Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1946-09-22 (Age: 80)
Place of Birth
Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
John Woo
Biography
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (born September 22, 1946) 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.
Filmography (50)
The King of Wuxia Part 2
2022
The King of Wuxia Part 1
2022
Life in 24 Frames a Second
2021
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017
Ken San
2016
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011
Kurosawa's Way
2011
The Founding of a Republic
2009
The Founding of a Republic
2009
How Bruce Lee Changed the World
2009
Team-Up: John Woo and Shinji Aramaki
2008
The Making of Hard Boiled
2007
The Making of Stranglehold
2007
A Century of Light and Shadow
2005
