History Film / FlamingBrothers

* BloodBrothers: Alan and Cheung, in fact their brotherhood is the very premise of the entire movie.

One of Chow's lesser-known films, being released between the first Film/ABetterTomorrow and Film/TheKiller, ''Flaming Brothers'' remains a little seen gem in Chow's filmography.

Alan Chan (Alan Tang) and Cheung Ho-tin (Chow Yun-Fat) are orphans who spend most of their childhoods wandering the streets of Macau, and having known each other since young, they've become inseparable, bonding through their daily lives stealing food to survive and going through the rough life on the mean streets. Growing up to join a local triad, Alan goes on into becoming a top hitman and fell in love with Macau singer Jenny, while Cheung, after advice from his old friend/benefactor Richard and becoming engaged with Pat, a Catholic church worker, decides to go straight. However, their faith in brotherhood are put to test when Ko Lau-sei, a ruthless triad leader, tries turning both brothers against each other.

* BackToBackBadasses: Alan and Cheung against more than 30 mooks in the climatic shootout. And then inverted when there are a dozen mooks remaining in the middle of a narrow corridor, Alan and Cheung at either end, where the blood brothers then guns down all the mooks by firing ahead of them.

* DarkenedBuildingShootout: The shootout in the docks/warehouse, which have Alan surrounded by triads before a gas tank explosion lights up the place.

* HateSink: Ko Lau-sei serves as the despicable BigBad whose existence is to be hated by everyone; being cunning, manipulative, and ruthless, he's willing to start gang wars to boost his own ranks, sends his most loyal followers to their deaths on suicide missions without informing them, and prefers to "punish" his failed subordinates by having their families killed, as seen in Richard's case. He spends the last few moments of his screen-time gloating of how Alan and Cheung are helpless to stop him as he walks unarmed towards the exterior of his stables which is surrounded by cops to surrender himself, but [[spoiler: eventually Alan and Cheung decides to intimidate the police into firing at all three of them instead]].

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: In the ending after Alan and Cheung have killed off all of Ko Lau-sei's mooks but run out of bullets, leaving Ko all alone, Ko simply proclaims that the stables where the shootout just happened is now surrounded by the cops, and he can simply walk out unarmed and surrender himself while the police arrests Alan and Cheung for the massacre. Alan and Cheung instead decides to pull a TakingYouWithMe move by grabbing Ko and revealing their guns, causing the entire police force to pump all three of them with bullets]].
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Alan and Cheung joins them in their ranks, and moves their way upwards, but later gets double-crossed.

* VomitDiscretionShot: A drunk lady throws up in the convenience store where Cheung works in, and he have to stay overtime to clean up, but we didn't see the vomit (thankfully).

* BulletproofVest: Alan wears one in the final shootout, which protects him from being shot at least 8 times by enemy mooks. [[spoiler: It doesn't save him [[RealityEnsues from being shot at by more than 20 police officers]] in the end, though]].

* InfantImmortality: Averted with Richard's son, a fourth-grade child who gets shot by the triads in front of his father.

''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Creator/ChowYunFat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.

* WeddingDay: Cheung and Pat's wedding gets featured halfway through the film.

* RedOniBlueOni

* VomitDiscretionShot: A drunk lady throws up in the convenience store

''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Chow Yun-fat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.

* CarFu

* HateSink: Ko Lau-sei serves as the despicable BigBad whose existence is to be hated by everyone; being cunning, manipulative, and ruthless, he's willing to start gang wars to boost his own ranks, sends his most loyal followers to their deaths on suicide missions without informing them, and prefers to "punish" his failed subordinates by having their families killed, as seen in Richard's case. He spends the last few moments of his screen-time gloating of how Alan and Cheung are helpless to stop him as he walks unarmed towards the exterior of his warehouse which is surrounded by cops to surrender himself, but [[spoiler: eventually Alan and Cheung decides to intimidate the police into firing at all three of them instead]].

* ScreamingWarrior
* SuicideByCop
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs
* UnconventionalVehicleChase:

Alan Chan (Alan Tang) and Cheung Ho-tin (Chow Yun-Fat) are orphans who spend most of their childhoods wandering the streets of Macau, and having known each other since young, they've become inseparable, bonding through their daily lives stealing food to survive and going through the rough life on the mean streets. Growing up to join a local triad, Alan goes on into becoming a top hitman, while Cheung, after advice from his friend Ho and falling in love with Jenny, a singer, decides to go straight. However, their faith in brotherhood are put to test when Ko Lau-sei, a ruthless triad leader, tries turning both brothers against each other.

* HateSink

* HumanShield:
* InfantImmortality
* PlayingBothSides

* SacrificialLion

* UnconventionalVehicleChase
* VomitDiscretionShot
* WeddingDay

Alan Chan (Alan Tang) and Cheung Ho-tin (Chow Yun-Fat) are orphans who spend most of their childhoods wandering the streets of Macau, and having known each other since young, they've become inseparable, bonding through their daily lives stealing food to survive and going through the rough life on the mean streets. Growing up to join a local triad, Alan goes on into becoming a top hitman, while Cheung, after falling in love with Jenny, a singer, decides to go straight. However, their faith in brotherhood are put to test when Ko Lau-sei, a ruthless triad leader, tries turning both brothers against each other.

* BackToBackBadasses
* BloodBrothers
* BulletproofVest

* CoversAlwaysLie
* TheDanza
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* FruitCart
* GroinAttack

* HeroicSecondWind
* HumanShield