A Better Tomorrow
John Woo's breakthrough film "A Better Tomorrow" (1986) largely set the template for the heroic bloodshed genre. In turn, "A Better Tomorrow" was a reimagining of plot elements from two earlier Hong Kong crime films: Lung Kong's "The Story of a Discharged Prisoner" (1967) and the Shaw Brothers Studio film "The Brothers" (1979), the latter a remake of the hit Indian crime drama film "Deewaar" (1975) written by Salim–Javed.