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Johnnie To · 2008 · Hong Kong · 87 mins

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A Hero Never Dies (Blu-ray) our-releases while they must also dealD I G I T A L L Y R E S T O R E D Released: 7 Janauary 2026 Spine 008 A HERO NEVER DIES Johnnie To 1998 Hong Kong 98 mins The blood splattered hero film ignited a golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, full of outlandish action, mammoth body counts, and plots that might have been hewn out of granite. While Johnnie To came late to the genre, he gives us one of its most exuberant and unrestrained achievements. Jack (Leon Lai) and Chau (Lau Ching