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吴宇森

吳宇森
Wú Yǔsēn
proper noun #65,369

Meanings

  1. 1 John Woo (1946-), 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

Examples

HSK 5
他拍的《赤壁》分上下两部。
Tā pāi de 《 Chìbì 》 fēn shàngxià liǎng bù.
His Red Cliff was released in two parts.
HSK 7-9
吴宇森是香港电影的传奇导演。
Wú Yǔsēn shì Xiānggǎng diànyǐng de chuánqí dǎoyǎn.
John Woo is a legendary director of Hong Kong cinema.

Tips

culture
Invented the 'heroic bloodshed' (英雄片) genre with dual-wielded pistols, slow-motion dove flyovers and male-bonding codes that influenced the Wachowskis, Tarantino and the entire 1990s action scene. Returned to Chinese-language cinema in the 2000s with the Three Kingdoms epic 赤壁 (Red Cliff).

Stroke Order

吴 Wú
宇 yǔ
森 sēn