disowns Hyuk, resentful that Hyuk left the family to escape. It is revealed that their mother was killed sometime after Hyuk's escape.
Hyuk goes to Thailand to complete an arms deal, accompanied by Jung Tae-Min(Jo Han-sun), a new member of the smuggling operation. The deal turns out to be a double-cross, set up by Jung and the Thai gang. Jung escapes, while Hyuk is captured and sentenced to prison for three years.After reading about Hyuk's capture in the newspaper, Young-Choon finds the Thai gangster in a massage parlor and kills him and his henchmen. However, in the ensuing gunfight, Young-Choon is shot in the knee and crippled.Hyuk is released from custody. Remorseful and determined to start a new life, he finds work as a taxi driver. Meanwhile, Chul has become a officer in the National Police. Jung Tae Min has become the leader of the arms smuggling operation, while Young-Choon does odd jobs