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Andy Lau
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Andy Lau Tak-wah, BBS, MH, JP is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kongs most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, in the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop. Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist, by April 2000, he had already won a total unprecedented 292 awards. In 2005, Lau was awarded No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005 of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HK$1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years. In 2007, Lau was also awarded the Nielsen Box Office Star of Asia by the Nielsen Company, Andy Lau was born in Tai Po, Hong Kong. A son of a fireman, as a young boy Lau had to fetch water for his family up to eight times a day because their house was not equipped with plumbing. He later graduated from a Band One secondary school, Ho Lap College in San Po Kong and he was named as Lau Fook-Wing during his academic years. Lau converted to Buddhism in the 1980s and he was raised in a nominally Buddhist household and is now a follower of the Lingyan Mountain Temple in Taiwan. In 2008, Lau married Malaysian Chinese Carol Chu after 24 years of speculation over their relationship, the couple were married in Las Vegas. On 9 May 2012, Chu gave birth to his first child, in January 2017 Lau was seriously injured after being thrown off a horse during a film shoot in Thailand. In 1981, Lau signed up for the artist training program offered by TVB, the lead role which led to his initial popularity was in the 1982 TVB series The Emissary. In 1983, Laus role as Yang Guo in the TVB wuxia series The Return of the Condor Heroes further increased his popularity, from then on, he would take on many of the lead roles in many of the TVB series. In September 1983, TVB was looking to increase their ratings in competition with Korea, the station then created the show TVB All-star challenge featuring almost the entire line-up of the most popular actors and singers at the time. Lau along with Tony Leung, Michael Miu, Felix Wong, in the late 80s, Lau left TVB due to contract problems. TVB wanted to him to an exclusive five-year contract which Lau refused to sign. He then focused on his film career, in 1981, Lau made a guest appearance in one of Susanna Kwans music video and caught the eye of the manager Teddy Robin. Teddy Robin then gave Lau a chance to play a role in the movie Once Upon a Rainbow. This was the first step in Laus film acting career and he was then given a role in Ann Huis 1982 film, Boat People
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Hong Kong Coliseum
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Hong Kong Coliseum, commonly known as the Hung Hom Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena, in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built by the Urban Council and inaugurated on 27 April 1983, the coliseum has 12,500 seats, which is the second largest among indoor facilities in Hong Kong, only behind the 2005-opened AsiaWorld–Arena. It is now managed by the Leisure and Cultural Service Department of the Hong Kong Government, the Hong Kong Coliseum consists of a big arena and a number of conference rooms. The arena is rectangular with sides 41m each, with a concrete cement flooring, moreover, the floor can hold strong pressures up to 1,800 kg/m2, which cannot even be done by industrial buildings. This facilitates the set up of stages, platforms and sound equipments during concerts and other performances that requires an elevated stage. The Hong Kong Coliseum offers both open and sheltered areas for holding conventions and conferences, the demountable open stage provides the arena with an excellent forum for public assemblies as well as staging live television broadcasts of opening ceremonies. The reception room acts as an assistant facility for hirers of the arena, the room can hold 60 persons. Even though its name in Chinese roughly translates to Sports Arena. In addition, some universities rent it every year for congregation, some performances like ice-skating also choose Hong Kong Coliseum as their stages. It is also used every year from 1991 to hold the Miss Hong Kong Pageant and it also hosts a part of the FIVB World Grand Prix for volleyball every year. The Hong Kong Coliseum was one of the venues for the 5th East Asian Games that was hosted in Hong Kong in 2009, official website of Hong Kong Coliseum
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Aaron Kwok
