Kenneth E. Hall, John Woo’s The Killer, Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2009, 124 pp.

The most recent addition to the New Hong Kong Cinema Series published by Hong Kong University Press is dedicated to The Killer (1989), the film that virtually blasted open the way to Hollywood for famed Hong Kong director John Woo and his favourite star, Chow Yun-fat. In this film Chow is a lone assassin, who after accidentally blinding a singer (Sally Yeh) takes on one last assignment in order to pay for the eye surgery she needs. Things do not go quite as planned, and the killer finds himse..