John Woo's the Killer

by Kenneth E. Hall

A classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, John Woo's The Killer (1989) was centrally important to the growth of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. It helped launch the international stardom of Woo and lead actor Chow Yun-fat, who plays a disllusioned hitman taking his fatal final assignment to help a lounge singer he accidentally blinded. Illustrating the film's place in the chivalric tradition of Chinese and Hong Kong cinema, where cops...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622099564
• ISBN13: 9789622099562
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.4"