Movie
1984
Heroes Shed No Tears is a 1984 Hong Kong action war film directed by John Woo. The film stars Eddy Ko, with a supporting cast of Lam Ching-ying, Bruce Jang Il-Sik, Ma Ying-chun, Philippe Loffredo, and Cécile Le Bailly. Filmed prior to the success of Woo's A Better Tomorrow, the film is a story about a group of mercenaries on a mission to extract a drug lord from the Indochina area.
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Most fans of John Woo tend to agree that the filmmaker's Hollywood opus is significantly inferior to the cult stylish gangster films he had been making in Hong Kong. Yet, those films represents only a fraction of John Woo's Hong Kong career - before his triumph with *A Better Tomorrow* John Woo made plenty of rather forgettable titles belonging to the kung fu or comedy genre. Even his first foray in the more mainstr…More
