Hard Boiled
In the 80s and 90s, director John Woo would cement his reputation as a master of action films with classics like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Bullet in the Head. This would culminate in 1992 with the release of his masterpiece Hard Boiled, the hyperkinetic, hyperviolent exemplar of the Heroic Bloodshed genre.
Iconic actor Chow Yun-Fat (City on Fire) stars as Tequila, a gung-ho cop working to bring down Johnny Wong (Anthony Wong, Infernal Affairs), the villainous triad boss who maintains a stranglehold on Hong Kong’s illegal gun trade. Johnny attempts to recruit Ah-Long (Tony Leung, Bullet in the Head), an assassin from a rival syndicate, just as the insubordinate Tequila gets taken off the case. Taking justice into his own hands, Tequila tracks Ah-Long down and uncovers an intricate web of deception that threatens to boil over into all-out war.
A fiery coalescence of electrifying performances, elaborate narrative and operatic gunfights, Hard Boiled has rightly been exalted as the undisputed champion of Hong Kong action films, ready to unleash a hail of bullets anew in this stunning restoration exploding with extras.
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- Audio Commentary with Director John Woo and Film Journalist Drew Tayler
- Audio Commentary with Film Historian Frank Djeng
- Audio Commentary by Director John Woo
- Audio commentary by John Woo, producer Terence Chang, filmmaker Roger Avary, and critic Dave Kehr
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- Image Gallery
- Violent Night: Interview with Director John Woo
- Boiling Over: Interview with Actor Anthony Wong
- No Time For Failure: Interview with Producer Terence Chang
- Hard To Resist: Interview with Screenwriter Gordon Chan
- Boiled to Perfection: Interview with Screenwriter Chung Hang Ku
- Body Count Blues: Interview with Composer Michael Gibbs
- Hong Kong Confidential: Inside Hard Boiled with Author Grady Hendrix
- Gun-Fu Fever: Interview with Author Leon Hunt
- Chewing The Fat: Interview Academic with Lin Feng
- American Cinematheque 2025 Q&A with John Woo
- The Test of Time, an archival documentary featuring interviews with John Woo, Terence Chang, editor David Wu and actor/stunt coordinator Philip Kwok
- Archival interviews with actors Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung
- Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Priscilla Page and archival writing and an interview with John Woo by Stéphane Moïssakis
- Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
- Six postcard-sized artcards
- Trailers