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Director
  
Kong Lung

Music director
  
Eddie Wang

Duration
  

Country
  
Hong Kong

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Drama

Screenplay
  
Kong Lung

Writer
  
Kong Lung

Language
  
Cantonese

Story of a Discharged Prisoner movie poster

Release date
  
1967

Initial release
  
September 13, 1967 (Hong Kong)

Cast
  
Tsai-Jung Chan
,
Chi Chou
,
Ping Do
,
Hui Ying-Ying
,
Ling Ka
,
Tsun Liu

Similar movies
  
Prison on Fire (1987), Mr Cinema (2007), The Way We Are (2008), Song of the Exile (1990), Night and Fog (2009)

Story of a Discharged Prisoner (英雄本色; lit. "True Colors of a Hero"), also called Upright Repenter, is a 1967 Hong Kong film directed by Patrick Lung Kong.

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The film partially inspired the 1986 John Woo film A Better Tomorrow, which has the same Chinese name.

Cast and roles

  • Patrick Tse - Lee Cheuk-hong
  • Patsy Ka Ling - Mak Siyan
  • Wong Wai - Lee Chi-sum
  • Shih Kien - One-eyed Dragon
  • Chan Tsai-Jung
  • Chow Gat
  • Do Ping
  • Hui Ying-Ying
  • Liu Tsun
  • Patrick Lung Kong
  • Mak Kei
  • Ma Xiaoying
  • Meng Li
  • Sai Gwa-pau
  • Chan Chung Gin
  • Monita Lopez
  • Fung Fung
  • Awards

    In 2005, Story of a Discharged Prisoner was ranked 39th on the Hong Kong Film Awards list of the Top 100 Chinese Films. It was ranked number 21 on TimeOut Hong Kong Greatest 100 Hong Kong Films.

    References

    Story of a Discharged Prisoner Wikipedia
    Story of a Discharged Prisoner IMDb Story of a Discharged Prisoner themoviedb.org