Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Heroes Shed No Tears
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1984 · FILM

Heroes Shed No Tears

They didn't know the road to freedom goes through hell.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
87 min
Language
CN
ActionDramaWar
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves pursued by his forces, and the forces of a bitter Thai officer. The Chinese mercenaries are vastly outnumbered, and as their numbers begin to dwindle, their desperation pulls them into a corner as their enemies close in on them.

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter CheungShot by Kenichi NakagawaScored by Siu Lam Tang

Box Office

1984 · Box office

Grossed $358K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$358K

Worldwide gross$358K

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.