City on Fire

Director: Ringo Lam

1987 / 105min / 4K DCP

Chow Yun-fat and Danny Lee lead a team of strong-arm thieves specializing in jewelry store jobs, tied together by friendship and the bandit’s code of honor. There’s only one hitch: Chow is an undercover cop, playing the part of a hood for so long that only his superior knows his real identity. A landmark in Hong Kong action cinema providing a plum part to hasten Chow’s rise to celebrity, the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, and a potent portrait of a city choking on its own corruption, it’s brisk, brooding, bloody, and brilliant moviemaking—run-and-gun cinema at its finest.

Distributor: GKIDS

Part of Ringo Lam on Fire