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Aaron Kwok Fu-shing is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor. Active since the 1980s, Kwok is considered one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong, Kwoks onstage dancing and displays is influenced by Michael Jackson. While most of his songs are in the genre, he has experimented with rock and roll, ballad, rock, R&B, soul, electronica. Kwok earned 130 million HKD in 2014 and he received the Ten Most Outstanding Young Persons Award in 2003. Kwok graduated from St. Josephs College in Hong Kong, after graduating from secondary school, Kwok worked as a junior staff in King Fook Gold & Jewellery Co. Ltd. His father, who owns a small retail store, desired that he gain experience in the business with the view of eventually handing the family business over to him. If not for one of Kwoks brothers taking over the gold business, in 1984, he was fired for prolonged absenteeism caused by a foot muscle injury from trying the splits at a party. After being fired from the company in 1984, at the age of 19, Kwok joined a dancer training course at TVB. Kwok then performed in videos and variety shows for other singers. In 1987 he was transferred to the department of the talent training course and became a TV actor. In 1990 he did a TV commercial in Taiwan for the Honda motorcycle DJ-1RR, the commercial gained him instant popularity with Taiwanese girls, and he immediately burst onto the music scene. Kwok then began his career with three mandopop albums including the famous song Loving You Forever to accompany his dance moves. After his success in Taiwan, he returned to Hong Kong in 1991 to do Cantopop, the next few years saw his popularity reach fever-pitch, and he was soon ranked as one of the Four Heavenly Kings. Kwok became one of Hong Kong and Asias most prominent pop stars and he won his first major awards with the 1991 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards and 1991 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards. He would then win an award every year until 2001. As a solo performer, his concerts in Hong Kong, mainland China, United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia. In 1999 he won his first Asia Pacific most popular artist award, Aaron Kwok will begin his 2011 tour on 16 April and his first stop is in Shanghai. Aaron Kwok has also created the choreography with Sunny Wong for the group As One, janet Jackson collaborated with Aaron Kwok and Ricky Martin for international versions of Ask for More, a promotional single and commercial released as part of an advertising campaign for Pepsi
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Eric Tsang
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Tsang is a Hakka of Wuhua ancestry. His father, Tsang Kai-wing, served in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force from 1940 to 1972. He fled to Taiwan to escape from the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 1976 after being convicted of corruption, in 2001, the Department of Justice seized his house in La Salle Road and later auctioned it for HK$4.35 million after 10 years of civil proceedings. Tsang Kai-wing died in Taiwan in 2011 with his son Eric, due to his popularity, Tsang is often the master of ceremonies in events organised by the Hong Kong television network TVB, and he was nicknamed Prize Master (獎門人）. In his youth, Tsang was a Hong Kong professional soccer player, Tsang began his showbusiness career as a stuntman. He is known for being a short plump guy with a habit of speaking before thinking and his insults have led to him being assaulted by rumoured triads over bad mouthing singer Joey Yung. As an MC in the Miss Chinese International Pageant, he often favours contestants in Hong Kong, nevertheless, Tsang also appeared in many successful Hong Kong films, gaining actor awards and nominations. Tsang is a devout Buddhist, often leading other actors in efforts to raise money for Hong Kong Buddhist temples, tsangs best friends are Natalis Chan and Alan Tam, who are also famous singers and actors from Hong Kong. His daughter, Bowie Tsang, from his first marriage, is a Mandopop singer, while his son, Derek Tsang, from his marriage, is an actor. Tsang has been friends with Tams family since childhood as their fathers were colleagues in the police force. Tsang is a cousin of former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Frederick Ma, Eric Tsang at the Internet Movie Database Official Website of Star East Holdings Ltd. founded by Eric Tsang
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Initial D (film)
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Initial D is a 2005 Hong Kong action film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is a adaptation of the Japanese Initial D manga. The main character, Takumi Fujiwara, is portrayed by Jay Chou, taking place in Gunma prefecture in Japan, the story concerns a young tofu-delivery driver named Takumi Fujiwara. He trained from an age and before he could drive to deliver tofu to the peak of Mt. Akina. He had been trained to a level of skill in taking on the five hairpin corners plus using the gutter techniques of Mt. Akina. The film chronicles his evolution from a delivery boy into a hardened tōge racer. Takumi drives his fathers Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX which is seemingly unmodified but is perfectly suited for the corners of Mt. Akina. This gains the attention of street racers across the prefecture, some ultimately challenge Takumi to races on Akinas downhill, including Takeshi Nakazato who