Hard Boiled | |
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Directed by | John Woo |
Written by | John Woo Barry Wong |
Produced by | Terence Chang Linda Kuk |
Starring | Chow Yun-fat Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Teresa Mo Philip Chan Philip Kwok Anthony Wong Chau Sang Bowie Lam |
Cinematography | Wang Wing-Heng |
Edited by | John Woo Kai Kit-Wai David Wu |
Music by | Michael Gibbs |
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Distributed by | Golden Princess Film Production Limited (Hong Kong) |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Yue Chinese |
Budget | US $4,500,000[1] |
Box office | HK $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]