The SD Action and Horror Movie Fans/Filmmakers Meetup Group

The legendary “Maestro of Action Mayhem” John Woo (FACE/OFF) delivers another masterpiece of “two gun” brutality with a 4K restoration of THE KILLER starring Chow Yun-Fat (A Better Tomorrow Trilogy), Danny Lee (City on Fire), Sally Yeh (The Man with Iron Fists), Kong Chu (Once a Thief), Kenneth Tsang (Die Another Day) and Shing Fui-On (Ebola Syndrome).
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Language: CANTONESE with ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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TRIVIA:

• Because it was so hard to get permits, some of the footage for Tony Weng's assassination scene was shot under the pretense that director John Woo was doing a documentary about Hong Kong's annual Dragon Boat race. Woo shot the bulk of the footage five months earlier, and brought in a small crew later to fill in the gaps. Woo ended up editing the scene himself, which took three weeks. Woo is a huge fan of musicals, and tried to think of the sequence as a musical number or dance sequence. He even edited it in time to the soundtrack.

• All of the guns in the film are real. Because of Hong Kong's very strict gun laws, they had to be specially imported, and their use on-set was closely monitored. The gunfights in the streets of Hong Kong drew complaints from residents. Many local police officers are John Woo fans, and they usually let him keep filming. The shootout on the tram caused chaos in the Causeway Bay district; people thought a real robbery was going on. Woo had to talk to the Police Superintendent himself before he was allowed to resume filming.

• John Woo dedicated this film to Martin Scorsese.
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PLOT: A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded. – IMDb

Action director Kenji Tanigaki (Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I & II) sets the screen ablaze with his brutal, kinetic style in the vein of “The Raid” series with the intense, no-holds-barred THE FURIOUS starring Miao Xie (The Monkey King), Joe Taslim (The Night Comes for Us), Yayan (Mad Dog) Ruhian (The Raid 1 & 2), JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate), Brian Le (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Joey Iwanaga (Alice in Boderland) and Sahajak Boonthanakit (Only God Forgives).
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TRIVIA:

• A major, centerpiece action scene in a police station took 18 days to film, according to director Kenji Tanigaki.
• Filmed in roughly 60 days, the movie was edited down from a four-hour cut to a tight 1 hour and 52 minutes.
• Known for its brutal, non-stop action, the film utilized a high percentage of stunts performed by the actors themselves rather than stunt doubles.

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PLOT: Following the kidnapping of his daughter and a lack of help from corrupt police, tradesman Wang Wei (Miao) teams up with a relentless journalist (Taslim) to tear through an international human trafficking ring in a visceral, action-packed rampage. - Instagram