Director in Action

Director in ActionDirector in Action examines the career of Johnnie To, whose art house action hits include A Hero Never Dies, The Longest Nite, Running out of Time, The Mission, PTU, Breaking News, Election, and Election 2. The author discusses the symbiotic relationship between director and genre, why To is regarded as an auteur, and the influence he has on the trajectory of the action genre in the Hong Kong cinema. The author's view is that To's idiosyncratic

The reader will find themselves in the dreamlike world of Twilight Land

one with far more uncertain consequences than those he faces as a torero

Various cross-national studies have been carried out since the 1990s and most of these projects focus on the policy-making processes

The book also includes more than eighty family archive photographs

Louis died in Indonesia

A complete catalogue arranges the finds by type and in chronological order

Inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's novel Too Loud a Solitude but with a Hong Kong twist

After abandoning the family

within a modernist framework that encourages personal and social prosperity

the question of being

she begins to uncover Todd’s secret operation

a woman for whom life itself was a sign of God’s grace