Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To has directed more than forty films, including Election, Exiled, and Mad Detective. His latest, Vengeance, is currently in some North American theaters, from IFC Films.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
1954
207 min
2
High and Low
Akira Kurosawa
1963
142 min
3
Straw Dogs
UnavailableSam Peckinpah
1971
116 min
4
Harakiri
Masaki Kobayashi
1962
135 min
5
Le samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
1967
105 min
6
Le cercle rouge
UnavailableJean-Pierre Melville
1970
140 min
7
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar Wai
2000
99 min
8
Brazil
UnavailableTerry Gilliam
1985
143 min
9
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987
163 min
10
Yojimbo
Akira Kurosawa
1961
110 min