Johnnie To Probe Into The Movie World

At the end of last century , the Hong Kong film fell into low tide period again . At the moment , Johnnie To and Milkyway Image (HK) have made personally characteristic movies in succession, which shoke the moviedom of Hong Kong and became the dark horse. Eventually unremitting efforts of Johnnie To has been affirmed. There was a large span about films directed by Johnnie To. Apart art from commerce completely, he shot pictures of different genres, styles, and has got successes in both sides. Among them, cop shows and action movies of milkyway image style represented the highest level of films directed by Johnnie To.To make a comprehensive view of Johnnie To' s films they have taken on the appearance of gangster genre, but exhibited the intension of anti-hero to some degree. Johnnie To abandoned the appearance of the gangster genre but to narrate the feeling course behind the heroes. The hero in his film, has already been increasingly close to common people's inner world. Johnnie To's film has broken through the limit of genre, though within the frame of mainstream films. They emphasized the theme of 'uncertainty life, and gloomy destiny', which represented low-pitched and depressed personality feature.The thesis attempted to analyze the characters of Johnnie To's films, dissertate his main achievements and to forecast trends of his films in the future through conversion courses, connotations of stories and external features.