John Doo

Born: None

Chien Lien Tu, best known by his stage name John Doo, was a Chinese-Brazilian filmmaker, director of photography screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. Doo was part of a recurring team of filmmakers, actors and producers in São Paulo's "Boca do Lixo", a downtown square that became a pole of production and distribution of erotic and pornographic films. Among the highlights of his career are partnerships with David Cardoso and Ody Fraga, the three of them collaborating in a series of anthology erotic films. Born in Chongqing, China in 1942, Doo moved with his family to Brazil, at age 8, and in 1963 got his first professional gig in Brazilian cinema, working as continuity supervisor in Amacio Mazzaropi's "O Cabeleira". He would go on to be assistant director in Mazzaropi's "O Puritano da Rua Augusta" (1965). He had his directorial debut with 1978's "Ninfas Diabólicas", a mix of erotic and fantasy which would become his trademark style. Among his best known works are "O Gafanhoto" (an episode of the 1981 anthology film "Pornô!") and "O Pasteleiro" (a segment of 1981's "Aqui, Tarados!). By the late 1980s Doo had given up filmmaking, but continued to appear as an actor in features by a number of Brazilian directors, such as Carlos Reichenbach's "Filme Demência" (1986), Ruy Guerra's "A Ópera do Malandro" (1986), and Guilherme de Almeida Prado's "A Dama do Cine Shanghai" (1987). In a coma after suffering from a stroke in 2009, Doo passed away in February, 2012.


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Erótica, A Fêmea Sensual

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

Flora is a happy housewife but suffer a serious accident and loses her husband and gets her face...

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Prisoners of the Amazon Jungle

as uncredited
Released: 1987-03-01

Some brazilian chicks are kidnapped by girl dealers and carried away on a small airplane to take...

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The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema

as Chuang
Released: 1987-07-19

After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious...

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Bacanal

as uncredited
Released: 1980-12-17

One car failure and a long bus ride to nowhere lead to a small Brazilian country town where two...

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Two Strange Women

as China (segment "Eva")
Released: 1981-08-06

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Movie Dementia

as uncredited
Released: 1986-10-15

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory,...

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As Amantes de Um Homem Proibido

as uncredited
Released: 1978-10-10

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E Agora, José?

as uncredited
Released: 1979-12-08

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Malandro

as uncredited
Released: 1986-07-02

In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular...

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Discretion Assured

as uncredited
Released: 1994-08-03

Three American businessmen have a problem with their Brazilian company: someone is embezzling...

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Sexo Profundo

as uncredited
Released: 1981-12-20

A woman catches her husband cheating on her so she drugs him, castrates him and then keeps him...

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Devil Nymphs

as Segunda vítima
Released: 1978-05-24

Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and...

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Um Casal de 3

as uncredited
Released: 1984-06-13

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Here, Freaks!

as Pasteleiro
Released: 1981-06-22

Three short stories about sex and sexual perversion.

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Como Afogar o Ganso

as uncredited
Released: 1981-03-05

In the daily life of Rodolfinho, our hero (or anti-hero), who works as a laundry delivery boy,...

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Hallucinating Orgasm

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-01

An affluent woman is kidnapped for a ransom and forced into kinky sex games.

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