A classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, The Killer (1989) was centrally important to the growth of modern Hong Kong cinema. The story of a disillusioned hitman who takes a final assignment to help a lounge singer he accidentally blinded helped launch the international stardom of director John Woo and actor Chow Yun-Fat. Illustrating the film's place in the chivalric tradition of Hong Kong cinema, where cops and villains live and die by a code of personal honour, Kenneth Hall analyzes The Killer's influence on such directors as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
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Kenneth E. Hall is Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at East Tennessee State University. His landmark study John Woo: The Films, was published in 1999.
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