A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
英雄本色3：夕阳之歌
Hong Kong • 1989
Director
Synopsis
For the third installment in the A BETTER TOMORROW trilogy, Tsui Hark—who had previously served as producer on the series—took over from director John Woo for what is actually a prequel to the previous films. Set in 1974, A BETTER TOMORROW III: LOVE & DEATH IN SAIGON serves as an origin story for Chow Yun-fat’s shades-sporting assassin Mark Lee, here a young man who travels to war-torn Vietnam to rescue his uncle and cousin. There, Mark becomes entangled with a mysterious black marketeer (Anita Mui) who draws him into her criminal underworld.
Synopsis
For the third installment in the A BETTER TOMORROW trilogy, Tsui Hark—who had previously served as producer on the series—took over from director John Woo for what is actually a prequel to the previous films. Set in 1974, A BETTER TOMORROW III: LOVE & DEATH IN SAIGON serves as an origin story for Chow Yun-fat’s shades-sporting assassin Mark Lee, here a young man who travels to war-torn Vietnam to rescue his uncle and cousin. There, Mark becomes entangled with a mysterious black marketeer (Anita Mui) who draws him into her criminal underworld.
Credits
Crew
DirectorTsui Hark
WriterTsui Hark, Tai Foo-Ho, Edward Leung Yiu-Ming
CinematographerHorace Wong Wing-Hang
ComposerLowell Lo Koon-Ting, David Wu
EditorTsui Hark, Marco Mak Chi-Sin, David Wu
ProducerTsui Hark, John Woo, Xianliang Ma