MOVIES & KUNG-FU ACTORS The city also is the backdrop for modern movies and pop music that together enjoy worldwide recognition. Home of Kung-fu heroes like the late Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, as well as the grand-master comedian Stephen Chow. Hong Kong continues to attract more and more ambitious would-be stars and entrepreneurs. Many Hollywood directors have tried to imitate the genre of stylized violence with romantic melodrama from Hong Kong movies in theirs. Yet the person who made these kinds of action movies so popular in the west is John Woo, who also directed quite a few Hollywood movies such as Face-Off, Matrix, and Mission Impossible.