Victor Fan

A "talking head" documentary that relives the fascinating and furious career of John Woo - from his early work, and emergence as a director, to his heroic bloodshed classics which changed the face of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s. Woo then moved to America and shook up Hollywood, as many of his peers and colleagues discuss in this extensive discussion of one of the 20th century's most important and vital celluloid names. Also features Woo himself, sitting down for an exclusive on-camera retrospective.

Originally shot in 1997, Mother begins with a study of my relationship with my own mother and ends with a questioning of Hong Kong's relationship with its motherland, China. The video features Super 8 footage of the city before the turnover.

A Japanese soldier who has suffered from humiliation by his officer, is captured by Soviet soldiers in Mongolia and being thrown into a well, where he meets his worst enemy before his inevitible death.

A cat lounges on a chair, while the sound of birdsong and traffic echoes through a window.