A new era is born.

There’s a scene early on in John Woo’s Bullet in the Head (1990) that remains one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen are having a teary-eyed breakup ...

Hong Kong crime films reached a zenith in the ’80s and ’90s with the films of John Woo (“Hard-Boiled,” “The Killer,” “A Better Tomorrow”), Jackie Chan (“Police Story”), Johnnie To (“The Mission”) and ...