Heroes Shed No Tears

Heroes Shed No Tears (1984)

英雄無淚

They didn't know the road to freedom goes through hell.

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves pursued by his forces, and the forces of a bitter Thai officer. The Chinese mercenaries are vastly outnumbered, and as their numbers begin to dwindle, their desperation pulls them into a corner as their enemies close in on them.

Date of release
1984-11-30
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (83)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Adventure, Action, War
Director
John Woo

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Thailand

Heroes Shed No Tears is a 1984 Hong Kong action war film directed by John Woo. The film stars Eddy Ko, with a supporting cast of Lam Ching-ying, Bruce Jang Il-Sik, Ma Ying-chun, Philippe Loffredo, and Cécile Le Bailly. Filmed prior to the success of Woo's A Better Tomorrow, the film is a story about a group of mercenaries on a mission to extract a drug lord from the Indochina area.

Production

After finishing Plain Jane to the Rescue director John Woo began working on a film titled The Sunset Warrior. Woo was not happy working for the production company Golden Harvest, noting that he "I just wanted to make any movie for them to finish the contract." Woo found the script to be fairly simple and made changes to it to make it more emotional.

The film was shot in Thailand in Salad Buri, for 2 months in 1983, the film featured cast and crew who did not speak English. This included three Korean actors, two French actors (Phillippe Loffredo and Cécile Le Bailly) and two Japanese cameramen and director of photography. The film included scenes of sexuality and drug use which were not shot by Woo.

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