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Character Information: John Woo-san

Anime Version

Japanese: ジョン・ウー
Seiyuu: N/A

John Woo is a carrier pigeon for the Dokusensha. However, he soon becomes more attached to the Paper Sisters and stays with them instead.

Name

John Woo (Chinese: 吳宇森) (born May 1, 1946 in Guangzhou, China) is a Chinese film director known especially for the ballet-like violence in his movies. Born in southern China, 'John Woo' grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973, and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before 'A Better Tomorrow' (1986) established his reputation as a master stylist specialising in ultra-violent gangster films and thrillers, with hugely elaborate action scenes shot with breathtaking panache. After gaining a cult reputation in the US with 'The Killer' (1989), Woo was offered a Hollywood contract. He plans to stay working in the US.

One of Woo's trademarks is doves, which is most likely why the carrier pigeon was named for John Woo. He was quoted in the June 2000 edition of Premiere magazine: "I love doves. I am a Christian. Doves represent the purity of love, beauty. They're spiritual. Also the dove is a messenger between people and God... When I shot The Killer, these two men, the killer and the cop, they work in different ways, but their souls are pure, because they do the right thing. In the church scene, I wanted to bring them together. I wanted to use a metaphor of the heart. I came up with doves--they're white. When the men die, I cut to the dove flying--it's the soul, rescued and safe and also pure of heart. So the dove became one of my habits: I used it in Hard Boiled, Face/Off, and in Mission: Impossible II".

It it interesting that the three paper sisters, who have names after Hong Kong actresses, named the carrier pigeon with the name of a Hong Kong director.

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