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A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

★ 7.1 · 314 ratings on TMDB
A Better Tomorrow II poster★ 7.1

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

DirectorJohn Woo
CastChow Yun-Fat, Dean Shek Tin, Emily Chu Bo-Yee, Guan Shan, Kenneth Tsang, Lam Chung
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

A Better Tomorrow II keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 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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