Bullet in the Head (simplified Chinese: 流血街角; traditional Chinese: 喋血街頭) is a 1990 Hong Kong action-drama-war film co-written, produced and directed by John Woo.
Bullet in the Head portrays the distressing escapades of several friends cajoled, through a random act of violence, into sacrificing the idyllic innocence of youth to fanaticism and injustice of the Vietnam war
In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend, a young man is accosted by a ...
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Bullet in the Head (simplified Chinese: 流血街角; traditional Chinese: 喋血街頭) is a 1990 Hong Kong action-drama-war film co-written, produced and directed by John Woo.
Bullet in the Head portrays the distressing escapades of several friends cajoled, through a random act of violence, into sacrificing the idyllic innocence of youth to fanaticism and injustice of the Vietnam war
In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend, a young man is accosted by a local gang member. Later, the three friends administer justice, in the process of which the gang member is killed, so they leave Hong Kong to avoid the police and the gang. They run black market supplies to Saigon and get embroiled in the war, being arrested as Viet Cong, then later captured by the Viet Cong, and find that their friendship is tested to the limits as they try to escape.
Bullet in the Head was originally planned to be a prequel to A Better Tomorrow but a falling out between Woo and producer Tsui Hark prevented this from...
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