Hard Boiled (4K Restoration)

Name: Hard Boiled (4K Restoration)
Genre: Action
Released: 2026-03-07
Duration: 2 h 6 min
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/john-woo">John Woo</a> films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately. In the 80s and 90s, director John Woo would cement his reputation as a master of action films with classics like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Bullet in the Head (all showing at Filmhouse too!). This would culminate in 1992 with the release of his masterpiece Hard Boiled, the hyperkinetic, hyperviolent exemplar of the Heroic Bloodshed genre and Hong Kong's answer to Dirty Harry. Iconic actor Chow Yun-Fat (City on Fire, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) stars as Tequila, a gung-ho cop working to bring down Johnny Wong (Anthony Wong, Infernal Affairs), the villainous triad boss who maintains a stranglehold on Hong Kong’s illegal gun trade. Johnny attempts to recruit Ah-Long (Tony Leung, Bullet in the Head, Chungking Express, In The Mood For Love), an assassin from a rival syndicate, just as the insubordinate Tequila gets taken off the case. Taking justice into his own hands, Tequila tracks Ah-Long down and uncovers an intricate web of deception that threatens to boil over into all-out war. A fiery coalescence of electrifying performances, elaborate narrative and operatic gunfights, Hard Boiled has rightly been exalted as the undisputed champion of Hong Kong action films, ready to unleash a hail of bullets anew in this stunning restoration finally available after decades of of being missing from our screens.ActionPT2H6M182026-03-07

Chow Yun-Fat

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

John Woo

Linda Kuk Mei-Lai

Terence Chang

Hard Boiled (4K Restoration)"Hard Boiled (4K Restoration)"

Hard Boiled (4K Restoration)

Showtimes

March 7, 8:30 pm

March 9, 8:30 pm

March 10, 5:40 pm