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Bullet in the Head (simplified Chinese: 喋血街头; traditional Chinese: 喋血街頭) is a 1990 Hong Kong action film written, produced, edited and directed by John Woo, who played Police Inspector, and starring Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee and Simon Yam.
In 1967, Hong Kong, Ben, Paul, and Frank are childhood friends and members of a gang. They regularly brawl with members of other gangs. Ben becomes engaged to his girlfriend Jane and Frank takes out a loan to pay for the reception. He is attacked by the leader of another gang, Ringo, and they fight over the money. After the wedding Ben and Frank attack Ringo in retaliation and Frank gets carried away and kills him. They meet with Paul and decide to flee Hong Kong to escape the police. They decide to go to Vietnam, as they have heard that there is money to be made as smugglers due to the war.
Ben, Paul, and Frank get a load of contraband goods from a Hong Kong smuggler and agree to take them to a Vietnamese gangster named Leong. The three friends leave and reach Saigon by boat, only to have a Vietcong suicide bomber destroy all of their goods in an attempt on an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. They are arrested as suspects in the bombing and beaten, until the real bomber is discovered and executed in front of them. They meet Luke, a hitman working for Leong, who dreams of escaping Vietnam with Sally, a nightclub singer Leong has kidnapped and forced into prostitution. The four men attempt to save her, a plan which goes wrong and culminates in a shootout in the nightclub. During the altercation Paul discovers a box of gold in Leong's office and steals it. They escape the nightclub, but Sally is shot in the back and injured.
This time the bullet cold rocked ya, yeah
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow rules when the set command ya
Said it was blue when ya blood was read, yeah
That's how you got a bullet blasted through ya head
Blasted through ya head, blasted through ya head
I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen, he was mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold turn ya to stone before ya realize
They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say, how high? Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say, how high?
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say, how high? Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say, how high?
Checka, checka, check it out
They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds
No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again Jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya
Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya
They say jump and ya say, how high?
Ya brain-dead, ya got a fuckin' bullet in ya head
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say, how high? Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say, how high?
Ya standin' in line believin' the lies
Ya bowin' down to the flag, ya got a bullet in ya head
Am I standin' in line? Am I believin' the lies?
I'm bowin' down to the flag, I got a bullet in my head
Bullet in ya head, bullet in ya head
Bullet in ya head, bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head, a bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head, a bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head, a bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head, a bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head, a bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head, you gotta bullet in your fuckin' head