Two men with guns on the poster for The Killer (1989) directed by John Woo
The Big Picture Hollywood in the ‘80s was largely dominated by the testosterone-driven pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. As the matinee idols of the decade, their seminal hits were loaded with bullets, explosions, and almost no time to express any level of human sensitivity. Simultaneously, the Hong Kong movie scene saw its biggest box office through the drawing power of Jackie Chan’s martial arts action comedies.
Release Date March 24, 1989 Director John Woo Cast Chow Yun-Fat , Danny Lee , Sally Yeh , Kong Chu , Kenneth Tsang , Fui-On Shing , Wing-Cho Yip , Ricky Wong Chun-Tong Runtime 111 Minutes Woo cited celebrated filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Jean-Pierre Melville as the reasons he got involved in movies. In the case of The Killer, Woo was primarily inspired by Melville’s 1967 neo-noir Le Samouraï starring Alain Delon.
Like many Woo pictures of the time, The Killer featured the filmmaker’s signature gun fu style. Among his cinematic traits include ballet-like gunfights with duel-wielding pistols, slow motion shots to capture the grace and often irony of the sequence, and the use of the “Mexican standoff” between the protagonists and the antagonists.
'The Killer' Brought John Woo And His Peers To America Close Despite his previous success with A Better Tomorrow, Woo’s The Killer was a commercial disappointment in Hong Kong upon release in 1989 due to the graphic violence mirroring the Tiananmen Square massacre. The event was a student-led demonstration in Beijing, China, resulting in martial law being declared by the Chinese government.
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