City on Fire – New 4K Restoration
Ringo Lam · 1987
105min · 4K DCP
- Monday, May 18, 2026, 7:15pm
Screening location: Northwest Film Forum – 1515 12th Ave, Seattle
Ringo Lam's crime thriller classic, newly restored!
Chow Yun-Fat stars as a maverick undercover cop who infiltrates a gang of Hong Kong jewel thieves, but is wounded when the robbery turns into a massacre. Trapped in their hideout, the gang seek to unmask the traitor in their midst.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Special live intro from local Hong Kong genre film connoisseur and one of the programmers of the Seattle Film Society, Patrick McFarland.
“The quintessential undercover-cop/heist movie… a film full of brutal realism, and a career-high performance from star Chow Yun-Fat.” Kim Newman, Empire Magazine