John Woo
Directing
Biography
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled and Red Cliff. His Hollywood films include Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2. He also created the comic series Seven Brothers, published by Virgin Comics. Woo was described by Dave Kehr in The Observer in 2002 as "arguably the most influential director making movies today". Woo cites his three favorite films as David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.
Movies
Hard Boiled
1992
A Better Tomorrow
1986
Film ohne Fesseln - Das neue Hongkong Kino
1993
Team-Up: John Woo and Shinji Aramaki
2008
Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong
2003
Once a Thief
1991
Bullet in the Head
1990
Twin Dragons
1992
The Mandarin
1973
The Founding of a Republic
2009
The Founding of a Republic
2009
The Banquet
1991
Mission: Improbable
2001
Hand of Death
1976
The Young Dragons
1974
I Love Maria
1988
The King of Wuxia Part 2
2022
Starry Is the Night
1988
Itchy Fingers
1979
Cinema Hong Kong: Kung Fu
2003
