Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou)

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  • 2hr 16m

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Director:

John Woo, John Woo

Producer:

John Woo

Writer:

Janet Chun, John Woo, Janet Chun, Patrick Leung

Release Date:

Jan 1, 1990

Runtime:

2hr 16m

Synopsis

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Cast

  • Tony Leung Chiu Wai
  • Jacky Cheung
  • Tony Leung Chiu-wai
  • Waise Lee
  • Jacky Cheung
  • Simon Yam
  • Waise Lee
  • Simon Yam
  • Yolinda Yam
  • Chung Lam
  • Fennie Yuen
  • Kan-Wing Tsang
  • Hang-Shuen So
  • John Woo

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4.1
  • Jan 5, 2022

    In a Woo film you can be sure of three things: melodrama, violence, and melodrama through violence. For him the world of gangsters and killers is not so different from that of friends and lovers; indeed we should remember that these gangsters and killers themselves are…

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    reibureibu
    reibureibu
    Aug 17, 2020

    woo takes his hyper-stylized, kinetically controlled chaos and similar to its use in The Killer weaponizes its utter lack of realism as emotional expression through tangible destruction, only here he takes it a step even further and applies it to a vietnam war melodrama (a…

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    Josh Lewis
    Josh Lewis
    Dec 29, 2016

    you think you know what the title refers to, you think it's so obvious, but then you find out in the last 20 minutes what it actually refers to and i was destroyed. bless john woo for ending his heartwrenching war epic with the most emo car chase of all time

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    sydney
    sydney
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    Mar 6, 2014

    I'm a believer

    507 Likes
    matt lynch
    matt lynch
    Dec 22, 2021

    dang I really did not know what this move was about

    394 Likes
    David Sims
    David Sims
    Apr 25, 2018

    "There's no rank among friends". Closer in spirit to the big Hollywood Vietnam films than to Tsui's A Better Tomorrow 3, which means it is a big imperialist spectacle about the effects of the war in the chosen leads much more than a movie about Vietnam. The specifics are…

    384 Likes
    Filipe Furtado
    Filipe Furtado
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    Aug 20, 2015

    This is so clearly better than The Deer Hunter, I'm confused as to why it too didn't win a bunch of Oscars. I mean, Simon Yam wasn't even nominated even though he steals every scene, the coolest cat in a war movie since young Gary Cooper threw Wings totally out of whack.

    324 Likes
    Sean Gilman
    Sean Gilman
    Aug 19, 2019

    her passport floats in the ocean, a document of hope rendered meaningless by bloodshed and torment. friendship, love, dreams, all made irrelevant by one wrong bullet.  you are never making it out of here alive.

    283 Likes
    Logan Kenny
    Logan Kenny
    Dec 4, 2023

    She's not pretty anymore. Woah?? Not sure how John Woo pulled off the insane tonal redirection of this from a Scorsese-style romp into a godless living nightmare of a psychological war epic, without losing the vibrance of the action. It’s eternally awful that he’s made a…

    269 Likes
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    Damn, John Woo is the goat! Straight up making bangers through the 80s and 90s. This one isn't action from start to finish, which I found interesting. It kind of goes from a gangster film like you'd see from Scorsese and then leads into a war film.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long is Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990)?
The movie is 2hr 16min long.
What's Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990) about?
When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
Who's the cast of Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990)?
  • Tony Leung Chiu Wai
  • Jacky Cheung
  • Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Ben, Siu Bun
  • Waise Lee
  • Jacky Cheung as Frank, Fai Jai
  • Simon Yam
  • Waise Lee as Paul, Sau Ming
  • Simon Yam as Luke, Lok
  • Yolinda Yam as Sally Yan Sau Ching
  • Chung Lam as Mr. Y.S. Leong
  • Fennie Yuen as Jane, Siu Jan
  • Kan-Wing Tsang as Jane's father
  • Hang-Shuen So as Jane's mother
  • John Woo as Policeman
Who's the director behind Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990)?
John Woo and John Woo directed Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990).
Who produced Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990)?
John Woo produced Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990).