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[Made in Hong Kong 1990]

Director: John Woo

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai Jacky Cheung Li Zixiong Yam Tat-wah

Genre: plot/action/war

[Summary]

Wu Yusen's pioneering work (and only work) is Blood in the Street published by 1990. This movie is a box office failure, but it should be regarded as one of John Woo's representative works.

Blood in the Street is about three Hong Kong youths who went to Vietnam for adventure in the 1960s and finally turned against each other for a box of gold. This film shows many youthful memories of his own director. Yongheng Huang, John Woo's old partner, photographed the street scene with a soft lens, creating a dreamy effect. The images in the first half hour seem to be great memories of water, Elvis Presley, dance lessons, midnight street cycling races and wedding banquets in slums ... After leaving Tsui Hark and Chow Yun Fat for the first time, John Woo seems to want to break through the era of hero movies. As a result, Blood on the Street has a prose or even poetic beginning, and gradually transits to Vietnam's troubled times such as political turmoil, war and prison camps with great boldness of vision, almost with the flavor of epic, and finally turns back to the road that Jianghu brothers are satisfied with. It can be said that Blood in the Street is a mixture of two completely different movies.

1990 Hong Kong Film Awards, Blood Street was nominated for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (A Hui), and finally got nothing.

There are four versions of Blood in the Street. Wu Yusen's own version of the director is 2 hours and 36 minutes long. The Hong Kong release version is about 2 hours 10 minute. Around 1992, a video tape was released in China. It is not clear whether it is genuine or pirated. In less than two hours, many parts of Vietnam were cut, and the gunfight at the end of the film was completely preserved, which was the ugliest version. The best-looking version is the one with only 1 hour and 40 minutes when the video is released in the United States. This version removes all unnecessary gunfights, cuts the duel between A B (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and A Rong (Li Zixiong) for almost 20 minutes at the end, and replaces it with A B holding A Rong in A Rong's conference room, just like A Rong shot A Hui (Jacky Cheung) at first, and then lifted the hem of his suit to cover his head.