Flaming Brothers (DVD) (Remastered) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
Chow Yun Fat (Actor)
| Alan Tang (Producer, Actor)
| Wong Kar Wai
| Jenny Tseng
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Before he became a world-renowned director of celebrated art films, Wong Kar Wai wrote the script for Flaming Brothers, a heroic bloodshed actioner starring suave leading men Alan Tang and Chow Yun Fat! Alan (Alan Tang) and Chang Ho Tien (Chow Yun Fat) are lifelong friends who've stuck together since they were both orphaned children. Still buddies in their adult years, the two open a nightclub in Macau, and life is good. But trouble arrives in the form of triad boss Kao (Patrick Tse), who wants to sell drugs in their fine establishment. But Alan and Ho Tien say no, leading to the inevitable clash of wills as the righteous brothers take on the triad bad guys in a climactic, bloody shootout! Co-starring Norman Tsui Siu Keung, Jenny Tseng, and Pat Ha, Flaming Brothers is vintage heroic bloodshed featuring all the cool star charisma and guns blazing action that you'd ever ask for!
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| Product Title: | Flaming Brothers (DVD) (Remastered) (Hong Kong Version) 江湖龍虎鬥 (DVD) (修復版) (香港版) 江湖龙虎斗 (DVD) (修复版) (香港版) マカオ極道ブルース （江湖龍虎鬥） （デジタルリマスター） （香港版） Flaming Brothers (DVD) (Remastered) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Chow Yun Fat (Actor) | Alan Tang (Actor) | Wong Kar Wai | Jenny Tseng | Pat Ha | Norman Tsui | Patrick Tse 周潤發 (Actor) | 鄧光榮 (Actor) | 王 家衛 | 甄妮 | 夏文汐 | 徐少強 | 謝賢 周润发 (Actor) | 邓光荣 (Actor) | 王 家卫 | 甄妮 | 夏文汐 | 徐少强 | 谢贤 周潤發 （チョウ・ユンファ） (Actor) | 鄧光榮 （アラン・タン） (Actor) | 王家衛 （ウォン・カーウァイ） | 甄［女尼］（ジェニー・ヤン） | 夏文汐（ハ・マンギッ） | 徐少強（チョイ・シウキョン） | 謝賢（パトリック・ツェー） 주윤발 (Actor) | Alan Tang (Actor) | 왕가위 | Jenny Tseng | Pat Ha | Norman Tsui | Patrick Tse |
| Director: | Cheung Tong Cho 張同祖 张同祖 張同祖 （チョン・トンチョー） Cheung Tong Cho |
| Producer: | Alan Tang 鄧光榮 邓光荣 鄧光榮 （アラン・タン） Alan Tang |
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| Release Date: | 2008-07-24 |
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.78 : 1 |
| Widescreen Anamorphic: | Yes |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Surround |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD-9, DVD |
| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Rating: | IIB |
| Duration: | 101 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Joy Sales (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 120 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 3820 |
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* Screen Format: 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
* Sound Mix: dts, Dolby Digital 5.1
* DVD Type: DVD-9
* Special Features:
- Trailer
- Gallery
- Interview
Director : Joe Cheung
Producer : Alan Tang
As orphans growing up on the streets of Macau, Alan (Alan Tang) and Tien (Chow Yun-fat) have formed a bond since childhood that will last a lifetime. Later they progressed from pickpockets to gangsters running a successful nightclub business, but their refusal to get involved in drug trafficking has incurred the wrath of the local crime boss Kao (Patrick Tse). To make amends, Alan heads off to Thailand for a deal while Tien runs into his childhood sweetheart Ka-hsi (Pat Ha) and decides to leave the triad and live a normal live. But when Alan is in trouble, Tien drops everything and comes to his rescue and finds himself in a final showdown with Kao.
* Sound Mix: dts, Dolby Digital 5.1
* DVD Type: DVD-9
* Special Features:
- Trailer
- Gallery
- Interview
Director : Joe Cheung
Producer : Alan Tang
As orphans growing up on the streets of Macau, Alan (Alan Tang) and Tien (Chow Yun-fat) have formed a bond since childhood that will last a lifetime. Later they progressed from pickpockets to gangsters running a successful nightclub business, but their refusal to get involved in drug trafficking has incurred the wrath of the local crime boss Kao (Patrick Tse). To make amends, Alan heads off to Thailand for a deal while Tien runs into his childhood sweetheart Ka-hsi (Pat Ha) and decides to leave the triad and live a normal live. But when Alan is in trouble, Tien drops everything and comes to his rescue and finds himself in a final showdown with Kao.
