Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Sally Yeh, Danny Lee, and Shing Fui On
Region: B
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THE KILLER (1989) Arrow Video Limited Edition 3-disc bluray release including the extended Taiwanese cut, poster, artcards and booklet.
THE KILLER (1989) is one of the seminal John Woo and Chow Yun Fat bullet ballet collaborations of Hong Kong action cinema.
Chow Yun Fat plays a hitman whose latest job takes a wrong turn when he causes collataral damage in a gun fight, accidentally blinding a nightclub singer (Sally Yeh).
Racked with remorse, he decides to retire from his life of crime and help her get a cornea transplant. But of course, once you're in the life of the underworld, it's never that easy to leave...
An international sensation, THE KILLER put John Woo on the radar of genre fans the world over with his iconic imagery and inspired waves of imitators, but none that could outclass it.
Label: Arrow Video
Format: bluray
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 1998
Language: Cantonese (with English subtitles); Mandarin track on the extended version with English subtitles
Reversible sleeve and double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
Six postcard-sized reproduction artcards
Collectors' perfect-bound booklet featuring new writing on the film by critics Priscilla Page and Frank Djeng, archival writing by critic Rafik Djoumi and an excerpt from an interview with John Woo conducted by Stéphane Moïssakis
DISC ONE - FEATURE AND EXTRAS
Brand new commentary by director John Woo and film journalist Drew Taylor
Brand new commentary by critic David West
Two archival commentaries by John Woo, one with producer Terence Chang
Deleted and extended scenes
Theatrical trailers
Image gallery
DISC TWO - EXTRAS
The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed, a brand new feature-length documentary on John Woo's career
A Bullet Ballet, a brand new interview with director John Woo
My Kind of Hero, a brand new interview with producer Terence Chang
Editing The Killer, a brand new interview with editor David Wu
Hong Kong Confidential, a new appreciation by author Grady Hendrix
American Cinematheque 2025 introduction with Woo
Archival interviews with cinematographer Peter Pau and actors Sally Yeh and Kenneth Tsang
Four archival featurettes from 2001 with Woo and producer Tsui Hark
DISC THREE - EXTENDED CUT
Option to view the Extended Cut with additional scenes from the Taiwan VHS release
Unrestored print of the Extended Cut (standard-definition with burnt-in subtitles only)
Technical Specifications
Picture: High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
Audio: Original lossless Cantonese mono and Dolby Atmos audio, and lossless English mono audio
Subtitles: Optional newly translated English subtitles for the Cantonese audio, ptional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English audio
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