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John Woo Yu-sen is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. The recipient of various accolades, including a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Editing, as well as a Golden Horse Award, an Asia Pacific Screen Award and a Saturn Award, he is regarded as a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong actio…
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entertainment · Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1947) · film director · film producer · screenwriter · film editor · film actor · also John Woo, Ng Yu-sum, Wu Yu-sen, Woo
Born 22 September 1946 · Q55432
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with a lot of street gangs, drug dealers, gamblers, prostitutes. I had to deal with a gang almost every day. Whenever I turned a corner, I knew I would get ambushed. So when I woke up, the first thing was to grab something as a weapon to try to protect myself - a piece of brick or a baseball bat. Then if I got ambushed, I could fight back. I was bleeding all the time, and my head still has some scars.
He owned a farm and lots of houses, and my father was his youngest son, of nine.
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“with a lot of street gangs, drug dealers, gamblers, prostitutes. I had to deal with a gang almost every day. Whenever I turned a corner, I knew I would get ambushed. So when I woke up, the first thing was to grab something as a weapon to try to protect myself - a piece of brick or a baseball bat. Then if I got ambushed, I could fight back. I was bleeding all the time, and my head still has some scars.”
“He owned a farm and lots of houses, and my father was his youngest son, of nine.”
“extremely important production”
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“It has always been a dream of mine to explore shooting with IMAX cameras and to work in the IMAX format, and the strong visual element of this film is incredibly well-suited to the tastes of cinemagoers today [...] Using IMAX for Flying Tigers would create a new experience for the audience, and I think it would be another breakthrough for Chinese movies”
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Yahoo: Quote Of The Day By John Woo: 'Logic Can Be Very Boring...'
The Guardian: The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
The Guardian: A Better Tomorrow review – firefights aplenty and unapologetic melodrama in John Woo’s blood-drizzled crime classic
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UPI: John Woo: Film retrospective showcases beauty of violence
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FilmBook: Film Review: THE KILLER (2024): Frenzied French Fun From John Woo
Yahoo: After John Woo's The Killer Remake, I'd Love To See 6 Of His Other Movies Redone
AV Club: John Woo turns action opera into streaming pop with his generic remake of The Killer
That he would remake The Killer for American audiences
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Woo returned to Asian cinema with the completion of the two-part epic war film Red Cliff, based on a historical battle from Records of the Three Kingdoms
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Woo directed a television pilot entitled The Robinsons: Lost in Space for The WB Television Network, based on the 1960s television series Lost in Space
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Woo directed Blackjack, which featured Dolph Lundgren as a leukophobic bodyguard who hunts down an assassin
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To critical acclaim and strong attendance
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Woo produced and directed Once a Thief, a Canadian made-for-television remake of Woo's 1991 caper film
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The director experienced difficulty in cultural adjustment while contracted with Universal Studios to direct Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target
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During a Toronto International Film Festival press conference for Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino revealed he wrote a screenplay for a film directed by Woo, but went unproduced
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Won Golden Horse Award for Best Director for A Better Tomorrow (1986).
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Became an assistant director at Shaw Studios
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Woo was hired as a script supervisor at Cathay Studios
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En route from mainland China to Taiwan and has been described as "China's Titanic"
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Born 1946-09-22.
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“And unfortunately, when I was three years old, I had some kind of disease. My back was all rotten and bleeding, from some kind of infection.”
It has always been a dream of mine to explore shooting with IMAX cameras and to work in the IMAX format, and the strong visual element of this film is incredibly well-suited to the tastes of cinemagoers today [...] Using IMAX for Flying Tigers would create a new experience for the audience, and I think it would be another breakthrough for Chinese movies
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