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John Woo SBS (Ng Yu-Sum; born 1 May 1946) is a Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer.〔(John Woo ). Festival de Cannes fiche artiste (artist profile)〕 He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and frequent use of slow motion. Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, ''A Better Tomorrow'' (1986), ''The Killer (1989)'', ''Hard Boiled'' (1992), and ''Red Cliff'' (2008/2009).〔 His Hollywood films include the action films ''Hard Target'' (1993) and ''Broken Arrow'' (1996), the sci-fi action thriller ''Face/Off'' (1997) and the action spy film ''Mission: Impossible II'' (2000).〔 He also created the comic series ''Seven Brothers'', published by Virgin Comics. Woo cites his three favorite films as David Lean's ''Lawrence of Arabia'', Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'' and Jean-Pierre Melville's ''Le Samouraï''.〔 ==Early life== Woo was born Wu Yu-Seng (Ng Yu-Sum in Cantonese) in Guangzhou, China, amidst the chaos of the Chinese Civil War at the end of October, 1946. Because of school age restrictions, his mother changed his birth date to 22 September 1948, which is what remains on his passport. The Christian Woo family, faced with persecution during Mao Zedong's early anti-bourgeois purges after the communist revolution in China, fled to Hong Kong when he was five.〔Rawnsley, Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. (2003). ''Political Communications in Greater China: the construction and reflection of identity''. Routledge publishing. ISBN 0-7007-1734-X.〕 Impoverished, the Woo family lived in the slums at Shek Kip Mei. His father was a teacher, though rendered unable to work by tuberculosis, and his mother was a manual laborer on construction sites. The family was rendered homeless by the big Shek Kip Mei fire of 1953.〔 Charitable donations from disaster relief efforts enabled the family to relocate; however, violent crime had by then become commonplace in Hong Kong housing projects. At age three he was diagnosed with a serious medical condition. 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. His Christian background shows influences in his films.〔June 2000 edition of ''Premiere'' magazine〕 As a young boy, Woo had wanted to be a Christian minister. He later found a passion for movies influenced by the French New Wave especially Jean-Pierre Melville.〔 Woo has said he was shy and had difficulty speaking, but found making movies a way to explore his feelings and thinking and would "use movies as a language".〔 The local cinema would prove a haven of retreat. Woo found respite in musical films, such as ''The Wizard of Oz'' and in American Westerns. He has stated the final scene of ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' made a particular impression on him in his youth: the device of two comrades, each of whom fire pistols from each hand, is a recurrent spectacle later found in his own work. Woo married Annie Woo Ngau Chun-lung in 1976 and has three children.〔 He has lived in the United States since 1993. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Woo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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