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Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his action and crime movies, which have earned him critical respect and a cult following, which includes American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
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- 22 April 1955 (age 68), British Hong Kong
Johnnie To. Director: Election. With over thirty directing and producing credits to his name, Johnnie To enjoyed international breakthroughs with Election (2005), Election 2 (2006) (aka "Triad Election") and Exiled (2006); those films enjoyed multiple international film festival appearances and were separately sold to more than 21 foreign territories (including theatrical distributions in ...
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- Where a Good Man Goes (co-directed with Patrick Yau -1999) Michael (Lau Ching-Wan) is an aggressive triad who checks into a hotel in Macau ran by a lonely widow (Ruby Wong) on the night he released from jail.
- The Longest Nite (co-directed with Patrick Yau -1998) Released the same year as Expect the Unexpected and initially also credited to Patrick Yau alone, The Longest Nite is one hell of a bleak and nihilistic crime thriller.
- Expect The Unexpected (co-directed with Patrick Yau – 1998) One of the earliest gritty Milkyway crime thrillers is officially credited to Patrick Yau (as are the next two entries on this list) although it later came to light that To was mainly responsible for the directing duties on all of Yau’s Milkyway films and he has since officially confirmed that he in fact was the principal director.
- Sparrow (2008) Possibly Johnnie To’s most personal film, Sparrow is also the odd one out in this list and potentially his entire oeuvre.
- Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai. The opening scene, with the horses, is one of the best ever. It always mesmerizes me.
- Akira Kurosawa. High and Low. It has a great setup, great characters, and a great theme. Kurosawa’s vision raised the film to another level.
- Sam Peckinpah. Straw Dogs. Sam Peckinpah and Dustin Hoffman at their best. The rape scene is horrific and haunting.
- Masaki Kobayashi. Harakiri. The first view of the sword sent chills through my spine.
Johnnie To is a Hong Kong filmmaker. He has contributed to many projects, as a producer, director or a combination of the two. He made his directorial debut in 1980, when he directed The Enigmatic Case, a film starring Damian Lau. In 1996, To began producing and directing films under his independent production company Milkyway Image, a company ...
YearFilmCredit(director)Credit(producer)1978The Good, the Bad and the BeautiesNoNo1980The Enigmatic CaseYesNo1985It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!NoNo1986YesExecutiveJohnnie To can tell a story crisply, sustain a mood, stage galvanizing displays of violence, and evoke a critical distance on his characters while still endowing them with heroic stature. Add to this a pictorial intelligence without peer in today’s popular filmmaking, and you have a director who could lead Hong Kong cinema to a new ...
A countdown of the best movies by the legendary Hong Kong director, from comedies to triad flicks. Find out why PTU, Election, The Mission and more are among his finest works.
