Hard Boiled is a 1992 action film produced in Hong Kong, where it is known as Lat sau san taam. It was directed by John Woo, produced by Terence Chang and Linda Kuk, and written by Barry Wong, based on Woo's story. The film starred Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Chow Yun-Fat. It premiered in Hong Kong on April 16, 1992, and made its United States debut on June 18, 1993.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104684/combined

Hard Boiled was the last film made by director John Woo prior to immigrating to the United States to work in Hollywood, and is seen as one of the best of his Hong Kong films. It contains many trademarks of Woo's style, including extended slow motion sequences of violence and the theme of duality, embodied by an undercover cop with compromised loyalties.http://allmovie.com/work/hard-boiled-21553 The film's emotional coldness and constant undercurrents of violence can be seen as a metaphor for Hong Kong's unsettled social and political state at the time of the production.http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/44-hard-boiled Empire magazine placed Hard Boiled at number 70 on its "100 Great Films of World Cinema" list, while Chow Yun-Fat's character placed 30 on the list of "100 Greatest Movie Characters."http://www.empireonline.com/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/default.asp?film=70http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=33

Chow Yun-Fat portrays Tequila, a hot-headed policeman trying to take down the Hong Kong mob that killed his partner. During the course of his investigation, Tequila sets his sights on one of the mob's most lethal assassins, Tony (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), only to discover that he is an undercover policeman. The two cops become wary, uneasy partners.

In 2007, Midway Games released Stranglehold, a first-person action video game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PCs. The game's development was overseen by Woo, and the story serves as a sequel to Hard Boiled, with Tequila hunting down more criminals. Chow Yun-Fat provided the voice for the character and performed the motion-capture work.http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?GID=429