John Woo

John Woo was born in Canton in 1946. His family, very poor, reached Hong Kong around 1951 and was helped there by Christians; a church took him into its school, and he thought of becoming a priest. A script supervisor at Cathay studios in 1969, assistant to Chang Cheh at Shaw Brothers in 1971, he directed his first film in 1973, then made comedies for Golden Harvest and, in the early eighties, commissioned films for Cinema City, partly in Taiwan. He left for Hollywood in 1993, then returned to film in China.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaA Better Tomorrow英雄本色John Woo · 1986Cinema
• CinemaThe Killer喋血雙雄John Woo · 1989Cinema