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Johnnie To (born 22 April 1955), also known as To Kei-Fung (杜琪峯), 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 heads the Hong Kong-based production company Milkyway Image with his frequent co-director Wai Ka-Fai.

Career:
Johnnie To began his career at age 17 as a messenger for the Hong Kong television studio TVB. From there To moved up the ladder, working as an executive producer and director for TV shows starting in 1973. In 1978, he shot his first theatrical feature, but continued working in television. In 1983, he directed and screen-wrote the critically acclaimed The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a dramatised TV series base on the martial art novel of the same name by Louis Cha.

While working as an assistant TV director during the Shaw Studios era, he directed All About Ah-Long in 1989, starring Chow Yun-fat, the film became one of the biggest box office hits in that year. In 1988, he co-directed The Big Heat, his first action movie. The film was produced by Tsui Hark. The end of the 1980s also saw some of To's biggest commercial successes, the vast majority of which were comedies. His 1988 film The Eighth Happiness was that year's highest-grossing movie.

In 1996, To and frequent collaborator Wai Ka-Fai formed Milkyway Image, a production house that specialises in cost-efficient independent films made by To and Wai, as well their frequent collaborators from Law Wing-Cheong to scriptwriter Yau Nai-Hoi.

In April 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

His 2011 film Life Without Principle was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

To is a member of the governing Council of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Festivals and awards:
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Johnnie To
Commercially successful in his native Hong Kong, To's films have regularly appeared at international festivals, most notably in Europe and North America. Six of To's films have been featured at the Cannes Film Festival: Breaking News premiered as an Out-of-Competition midnight screening in 2004; Election was shown in Competition in 2005; its sequel, Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election) was screened in Out-of-Competition midnight screenings in 2006, and Triangle was screened in Out-of-Competition midnight screenings in 2007; Vengeance competed for the prestigious Palme D'Or in 2009; Blind Detective was screened in Out-of-Competition midnight screenings in 2013.

At the Berlin International Film Festival, Sparrow was shown in Competition in 2008.

At the Venice International Film Festival, Throw Down was screened Out-of-Competition in 2004; Exiled was shown in Competition at the festival in 2006; Mad Detective was shown in Competition in 2007; Life Without Principle was shown in Competition in 2011.

In North America, To's films have been consistently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Mission, Fulltime Killer, PTU, Breaking News, Throw Down and Mad Detective all screened between 1999 and 2007. In 2006, Election, Election 2, and Exiled were screened.

In 2005, To received the "Time Machine Career Achievement Award" at the Festival de Cine de Sitges, Europe's most prestigious film festival specializing in genre films. To was also honoured as a "Filmmaker in Focus" of 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2009, while Vengeance competed at Cannes, To was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in recognition for his films. wiki

Director (70 credits)
Eight & a Half (filming)
2016 Tres
2015 Office
2014 Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
2013 Blind Detective
2012 Drug War
2012 Romancing in Thin Air
2011 Life Without Principle
2011 Don't Go Breaking My Heart
2009 Vengeance
2008 Sparrow
2008 Linger
2007 Mad Detective
2007 Triangle
2006 Exiliados
2006 Triad Election
2005 Elección
2005 The Open Road (Short)
2004 Ayer otra vez
2004 Throw Down
2004 Breaking News
2003 Running on Karma
2003 Turn Left, Turn Right
2003 PTU
2003 Love for All Seasons
2003 1:99 Shorts (TV Movie)
2002 My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
2002 Fat Choi Spirit
2001 Running Out of Time 2
2001 Fulltime Killer
2001 Love on a Diet
2001 Wu Yen
2000 Help!!!
2000 Needing You...
1999 The Mission
1999 Running Out of Time
1999 Where a Good Man Goes
1998 A Hero Never Dies
1998 The Longest Nite (uncredited)
1997 Lifeline (as To Kei Fung)
1996 A Moment of Romance III
1995 Loving You
1995 Dak ging 90 III - Zi ming jat tin ngaai (TV Movie)
1993 Executioners
1993 The Mad Monk
1993 The Bare-Footed Kid
1993 The Heroic Trio
1992 Justice, My Foot! (as Kei-fung To)
1992 Lucky Encounter
1991 Casino Raiders II
1991 The Royal Scoundrel
1990 The Story of My Son
1990 The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
1990 The Iron Butterfly 2 (TV Movie)
1989 The Iron Butterfly (TV Movie)
1989 All About Ah-Long
1988 The Big Heat (as To Kei Fung)
1988 The Eighth Happiness
1988 It's No Heaven (TV Movie)
1987 Seven Years Itch
1986 Happy Ghost III
1985 Suet san fei wu (TV Mini-Series)
1983 She diao ying xiong zhuan (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (1983)
1982 Love and Passion (TV Mini-Series)
1982 The Wild Bunch (TV Mini-Series)
1981 Jok gor juk (TV Mini-Series)
1981 Chin wong kwun ying wui (TV Series) (1981)
1980 The Enigmatic Case
1980 Ging wah cheun mung (TV Series) (1980)
1978 Die xue huang pu tan (TV Movie)

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