Making its exclusive North American streaming premiere June 7 on Film Movement Plus, HEROES SHED NO TEARS sports a brilliant 2K digital restoration. 

In this explosive precursor to his breakout film A Better Tomorrow, director John Woo demonstrates the genesis of his trademark style of hyperkinetic action and violence in the thriller he identified as his “first real film”, breaking a string of low-budget slapstick farces, and building the foundation for his over-the-top genre films that would follow.

Hong Kong action veteran Eddie Ko (The Mission, Lethal Weapon 4) stars as soldier-of-fortune Chan Chung, the leader of an elite Chinese commando force enlisted by the Thai government to capture General Samton, a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. After a successful raid on the general’s headquarters, the mercenaries cross into Vietnam and encounter a barbaric colonel (Lam Ching Ying), who is determined to stop them at any cost. Now pursued by both Samton’s henchmen and the colonel’s troops, the heroes flee for the border of Thailand, outmanned and outgunned by their enemies.

Directed by John Woo. Written by Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Leung-Chun Chiu and John Woo. Starring Eddy Ko, Ching-Ying Lam and Philippe Loffredo. Produced by Peter H-Sun Chan, Raymond Chow and John Woo.