1John Woo, Hong Kong film director famous for stylized action films like A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色), The Killer (喋血双雄) and Hollywood's Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II
Hong Kong director whose gunfight films 英雄本色 (A Better Tomorrow) and 喋血双雄 (The Killer) shaped action cinema. In Hollywood he made Face/Off, and later the war epic 赤壁 (Red Cliff).
Wú Yǔsēn shì Xiānggǎng diànyǐng de chuánqí dǎoyǎn.
John Woo is a legendary director of Hong Kong cinema.
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His films are the model for what Chinese critics call 暴力美学, 'the aesthetics of violence': slow-motion shootouts and a pistol firing in each hand. His English surname Woo stands for 吴, which is Ng in Cantonese.
