Johnnie To

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-04-22 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Johnnie To

Biography

Johnnie To Kei-Fung (Chinese: 杜琪峯, born 22 April 1955) 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. 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...

Production

1999

1999

2008

Sparrow

as Director

1992

2004

Throw Down

as Director

2007

Triangle

as Producer

2007

Triangle

as Director

2007

Triangle

as Executive Producer

2003

Running on Karma

as Director

2004

Breaking News

as Director

2004

Breaking News

as Producer

2009

Accident

as Producer

2003

PTU

as Director

2001

Wu Yen

as Producer

2001

2004

2001

Fulltime Killer

as Director

2001

Fulltime Killer

as Producer

2006

Exiled

as Director

2003

2007

Mad Detective

as Director

2001

Love on a Diet

as Director

2006

Triad Election

as Director

2007

Eye in the Sky

as Producer

2002

Fat Choi Spirit

as Director

1993

The Heroic Trio

as Director

2001

2003

2002

2001

Wu Yen

as Director

2000

Needing You...

as Director

2000

Help!!!

as Director

1999

The Mission

as Director

2005

Election

as Director

2009

Vengeance

as Director

1986

Happy Ghost III

as Director

2011

2011

1990

1993

The Mad Monk

as Director

1998

1988

1989

1999

1998

2012

1988

The Big Heat

as Director

1991

2023

Mad Fate

as Producer

2012

Drug War

as Director

2000

Comeuppance

as Producer

2008

Linger

as Director

2008

Linger

as Producer

1997

Lifeline

as Director

1993

1995

Loving You

as Director

1991

1990

1992

Lucky Encounter

as Director

1987

Seven Years Itch

as Director

1980

2013

Blind Detective

as Producer

2013

Blind Detective

as Director

2013

A Complicated Story

as Executive Producer

1997

Final Justice

as Producer

2008

Sparrow

as Producer

1997

Intruder

as Producer

2000

Help!!!

as Producer

1998

The Longest Nite

as Producer

1996

2003

PTU

as Producer

2012

Drug War

as Producer

2003

1:99 Shorts

as Director

2003

2006

2 Become 1

as Producer

2001

Gimme Gimme

as Producer

2009

Newsmakers

as Original Film Writer

2015

Office

as Director

1997

The Odd One Dies

as Producer

2003

Running on Karma

as Producer

2015

Office

as Producer

1989

1994

The Lone Sabre

as Producer

2016

Three

as Producer

2016

Three

as Director

2016

Trivisa

as Producer

1990

2009

Vengeance

as Producer

2000

Needing You...

as Producer

2004

2001

Love on a Diet

as Producer

1989

Story of Nam

as Producer

2003

2003

1995

Dead End

as Producer

2023

Mad Fate

as Executive Producer

2007

Hooked on You

as Producer

1989

Story of Nam

as Director

1989

1999

1990

1990

2011

Punished

as Producer

1995

Dead End

as Director

1990

Behind Bars

as Director

1993

2004

Throw Down

as Producer

1978

1990

Behind Bars

as Producer

1999

The Mission

as Producer

1998

2005

Election

as Producer

2005

The Open Road

as Director

2006

Triad Election

as Producer

2002

Fat Choi Spirit

as Producer

2019

Chasing Dream

as Producer

2019

Chasing Dream

as Director

2012

Motorway

as Producer

1988

It's No Heaven

as Director

1988

The Betrayal

as Director

2000

Spacked Out

as Producer

2007

Mad Detective

as Producer

1999

1993

Edge of Justice

as Producer

1995

Fatal Assignment

as Producer

2003

1986

Royal Warriors

as Assistant Director

1985

It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!

as Assistant Director

1987

Magnificent Warriors

as Assistant Director

2018

A or B

as Producer

1998

The Longest Nite

as Director

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