Johnnie To, photo 1 of 2
Johnnie To, photo 2 of 2

Photo credit

Photo
Flickr - Sasoriza - Johnnie To's Vengeance (cropped)
By
Bryan Chan from Toronto, Canada
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CC BY-SA 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

Photo
Johnnie To as Member of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2024 (54578023421) (cropped)
By
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan
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CC BY 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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杜琪峰

Dù Qífēng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Johnnie To (Hong Kong film director)

About Johnnie To

born 1955 · 导演 director

Hong Kong director and producer who co-founded the studio 银河映像 (Milkyway Image) in 1996 and made crime films such as 枪火 (The Mission) and 黑社会 (Election).

Examples

HSK 4
Tā kàn guo Dù Qífēng jīhū suǒyǒu de diànyǐng.
He's seen almost all of Johnnie To's films.
HSK 7-9
Dù Qífēng shì Xiānggǎng hēibāngpiàn de dàibiǎo dǎoyǎn.
Johnnie To is the defining director of Hong Kong triad films.

Tips

culture
Hong Kong writes his name 杜琪峯, with 峯, a variant form of 峰 'peak'. He left school at 17 and joined TVB's actor training class in 1974, playing bit parts and delivering the office mail before he moved behind the camera.

Stroke Order

杜 dù
琪 qí
峰 fēng