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May 01, 1946 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 77 years old
Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer
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About John Woo
- John Woo SBS (Chinese: ???; born 1 May 1946) is a Chinese-born Hong Konger filmmaker, writer, and actor.
- He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion and allusions to neo-noir, wuxia and Western cinema.Considered one of the major figures of Hong Kong cinema, Woo has directed several notable action films in his adopted home, among them, A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer (1989), Hard Boiled (1992), and Red Cliff (2008/2009).
- He is a winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Picture, as well as a Golden Horse Award, an Asia Pacific Screen Award, and a Saturn Award. Woo's Hollywood films include the action films Hard Target (1993) and Broken Arrow (1996), the sci-fi action thriller Face/Off (1997) and the action spy film Mission: Impossible 2 (2000).
- He also created the comic series Seven Brothers, published by Virgin Comics.
- He cites his three favorite films as David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.
- He is the founder and chairman of the production company Lion Rock Productions.
