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.

Special Features

SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS
DISC ONE – FEATURE AND EXTRAS
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Original lossless Cantonese mono and Dolby Atmos audio, and English mono audio
• Optional newly translated English subtitles for the Cantonese soundtracks and optional English for the deaf and hard of hearing subtitles for the English soundtrack
• Audio commentary with director John Woo and film journalist Drew Taylor
• Audio commentary with film historian Frank Djeng
• Archival audio commentary with John Woo and producer Terence Chang
• Archival audio commentary with John Woo, Terence Chang, film critic Dave Kehr and filmmaker Roger Avary
• Deleted and extended scenes
• Original trailers
• Image gallery

DISC TWO – EXTRAS
• Violent Night, an interview with John Woo
• Boiling Over, an interview with actor Anthony Wong
• No Room for Failure, an interview with Terence Chang
• Hard To Resist, an interview with screenwriter Gordon Chan
• Boiled to Perfection, an interview with screenwriter Chan Hing-Ka
• Body Count Blues, an interview with composer Michael Gibbs
• Hong Kong Confidential: Inside Hard Boiled, an interview with author and Hong Kong cinema expert Grady Hendrix
• Gun-Fu Fever, an interview with author Leon Hunt
• Chewing the Fat, an interview with academic 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
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

Actors: Anthony Wong, Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung

Audio Languages: Mandarin chinese, English

Duration: 128 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English, English

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