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Bullet in the Head (1990)

★ 7.6 · 311 ratings on TMDB

Once The Best of Friends, Now The Worst of... Enemies!

Bullet in the Head poster★ 7.6

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

DirectorJohn Woo
CastChang Gan-Wing, Fennie Yuen Kit-Ying, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau, Lam Chung, Nina Paw Hei-Ching, Simon Yam
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller, War
The emergence reading

Bullet in the Head keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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