Hard Boiled

Hard Boiled
Directed byJohn Woo
Written byJohn Woo
Barry Wong
Produced byTerence Chang
Linda Kuk
StarringChow Yun-fat
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Teresa Mo
Philip Chan
Philip Kwok
Anthony Wong Chau Sang
Bowie Lam
CinematographyWang Wing-Heng
Edited byJohn Woo
Kai Kit-Wai
David Wu
Music byMichael Gibbs
Production
companies
Distributed byGolden Princess Film Production Limited (Hong Kong)
Release date
  • April 16, 1992 (1992-04-16) (Hong Kong)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageYue Chinese
BudgetUS $4,500,000[1]
Box officeHK $19,711,048[2]

Hard Boiled is a 1992 action crime thriller movie from Hong Kong. John Woo is the thriller's director. The movie stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Tony, an undercover cop, and Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong, a leader of criminal triads. Hard Boiled received mixed to positive reviews from the critics.

Woo liked Clint Eastwood's and Steve McQueen's characters from their films Dirty Harry and Bullitt. He wanted to make his own Hong Kong-style Dirty Harry police detective film.[3]

Hard Boiled took 123 days to shoot.[4]

  1. Elder, 2005, pg. 117
  2. "Hard Boiled (1992)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  3. Woo, John (2007). A Baptism Of Fire: An Interview With Director John Woo (DVD). Santa Monica, California, United States: Dragon Dynasty.
  4. Heard, 1999. p.98

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