Satori Screen presents a special double bill of two Hong Kong action movie classics, from acclaimed director John Woo (A Better Tomorrow / Face-Off) and both starring Hong Kong action movie legend Chow Yun-Fat.

The Killer (18)

1989 Hong Kong Dir: John Woo 111 mins

Ah Jong (Chow Yun-Fat) is an assassin who decides to retire after accidentally blinding singer Jennie (Sally Yeh) during a job.  Deciding to do one final job to fund an operation which he hopes will save the singer’s sight, he comes up against determined cop Li Ying (Danny Lee) who will stop at nothing to bring him in. But when Ah Yong is betrayed by his employer the two men find themselves caught in an ambush, and are forced to form an alliance if they are going to make it out alive and get Jennie the help she needs.

Hard Boiled (18)

1992 Hong Kong Dir: John Woo 128 mins.

Iconic actor Chow Yun-Fat stars as Tequila, a gung-ho cop working to bring down Johnny Wong (Anthony Wong), the villainous triad boss who maintains a stranglehold on Hong Kong’s illegal gun trade. Johnny attempts to recruit Ah-Long (Tony Leung), 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.

Tickets: £15 (standard) £13 (concessions)

This event will include an introduction from Satori Screen’s Peter Munford.

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