A Better Tomorrow 3
| A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon | |
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| Directed by | Tsui Hark |
| Produced by | Tsui Hark John Woo |
| Written by | Yiu Ming Leung Foo Ho Tai Tsui Hark (novel) |
| Starring | Chow Yun Fat |
| Music by | Lowell Lo |
| Cinematography | Wing-Hung Wong |
| Editing by | Marco Mak Tsui Hark David Wu |
| Distributed by | Golden Princess |
| Release date(s) |  1989 |
| Running time | 145 min. |
| Country | 
Hong Kong |
| Language | English Vietmamese Cantonese |
| Followed by | A Better Tomorrow |
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A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon is a Hong Kong action film released in 1989. It was directed by Tsui Hark and is a loosely-based prequel to John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, though it was released after A Better Tomorrow 2.
The film stars Chow Yun Fat, who reprises his role of Mark Gor from the first film, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Anita Mui. Set during the Vietnam War, it sets up the story of how Mark became the character he was in the original film.
Box Office
The film grossed HK$18,476,116 at the Hong Kong box office.
Trivia
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- A Better Tomorrow 3 was directed by Tsui Hark, the producer behind the first two films in the series. John Woo wrote a screenplay for a third installment, but he never got to direct it due to having had artistic differences with Tsui Hark during the filming of the second film. Instead, the original screenplay would later become Bullet in the Head. The two films have many parallels, most notably, both being set in Vietnam during the war.
- The Taiwan version runs 145 minutes long which is the complete uncut version. The Hong Kong version runs only 114 minutes long despite saying 130 minutes on the cover. On a special 2004 DVD release, there's a few minutes of scenes that were deleted from the Hong Kong version as a separate feature.
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