Johnnie To
- January 4, 2024
- Director
Quick Facts
Johnnie To Biography
| Name | Johnnie To |
| Birthday | Apr 22 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Place Of Birth | Hong Kong |
| Birth Country | China |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Spouse | Poling Wong |
Johnnie To is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on April 22, 1955 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong-born director of The Big Heat and Vengeance. His internationally-acclaimed films include Election (and its sequel) and Drug War.
The 1989 film All About Ah-Long was a hit with His 1989 film All About Ah-Long starred Chow Yun Fat and was one of the biggest box office successes of the year. and was among the biggest box office hits in the history of film.
Johnnie To began his career at age 17 as a messenger for the Hong Kong television studio TVB. From there To moved up the ladder, working as an executive producer and director for TV shows starting in 1973. In 1978, he shot his first theatrical feature, but continued working in television. In 1983, he directed and screen-wrote the critically acclaimed The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a dramatised TV series base on the martial art novel of the same name by Louis Cha.
While working as an assistant TV director during the Shaw Studios era, he directed All About Ah-Long in 1989, starring Chow Yun-fat, the film became one of the biggest box office hits in that year. In 1988, he co-directed The Big Heat, his first action movie. The film was produced by Tsui Hark. The end of the 1980s also saw some of To’s biggest commercial successes, the vast majority of which were comedies. His 1988 film The Eighth Happiness was that year’s highest-grossing movie.
His wife and he was photographed in the Shanghai International Film Festival in June of 2013.
Johnnie To Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Johnnie To is one of the richest Director from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Johnnie To 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In his teens He worked as an employee of TVB, the Hong Kong television studio TVB.
His film from 2011 Life Without Principle was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
Johnnie To Kei-fung (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 (which include Quentin Tarantino, who once said that he really loves to watch To’s gangster films).
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Who is Johnnie To Dating?
According to our records, Johnnie To married to Poling Wong. As of December 1, 2023, Johnnie To’s is not dating anyone.
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In 2005, To received the “Time Machine Career Achievement Award” at the Festival de Cine de Sitges, Europe’s most prestigious film festival specializing in genre films. To was also honoured as a “Filmmaker in Focus” of 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2009, while Vengeance competed at Cannes, To was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in recognition for his films.
Facts & Trivia
Johnnie Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Johnnie To celebrates birthday on April 22 of every year.
His 2011 film Life Without Principle was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.