On a final job gone wrong, triad member Ho is ambushed by the police. He surrenders out of love for his cadet brother Kit, who blames him for the family tragedy that ensues. Reformed after three years in prison, Ho tries to reconcile with a resentful Kit, but his criminal past refuses to let him go.

Pitting brotherly bonds against cruel twists of fate, John Woo’s breakthrough launched a swaggering Chow Yun Fat into action stardom. A defining “heroic bloodshed” film, this landmark classic also made sartorial splashes, igniting a fashion craze for dark Ray-Bans and flowing trench coats.