The Rooftop Cinema programme of open-air movie screenings at Bangkok’s Arcadia bar continues this evening with John Woo’s classic Hard-Boiled (辣手神探), starring Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung. Hard-Boiled is a key example of the 英雄片 (‘hero films’) or ‘heroic bloodshed’ subgenre of gangsters-with-guns Hong Kong action thriller, the template for which was set by Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色).
