Albert Pyun
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Albert Pyun is a Hawaiian-born film director best known for having made many low budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, frequently including cyborgs.
Having trained under the legendary Akira Kurosawa, he has been acknowledged for squeezing dramatic cinematography into otherwise low budget productions. His most successful works include The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), Cyborg (1989), and Nemesis (1993). Radioactive Dreams (1985) won the Golden Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film. A few of his films have gained cult followings, although the controversial movie has gained him many critics, especially in Guam, where the movie was shot.
He founded the Filmwerks production company in 1994.
His 2005 film Infection was noted for its unconventional camera work and cinematography: 68 minutes in length, it appears to the audience as a single uninterrupted shot from a surveillance camera mounted inside a police car.
Partial filmography
- Cool Air (2006) (V) (post-production) [Director]
- Infection (2005) [Director]
- (2004) [Director]
- Final Examination (2003) (V) [Producer]
- More Mercy (2003) (V) [Director] (uncredited) [Producer]
- Ticker (2001) [Director] [Producer]
- Corrupt (1999) [Director]
- Urban Menace (1999) [Director]
- The Wrecking Crew (1999) [Director]
- Postmortem (1998/I) [Director]
- Crazy Six (1998) [Director]
- Mean Guns (1997) [Director]
- Omega Doom (1997) [Director] [Writer]
- Blast (1997) [Director]
- (1996) [Director] [Writer]
- Raven Hawk (1996) (TV) [Director]
- Nemesis 4: Death Angel (1995) (V) [Director] [Writer]
- Nemesis III: Prey Harder (1995) (V) [Director] [Writer]
- Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995) (V) [Director] [Writer]
- Heatseeker (1995) [Director] [Writer] (screenplay)
- Hong Kong 97 (1994) [Director]
- Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994) [Director] [Writer]
- Spitfire (1994) [Director] [Writer]
- Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993) (V) [Director] [Writer]
- Knights (1993) [Director] [Writer] (written by)
- Arcade (1993) (V) [Director]
- Nemesis (1993) [Director]
- Dollman (1991) [Director]
- (1991) [Director]
- Captain America (1991) [Director]
- Bloodmatch (1991) [Director]
- Cyborg (1989) [Director]
- Deceit (1989) [Director]
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) [Director]
- Alien from L.A. (1988) [Director] [Writer]
- Down Twisted (1987) [Director]
- Vicious Lips (1987) [Director] [Writer]
- Dangerously Close (1986) [Director]
- Radioactive Dreams (1985) [Director] [Writer]
- The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) [Director] [Writer]
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