Like a walking amalgam of Sam Peckinpah, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Akira Kurosawa, John Woo pointed the way to a new path for action filmmakers. His operatic, hyper-violent “gun fu” films took the examples of these masters and transposed their lessons into a vibrant and exciting new vision. His adherents have called it “heroic bloodshed.” In this series, we present the best of Woo’s Hong Kong films, long absent from theater screens, in new 4K restorations.
