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The Killer(Movie, 1989)

Original title: "喋血雙雄" (Chinese (Cantonese)/CN)
1h 50min | Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The KillerRating: 3.8/5 (with 314314 votes)
The Killer (Chinese: 喋血雙雄) is a 1989 Hong Kong action and crime film written and directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sally Yeh. Chow plays assassin Ah Jong, who accidentally damages the eyes of singer Jennie (Yeh) during a shootout and sets out to perform one last hit for her treatment. After the financial backing from Tsui Hark became problematic following the release of Woo's film A Better Tomorrow 2, Woo had to find backing through Chow Yun-fat's and Danny Lee's financing companies. Woo went into filming The Killer with a rough draft whose plot was influenced by the films Le Samouraï, Mean Streets and Narazumono. Woo wanted to make a film about honour, friendship and the relationship of two seemingly opposite peop... ()
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About The Killer

Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

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Additional Information

Production country: Hong Kong
Plays in: Hong Kong
Original language: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN)
Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), Japanese (JA), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/06/1989
Director: John Woo
Producer: Tsui Hark
Screenwriter: John Woo
Director of Photography: Peter Pau
Composer: Lowell Lo
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Dip huet seung hung"
"喋血雙雄"
"Blast Killer"
"첩혈쌍웅"
"Bloodshed of Two Heroes"
"喋血双雄"
"Наемный убийца"

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