The movie tells the story of Xiao Zhuang, a professional assassin who accidentally injures Jenny, a singer, during a mission, causing her vision to be severely damaged.
In order to make up for his mistake, Xiao Zhuang decides to carry out one last mission to earn enough money to treat Jenny’s eyes.
However, the mission leads him into a complicated triad strife and a battle between good and evil with police officer Li Ying.
John Woo demonstrates his signature aesthetic of violence and unique directing style in Bloodshed. The church, doves, icons and candlelight are all classic symbols of his signature, and the movie is filled with gorgeous gunfighting scenes and slow-motion footage, which gives the violent scenes a kind of elegance and poetry.
1989 / Hong Kong, China / Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime / John Woo / Chow Yun-Fat Lee Sau-Yin
Plot Summary:
Killer Yazhuang (Chow Yun-Fat) in an assassination operation accidentally injured singer Jennie (Yip Sin-Man), making her eyes close to blindness, since then, deeply guilty, he began to secretly protect and help Jennie, and want to take advantage of her eyes completely blind before raising a sum of money to send her to foreign medical treatment, for this reason, Yazhuang desperate to become a killer again, do not want to task completed not only confiscated the money, but also hired him to kill Wang Hai sent people! He is hunted down by Wang Hai, who hired him to kill.
The police detective Li Ying (Li Xiu Xian), who is assigned to investigate the case, realizes that there is a hidden agenda and that Yazhuang is not a cold-blooded killer, and begins to sympathize with him.
However, it seems that Yazhuang’s fate is predetermined.
