TIFF’s A Century of Chinese Cinema Review: The Story of A Discharged Prisoner (1967)
John Woo’s bullet ballet A Better Tomorrow (1986) was inspired by Patrick Lung Kong’s Story of a Discharged Prisoner, which involves crime, drama, and martial arts all in the same film—a hybrid of genres not typically seen in China at the time. Lung Kong, who was also an actor an... Read More »
