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Ann Hui On-Wah (;
Hepburn:
Kyo Anka; born 23 May 1947 to a
Chinese father and a
Japanese mother) is a
Hong Kong film director,
film producer and occasional
screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the
Hong Kong New Wave.
Early life
Hui was born in
Anshan,
Liaoning,
China and she moved to
Macau, then to Hong Kong when she was five. She studied in
St. Paul's Convent School. She studied English language and literature and comparative literary studies in the
University of Hong Kong until 1972, when she received her
Masters, before spending two years in the London International Film School. Returning to Hong Kong in 1975, she entered
TVB as a director, making many serials and documentaries on
16mm. During this time she in particular helped
King Hu as an assistant on television. The most notable featurette she made during this period was
Boy From Vietnam (1978), which was her first film on
Vietnam and formed the first part of her "Vietnamese trilogy".
