Woo, John, 1948-

LC control no.	n 94046066
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Woo, John, 1948- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Woo, John, 1946- Ng, Yu-sum, 1948- Woo, Yu-Sen, 1948- Wu, Yü-sen, 1948- Wu, Yu-Seng, 1948- Wu, Yu-Sheng, 1948- Wu, Yusen, 1948- 吳宇森, 1948- 吴宇森, 1948-
See also	Film director of: Die xue jie tou (Motion picture) http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60009 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	a488f0af-6152-45e5-95fd-9b23b5a77a23 500473155 0000000120967890 106100411 Q55432
Associated country	China
Associated place	Hong Kong
Located	Hong Kong
Birth date	[1946,1948]
Place of birth	Guangzhou (China)
Field of activity	Motion pictures--Production and direction Motion picture authorship Motion picture plays Action and adventure films Crime films Screenplays
Profession or occupation	Motion picture directors Motion picture producers Screenwriters Motion picture producers and directors Screenwriters
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. Non-Latin script references reviewed in NACO CJK Funnel References Project.
Found in	Hard target [MP], 1993: credits (directed by John Woo) LC data base, 5-10-94 (hdg.: Woo, John, 1948-) Int'l. mo. pic. alm., 1994 (John Woo; b. 1948, Guangzhou, China; film director) OCLC, Jan. 23, 1998 (hdgs.: Wu, Yü-sen; Wu, Yu-sen; Woo, John, 1948- ; Woo, John; usage: Wu Yü-sen; John Woo) John Woo, c1998: p. 4 of cover (b. 1946) Internet movie data base, via WWW, 3-1-99 (John Woo; b. May 1, 1946) Katz, E. Film enc., 1994 (Woo, John; b. 1946) Alta Vista search, via WWW, 3-1-99 (sites split between 1946 and 1948 birth date) John Woo, c2005: ECIP t.p. (John Woo) data view (born Wu Yu-Sheng in Guangzhou, China, in October 1946; his Mandarin name is Wu Yu-Sheng. His Cantonese name is Ng Yu-sum; Woo's mother tells primary school officials her eldest son [John Woo] was born in September of 1948, so he can start in the first grade at age nine; the birth date on Woo's passport is September 22, 1948) Wikipedia, July 6, 2015 (John Woo; John Woo SBS (Ng Yu-Sum; born 1 May 1946) is a Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer; born Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China; born Wu Yu-Seng (Ng Yu-Sum in Cantonese) in Guangzhou, China, amidst the chaos of the Chinese Civil War at the end of October, 1946. Because of school age restrictions, his mother changed his birth date to 22 September 1948, which is what remains on his passport) OCLC, Feb. 21, 2020 (access point: Woo, John, 1948-; usage: 吳宇森 = Wu Yusen) Wikipedia, February 28, 2024 (February 28, 2024 (John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (Chinese: 吳宇森 = Wu Yusen; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre; pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads) and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong action cinema; born Guangzhou, China; nationality: Hong Konger; occupations: Film director, screenwriter, producer) IMDb, February 28, 2024 (John Woo; director, producer, writer; born September 22, 1946) Svensk filmdatabas, February 28, 2024 (Wu Yusen, 1946-09-23; alternative names: John Woo, Ng-Yu-Sum, Woo Yu-Sen, 吴宇森) NNDB, February 28, 2024 (John Woo; AKA Yusen Wu; Born: 22-Sep-1948; Birthplace: Guangzho, China; Nationality: China; Director of Hong Kong action films) MoMA artists website, February 28, 2024 (John Woo, Chinese, born 1946) <https://www.moma.org/artists/34072> Britannica online, February 28, 2024 (John Woo (born May 1 or September 23, 1946?, Guangzhou, China) Chinese film director noted for action movies; born in China, though the exact date of his birth is uncertain. In 1950 Woo and his family immigrated to Hong Kong) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Woo> Zhongguo da bai ke quan shu, via WWW, February 28, 2024 (吴宇森; John Woo; born 1946-09-22) <https://www.zgbk.com/ecph/words?SiteID=1&ID=89307> Union list of artist names online, February 28, 2024 (Woo, John (Chinese artist, born 1946))