Hong Kong The Killer sits in the top 3% of Hong Kong films on this catalog — ranked #25 of 836 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
喋血雙雄
“One Vicious Hitman. One Fierce Cop. Ten Thousand Bullets.”
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #25 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (97th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.3 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #11 of 516 (top 2%).
Audience Engagement
673 audience reviews — more than 95% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 90th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Killer. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Film Workshop
Action + Crime in Hong Kong
119 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Killer itself).
The 1988–1990 Hong Kong Window
Among 67 Hong Kong films we catalog from this window, The Killer places #2 — near the top of its class.
The 1980s Hong Kong Landscape
1989 was the decade’s peak output year for Hong Kong — 20 titles released, including The Killer. Bars below show how the 1980s stacked up year by year (151 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 19 other Hong Kong films in 1989.
The 272nd Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Killer, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- blindness and impaired vision · 5
- heroic bloodshed · 4
- hitman · 30
- police · 105
- hong kong · 73
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Cantonese |
| Spoken Languages | Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese |
| Production Companies | Film Workshop, Golden Princess Film Production Limited, Long Shong Pictures, Magnum Films Limited, Mandarin Film Lab Limited |
| Runtime | 1h 50m |
| Release Date | July 6, 1989 |
| IMDb | tt0097202 |