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Monday, October 7, 2013

A Better Tomorrow, Corrected


Correction: This is the Bhumibol Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand [Google Map], courtesy of Jiyoung An from  Busan Metropolitan City. Thank you, Jiyoung.


The opening sequence for A Better Tomorrow includes this shot of a couple of bridges in what I think is Busan, South Korea. I tried to figure out just what bridges these are, but no luck. There are dozens of bridges and tunnels in the Busan area, some of them are pretty impressive, but I couldn't find any with the these golden spires on top. The rest of the movie is nothing special, Asian gangsters having gunfights, some of them are pretty massive. There is a long lost brother, a slimy villain and some bits about loyalty and betrayal, but the tear jerking scene at the end pretty much spoils the whole thing.

P.S. The gangsters are smuggling guns to Thailand, or maybe from Thailand, which is how we get scenes of Thai bridges in the movie.

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