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John Woo Yu-sen SBS (Chinese: 吳 宇 森; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. He is a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong action cinema , before working in Hollywood films .
John Woo. Director: A Better Tomorrow. Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios.
6 days ago · (Photo by Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection) All John Woo Movies Ranked. We’re ranking the films of John Woo! The guide starts with the action director’s Certified Fresh films, with each of the three marking the distinct periods of Woo’s career. 1989’s The Killer, starring Chow Yun-fat, is one of the high water marks of Hong Kong cinema, of which Woo’s name is synonymous. 1997’s Face/Off is among the highest-rated films of both the careers of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage ...
Dec 1, 2023 · When John Woo was a child, living in the dangerous slums of Hong Kong, he had two sanctuaries: the church and the movie theater. Both provided respite from a world of poverty and intense violence.
John Woo. Director: A Better Tomorrow. Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow (1986) established his reputation as a master stylist specializing in...
Jun 29, 2024 · John Woo (born May 1 or September 23, 1946?, Guangzhou, China) is a Chinese film director noted for action movies that combine copious stylized violence with lyrical melodramatic depictions of male bonding. Woo was born in China, though the exact date of his birth is uncertain. In 1950 Woo and his family immigrated to Hong Kong, where they ...
Nov 19, 2023 · November 19, 2023. Illustration by Johnny Dombrowski. On December 1st, the Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo will release his first American movie in twenty years, a dialogue-free Christmas revenge ...
Nov 29, 2023 · In 1986, then-journeyman Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo broke through in a big way with “A Better Tomorrow,” a hyper-kinetic crime drama that received international acclaim for its combination of soulful storytelling, exquisitely choreographed action sequences that marvelously fused together the brutal and the balletic, and the incomparable presence of Chow Yun-Fat in his star-making role.
Lowest Rated: 23% Bulletproof Monk (2003) Birthday: May 1, 1946. Birthplace: Guangzhou, China. Once hailed by action star Jean-Claude Van Damme as "the Martin Scorsese of Asia," John Woo was a ...
Nov 28, 2023 · Action legend John Woo is back making Hollywood movies with his experimental, dialogue-free action movie Silent Night, in theaters Dec. 1. His new movie Silent Night is a strange experiment
