The Brothers

The Brothers (1979)

差人·大佬·搏命仔

Liu Yung is the brother whose destiny is to become a top mobster. Danny Lee is the brother fated to become a cop.

Date of release
1979-04-27
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama, Action
Director
Hua Shan

Casting

Interesting facts

The Brothers is a 1979 Hong Kong action crime-drama film directed by Hua Shan, written by Lam Chin Wai and Yuen Cheung, and produced by Runme Shaw under the Shaw Brothers Studio. The film stars Tony Liu, Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Chau Li Chuan, Ku Feng, and Nam Hung. It is a remake of Indian action crime-drama film Deewaar (1975), written by Salim–Javed. In turn, The Brothers inspired John Woo's A Better Tomorrow and played a key role in the creation of the heroic bloodshed crime genre of 1980s Hong Kong action cinema.

Production

The Brothers is a remake of Deewaar (The Wall), a 1975 Indian crime film. Written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) and directed by Yash Chopra, the story was loosely inspired by the Bombay underworld gangster Haji Mastan.

There are some notable differences. It has a shorter 90-minute length, compared to the original's 176 minutes. Other changes reflect the shift from Indian culture to Chinese culture, such as the setting changed from Bombay to Hong Kong, and the Bombay underworld changed to the Chinese triads.

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