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Professional Review of "Flaming Brothers (DVD) (Remastered) (Hong Kong Version)"
July 24, 2008
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Movies that start out with the heroes as young scamps stealing food and being led in prayer by precious little rich orphan girls named Ka Hsi are just bound to be good. And that's exactly how this movie starts! One of those "brothers marrying/brothers parting" flicks following the lives of orphan gangster pals Alan (Alan Tang) and Ho-tien (Chow Yun-fat) from poverty to crimelords, to rich and rascally room mates (with wallpaper by Almodovar). Ho Tien and Alan live the kind of sporting lifestyle on Macau that would make most people green with envy. But one day they come up against Mr. Kao, a Macanese bigshot who wears floor-length fur coats like a pimp and who has a habit of wiggling out of deals.
On a dare from Mr. Kao, Alan takes his macho purse and goes on an arms deal to Thailand from which he isn't supposed to return. There he learns the quickest way to get rid of three pursuing attackers in a pedicab, and he picks up a romantic interest in the form of pampered, pouting Jenny Tseng, who's a flailing nightclub singer with a limp stage show. Not attached to women, he returns to Macau in triumph to his roomie, only to find that Ho-tien is romancing the devoutly Christian Ka-hsi (Pat Ha). With Mr. Kao on his case, Alan is abandoned by Ho-tien who won't give up his gal. Things look dark, but in these kind of brotherhood movies there's always a triumphant return to heroism by the end, and Flaming Brothers (and no, they're not gay, although other characters speculate about this possibility endlessly) is no exception. Alan Tang was a star at this kind of heroic bloodshed film, and "his acting and image fascinated lots of lassie," says his star bio. Chow Yun-fat gives an average performance, but that's not to say it's weak. The bloodshed is spurt-a-riffic and as Ho-tien and Alan try to bring down the seemingly indestructible Mr. Kao the bullet ballet hits one gory climax after another. Gunsmoke hangs in the air and cordite stains their teeth as atomic squibs explode out of the backs of henchmen and blood mist hangs in a cloud behind them as they fall. Written by Wong Kar-wai, one can see some of his obsessions in embryonic form (he even manages to insert a convenience store into the plot). A standard programmer of the heroic bloodshed genre, Flaming Brothers is a film full of blood and guts and gusto. by Grady Hendrix |
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Brotherhood above all
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After A Better Tomorrow opened the floodgate to triad hero movies in 1986, Chow Yun Fat went on to star in numerous similarly styled movies, and Flaming Brothers was one of the more remarkable works that would make even John Woo proud. In fact, this flick evokes many gangster symbols made popular by the genre maestro: trench coat-donning, shades-wearing mobsters glorified with a strict code of honor, gun in each hand downing enemies without breaking a sweat, their ever-slick hairdo never getting messy in the process. Flaming Brothers is made in the grand tradition of heroic bloodshed movies. Director Joe Cheung obviously understood the material well enough to do a decent job. The story revolves around orphaned brothers Alan (Alan Tang) and Tien (Chow Yun Fat), who depended on each other growing up on the mean streets of Macau. They learned that if they don't want to be bullied anymore, they'll have to make themselves the biggest bullies. Flash forward 20 years, the brothers have become some hotshots in the triad world. They are big enough to be on the radar of police sergeant Chen (Philip Chan). They then run afoul of another triad kingpin Kao, played menacingly by Patrick Tse. So our heroes have to face immense heat from both sides of the law. They are doing fine, until Tien gets reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Christian teacher Ka Hsi (Patricia Ha). He decides that he no longer wants the life-on-the-edge existence he has had for 30 years. This drives a wedge between him and Alan, who needs his brother by his side to tackle the increasing heat from their challengers. The brothers part ways to pursue different lives, but when Tien receives news that Alan is in grave danger fighting Kao, he then realizes that, for a gangster like him, brotherhood is above everything else. Besides the hunk appeal of the two leads, Flaming Brothers also has plenty of other good things to offer, like the numerous brutal battles. Bullet-ballet is always fun to watch in my book, and this flick features many such scenes. The violence is simply exhilarating. In one particularly well staged chase and gunfight sequence shot in Thailand, which culminates in an ambush where the evil henchmen are turned into beehives, the camera lingers lovingly on a bullet hole-ridden body to show you the resulting bloody mess! For a movie that relies heavily on the macho factor, even a small dose of estrogen would provide some welcome balance. Here, the ladies hold their own admirably opposite their male co-stars. Patricia's role as Ka Hsi is pivotal to the story, while Jenny Tseng is exceptional as a sassy singer, whose romance with Alan is both funny and moving. Even the song sung by Su Rui that plays over the ending credits lends some emotional weight to the movie. Finally, Flaming Brothers is notable for yet another reason - Wong Kar Wai wrote this film a year before he shot to fame with his directorial debut As Tears Go By. While nothing like the later films Wong is famous for, the script is sound and efficient in bringing out the themes. This leads one to wonder what the internationally lauded auteur would do with the material if it were made today. |
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Gunplay galore
| "Flaming Brothers" is a compelling action film driven by the starpower of its two leads, Chow Yun Fat and Alan Tang. Tang and Chow play men who grew up together as orphans, learning to rely upon each other as their means of getting ahead in life. They rise to become minor crime bosses, owning a nightclub and controlling prostitution and illegal gambling on Macau's Coloane and Taipa Islands. A bigger crime boss wants a piece of their action and the two friends soon find themselves embroiled in a bloody gang war. The two friends also become entangled in romantic relationships, Tang with a jaded lounge singer and Chow with a faith-filled Christian school teacher (Pat Ha) who had provided meals to the two friends when they were impoverished street kids. Chow's love for Ha leads him to part ways with Tang and begin a new life running a Hong Kong convenience store, while Tang travels to Thailand to acquire more firepower for the gang war. The threats to his old friend ultimately suck Chow back into his old life for a bullet-riddled climax. Chow and Tang both acquit themselves well in this film and the love between Chow and Pat Ha provides a good counterpoint. The several scenes of John Woo-style gunplay are spectacular. "Flaming Brothers" may not break new ground, but it provides plenty of eye-popping action. |
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Greatly Underrated Triad Film!
