Heroes Shed No Tears (1986 film)

Heroes Shed No Tears
Hong Kong film poster for Heroes Shed No Tears
Directed byJohn Woo
Screenplay byPeter Chan
Chiu Leung-chun
John Woo[1]
Produced byPeter Chan[1]
Starring
CinematographyNaragawa Kenichi[1]
Edited byYiu-chung Cheung[1]
Music by
  • Tang Siu-Lam
  • Chung Shiu-Fung[1]
Production
company
Release dates
  • November 30, 1984 (1984-11-30) (South Korea)

  • September 5, 1986 (1986-09-05) (Hong Kong)
Running time
94 minutes[1]
CountryHong Kong[1]
LanguageCantonese[1]
Box officeHK$2.8 million

Heroes Shed No Tears (Chinese: 英雄無淚; Cantonese Yale: Ying Huhng Mouh Leuih; also known as Return to Killing Fields in the Philippines) is a 1984 Hong Kong action war film directed by John Woo, who also wrote with Chiu Leung-chun and Peter Chan, who also produced. The film stars Eddy Ko, with a supporting cast of Lam Ching-ying, 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.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Heroes Shed No Tears". Hong Kong Film Archive. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2016. Search "英雄無淚" under "Film Title"