John Woo
Film director
1946 –
Who is John Woo?
John Woo SBS is a Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer. He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and frequent 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 II. 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.
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- Born
- May 1, 1946
Guangzhou - Also known as
- John Woo Yu-Sen
- John Wu
- Ng Yu Chen
- Ng Yu-sum
- Wu Hsiang-fei
- Wu Yao Shen
- Wu Yu Shen
- Wu Yu Sheng
- Wu Yu-shen
- Wu Yu-Sheng
- Parents
- Spouses
- Annie Woo Ngau Chun-lung
(1976 - )
- Annie Woo Ngau Chun-lung
- Children
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Ethnicity
- Hong Kong people
- Nationality
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Delia Memorial School (Matteo Ricci)
- Lived in
- Pacific Palisades
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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