John Woo

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Woo took a long leap to bring 'Red Cliff' to life Director John Woo isn't known for telling war stories, though fans of his movies, who include Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise, might argue that...

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...people to learn the director has never fired a gun in his life. "Just a prop gun," admits Woo, "and only once!" Director John Woo on the set of "Red Cliff." Woo has made 26 features in Hong Kong and seven in the United States. But...

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Unthinkably, no bullets fly in John Woo's "Red Cliff," this Hong Kong action master's first new movie in six years. It's as hard to imagine a Woo film without firearms as it is to contemplate a Fellini movie without fat people. But "Red...

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"Red Cliff" is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chinese-language movie ever made (though, once you see its "Lord of the Rings"-like immensity, that "reportedly" becomes...

In this article: Cao Cao, Red Cliff, Kong Ming, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Hard Boiled, China, and Southland

...arrows charging across a soon-to-be-body-littered landscape fires up the whole cardiovascular system. And nobody brings the heat like John Woo. The director, whose bullets-and-ballet aesthetic placed him at the pinnacle of Hong Kong action...

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We haven't seen much of acclaimed action director John Woo in recent years. The Hong Kong filmmaker who brought his brand of kinetic, balletic symbolism-laced action to Hollywood films such as "Face/Off," "Mission: Impossible II" and "Broken...

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...very good news for action movie fans. A universal sign of peace, they are a trademark symbol in the films of mayhem maestro John Woo, so when they soar in the new Chinese historical epic "Red Cliff," it signals a return to form for the...

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Fittingly for a director who has scored cinematic hits in Hong Kong and Hollywood, John Woo says his next film will depict Chinese and Americans working side-by-side successfully. After tackling ancient history in "Red Cliff," released in...

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Director John Woo's career in Hollywood began with the 1993 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target, and went on to encompass such massive hits as Mission: Impossible 2 and Face/Off. Now, after fifteen years of toiling in the Hollywood...

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By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Photo: Magnolia Pictures It's been too long since we all had some John Woo in our lives. DVD viewings of "Face/Off" and the second "Mission: Impossible" flick can only do so much to quell...

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