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John Woo Yu-sen SBS (Chinese: 吳 宇 森; born 22 September 1946) [1] is a Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. [2] 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 ...
Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo, who began his career directing martial arts films, took the martial arts style of action and added guns, combining the elegance and precision of kung fu with the brutality and violence of gangster films. [3] John Woo originated the style that would later be called gun fu in the 1986 Hong Kong action film A Better ...
The Killer is a 2024 American action thriller film directed by John Woo. It is a remake of Woo's 1989 film. The film stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Eric Cantona, and Saïd Taghmaoui. It was released in the United States by the streaming service Peacock on August 23, 2024.
The stylish filmmaker of such action classics as 'The Killer,' 'Hard Boiled' and 'Face/Off' returns with his first Hollywood movie in 20 years, a dour revenger.
John Woo rewrote the rules of mayhem during the '80s and '90s and the goodwill his fans have for him carry this half-successful remake across the finish line.
We dive into the weapons, dancing, and action-packed ass-kicking in "The Killer" with star Nathalie Emmanuel, director John Woo, and stunt coordinator Gregg Smrz.
John Woo's breakthrough film A Better Tomorrow (1986) largely set the template for the heroic bloodshed genre. [5] In turn, A Better Tomorrow was a reimagining of plot elements from two earlier Hong Kong crime films: Lung Kong's The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967) and the Shaw Brothers Studio film The Brothers (1979), the latter a remake of the hit Indian crime drama film Deewaar (1975 ...
John Woo hasn’t made an American film in 20 years, since the 2003 Ben Affleck-headlined Paycheck —which is surprising considering the run of stateside success the legendary Hong Kong director ...