John Woo: Interviews

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Director John Woo’s life is the stuff motion pictures are made of. He grew up in Hong Kong, spending nearly two years [[homeless[[ on the street with his family, encountering personal betrayals and particularly trying circumstances.

John Woo: Interviews provides an intimate portrait Woo’s life from those tumultuous times through his achievement of international success, including his ambitious start with the Shaw Brothers Studio and struggle to maintain artistic vitality among various betrayals and failures.

This definitive volume includes a new 36-page interview with Woo by editor Robert K. Elder, which covers the years 1968 to 1990, revisiting Woo’s early career in comedies and kung fu films (in which he gave Jackie Chan one of his first major movie roles), to his gun-powder morality plays in Hong Kong.

The book also includes interviews translated from Cantonese from Hong Kong Film Archive and commentary track excerpts from the Criterion Collection’s long out-of-print versions of The Killer and Hard Boiled. In other interviews, Woo opens up for the first time about his family and his relationships with producer/director Tsui Hark and mentor Chang Cheh.

John Woo: Interviews is the first authoritative English language chronicle of the career of John Woo.

The book is part of the University Press of Mississippi's "Conversations with Directors" series.