Johnnie To
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Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer.
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 include Quentin Tarantino, who once said that he really loves to watch To's gangster films). To's biggest international successes include Breaking News, Election, Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election), Exiled, Mad Detective and Drug War; these films have appeared in a number of international film festivals, been distributed theatrically in France and the United States, and been widely sold to foreign countries. His films, often made in collaboration with the same group of actors, screenwriters and cinematographers, frequently explore themes of friendship, fate and the changing face of Hong Kong society.
Sometimes described as "multifaceted and chameleonic" due to his ability to switch tones and genres between movies, To is nonetheless seen as having a consistent style, which involves mixing subdued realism and social observation with highly stylised visual and acting elements.
To has cited King Hu as the director who has influenced his work the most.To heads the Hong Kong-based production company Milkyway Image with his frequent co-director Wai Ka-Fai.
Career
At age 17, Johnnie Tobe started his career as a messenger for the Hong Kong television studio TVB. From there, to work as an executive producer and director of television shows since 1973. He shot his first theatrical film in 1978 but then went back to television to work in television. He produced and screen-wrote The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a dramatic TV series based on Louis Cha's martial art book of the same name.
He directed All About Ah-Long (1989), starring Chow Yun-fat, while working as an assistant television director during the Shaw Studios period. The film became one of the year's biggest box office hits. He co-directed The Big Heat, his first action film, in 1988. Tsui Hark directed the film. The 1980s saw some of To's biggest commercial successes, the bulk of which were comedies. His 1988 film The Eighth Happiness was the year's highest-grossing film.
To and Wai, a frequent collaborators of Law Wing-Cheong and scriptwriter Yau Nai-Hoi, created Milkyway Image, a production house specializing in cost-effective independent films made by To and Wai, as well as their regular collaborators from Law Wing-Cheong to scriptwriter Yau Nai-Hoi in 1996.
In April 2011, it was announced that he would be a jury member of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
At the 85th Academy Awards, his 2011 film Life Without Principle was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but it did not make the final shortlist.
To serves on the governing Council of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.