Mark Lee

Mark Lee is one of the main characters in John Woo's 1986 action film A Better Tomorrow. He is a friend of the protagonist Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung).

He was played by Chow Yun-fat.

Biography
Mark Lee was a Hong Kong gangster who had a counterfeit bill business with Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung), the film's protagonist, and Shing (Waise Lee), both of them. Sung Tse-Ho, however, decides to quit his gangster life for his brother Sung Tse-Kit (Leslie Cheung), a police officer, and retires after his last job in Taiwan. Sung Tse-Ho, however, goes to Taiwan, is in crisis and arrested by the police. In Hong Kong, Sung Tse-Ho and Sung Tse-Kit's father die of fighting a gang member from Sung Tse-Ho's gang, and Sung Tse-Kit hates his brother who was a gangster.

A few years later, Sung Tse-Ho gets out and returns to Hong Kong to work as a taxi driver and live a new life. But Sung Tse-Kit can't forgive him, and Mark Lee tells Sung Tse-Kit that he must forgive his brother.

Since Sung Tse-Ho was incarcerated, the gang's new boss Shing and his men threaten Sung Tse-Ho and Mark Lee, and eventually Sung Tse-Ho and Mark Lee have the final battle with the gang. Sung Tse-Kit visits the pier where they fight their last battle to arrest them.

Sung Tse-Ho was injured during a battle with the gang, Mark Lee showed his injured brother to Sung Tse-Kit and told him to forgive his brother for trying to live a new life. And as he tries to tell what he is, Shing and his men kill him.