Slow Burn is a 1989 film directed by John Eyres and starring Ivan Rogers, William Smith, Anthony James and Stephen M.D. Chang. A veteran cop's partner is killed by a Mafia hitman, and he goes after him. Also on the trail of the hitman is a rookie cop who has his own personal reasons for pursuing him.

A veteran cop has the task of preventing two rival criminal organizations from warring with each other. The two organizations happen to be the Mafia and the Triads.^[4][5] Besides this, the cop is also pursuing a hitman who is also being pursued by a less experienced cop. The veteran cop has no idea that rookie cop who has put himself in a close position to the hit man's boss is after the same target.^[6][7] The Mafia don was played by William Smith and the hitman Emilio Renzetti played by Anthony James.^[8]

Slow Burn was released in Belgium in 1990 on Excalibur Video.^[12] One piece of movie-related material bears the line, "In Chinatown, The Only Thing That Runs Deeper Than Tradition Is Blood".^[13]