The Brothers (Cantonese: 差人大佬搏命仔 Cha yan daai liu bok meng chai, Mandarin: Cha ren da lao bo ming zai) is a 1979 Hong Kong action crime-drama film directed by Hua Shan, written by Lam Chin Wai and Yuen Cheung, and produced by Runme Shaw under the Shaw Brothers Studio.
[4][5] In turn, The Brothers inspired John Woo's A Better Tomorrow and played a key role in the creation of the heroic bloodshed crime genre of 1980s Hong Kong action cinema.
Written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) and directed by Yash Chopra, the story was loosely inspired by the Bombay underworld gangster Haji Mastan.
[4] In turn, A Better Tomorrow was a landmark film, credited with creating the heroic bloodshed genre,[7] which was influential in Hong Kong action cinema, and later Hollywood.
[8] The Brothers also established Danny Lee (playing Sashi Kapoor's character from Deewaar) with a police officer persona later seen in Hong Kong crime films such as Woo's The Killer (1989).