leads the NightKids team and drives a Nissan Skyline GT-R. Ryosuke Takahashi, leader of the RedSuns team and a driver of the Mazda RX-7 helps out Takumi by giving him advice, Takumi agrees to race Ryosuke in three weeks. While following the path of a racer, Takumi must deal with his alcoholic father. Shes with a man at a love hotel for two weeks as he takes on more difficult challenges. With all the talk on Takumis AE86, Takumis close friend Itsuki Tachibana buys a new car after his Nissan Silvia gets totaled and he winds up swindled — getting an AE85 instead. Takumi was lured by Itsuki to teach driving down Mt. Akina, Takumi thus gains more fame, but the Emperor Team is mad. Takumi tests his new car, but is not used to the new mechanics, until Bunta teaches him how to drive right, Takumi is bothered by Natsukis absence. Despite a fight between Itsuki and him where Itsuki claimed he saw Natsuki coming out of a hotel with her older partner. Takumi suspects something amiss about her, when Ryousuke and Takeshi arrive to pick him up for their duel, Takumi follows, but he briefly sees Natsuki with her older partner, which seems to confirm what Itsuki saw. At the showdown, Ryosuke and Takumi race with the racer from the Emperor Team, Ryousuke and Takumi handle their common opponent from the and work together. The Emperor Team loses when Kyouichi swerves to avoid hitting a car, the race then leaves only Takumi and Ryosuke, they take each other on
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Teresa Mo
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Teresa Mo Sun-kwan, with ancestry in Dongguan, Guangdong, is a Hong Kong actress. She started her career in the 1970s, and joined TVB in 1981 and she became famous for being cast in The Justice of Life, which was based on Stephen Chows works. In 1991 she made frequent appearances in feature films, in 1978, Mo was proposed to by then-boyfriend and fellow ATV colleague, Leslie Cheung. She married director Tony Au and they have two daughters, tenderhearted Teresa, ♥ Teresa Mo at the Internet Movie Database HK cinemagic entry
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Chapman To
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Chapman To, also known as To Man-chak, is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known for his roles in such as Infernal Affairs. To began his career in TV soap operas and moved to the big screen in 2000. He is best known for playing Tsui Wai-Keung in the Infernal Affairs trilogy and he remarried in 2005 to Kristal Tin. In 2006, he starred in Pang Ho-Cheungs film, Isabella with Isabella Leong, along with acting, To was also a radio personality for Commercial Radio 2. He hosted the show, On a Clear Day, a 2-hour morning show which was co-hosted by Michelle Lo, however, after a fall-out with the key personnel of the radio company, Chapman lost the radio hosting job in 2006. To is also an amateur photographer. In 2011, To was hired as the photographer for cantopop singer Prudence Liews album, to stated that this is the first time he is paid for his photography work. In March 2014, To express support for the Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan and he was then involved in online arguments with some mainland netizens. Mainland netizens objected to Tos comments and some called for a boycott of Tos movies, the first two movies after the incident, Let Go for Love and Aberdeen, were affected by the boycott. In December 2014, To and Adrian Teh co-founded Dream Moon, a Malaysia-based film production company
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26th Hong Kong Film Awards
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Ceremony for the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards was held on 15 April 2007 in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and hosted by Bowie Tsang, Nick Cheung and Lam Chi-chung. Twenty-six winners in nineteen categories were unveiled, with film After This Our Exile being the years biggest winner, the ceremony also featured performances by Jay Chou, Eason Chan, Alive and Jane Zhang. The nominees were announced on 1 February 2007, over a hundred nominees contested for seventeen categories of awards. The front runners were Curse of the Golden Flower and After This Our Exile, below is a complete list of winners and nominees for the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards, which includes twenty-six winners and over a hundred nominees in nineteen categories. Besides the regular categories, two awards were given out this year, namely the Century Achievement Award and the Professional Achievement Award. The years biggest winner turned out to be After This Our Exile and its young actor Ian Iskandar also clinched the win for Best Supporting Actor and Best New Performer. In the Best Asian Film category, nominee Still Life was withdrawn as it failed to meet the election criteria, the vacancy was filled by I Not Stupid Too. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger, official website of the Hong Kong Film Awards
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