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- With over thirty directing and producing credits to his name, Johnnie To enjoyed international breakthroughs with Election (2005), Election 2 (2006) (aka "Triad Election") and Exiled (2006); those films enjoyed multiple international film festival appearances and were separately sold to more than 21 foreign territories (including theatrical distributions in France and USA).
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- Where a Good Man Goes (co-directed with Patrick Yau -1999) Michael (Lau Ching-Wan) is an aggressive triad who checks into a hotel in Macau ran by a lonely widow (Ruby Wong) on the night he released from jail.
- The Longest Nite (co-directed with Patrick Yau -1998) Released the same year as Expect the Unexpected and initially also credited to Patrick Yau alone, The Longest Nite is one hell of a bleak and nihilistic crime thriller.
- Expect The Unexpected (co-directed with Patrick Yau – 1998) One of the earliest gritty Milkyway crime thrillers is officially credited to Patrick Yau (as are the next two entries on this list) although it later came to light that To was mainly responsible for the directing duties on all of Yau’s Milkyway films and he has since officially confirmed that he in fact was the principal director.
- Sparrow (2008) Possibly Johnnie To’s most personal film, Sparrow is also the odd one out in this list and potentially his entire oeuvre.
- Douglas Parkes
- A Hero Never Dies《真心英雄》 One of Johnnie To’s most divisive films but our favourite nonetheless, A Hero Never Dies has its cake and then asks for seconds.
- The Longest Nite《暗花》 Although Patrick Yau is credited as the nominal director of this 1998 Milkyway film, To directed at least half of the movie, supposedly taking the reins when he wasn’t happy with Yau’s initial work.
- The Mission《鎗火》 Considered one of Johnnie To’s finest films, The Mission is an exemplar of minimalist filmmaking. Shot and edited in a single month, the film focuses on five gangsters hired to protect a mob boss and the tensions that develop when, later, one is approached to kill another of the five.
- Mad Detective《神探》 One of the darkest of To’s many dark crime films, Mad Detective has frequent To collaborator Sean Lau play Bun, a schizophrenic cop with an ability to see people’s inner personalities, which allows him to solve various murders.
He made his directorial debut in 1980, when he directed The Enigmatic Case, a film starring Damian Lau. In 1996, To began producing and directing films under his independent production company Milkyway Image, a company that he co-founded with frequent collaborator Wai Ka-fai.
Johnnie To Kei-fung has established the strongest track record since John Woo and Tsui Hark. He has become the most successful local director, always notching one or two films in the year’s top releases. And, unlike Tsui and Woo, he has worked fast. Not yet fifty, he has directed over thirty films, most since 1990.
- James Mccormick
- Sparrow (2008) While trying to come up with films that were most likely to have a spot within the Criterion Collection, my friend and colleague Rufus reminded me of this film from 2008, a film Johnnie To was filming over 3 years in between a ton of other projects he was working on.
- Election and Triad Election (2005 and 2006) In a perfect world, these two films would come out as a beautiful box set, with a commissioned cover by a renowned artist and a ton of extras detailing the making of, the connecting tissue between the films and various other goodies.
- Exiled (2006) One of the more interesting crime films to come from Hong Kong, To gave us another look at brotherhood and respect amongst men in this film.
- Mad Detective (2007) Another Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai production. A reinvention of sorts of the basic detective story, but this time about a former ace detective who got into the mind’s of the criminals and would reenact the crimes and always know who the perpetrator was until he cuts his own ear off and got an early discharge notice for doing so.
Apr 22, 2022 · World-renowned film director and producer Johnnie To has produced a number of international box office successes. Most known for his crime and action movies, To often explores themes related to...
Jun 17, 2010 · Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To has directed more than forty films, including Election, Exiled, and Mad Detective. His latest, Vengeance, is currently in some North American theaters, from IFC Films.
