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Though John Woo's lifelong admiration of Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick are also evident in this stylish actioner, the film is essentially a tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville and his cult thriller Le Samouraï. During a restaurant shoot-out, hitman Jeff (Chow Yun-Fat) ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1989 | Running Time: 110 minutes
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One of the high points of 1980s Hong Kong action cinema, The Killer (1989) is considered one of John Woo's most spectacularly assured examinations of honor among violent men on opposite sides of the law. In their operatic reinterpretation of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967), Woo and frequent star Chow Yun-Fat blend Melville's existential cool with the serious (and seriously violent) passion of Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, and Martin Scorsese, in a story about a hit man's crisis of ...more
- Chow Yun-Fat - Jeffrey Chow
- Danny Lee - Detective "Eagle" Lee
- Sally Yeh - Jenny
- Kenneth Tsang - Sgt. Randy Chang
- Chu Kong - Sydney Fung
- Lam Chung - Willie Tsang
- Yi Fanwei - Frankie Feng
- Barry Wong - Chief Inspector Tu
- Parkman Wong - Inspector Chan
- Yang Xing - Bodyguard
- Wu Shaohong - Killer
- Ye Rongzu - Tony Weng
- Huang Guangliang - Wong Tong
- Shing Fui-On - Johnny Wang
- John Woo - Director
- Tsui Hark - Producer
- Terence Chang - Producer
- John Woo - Screenwriter
- Luk Man-Wah - Art Director
- Shirley Chan - Costume Designer
- Fan Kung-Ming - Editor
- David Wu - Editor
- Lowell Lowe - Composer (Music Score)
- Wong Wing-Hang - Cinematographer
- Peter Pau - Cinematographer
- Dai Zhenqing - Set Designer
- Ching Siu Tung - Stunts
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