Fulltime Killer (2003)

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Rating: NONE

Release Date: Mar 21, 2003

Running Time: 102 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and English

Country Of Origin: China

starring: Takashi Sorimachi, Andy Lau, Kelly Lin, Simon Yam, Cherrie Ying, Ted Lin

director: Johnnie To

For many years professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness, which only becomes worse after the death of his love, Nancy. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin. Chin, hired to clean O's apartment, has never met her employer. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission--to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.

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Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi Directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai Since John Woo's departure for Hollywood in 1992, the Hong Kong "bullet ballet" has been shooting blanks. At the end of the 1990s, filmmakers Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai re-energized the format with films that satirized the genre as much as they celebrated it. While the plot of Fulltime Killer is really nothing new (two hit men vying for the title of number-one assassin), the movie's stylish quirks and rampant references to…