fave HK director...well, considering the best ones don't really work out of Hong Kong anymore (Wong is now a Canadian citizen, as is Ringo Lam...Woo lives in the US and Tsui's films are financed by US studios), that's kind of a tough one....I'd have to say either Yuen Woo Ping or Ching Siu Tung....both have a definate style and sense of FUN in their films....

about ten years ago, I would've said either John Woo or Ringo Lam....all that crap about Woo's films being "sick violent childhood hero fantasy's" I'd say about his American films, but his stuff from Hong Kong...yeah, they are violent, but the violence was NEVER gratuitous...the world he (and Ringo) portrayed was volatile and intense....a can of coca-cola shaken to the point of combustion, but within this world, both directors explored themes of trust, love, friendship, betrayal....in a sense, the human condition...was "Bonnie And Clyde" violent? yes.  Same as "Breathless" or "The Wild Bunch" or "The Seven Samurai", but the violence was mere backdrop for those films, same as with "The Killer", "Bullet In The Head", "City On Fire" and the other films from these two directors...if you wanna talk about films that are "sick violent childhood hero fantasies", let's talk about Star Wars and Indiana Jones films...or "Yojimbo"....

sorry....wrong meeting...I sometimes get my days mixed up....