How filming Hard Target taught John Woo some…
In Hong Kong, Woo had been used to having full control of a film’s shooting, but making Hard Target he learned…
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Tsui Hark: FAQs about the Hong Kong film…
He made stars of Jet Li and Brigitte Lin, helped John Woo’s directing career take off, and directed classic flims…
Reservoir Dogs with more charismatic actors:…
Ringo Lam’s crime thriller City on Fire, starring Chow Yun-fat and Danny Lee, was the inspiration for Quentin…
The weirder the better: John Woo on creating…
Silent-movie comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, as well as Mel Brooks and Blake Edwards, inspired…
Chow Yun-fat on his favourite actors, dislike of…
In interviews with the Post over the years, Chow Yun-fat talks about being a romantic at heart, his dislike for…
The Killer: what John Woo, Chow Yun-fat, Tsui…
The Killer made John Woo famous overseas and introduced romantic comedy actor Chow Yun-fat as an action hero. Chow,…
‘I am not a violent man’: John Woo on action…
Hong Kong director John Woo relocated to Hollywood in the 1990s, before returning to Hong Kong. He talks about his…
How martial arts films represent Hong Kong both…
Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and John Woo are household names around the world, and martial arts films have done more to…
How Donnie Yen and John Woo helped ensure the…
Wuxia films didn’t disappear at the start of the 21st century – the genre simply became subsumed into the…
John Woo adapted martial arts movie tropes to…
Modern-day Hong Kong action films such as The Killer and City on Fire didn’t spring out of nowhere – they were…