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* BloodBrothers: Alan and Cheung, in fact their brotherhood is the very premise of the entire movie.
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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.
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One of Chow's lesser-known films, being released between the first Film/ABetterTomorrow ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' and Film/TheKiller, ''Film/TheKiller1989'', ''Flaming Brothers'' remains a little seen gem in Chow's filmography.
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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.
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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 is put to test when Ko Lau-sei, a ruthless triad leader, tries turning both brothers against each other.
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* 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.
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* BackToBackBadasses: Alan and Cheung against more than 30 mooks in the climatic climactic 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 gun down all the mooks by firing ahead of them.
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* DarkenedBuildingShootout: The shootout in the docks/warehouse, which have Alan surrounded by triads before a gas tank explosion lights up the place.
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* DarkenedBuildingShootout: The shootout in the docks/warehouse, which have has Alan surrounded by triads before a gas tank explosion lights up the place.
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* 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]].
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* 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 decide to intimidate the police into firing at all three of them instead]].
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* 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.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Alan and Cheung joins them in their ranks, and moves their way upwards, but later gets double-crossed.
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* 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 decide 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 Cheungjoins join them in their ranks, and moves move their way upwards, but later gets get double-crossed.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Alan and Cheung
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* 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).
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* VomitDiscretionShot: A drunk lady throws up in the convenience store where Cheung works in, works, and he have has to stay overtime to clean up, but we didn't see the vomit (thankfully).
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* 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]].
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* 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]] officers in the end, though]].
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* DeathOfAChild: Richard's son, a fourth-grade kid, gets shot by the triads in front of his father.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted with Richard's son, a fourth-grade child who gets shot by the triads in front of his father.
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''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Creator/ChowYunFat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.
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''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Creator/ChowYunFat and Alan Tang, Creator/AlanTang, as the titular brothers.
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* WeddingDay: Cheung and Pat's wedding gets featured halfway through the film.
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* RedOniBlueOniRedOniBlueOni: Hot tempered, strong-willed and trigger-happy Alan is the Red Oni, compared to the calm, proactive Cheung as the Blue Oni.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: A drunk lady throws up in the convenience store
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* 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).
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''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Chow Yun-fat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.
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''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Chow Yun-fat Creator/ChowYunFat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.
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* CarFuCarFu: In the climax, Cheung drives a car and rams his way into the stables where the final shootout is taking place, knocking over more than one mook before crashing into the stables.
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* 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]].
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* 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 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]].
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* ScreamingWarrior
ScreamingWarrior: Alan and Cheung in the final shootout, especially when they collectively gun down a narrow corridor full of mooks. Heck, [[https://www.yesasia.com/global/flaming-brothers-blu-ray-hong-kong-version/1024549058-0-0-0-en/info.html the YesAsia DVD even features their screaming from that very scene]]!
*SuicideByCop
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
TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Alan and Cheung joins them in their ranks, and moves their way upwards, but later gets double-crossed.
* UnconventionalVehicleChase: The chase scene in Thailand features ''tuk-tuks'' (Thai taxis with three wheels).
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* UnconventionalVehicleChase: The chase scene in Thailand features ''tuk-tuks'' (Thai taxis with three wheels).
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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.
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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, hitman and fell in love with Macau singer Jenny, while Cheung, after advice from his friend Ho old friend/benefactor Richard and falling in love becoming engaged with Jenny, Pat, a singer, 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.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: After leaving the triad and going straight, Cheung ends up becoming a worker in a convenience store. He does find HappinessInMinimumWage though, more than eager to leave the gangster life behind.
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* HateSinkHateSink: 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]].
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HumanShield: Alan does this more than once in the climax, grabbing mooks and shoving them into gunfire while shooting other mooks with his pistol.
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InfantImmortality: Averted with Richard's son, a fourth-grade child who gets shot by the triads in front of his father.
*PlayingBothSidesPlayingBothSides: Ko Lau-sei manipulating the brothers into going against each other, as well as tricking the triads and an arms dealing gang to shoot each other apart.
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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.
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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.
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AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Alan, Cheung, Jenny... all three main characters failed to outlive the credits]].
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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.
*BulletproofVestBloodBrothers: Alan and Cheung, in fact their brotherhood is the very premise of the entire movie.
* 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]].
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CoversAlwaysLie: Some remastered / re-released DVD covers will put Chow Yun-fat's face on the front and center of the cover, despite the fact that Chow is merely the deuteragonist in this movie.
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DarkenedBuildingShootout: The shootout in the docks/warehouse, which have Alan surrounded by triads before a gas tank explosion lights up the place.
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FruitCart: A cart of coconuts shows up during the chase scene in Thailand.
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* GroinAttackGroinAttack: During the climax, Alan shoots a random mook through the nads with a concealed pistol. We get to see it in great detail too, because that was a BetweenMyLegs shot.
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''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Chow Yun-fat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.
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.
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.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* BackToBackBadasses
* BloodBrothers
* BulletproofVest
* CarFu
* CoversAlwaysLie
* TheDanza
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* FruitCart
* GroinAttack
* HateSink
* HeroicSecondWind
* HumanShield
* InfantImmortality
* PlayingBothSides
* RedOniBlueOni
* SacrificialLion
* ScreamingWarrior
* SuicideByCop
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs
* UnconventionalVehicleChase
* VomitDiscretionShot
* WeddingDay
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''Flaming Brothers'' is a 1987 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed [[GenreMashup drama-action-romance]] film starring Chow Yun-fat and Alan Tang, as the titular brothers.
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.
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.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* BackToBackBadasses
* BloodBrothers
* BulletproofVest
* CarFu
* CoversAlwaysLie
* TheDanza
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* FruitCart
* GroinAttack
* HateSink
* HeroicSecondWind
* HumanShield
* InfantImmortality
* PlayingBothSides
* RedOniBlueOni
* SacrificialLion
* ScreamingWarrior
* SuicideByCop
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs
* UnconventionalVehicleChase
* VomitDiscretionShot
* WeddingDay
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