Hard Boiled - Cast

Cast

• Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen: A clarinet-playing police officer whose partner is killed in a restaurant gunfight with a small army of gangsters. Chow had previously worked with director John Woo on several of his films, including A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Once a Thief.
• Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Tony (Alan): Tony is an undercover cop. He makes an origami crane every time he kills someone, a trait which was influenced by Woo's daughter when he saw her making them. Tony's character is shown as living alone and detached from others. Woo stated that this was influenced by Alain Delon's character in the French crime film Le Samouraï. Leung had previously worked with Woo on his film Bullet in the Head.
• Teresa Mo as Teresa Chang: A fellow police officer who is the girlfriend of Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. Chang helps decode the secret code songs that are sent to the police office by Tony.
• Philip Chan as Supt. Pang: Prior to the film, Philip Chan was a police officer for about fifteen years. Philip Chan felt that certain scenes in the film were very familiar as they were similar to things had to do with real police work.
• Philip Kwok as Mad Dog: A skilled gunfighter working for Johnny Wong.
• Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as Johnny Wong: Wong is the head of a triad who encourages Tony to kill Mr. Hoi. Wong's triad has a large amount of guns hidden in the basement of a hospital.
• Bowie Lam as Benny: An undercover officer who is killed in the tea house shoot-out.
• Bobby Au-Yeung as Lionheart: An assistant to Inspector "Tequila" Yuen.
• Kwan Hoi-Shan as Mr. Hoi: A triad boss who is the head of the gang Tony is investigating. Mr. Hoi is killed in a warehouse shoot-out.
• Tung Wei as Foxy: An undercover cop beaten up by Mad Dog. Foxy is spared by Tony, and lives to deliver information to Tequila from Tony. Foxy is later killed by Mad Dog at a hospital.
• John Woo as a Bartender: A bartender at the Jazz club who gives advice to Inspector "Tequila" Yuen.