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Hard Boiled

The greatest action movie ever made arrived today as a remastered 4K UHD Blu-ray which comes from a new scan of the original 35mm negative.

I didn’t realize that it came with a 60-page booklet with production stills and an essay about the movie.

Also included is a Blu-ray full of special features.

#movies #hongkong #johnwoo #chowyunfat #physicalmedia #bluray

steve mookie kong Apr 12

Two of the greatest action movies ever made are streaming free on Tubi. Both movies are directed by the legendary John Woo.

One is my all time favorite action movie Hard Boiled and the other is a bloody melodrama The Killer.

Edit: Thanks to @[email protected] for pointing out that John Woo's other awesome movies are streaming free on Tubi also. A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II and Bullet in the Head.

#movies #hongkong #johnwoo #chowyunfat

Kevin C 🎬Apr 7

So the marketing for this seems absolutely atrocious, but if anyone is interested, the #JohnWoo #ChowYunFat #DannyLee classic #TheKiller1989 is in limited cinematic release for one more show tomorrow 04/08.

Still WAY too many bullets fired without reloading. 😆

#ActionMovie #Movie #Film

https://gkids.com/golden-princess/

Hong Kong Cinema Classics™ - GKIDS Films

Starting January 2026, John Woo’s renowned films Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow and The Killer will return to theaters nationwide for a limited engagement.

GKIDS Films

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sgt1372 Apr 5

@mookie @Starcade

#ReplacementKillers & #BulletproofMonk are my favorite crossover movies for #ChowYunFat.

sgt1372 Apr 4

#Movies #ActionHeroes . . .

We male #AAPI #ChineseAmericans have few positive male movie icons or heroes.

For us #Boomer Chinese-Americana, this was #BruceLee, who died far too young. Not only did he have a white wife, he was a "bad dude" & dispelled the negative sexual stereotypes of Asian men that still exist.

While I don't think he's the greatest Asian hero of all time, as the following article suggests, #ChowYunFat was a successor to Bruce & his partnership with John Woo is akin to that between Mifune & Kurosawa but while significant within the genre of Asian action films, far less groundbreaking than the Japanese collaboration was.

In any event, if you never seen #HardBoiled, #ABetterTomorrow & #Killer, you should make the effort to do so, because they are ground breaking movies in the modern #HongKongMovie genre & are essential to a full understanding of Asian action films.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260402-films-greatest-action-hero-is-not-who-you-think

Forget Cruise and Schwarzenegger: Why Chow Yun-Fat is cinema's greatest action hero

The Hong Kong actor made a series of films with director John Woo that revolutionised the action genre – and key to them was his beguiling mixture of toughness and tenderness.

BBC