No. 03 · Hong Kong · Shanghai Roots
The choreographer of longing. He shoots time differently — slow motion, blurred frames, clocks that never align. His films are about the impossibility of love, rendered in the most beautiful images in cinema.
China
While several filmmakers have become synonymous with specific genres, few have carved out as inimitable and identifiable a niche within that genre as John Woo and the action film. Yet this association, as prominent and distinguished as it is, discounts the other films Woo helmed
China
The kung fu genre and Shaw Brothers studio gave Lau Kar-leung all the tools and resources he needed to create an exhilarating body of work that celebrates the beauty and transformative qualities of martial arts, in all their varied forms. Lau pushes the boundaries of the four wal