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王穎
Wayne Wang
b. 1949, Hong Kong
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Movie director. After studying in the US, Wang returned to Hong Kong to direct
TV shows and movies. In 1981, he scrapped together $22,000 to film Chan is
Missing (script), a
mystery set in Chinatown which would become a landmark independent film.
However, he would not succeed with mainstream American audiences until he
directed the film version of Amy Tan's The
Joy Luck Club . He followed that success with Smoke,
Blue in the Face.
Chinese Box, and Anywhere
But Here. More recently, he directed
The Center of the World and Maid
in Manhattan.
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王家衛
Wong Kar Wai
b. 1958, Shanghai
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Art house film director famous for his innovative use of photography, editing,
music. Wong started his career working as a production assistant for television
and as a scriptwriter. He debuted as a director in 1988 with As Tears Go By. He
won the Best Director Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for his film
Happy Together. Other films include
Ashes of Time, Chungking
Express, Fallen Angels.
His most recent movie In the Mood for
Love won the Best Foreign Film prize at the European Academy Film
Awards.
For more info, see Wong Kar Wai,
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黃宗霑
James
Wong Howe
b. 1899, Canton
b. 1976 |
Renowned
cinematographer whose career spanned the
silent film and the talkies all the way through
1975, when he won an Oscar nomination for Funny Lady. He pioneered many lighting and photography techniques. He won Oscars for his
work in Rose Tattoo and Hud. |
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吳宇森
John Woo
b. 1946, Guanzhou
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Action-film director. Woo directed a number of action
and comedy films in Hong Kong in the
1970s and 1980s. In 1980, he directed A
Better Tomorrow, a directorial and commercial breakthrough
starring Chow Yun-Fat that inaugurated
the balletic action style that he
would be best known for. He followed that success with
A Better Tomorrow, Part2,The
Killer, Bullet in the Head,
and Hard Boiled. His American
film debut came in 1993, when he
directed
Hard Target. He would follow with
Broken Arrow, Face/Off,
Mission Impossible 2, Windtalkers.
His latest movies are The Red Circle and Bulletproof Monk.
For more info, see John Woo: The
Films, by Kenneth Hall. |
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袁和平
Yuen Wo-Ping
b. 1945, Guanzhou
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Fight choreographer, director. His directorial debut came with
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. It was followed by Drunken
Master, Iron Monkey,
Heroes Among Heroes, Twin
Warriors, and others. He choreographed the much-acclaimed fight scenes
for The Matrix and
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. |
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張藝謀
Zhang Yimou
b. 1950, Xian |
Movie director and leading member of China's "fifth
generation" filmmakers.
Zhang's education as a film maker
got a late start due to his family's
previous connection with the Kuomintang and the Cultural Revolution.
He was already 27
and was initially rejected at China's
only film school due to his age. His
first film, Red Sorghum, was
an international success. The movie
starred Gong Li, whom Zhang had discovered.
She would star in all of his movies for the next decade. These
included Ju Dou, Raise
the Red Lantern, The Story of
Qiu Ju, To Live,
and Shanghai Triad. While
all of these movies would receive international acclaim, almost half
would be banned for some time in China. He staged and directed a
performance of Turandot with
the music being conducted by Zubin
Mehta. His most recent movies
include The Road Home, Happy
Times, and Not One Less.
For more info, see Zhang Yimou:
Interviews, by Frances Gateward.
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