directed by: John Woo, year: 1990
actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Jacky Cheung, Simon Yam

Bullet in the Head is a 1990 Hong Kong action thriller directed by John Woo. After a barroom shootout derails his life, a young man returns home to friends he can no longer trust, and becomes entwined in a brutal cycle of greed, betrayal, and revenge. The film fuses spectacular gunplay with Woo’s meticulous choreography, melodrama, and moral ambiguity, exploring loyalty, fate, and the cost of violence in a city ruled by survival. It epitomizes Woo’s kinetic, operatic style.

Heroic Bloodshed, Action, Crime Thriller, Hong Kong Cinema, Gun Fu