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 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