A Better Tomorrow – New 4K Restoration
John Woo · 1986
95min · DCP
- Monday, Mar 2, 2026, 7:15pm
Screening location: Northwest Film Forum – 1515 12th Ave, Seattle
40th anniversary of John Woo's landmark action classic, newly restored!
The film that established John Woo as the king of the Hong Kong gunplay film and made a superstar of Chow Yun-Fat! An ex-gangster tries to reconnect with his estranged policeman brother, but he finds that his ties to gangs are harder to break than he thought.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Special live intro from local Hong Kong genre film connoisseur and one of the programmers of the Seattle Film Society, Patrick McFarland.
“The Citizen Kane of Hong Kong cinema.” Dave Kehr, The New York Times