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SHOUT! STUDIOS PRESENTS NEWLY REMASTERED AND RESTORED HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS™ FROM JOHN WOO AND TSUI HARK

HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS: HARD BOILED DELUXE EDITION 4K UHD™+ BLU-RAY™ (HKCC #17) A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew. Chow Yun-Fat stars as a cop hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partners’ death, along with an undercover cop whose secret identity as a hitman hangs by a thread. The film raises gunfights to an art form, with some of the most celebrated action sequences ever. HARD BOILED Deluxe Edition Bonus Content DISC 1 (4K UHD™) NEW 4K Scan From The Original Camera Negative Presented In Dolby Vision NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With Director John Woo And Film Journalist Drew Tayler NEW Audio Commentary With Film Historian Frank Djeng Audio Commentary With Director John Woo, Producer Terence Chang, Filmmaker Roger Avary, And Critic Dave Kehr (Recorded By The Criterion Collection) DISC 2 (Blu-ray™) NEW 4K Scan From The Original Camera Negative NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With Director John Woo And Film Journalist Drew Tayler NEW Audio Commentary With Film Historian Frank Djeng Audio Commentary With Director John Woo, Producer Terence Chang, Filmmaker Roger Avary, And Critic Dave Kehr (Recorded By The Criterion Collection) DISC 3 (Bonus Disc Blu-ray™) NEW “Violent Night” – Interview With Director John Woo NEW “Boiling Over” – Interview With Actor Anthony Wong NEW “No Time For Failure” – Interview With Producer Terence Chang NEW “Hard To Resist” – Interview With Screenwriter Gordon Chan NEW “Boiled to Perfection“ – Interview With Screenwriter Chung Hang Ku NEW “Body Count Blues” – Interview With Composer Michael Gibbs NEW “Hong Kong Confidential” – Inside Hard Boiled With Author Grady Hendrix NEW “Gun-Fu Fever” – Interview With Author Leon Hunt NEW “Chewing The Fat” – Interview Academic With Lin Feng Deleted And Extended Scenes Trailers Image Gallery HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS: A BETTER TOMORROW TRILOGY 4K UHD™+ BLU-RAY™ (HKCC #19-21) A Better Tomorrow A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break. Two friends, Ho (Ti Lung) and Mark (Chow Yun-Fat), are triads in a counterfeiting operation who end up doing ‘one more job’ and what do you know, this one more job gets messier than they had hoped… A Better Tomorrow II Restaurant owner Ken Gor, twin brother of Mark Gor, teams up with police detective Kit and his struggling ex-con brother Ho to avenge his old friend’s daughter’s death by a Triad gang. A Better Tomorrow III This prequel to the popular film franchise finds Chow Yun-Fat reprising his role as Mark Gor, who travels to war-torn Vietnam to get his uncle and just-out-of-jail cousin Cheung Chi-Mun to Hong Kong. Gor finds complications when he falls in love with a female gangster with a dangerous ex. A BETTER TOMORROW TRILOGY Bonus Content DISC 1 – A Better Tomorrow (4K UHD™) NEW 4K Scan From the Original Camera Negative Presented In Dolby Vision NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Film Critic At easternKicks DISC 2 – A Better Tomorrow (Blu-ray™) NEW 4K Scan From the Original Camera Negative NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Film Critic At easternKicks NEW “Better Than The Best” – Interview With Director John Woo NEW “Between Friends” – Interview With Producer Terence Chang NEW “When Tomorrow Comes” – Interview With Screenwriter Chan Hing-ka NEW “Thoughts On The Future” – Interview With Filmmaker Gordon Chan NEW “Better And Bombastic” – Interview With Filmmaker Gareth Evans Trailers Image Gallery DISC 3 – A Better Tomorrow II (4K UHD™) NEW 4K Scan From the Original Camera Negative Presented In Dolby Vision NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Film Critic At easternKicks DISC 4 – A Better Tomorrow II (Blu-ray™) NEW 4K Scan From the Original Camera Negative NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With James Mudge, Hong Kong Film Critic At easternKicks NEW “A Tumultuous Tomorrow ” – Interview With Director John Woo NEW “Better Than Ever” – Interview With Film Historian Frank Djeng Trailers Image Gallery DISC 5 – A Better Tomorrow III (4K UHD™) NEW 4K Scan From the Original Camera Negative Presented In Dolby Vision NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With Critic And Author David West DISC 6 – A Better Tomorrow III (Blu-ray™) NEW 4K Scan From the Original Camera Negative NEW Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated For This Release NEW Audio Commentary With Critic And Author David West NEW “Third Time Lucky” – Interview With Screenwriters iu-Ming Leung and Foo Ho Tai NEW “All Our Tomorrows” – Interview With Hong Kong Filmmaker And Academic Gilbert Po NEW “Nam Flashbacks” – Interview With Vietnam War Researcher Dr. Aurélie Basha i Novosejt Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery DISC 7 – Bonus Disc (Blu-ray™) Long-Lost A Better Tomorrow II Workprint Featuring Over 30 Minutes Of Never-Before-Seen Footage! Better Tomorrow III – Taiwanese Cut For the upcoming Hong Kong Cinema Classics™, Shout! Studios, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Film Archives, has been working diligently to remaster and restore several prized hits, all scanned in stunning 4K from the original camera negatives. The video and audio have been restored, and the subtitles have been newly translated. With fans in mind, Shout! Studios is currently producing a variety of bonus content for each physical media release for this numbered and deluxe home entertainment series. Upcoming physical media releases include THE KILLER (HKCC #18), BULLET IN THE HEAD (HKCC #25), and much more!

Hardboiled & A Better Tomorrow Trilogy are released on 4K UHD Blu-ray November 18, 2025!

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