John Woo's A Better Tomorrow is one of the all-time great Hong Kong movies and a defining film in the HK gangster genre. It was the film that helped make Chow Yun-Fat the mega-star he is today.
Now director Song Hae-sung is remaking the film in Korean. The cast includes Song Seung-heon (in Chow Yun-Fat's role) and Kim Gang-woo (the Leslie Cheung character of the young cop straight out of the academy). The villain of the tale, played by Waise Lee in the original, will be played by Jo Han-seon.
The new version puts its own spin on the original story, adding the twist of North Korean defectors inflitrating the South Korean underworld. Invincible opens in Korea in September.
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