Heroes Shed No Tears

Heroes Shed No Tears (; released in the Philippines as Return to Killing Fields) is a 1986 Hong Kong war film directed by John Woo, produced by Peter Chan, and starring Eddy Ko. Filmed prior to the success of Woo's A Better Tomorrow, the film is a story about a group of mercenaries on a mission to extract a drug lord from the Indochina area. Plot The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries led by Chan Chung to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle Area near the Vietnamese border with Laos. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but his men are trying to set him free. Along the way the heroes cross into Vietnam and must face a sadistic Vietnamese colonel as well as protect the family of Chang Chung which lives in a village near the border. Cast Eddy Ko as Chan Chung Lam Ching-ying as Vietnamese colonel Ma Ying-Chun as Kenny Philippe Loffredo as Louis Cécile Le Bailly as a French girl Lee Hoi-Suk as Julie Chin Yuet-Sang as Chin Production After finishing Plain Jane to the Rescue director John Woo began working on a film titled The Sunset Warrior. Woo was not happy working for the production company Golden Harvest, noting that he "I just wanted to make any movie for them to finish the contract." Woo found the script to be fairly simple and made changes to it to make it more emotional.