A Hero Never Dies

Director	Johnnie To
Year	1998
Country	Hong Kong
Runtime	1h 38m
Language	Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Thai
Format	35mm
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Synopsis

Johnnie To’s strange, funny and fascinating take on the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed genre seems to contain the whole history of action films within its taut running time. It is an art film and crime film in one, and one of the boldest statements of its era. With Lau Ching-Wan and Leon Lai. Special thanks to the American Genre FIlm Archive for the loan of this rare print.

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