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John Woo

John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and 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 2. 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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 1946-09-22

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Accidentally	Young Man	44
2	1968	Dead Knot		40
3	1973	The Mandarin		70
4	1974	The Young Dragons	Message Deliverer	67
5	1974	Young Lovers on Flying Wheels	Man at Bike Reclaim Centre	50
6	1976	Hand of Death	Zhang Yi	60
7	1978	Follow the Star	Miss Chen's Father	100
8	1979	Itchy Fingers	Triad Boss on Lorry	63
9	1980	From Riches to Rags	[cameo]	40
10	1982	Plain Jane to the Rescue	Self	48
11	1985	Happy Union 2		0
12	1985	Love, Lone Flower		0
13	1986	A Better Tomorrow	Inspector Wu	74
14	1987	The Thirty Million Dollar Rush	Ling's Husband	69
15	1988	I Love Maria		62
16	1988	Starry Is the Night	Father Fan	60
17	1989	Sunset in Paris	Maggie's uncle	70
18	1990	Bullet in the Head	Policeman	76
19	1990	Rebel from China	Kwong	0
20	1991	Once a Thief	Stanley Wu	67
21	1991	The Banquet	Man on Stairs	52
22	1992	Twin Dragons	Priest	68
23	1992	Hard Boiled	Mr. Woo	75
24	1993	Film ohne Fesseln - Das neue Hongkong Kino	Self	73
25	1994	Cinema of Vengeance	Self (uncredited)	54
26	1997	Task Force	Police Chief	70
27	1998	Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema	Self	54
28	1998	Jackie Chan: My Story	(archive footage)	62
29	1999	Kurosawa: The Last Emperor	Self	55
30	2001	Mission: Improbable	John Woo	75
31	2002	The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies	Self - Interviewee	57
32	2003	Cinema Hong Kong: Kung Fu	Self	68
33	2003	Cinema Hong Kong: Wu Xia	Self	60
34	2003	The Master: Chang Cheh Documentary		0
35	2003	Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong	Self	0
36	2004	Crossings: John Woo	Self	0
37	2005	A Century of Light and Shadow	Self	0
38	2007	The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'	Self	0
39	2008	Team-Up: John Woo and Shinji Aramaki		0
40	2009	How Bruce Lee Changed the World	Self	80
41	2009	The Founding of a Republic	Liu Wenhui	52
42	2009	The Founding of a Republic	National Army Officers	52
43	2011	Kurosawa's Way	Self	54
44	2011	Beginning of the Great Revival	Lin Sen	46
45	2016	Ken San	Self	60
46	2017	John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	73
47	2021	Life in 24 Frames a Second	Self	0
48	2022	The King of Wuxia Part 1	Self	87
49	2022	The King of Wuxia Part 2	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Golden Horse Awards	Self	0
2	1989	Celebrity Talk Show	吴宇森	90
3	2007	Bokura no Jidai		0
4	2012	Voice		0