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Many probably know John Woo (inset), the internationally and critically acclaimed Chinese film director who directed John Travolta and Nicholas Cage in the box office hit, Face Off which grossed over $100 million in US alone and made him the first Asian director to hit mainstream there. His films said to be stylised and reknown for balletic action sequences and the use of slow-motion could be seen earlier in Hong Kong action films, A better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled and the Killer which starred the popular and charismatic Chow Yuen Fatt. For such violent movies with lots of blood and gore, it is surprising to find out that as a young boy, Woo had wanted to be a Christian minister. Presently, in the movie circuit, an epic which holds much promise from John Woo is Red Cliff, a movie based on the popular novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The novel has always been a subject of movies and TV series.
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