In fact, excerpts from the album did appear in at least four films, "Sparrowfall (1)" in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, "Slow Water" in Derek Jarman's Jubilee, "Final Sunset" in Jarman's Sebastiane and Breathless and "M386" and "Alternative 3" appear in Rock 'n' Roll High School.
The scene in which Stephen Chow declares, "I don't mean to show other I'm capable. I just want to tell others that I can get back what I have lost." is a homage to Chow Yun-fat and A Better Tomorrow.
The Tomorrow People | The Day After Tomorrow | Search for Tomorrow | Tomorrow's World | Tomorrow Never Dies | All Tomorrow's Parties | High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Troops of Tomorrow | Tomorrow Never Knows | Please Tomorrow | All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival) | A Better Tomorrow | Tales of Tomorrow | Here Today – Gone Tomorrow | Face Tomorrow | Tune in Tomorrow | Tomorrow's Eve (band) | Tomorrow's Eve | Tomorrow | Search For Tomorrow | No Tomorrow | It Happened Tomorrow | For Tomorrow | Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow | All Tomorrow's Parties Festival lineups | Wait Until Tomorrow | Troops of Tomorrow (band) | Tom Tomorrow | Tomorrow (TV series) |
often appeared as a supporting actor in films with Chow Yun-fat including A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Tiger on Beat, Prison on Fire, God of Gamblers and The Greatest Lover (a Hong Kong adaption of the Pygmalion/My Fair Lady plot).
In the 1993 film True Romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino, Patricia Arquette's character is watching A Better Tomorrow 2 on TV.
The resulting out-of-control pollution of the air, water and land is displayed in scenes of dismal destruction overlaid with happy music and cheerful calls by the narrator to pollute more for a better tomorrow.