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John Woo

09/22/1946 (77 years old) | Guangzhou, China | Director | Male

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 Samourai.

John Woo Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Silent Night	5,252
2.	Mission: Impossible II	106
3.	Windtalkers	55
4.	Broken Arrow	27
5.	Heroes Shed No Tears	22
6.	Bullet in the Head	21
7.	Paycheck	17
8.	The Big Hit	13
9.	Face/Off	1
10.	A Better Tomorrow	0
11.	A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon	0
12.	Hard Target	0
13.	A Better Tomorrow II	0
14.	Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag	0
15.	Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge	0
16.	Plain Jane to the Rescue	0
17.	Laughing Times	0

Silent Night

Movie | United States | 12/01/2023 | Action | Christmas

An ordinary father heads into the criminal underworld to avenge his young son’s death.

5.9/10

64%

2,668

Mission: Impossible II

Movie | United States | 05/23/2000 | Action | Spies

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

6.1/10

56%

1,114

Windtalkers

Movie | United States | 06/14/2002 | War | World War II

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a \windtalker\ - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

6.0/10

32%

340

Broken Arrow

Movie | United States | 02/09/1996 | Action | Terorrism

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.

6.1/10

54%

109

Heroes Shed No Tears

Movie | Hong-Kong | 11/30/1984 | Action

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves pursued by his forces, and the forces of a bitter Thai officer. The Chinese mercenaries are vastly outnumbered, and as their numbers begin to dwindle, their desperation pulls them into a corner as their enemies close in on them.

Bullet in the Head

Movie | Hong-Kong | 08/17/1990 | Action

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

7.5/10

100%

Paycheck

Movie | United States | 12/25/2003 | Science Fiction | Cyberpunk

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired -- and paid handsomely -- by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid … and how he's gotten in hot water.

6.3/10

27%

202

The Big Hit

Movie | United States | 04/24/1998 | Action | Hitman

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.

6.0/10

41%

Face/Off

Movie | United States | 06/27/1997 | Action | Heroic Bloodshed

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind, who murdered his only son. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

7.3/10

92%

274

A Better Tomorrow

Movie | Hong-Kong | 08/02/1986 | Action | Heroic Bloodshed

Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a star studded cast.

7.4/10

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

Movie | Hong-Kong | 10/20/1989 | Action

The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark (Chow Yun-Fat), travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life...

5.9/10

Hard Target

Movie | United States | 04/27/1993 | Action | Heroic Bloodshed

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

6.2/10

60%

528

A Better Tomorrow II

Movie | Hong-Kong | 12/17/1987 | Action

A restaurant owner his ex-con brother and a policeman team up to avenge the murder of his old friends daughter by the Triad.

7.2/10

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

Movie | 09/09/2011

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

Movie | 09/30/2011

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be Seediq Bale or real men. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Plain Jane to the Rescue

Movie | Hong-Kong | 10/21/1982 | Action

Jane, with plain looks but a heart of gold, is always in between jobs. Once she gets a job, her knack for creating awkward situations immediately loses it for her. Ricky is her suitor, but he gets nowhere as the girl has no time for love. So Ricky goes along with her in job hunting. Somehow, Jane lands on a job as governess. Not to a child, but to an uncouth very old, very rich man who still wants to lead the life of his poor, uncivilized youth. His son is now running the old man's millions. He wants to bring up the father the civilized way. And he wants to take over the whole city through take-over deals. He is ruthless and has thrown thousands into the streets.

6.0/10

Laughing Times

Movie | Germany | 12/24/1980 | Comedy

John Woo's Chaplin film. A homeless wanderer just happens across various articles of clothing that make him resemble Charlie Chaplin much to the amusement of passersby.

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