Shout Manufacturing unit is really doing the lord’s work today, with their Hong Kong Cinema Label at the moment touring a number of 4K remastered hits, together with John Woo’s The Killer, Arduous-Boiled, Bullet within the Head, and extra. Most of those titles have solely been launched digitally up to now, however immediately Shout Selects introduced a deluxe 4K Blu-ray boxed set for the Higher Tomorrow trilogy. A Higher Tomorrow was the film that formally established John Woo and star Chow Yun-Fats in Hong Kong, with it revolving round an growing older Triad gangster (performed by Shaw Bros vet Ti Lung) who makes an attempt to go away his lifetime of crime behind when his beloved youthful brother (Leslie Cheung) joins the police drive. He’s betrayed by his former accomplice, however has one ally, Chow Yun-Fats’s trench-coated murderer, Mark Gor, who’s his ride-or-die, after which some.
It was adopted by a sequel, A Higher Tomorrow 2, and a prequel, A Higher Tomorrow 3: Love & Dying in Saigon. Whereas the Blu-ray set consists of 4K remasters, it additionally comprises the longer workprint of A Higher Tomorrow 2, which has been extremely wanted by followers. You see, Woo’s authentic reduce of A Higher Tomorrow 2 was re-edited by producer Tsui Hark, who himself went on to direct the third movie within the sequence. In consequence, Woo has at all times spoken lower than fondly of the sequel, even when he stays happy with the climactic gun battle, which ranks as considered one of his finest motion set items.
It is going to be attention-grabbing to see the workprint, though Hong Kong motion followers hoping for a misplaced masterpiece ought to maintain their expectations in test. Even Woo himself admits it was an ill-conceived movie. They have been pressured to scramble to discover a solution to embrace Chow Yun-Fats, whose Mark Gor died in a blaze of glory within the first movie. The selection was fairly convoluted, with them simply giving him a twin brother named Ken who is precisely like him. Even nonetheless, it nonetheless kicks severe ass.
Listed here are the complete specs for the field set:
A BETTER TOMORROW TRILOGY Bonus Content material
DISC 1 – A Higher Tomorrow (4K UHD™)
NEW 4K Scan From the Authentic Digital camera Unfavorable
Offered In Dolby Imaginative and prescient
NEW Optionally available English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Launch
NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Movie Critic At easternKicks
DISC 2 – A Higher Tomorrow (Blu-ray™)
NEW 4K Scan From the Authentic Digital camera Unfavorable
NEW Optionally available English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Launch
NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Movie Critic At easternKicks
NEW “Better Than The Best” – Interview With Director John Woo
NEW “Between Friends” – Interview With Producer Terence Chang
NEW “When Tomorrow Comes” – Interview With Screenwriter Chan Hing-ka
NEW “Thoughts On The Future” – Interview With Filmmaker Gordon Chan
NEW “Better And Bombastic” – Interview With Filmmaker Gareth Evans
Trailers
Picture Gallery
DISC 3 – A Higher Tomorrow II (4K UHD™)
NEW 4K Scan From the Authentic Digital camera Unfavorable
Offered In Dolby Imaginative and prescient
NEW Optionally available English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Launch
NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Movie Critic At easternKicks
DISC 4 – A Higher Tomorrow II (Blu-ray™)
NEW 4K Scan From the Authentic Digital camera Unfavorable
NEW Optionally available English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Launch
NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Movie Critic At easternKicks
NEW “A Tumultuous Tomorrow ” – Interview With Director John Woo
NEW “Better Than Ever” – Interview With Movie Historian Frank Djeng
Trailers
Picture Gallery
DISC 5 – A Higher Tomorrow III (4K UHD™)
NEW 4K Scan From the Authentic Digital camera Unfavorable
Offered In Dolby Imaginative and prescient
NEW Optionally available English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Launch
NEW Audio Commentary With Critic And Writer David West
DISC 6 – A Higher Tomorrow III (Blu-ray™)
NEW 4K Scan From the Authentic Digital camera Unfavorable
NEW Optionally available English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Launch
NEW Audio Commentary With Critic And Writer David West
NEW “Third Time Lucky” – Interview With Screenwriters iu-Ming Leung and Foo Ho Tai
NEW “All Our Tomorrows” – Interview With Hong Kong Filmmaker And Educational Gilbert Po
NEW “Nam Flashbacks” – Interview With Vietnam Conflict Researcher Dr. Aurélie Basha i Novosejt
Theatrical Trailer
Picture Gallery
DISC 7 – Bonus Disc (Blu-ray™)
Lengthy-Misplaced A Higher Tomorrow II Workprint That includes Over 30 Minutes Of By no means-Earlier than-Seen Footage!
Higher Tomorrow III – Taiwanese Reduce
