John WooJohn Woo is the name of Chinese film producer and director basically from Hong Kong. He was born on May 1, 1946 in the chaos of Chinese Civil War of 1946. He is known for his action films in which he use action sequences, slow motions and Mexican standards. He has directed some best films like Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow and The Killer. Except these films he done some Hollywood films including 'Mission: Impossible', Windtakers, Broken Arrow, Hard Target and Face/Off. He was also involved in doing some comic series.
His family faced with maltreatment during anti-bourgeois nationalist purge of Mao Zedong in 1946 when he was only of five years old. His father was unable to work by tuberculosis that he lived with his family in slums. John completed his schooling from Concordia Lutheran School and got Christian education. At childhood he was wishing to become a Christian minister but later his likes were changed to movies. He found too much interest in movies by the French New Wave. Recently he produced an anime movie 'Appleseed: Ex Machina' in 2007. In 2007 there was a movie with the same name based on the novel 'The Kite Runner'. The Kite Runner is written by the author Khaled Hosseini in 2003. The film and novel tells story about a young boy Amir form Kabul. This Kite Runner novel received the Boeke Prize of South Africa in 2004 and was the best seller in 2005.
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