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While Today best known as the film that gave Wong Kar Wai his start as a screenwriter, Flaming Brothers was indeed my First Heroic Bloodshed film, and is greatly underrated. The Film starts in peaceful 1960's Macau (a Wong Kar Wai Influence if i ever saw one) as poor Beggar boy Ah Tien is forced to steal Rice from a local Convent. He is caught by young Girl Ka Hsi, who scolds him for stealing, but later offers the rice to Ah Tien and his friends. A Friendship forms between Ka Hsi and Ah Tien, but soon she is forced to leave Macau for Hong Kong, leaving poor Ah Tien Heartbroken. While eating with his best friend Alan at a street restaurant, they are confronted by petty thugs over a case of stolen bread, a brief fight breaks out, but is broken up by a knife wielding Triad, It is here that the two boys realise that in order to survive in Macau, they have to become Tough, and decide to become Triads. Fast Forward 20 or so years, and Alan (Alan Tang Kwong Wing) and Ah Tien (Chow Yun Fat) are successful Triads/Nightclub Owners in Mid to Late 1980's Macau. At the opening of their latest Nightclub, a Top Triad Member of a Powerful Gang (Tsui Siu Keung) pays them a visit, intending to make a deal with Alan and Ah Tien on behalf of his boss, The Cocaine King of Macau, Kao (Patrick Tse). Alan and Ah Tien may be Triads, but they are Honourable ones. They only deal with Nightclubs, Whorehouses, Gambling Dens and Arms Smuggling, so when Alan Refuses to accept Kao's Offer of Dealing Crack through his Business Ventures, Kao's Representative is Furious, and later that Night proceeds to kidnap Ah Tien and hold him for Ransom. Alan However, is able to outclass his rivals, and traps Kao's Representative while rescuing Ah Tien, in the resulting gun battle, Kao's Representative is killed by Alan. During a Heated Meeting between Kao Ah Tien and Alan, Kao proposes a Business deal of a Different Kind, Trading Guns with a 'Contact' In Thailand. Alan accepts this proposal and Heads for Thailand, while Ah Tien stays in Macau to look over their operations while Alan is away. While making a deal with Kao's 'Contact' in Thailand, a Muay Thai Instructor/Arms dealer known as Uncle Pui, They are ambushed by a group of local thugs hired by Kao. As Alan soon finds out, Kao and his 'Contact' are enemies, and the business deal was a trap instigated by Kao to kill Alan. Alan and Pui escape however, and the two decide to become Business associates, Pui even invites Alan to his Nightclub, where he meets Fellow Macanese Singer Jenny (Jenny Tseng). While all this is happening in Thailand, Back in Macau Ah Tien has met up with his old Love Ka Hsi, who has returned to Macau as a teacher at the Convent she grew up in. The two become friends again, yet Ah Tien does not let Ka Hsi know that he is the beggar boy from her past, afraid that after she knows he is a triad she will not want to associate with him. Alan soon returns to Macau with Jenny and his Guns from Thailand. Kao is furious that his plan has failed, and soon outright war is declared between the two gangs. At the same time, Ka Hsi must again return to Hong Kong, and asks Ah Tien to marry her, Ah Tien is now caught between two worlds, to help his Triad Brother Alan deal with Kao, or to give up the Triad business and settle down and move to Hong Kong... It is a true shame that Fortune star or another company have not picked up this movie and given it the proper DVD release it deserves. Sure, it's no A Better Tomorrow, it's No The Killer, but it's a lot better than many of the other Third-rate Triad movies out there (think Triads: The Inside story). As i said earlier, this was my first Triad movie, and even today so many years later, it's still a quite interesting film, if for no other reason than for bringing three great Asian movie icons together, Patrick Tse, Alan Tang and Chow Yun-Fat. |
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