The theme song to the classic cop show Beretta declared, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.” The fear of being locked up for decades keeps quite a few people from living a life of crime. What if you don’t have a fear of being sentenced to prison because you won’t live long enough to get your fingerprints and mugshot taken?
- High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentations of both films, scanned and restored in 2K
- Original lossless Cantonese and Mandarin 5.1 audio options, plus lossless English mono (Running Out of Time) and lossless English 5.1 (Running Out of Time 2)
- Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Lucas Peverill
DISC 1 – RUNNING OUT OF TIME
- Brand new audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival)
- Audio commentary by writers Laurent Cortiaud and Julien Carbon, moderated by Hong Kong film expert Stefan Hammond
- Archival interview with screenwriters Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud
- Archival interview with director Johnnie To
- Archival interview with star Lau Ching-wan
- Archival interview with composer Raymond Wong
- The Directors’ Overview of Carbon and Courtiaud, an archive featurette
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC 2 – RUNNING OUT OF TIME 2
- Brand new audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival)
- The Making of ‘Running Out of Time 2’, an archive featurette
- Hong Kong Stories, a 52-minute documentary from 2003 by director Yves Montmayeur (Johnnie Got His Gun!) about Hong Kong cinema mythology via Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud’s experience as screenwriters in the HK film industry, working for Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark, Daniel Lee and of course Johnnie To
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the films by David West
