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Hard Boiled (Chinese: 辣手神探) [2] is a 1992 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Gordon Chan and Barry Wong based on a story written by Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat , Tony Leung Chiu-wai , and Anthony Wong .
John Woo Yu-sen SBS (Chinese: 吳 宇 森; born 22 September 1946) [1] is a Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. [2] The recipient of various accolades, including a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Editing, as well as a Golden Horse Award, an Asia Pacific Screen Award and a Saturn Award, he is regarded as a pioneer ...
Woo, the Hong Kong director acclaimed for films such as “The Killer” (1989), “Hard Boiled” (1992) and “Face/Off” (1997), said he much prefers “real cinema” like Martin Scorsese movies.
Stranglehold is a sequel to John Woo's 1992 Hong Kong action film Hard Boiled and stars Chow Yun-fat in a reprisal of his role as hard-boiled cop Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. Stranglehold is the first project on which Woo and Chow have collaborated since Hard Boiled.
John Woo's answer to "Dirty Harry" and "Die Hard" is this Hong Kong classic, "Hard Boiled," in which star Chow Yun-fat plays a hard-drinking, clarinet-playing cop who will shoot anyone and blow up ...
“Hard Boiled” director John Woo is developing a historical drama about Chinese American Dean Lung — the valet of Oakland’s first mayor Horace Walpole Carpentier — whose donation helped ...
It was Woo's first major film since 2003's Paycheck [8] and his first Chinese-language feature since 1992's Hard Boiled, [9] also starring Leung. In China and much of Asia, Red Cliff was released in two parts, totaling over four hours in length (288 minutes).
The stylish filmmaker of such action classics as 'The Killer,' 'Hard Boiled' and 'Face/Off' returns with his first Hollywood movie in 20 years, a dour revenger.