21 Shocking Facts You Did Not Know About John Woo

1. Woo nasceu Wu Yu-Seng em Guangzhou, China, amidst the chaos of the Chinese Civil War at the end of October, 1946.

2. Because of school age restrictions, his mother changed his birth date to 22 September 1948, which is what remains on his passport.

3. Impoverished, the Woo family lived in the slums at Shek Kip Mei.

4. His father was a teacher, though rendered unable to work by tuberculosis, and his mother was a manual laborer on construction sites. Charitable donations from disaster relief efforts enabled the family to relocate; however, violent crime had by then become commonplace in Hong Kong housing projects.

5. At age three he was diagnosed with a serious medical condition.

6. Following surgery on his spine, he was unable to walk correctly until eight years old, and as a result his right leg is shorter than his left leg. As a young boy, Woo had wanted to be a Christian minister.


8. Woo found respite in musical films, such as The Wizard of Oz and in American Westerns.


10. Woo married Annie Woo Ngau Chun-lung in 1976 and has three children. He has lived in the United States since 1993.

11. In 1969, Woo was hired as a script supervisor at Cathay Studios.

12. In the Kung fu action genre, it was choreographed by Jackie Chan and featured dynamic camera-work and elaborate action scenes.

13. The film was picked up by Golden Harvest Studio where he went on to direct more martial arts films.

14. He later had success as a comedy director with Money Crazy , starring Hong Kong comedian Ricky Hui.




18. A Better Tomorrow se tornou uma conquista definir em Hong Kong cinema de acção para a sua combinação de drama emocional, slow-motion gunplay, and gritty atmospherics.

19. Its signature visual device of two-handed, two-gunned shootouts within confined quarters—often referred to as “gun fu” was novel, and its diametrical inversion of the “good-guys-bad guys” formula in its characterization would influence later American films.



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