Research Catalog

Title

Diexie jietou / A bullet in the head.

Publication

South San Francisco, Calif. : Tai Seng Video Marketing, [Place of publication not identified] : Golden Cinema City Distribution Co., [1992], ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Woo, John.
• Leung, Patrick.
• Chun, Janet.
• Leung, Tony.
• Zhang, Xueyou.
• Lee, Waise.
• Yam, Simon.
• Yuen, Fannie.
• Yam, Yolinda.
• Tai Seng Video Marketing Inc.
• Milestone Entertainment (Firm)

Description

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color; 12 in.

Summary

Explores themes of friendship, honor, and betrayal in the context of the Vietnam war. In 1967 Hong Kong, Ben (Leung) is engaged to Jane (Yeun), while his friends, the clownish Frank (Cheung) and the ambitious Paul (Lee) have less certain futures. On Ben\u0027s wedding night, the trio kill a local gangster. Anxious to get out of town, they agree to deliver medicine and Rolex watches to a Saigon crime lord, Mr. Leong. Upon their arrival in Vietnam, however, a terrorist attack destroys their merchandise. Broke and desperate, they ally themselves with Luke (Yam), a CIA operative out to stop Leong from assisting the Vietcong. After a shoot-out at Leong\u0027s Saigon brothel, Ben, Frank and Paul escape with a trunk of gold leaves, but are captured by the NVA and tortured. Luke arrives with the US Army to rescue them. In the melee, Paul criticaly wounds Frank and Ben and flees with the gold. After being nursed back to health by Buddhist monks, Ben returns to Saigon where Frank, thanks to the bullet Paul put in his head, is now a crazed drug addict. Ben tearfully puts him out of his misery. Back in Hong Kong, Ben is reunited with Jane, meets his three-year-old son for the first time, and resolves to settle the score with Paul. Paul is now a wealthy businessman, about to be named successor to a major crime boss. In front of all his associates, Ben presents Paul with Frank\u0027s bullet pierced skull. The subsequent shoot-out leaves Paul dead and Ben wounded and alone.

Alternative Title

Bullet in the head

Subjects

• Motion pictures, Chinese
• Foreign films
• Feature films
• War films

Note

• Not rated.
• Videorecording of the 1990 Chinese (Hong Kong) motion picture by Milestone Entertainment.

Credits (note)

• Director, John Woo ; writers, John Woo, Patrick Leung, Janet Chun ; photography, Ardy Lam, Wilson Chun, Somchai Kittikun, Wang Wing-heng ; music, James Wong, Romeo Diaz.

System Details (note)

• Laser disc, CLV, digital audio

Language (note)

• Bilingual Cantonese and Mandarin version with English subtitles.

OCLC

• ocm39072843
• SCSB-3749651

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries