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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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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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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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Election (2005 film)
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Election, is a 2005 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnnie To. Featuring a large ensemble cast, the film stars Simon Yam, the film premiered as an Official Selection at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, before being released in Hong Kong on 20 October 2005, with a Category III rating. A sequel to the film, Election 2, concluded the film, Lok is calm, patient and even-tempered, while Big D, who attempts to buy the election, is boisterous, impatient and quick-tempered. After bitter arguments from supporters of candidates in the likes of Uncle Cocky and Uncle Monk, Lok is elected as the new chairman. However, during an attempt in a holding cell, Big D, in a fit of rage, threatens to break with the Triad. The culture of the Triad emphasises brotherhood and unity, such a revolt would not be accepted by the Triad, both the heads of the Triad and the police want to avoid turf warfare. Meanwhile, a pursuit of the baton ensues in which Kun, who is recovering the baton for Big D catches up with Big Head, who holds the baton and is recovering it for Lok. The leaders are released on bail and after hours of pursuit between Kun, Jimmy, and Jet on route, Lok eventually receives the baton from Jimmy thus making his election official. Lok proposes a truce, which Big D accepts, on the terms that they will be partners, initially, this is a successful partnership, together they expand the Triads turf. In contrast to his behaviour, Big D becomes loyal to Lok. In the final scene, Lok and Big D are fishing on an afternoon, accompanied by Loks young son, Denny. While momentarily alone with Lok, Big D proposes that they share the power of chairman, Lok agrees to support Big D. However, seconds later Lok attacks Big D from behind, using a small boulder to repeatedly smash in his head. Denny and Big Ds wife return in time to see this, Lok orders his son to wait in the car, and proceeds to finish murdering Big D. He then runs after Big Ds wife, attacking her with a shovel and he buries both bodies, washes his hands in the water and goes to the car, where his visibly shaken son is waiting. At the end of its run in Hong Kong, Election grossed about HK$15.59 million. Clubs Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes, To’s saga makes plain that self-interest, far more traditional ideas about honor. While that’s hardly a revelation, the writer-director deftly generates suspense from a mood of all-consuming untrustworthiness. Tartan Films has acquired all United States rights to this movie as of May 2006, the movie is notable in being nominated for 14 Golden Horse Awards in Hong Kong cinema
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Seven Swords
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Seven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong wuxia film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon. The story is adapted from Liang Yushengs novel Qijian Xia Tianshan and is completely unrelated to the novel except for some characters names. Seven Swords was used as the film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival. In the mid-17th century, the Manchus conquer the territories of the former Ming Empire, while nationalistic sentiments start brewing within the wulin, the Qing government immediately imposes a ban forbidding the common people from practising martial arts. The warlord Fire-Wind sees the new law as an opportunity to make a fortune so he offers to help the government execute the new rule, greedy, cruel and immoral, Fire-Wind ravages northwest China with his army and kills thousands of resistance fighters and innocent civilians. His next goal is to attack Martial Village, which houses a number of martial artists. Fu Qingzhu, an executioner, feels an urge to stop Fire-Wind so he sets forth to save Martial Village. He brings with him two young villagers, Han Zhibang and Wu Yuanying, to Mount Heaven to seek help from Master Shadow-Glow, Shadow-Glow allows his four students – Chu Zhaonan, Yang Yuncong, Xin Longzi and Mulang – to accompany the trio on their quest. He also gives each of them a sword he forged. The seven of them call themselves Seven Swords, the Seven Swords return to Martial Village in the nick of time and successfully defeat and drive away Fire-Winds soldiers. In order to buy time for the villagers to prepare for an evacuation, during the raid, Chu Zhaonan encounters Fire-Winds Korean slave girl, Green Pearl, and brings her along as they make their escape. As the villagers evacuate Martial Village and make their way into the hills and their food and water supplies are poisoned and their trail is marked by signs leading the enemy to them. The Seven Swords realise there is a spy among them and agree they must eliminate him/her before Fire-Wind catches up, Green Pearl immediately becomes the suspect because she does not speak their language. The situation is complicated by a romantic affair between Chu Zhaonan and Green Pearl. At one point, Green Pearl and Chu fall into a set by Fire-Wind. Chu uses his sword to free Green Pearl from a net cast by Fire-Winds men, while Chu is captured by the enemy, Green Pearl manages to escape and convey her message that Chu has been captured to the other swordsmen before succumbing to her injuries. The other six swordsmen travel to Fire-Winds base and engage him in battle to rescue Chu Zhaonan, during the Seven Swords absence, the spy, Qiu Dongluo, sets fire to the entrance to the cave to inform the enemy of the villagers whereabouts. He reveals his identity and begins killing the villagers systematically
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Perhaps Love (2005 film)
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Perhaps Love is a 2005 Hong Kong musical film directed by Peter Chan, written by Lam Oi-wah and Raymond To, and choreographed by Farah Khan. It was funded by Astro Shaw and TVB, and was distributed by Celestial Pictures, the film was submitted by Hong Kong as its official entry for the 2006 Academy Awards. It closed the Venice Film Festival in 2005, a Chinese director Nie Wen decides to make a musical film starring his Chinese girlfriend Sun Na and Hong Kong actor Lin Jian-dong. Unknown to him, Sun has met Lin before ten years ago when she was a singer in Beijing. The two had a relationship together then, when Lin was a film student, ten years later, now a huge movie star, Sun refuses to acknowledge they have met before. Nie plans his musical, which includes a plot where a girl loses her memory, Sun plays the amnesiac girl and Lin her former boyfriend who tries to revive her memories. As the shooting of the starts, reel life and real life overlap. Lin tries desperately to win back Suns lost love, while Nie discovers their past romance, Nie himself plays the role of the obsessive circus owner in the musical, who is involved in a love triangle. Just like in life, he has Lin as his rival. Ji Jin-hee plays Monty, a character who has a number of different roles in the film including a noodle shop owner. Zhou Xun as Sun Na Takeshi Kaneshiro as Lin Jiandong Jacky Cheung as Nie Wen Ji Jin-hee as Monty Sandra Ng as Lins manager Eric Tsang as Producer Perhaps Love was filmed in Beijing, the film is the first musical to be produced in China in over forty years. Estimates put the cost of the film at about US$10 million to produce, the film earned US$2.2 million on its opening weekend. The soundtrack was released in two versions, a version in a jewel case and a limited-edition, double-disc, boxed set version. The double-disc version was marketed as a Special Deluxe Edition and included a red slipcase with gold lettering. The slipcase was seven and three-fourths inches tall, one and three-fourths inches deep and it included a twenty-eight-page hardcover book, printed on thick paper, which included a synopsis of the film and brief biographies of its stars in both Mandarin and English. The book also included eighteen color photographs, the soundtrack was presented in a folding case with the music on a compact disc and a making of movie on a DVD disc. The folding case also included five postcards and a poster, the film is often compared to Moulin Rouge. As it prominently features the device of a story within a story, however, the musical numbers are limited to the inner show
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The Myth (film)
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The Myth is a 2005 Hong Kong martial arts-fantasy-adventure film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Kim Hee-sun and Mallika Sherawat. During the Qin dynasty, the general Meng Yi is tasked with escorting Ok-Soo, along the journey, a Korean warrior attempts to seize her back but Meng Yi saves her. Ok-soo falls in love with Meng Yi and displays her affections for him openly, the Qin emperor becomes critically ill later and he sends Meng Yi to find the elixir of immortality, the only thing that can save his life. The guards escorting the elixir are ambushed by rebels on the orders of the treacherous prince, Meng Yi hands over the elixir to his deputy, Nangong Yan, before dying in the ensuing battle. In the present-day, Jack, an archaeologist, is Meng Yis reincarnation, one day, his friend William invites him on a quest to find a rare material that can create a field of zero gravity. They travel to a tomb of a Dasar prince in India. Jack also learns that during a mission to the Qin Empire, in return, the Qin emperor offered him one of his concubines and asked him to choose, but refused when the prince chose his favourite, Ok-soo. Instead, the Qin emperor gave him a painting of Ok-soo, William removes a strange black rock from a feline statue, and accidentally collapses the zero gravity field holding up the tomb, resulting in its destruction. William manages to escape but Jack leaps off a cliff and falls into a river and he loses consciousness and drifts along with the current until he is saved by Samantha, an Indian peasant girl. Samantha brings Jack to see her uncle, a Kalaripayattu guru, during the fight, Jack has a recollection of a duel he had with the Dasar prince in his past life, and briefly recovers his fighting skills from his life as Meng Yi. Samanthas uncle enlightens Jack about his past and future, and Jack succeeds in returning home safely and his action angered Professor Koo, the leader of the syndicate that has been funding Jack and Williams treasure hunt. After extensive research, Jack and William conclude that the anti-gravity material is actually a fragment of a meteorite fell to Earth during the Qin dynasty. They find the location of the Qin emperors mausoleum, concealed behind a waterfall. The massive tomb contains the strongest fragment of the meteorite, which is enough to make the tomb become a floating palace. Jack meets Ok-soo and Nangong Yan still alive inside the tomb, just then, Professor Koo and his men enter the tomb and attempt to seize the immortality elixir, leading to an aerial fight between both parties. William accidentally breaks the balance of the field after removing a piece of the meteorite and causes the tomb to collapse on itself, and dies from drowning in mercury. Before the film ends, Jack is seen at home with a copy of The Myth. The Myth was released in Hong Kong on 23 September 2005 and it ended its run with HK$17 million, making it the third highest-grossing domestic release in Hong Kong that year, and overseas for a worldwide total of $120 million
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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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Johnnie To
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Johnnie To, also known as To Kei-Fung, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his action and crime movies, which have earned him critical respect and a cult following. His films, often made in collaboration with the group of actors, screenwriters and cinematographers, frequently explore themes of friendship, fate. To heads the Hong Kong-based production company Milkyway Image with his frequent co-director Wai Ka-Fai, johnnie To began his career at age 17 as a messenger for the Hong Kong television studio TVB. From there To moved up the ladder, working as an executive producer, in 1978, he shot his first theatrical feature, but continued working in television. In 1983, he directed and screen-wrote the critically acclaimed The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a dramatised TV series base on the martial art novel of the same name by Louis Cha. While working as an assistant TV director during the Shaw Studios era, he directed All About Ah-Long in 1989, starring Chow Yun-fat, in 1988, he co-directed The Big Heat, his first action movie. The film was produced by Tsui Hark, the end of the 1980s also saw some of Tos biggest commercial successes, the vast majority of which were comedies. His 1988 film The Eighth Happiness was that years highest-grossing movie, in April 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His 2011 film Life Without Principle was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, to is a member of the governing Council of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Commercially successful in his native Hong Kong, Tos films have appeared at international festivals, most notably in Europe. At the Berlin International Film Festival, Sparrow was shown in Competition in 2008, in North America, Tos films have been consistently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Mission, Fulltime Killer, PTU, Breaking News, Throw Down, in 2006, Election, Election 2, and Exiled were screened. In 2005, To received the Time Machine Career Achievement Award at the Festival de Cine de Sitges, Europes most prestigious film festival specializing in genre films, to was also honoured as a Filmmaker in Focus of 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2009, while Vengeance competed at Cannes, To was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in recognition for his films
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Tsui Hark
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Tsui Hark, born Tsui Man-kong, is a Vietnam-born Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter. He is viewed as a figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema and has been regarded by critics as one of the masters of Asian cinematography. Tsui was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, to a large Chinese family with sixteen siblings. Tsui showed an early interest in business and films, when he was 10, he. He also drew comic books, an interest that would influence his cinematic style, by the age of 13, he and his family immigrated to Hong Kong. Tsui started his education in Hong Kong in 1966. He proceeded to film in Texas, first at Southern Methodist University and then at the University of Texas at Austin. He claims to have told his parents he wanted to follow in his fathers footsteps as a pharmacist, and that it was here he changed his given name to Hark. After graduation, Tsui moved to New York City, where he worked on From Spikes to Spindles and he also worked as an editor for a Chinese newspaper, developed a community theatre group and worked in a Chinese cable TV station. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977, upon turning to feature filmmaking, Tsui was quickly typed as a member of the New Wave of young, iconoclastic directors. His debut film, The Butterfly Murders, was an eccentric and technically challenging blend of wuxia, murder mystery and his second film, Were Going to Eat You, was an eccentric blend of cannibal horror, black comedy and martial arts. Tsuis third film, Dangerous Encounter of the First Kind, put him beyond the pale, the thriller about delinquent youths on a bombing spree was nihilistic, grisly and pregnant with angry political subtext. Heavily censored by the British colonial government, it was released in 1981 in an altered version titled Dangerous Encounter – 1st Kind. Unsurprisingly, it was not a financial success, Tsui played his part in the process with pictures like the 1981 crime farce All the Wrong Clues, his first hit, and Aces Go Places 3, part of the studios long-running spy spoof series. In 1983, Tsui directed the fantasy film Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain for the studio Golden Harvest. Here, he developed a reputation as a hands-on and even intrusive producer of other directors work, fueled by public breaks with major filmmakers like John Woo. His most longstanding and fruitful collaboration has probably been with Ching Siu-tung, as action choreographer and/or director on many Film Workshop productions, Ching made a major contribution to the well-known Tsui style. Tsui has the knack of trend-setting in film genres which earned him the name Steven Spielberg of Asia
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2 Young
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2 Young is a 2005 Hong Kong romantic comedy-drama film directed by Derek Yee. The film was released in Mainland China on 15 April 2005, the literal translation of, is early maturity and the English title,2 Young, is a pun on the words too young. The controversial topic of a pregnancy of a minor is what the plot of 2 Young is framed around. 2 Young stars Jaycee Chan and Fiona Sit with a supporting cast including Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo, Anthony Wong, and Candice Yu, Ka Fu and Natalie, are from two different family backgrounds. Ka Fus father is a driver and his mother is a restaurant hostess. Natalie is from an affluent family and her parents are lawyers. They were eventually discovered by the school principals, while Bing and Sai successfully escaped, Ka Fu was caught but they decided to forgive him. Ka Fu took Natalie home, where they celebrated her 16th birthday, another contrast is that Ka Fu has a loving relationship with his parents, but Natalies relationship with her parents is distant as they are often away on business trips. Eventually, Ka Fu and Natalie gotten close with other as they got to know each other more. Natalie eventually found out herself when her pregnancy test came back positive, despite her anxiety of this issue, she decides to go through with the pregnancy in complete support from Ka Fu, along with Bing and Sai. However, Natalie, being underage and about two younger than Ka Fu, causes her parents, especially her father, to fly into a rage. Ka Fus parents also scold him and express that they do not want him to make the mistakes they did. Her father gets angry and canceled her bank account, internet services and he ordered his wife to be at home and watch over her 24/7. Ka Fu worked in jobs such as construction to make money to support themselves while Natalie stays home. Because of Natalies father, Ka Fu made the headlines, depicting him as a rapist that kidnapped Natalie, therefore, making Ka Fu a wanted person. The young lovers are discovered by Ka Fus parents after they forced Bing. When Natalie goes into labor, they are forced to return to the city. During the court scene, the relationships of the parents and their son, during court, he revealed that he gave false information to the police about Natalie being underage due to his anger and prejudice towards Ka Fu
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Wait 'til You're Older
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Wait til Youre Older is a 2005 Hong Kong fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Teddy Chan and starring Andy Lau. Chan Chi-kwong is a young boy who lives with his father and stepmother. He blames his stepmother for the suicide of his mother 3 years earlier, one day, while walking to school, he meets an eccentric old man in the park who accidentally pours a magic potion he has created down a drain. The next day, a tree has grown from a seedling in the drain. Kwong goes to the house and steals the potion, falling and breaking it as he tries to run away. Some of the potion enters a cut in his hand, kwong is thrilled that he has become an adult and is able to finally run away from home without being recognized. As he gets older each day, he learns more about being an adult, wait til Youre Older at the Internet Movie Database
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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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Divergence (film)
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Divergence is a 2005 Hong Kong action-crime film produced and directed by Benny Chan, from a screenplay by Ivy Ho. The film stars Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng and Daniel Wu and it is about three people who cross paths after the murder of a federal witness and a kidnapping of a pop star. CID Suen Siu-yan arrests the accountant of a money launderer, however, the accountant is assassinated upon his arrival in the Hong Kong airport. The killer Coke escapes without leaving any clues, while the masterminded laundry head is happy about the soon resumption of his frozen assets for the death of his unfavorable witness, his fond son Xia is kidnapped suddenly. He cant forget his girlfriend who disappeared 10 years ago and has not yet been found. During investigation, he finds a woman who looks very much alike with his missing girlfriend, the woman is the wife of the lawyer To who represents the laundry head. It raises his interest in the couple, although the killer Coke has completed his job, he cant help feeling great interest in the case and it violates the code of killers. He does it because years ago Suen was the host of the Police Call which leave him great impression, and he knows why Suens girlfriend disappeared 10 years ago. The lawyer To is very successful in his field and he always wins cases in the court and helps the suspects escape from prison terms. Will there be a side for an arrogant person like him. Everyone in the story seems to possess qualities that dont suit their identity. Will it engulf them into the whirlpool, simultaneously, there are many other crimes around the city. Unknown motivated murders and disappearances are plentiful, will the cases related to the 3 characters of the story
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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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Simon Yam
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Simon Yam, also known as Yam Tat-wah, is a veteran Hong Kong-based actor and film producer. Yam started off as a model before becoming an actor in the mid 1970s and he then signed with the Hong Kong television network TVB, starring and co-starring in a number of television series prior to apply his trades in the film industry in 1987. His elder brother is Yam Tak-wing, a retired former Deputy Commissioner of Hong Kong Police, in 1989, he starred in the Japanese-Hong Kong co-production of Bloodfight. This was the first of its kind in which English was spoken throughout the entire film, in 1992, Yam gained critical acclaim for his role as the maniacal Judge in the crime film Full Contact, where he faced off in a bloody battle against Chow Yun-fats character. In 1993, he starred as Dhalsim in the action-comedy film Future Cops, in 1996, Yam began his role as Chiang Tin-Sung, the leader of the Hung Hing triads in the first three instalments of the Young and Dangerous film series. In 2000, Yam starred as Cheung San, the progenitor of all vampires, in the television series My Date with a Vampire II, in 2003, Yam made his Hollywood film debut in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life as Shaolin crime lord. In 2013, Yam directed his first film, as part of the Hong Kong portmaneau horror film Tales From the Dark 1, Yam is married to Sophia Kao, known as Qi Qi, an international model. Born in Shanghai, but raised in Austria, Kao is a spokesperson for SKII, Hong Kong Film Awards Best Supporting Actor Nomination for The Be No. com Simon Yam at the Internet Movie Database HK Cinemagic entry Simon Yam discusses Ocean Flame
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Zhou Xun
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Zhou Xun is a Chinese actress and singer. She gained international fame for her roles in Suzhou River and Balzac. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China, Zhou was born to a middle-class family in Quzhou, Zhejiang. Her father, Zhou Tianning, was a film projectionist. She had her schooling in Quzhou No.1 Middle School, after she graduated, Zhou enrolled at the Zhejiang Arts Institute to further her interest in dramatic arts, against the wishes of her parents, who wanted her to graduate from a university. She was handpicked for a role in the film Strange Tales Amongst Old, Zhou debuted in the comedy movie The Pampered Wife. She next starred in Chen Kaiges films, Temptress Moon and The Emperor, but it was not until in 2000 that Zhou received recognition in China. Zhou achieved breakthrough on the big screen with Lou Yes Suzhou River and she won the Best Actress award at the 15th Festival du Film de Paris. That year, she was named one of the Four Dan Actresses alongside Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Wei and she further achieved international recognition when she starred in the Franco-Chinese romance drama film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. A string of projects followed. In her first Hong Kong film Hollywood Hong Kong directed by Fruit Chan, Hollywood magazine Variety praise Zhou saying Zhou is superb, moving with ease between her various personalities and always convincing in each. Her next film, romance-themed A Pinwheel Without Wind won her the Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Actress, among Zhous earlier notable works also include television series The Legend of the Condor Heroes and the film Baobei in Love. Zhou impressed critics once again with her performance in Peter Chans musical film Perhaps Love, the film represented Hong Kong at the 2006 Academy Awards. Zhou received Best Actress awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, Golden Bauhinia Awards and she next starred in Feng Xiaogangs wuxia film The Banquet, inspired from William Shakespeares Hamlet. Zhou plays the girlfriend of the prince, equivalent to Ophelia. She won the Golden Bauhinia Awards and Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress, with a string of successful films, Zhou was brought into the spotlight as one of Chinas top actresses. Her ability to pull off various roles makes her a favorite with Chinese directors, Zhous next project was Susie Aus film Ming Ming, which was highly praised at the 11th Pusan International Film Festival. Zhou played dual roles - twins with different characteristics and personalities
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Home Sweet Home (2005 film)
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Home Sweet Home is a 2005 Hong Kong horror film directed by Cheang Pou-soi, starring Karena Lam, Shu Qi, Alex Fong and Lam Suet. May moves into a new apartment in Hong Kong with husband Ray, during the move in, Chi-lo and May see a hideously-deformed being. They told Ray what they had seen and he suggests moving out, having already paid a lot for their new home, May decides that they should remain. One day, May takes Chi-lo to a birthday party for fun. During this time, Chi-lo is kidnapped by the hideous being, after informing the police, May and Ray begin searching the complex. In the parking garage, Ray is stabbed by the woman with a makeshift knife. With her neighbors refusing to help, May is forced to continue the search alone, a second attempt involves the help of a dog which quickly picks up the womans scent, tracking her to a rooftop. The dog scares Chi-lo and is killed by the deformed woman, when May arrives, she ends up collecting the severed finger from the dogs mouth. May then brings the finger to the working on the case. When the citys government tried to reclaim the area, a riot ensures, despite the squatters cleared out, Yim-hung returns there with Wing-man to continue their lives. May decides to lure out Yim-hung by printing copies of the latters picture, Yim-hung sees them and, attacks May in her apartment, ordering the latter to return her son. While May tries to tell her that her son died years ago, Chi-lo then arrives, back in the complexs utility systems, Yim-hung sees a vision of her dead husband, begging her to let go of their home that no longer exists. Upon seeing a reflection of her self in the glass door of an electrical grid, she smashes it. Once May sees a cloth that belongs to Chi-lo floating down from the sky, after fighting through the police who were sent to investigate the blackout, she comes across them preparing to jump off. May quickly stops them and attacks Yim-hung for kidnapping and traumatizing Chi-lo, while May and her son embrace, Yim-hung jumps off the rooftops to her death, wanting to reunite with her family in the afterlife. As the screen black, Chi-lo can be heard asking, Mom. As to when both May and Wan can be heard replying, Of course not, not even if you abandon me. Karena Lam as Chan Yim-hung Shu Qi as May Alex Fong as Ray Cheng Lam Suet as Lo Wai Ho Tam-chun as Cheng Chi-lo / Chan Wing-man Matt Chow as Mr
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Sylvia Chang
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Sylvia Chang Ai-chia is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival, Sylvia Chang was born in Chiayi, Taiwan and went off to school, until she was 16, where upon she dropped out and started her career as a radio DJ. When she was 18 years old she acted in her first film, Chang acted in her first film, The Tattooed Dragon, when she was 18 years old. In her most recent film,203040, she played the 40-year-old woman protagonist, wrote, Chang often attempted to do her own stunts in the four-part TV series Aces Go Places. She stated in an interview with film editor Clarence Tsui, I still think Hong Kongs film industry is male-dominated and she also believes that There arent many male filmmakers who would write scripts for women. She helped write the script of Run Papa Run, based on the novel by Benny Li Shuan Yan, that follows a man who belongs to the Triad and the relationship he has with his mother, wife, and daughter. Chang said in an interview that, I thought why dont I explore the gentler side of men, Chang first began performing in theatre productions more than 30 years ago. She returned to the stage in the production of Design For Living that premiered in November 2008, critics have remarked upon the versatility in her roles along with her willingness to always try for something new. Chang is also a singer and her music has become popular in karaoke, in the 1980s, Changs second film to direct, Passion, which she wrote and also starred in, won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. She has stated, I had never went to any school as a director or a filmmaker, for a time, Chang was the head producer of New Cinema City in Taiwan, but left a few years after joining. Chang once said of her films that, Ive always felt that animation or special effects shouldnt just be limited to science-fiction films, dramas can also play around with them. One critic wrote of her, that In an industry that kisses young actresses with celebrity, then swallows them and spits them out and she is the only Hong Kong actress of her generation—the early 70s—to keep starring in movies. Changs films have even been accepted into the London and Toronto International film Festivals and she has served on the jury for the Berlin Film Festival. She also holds the record for the most nominations for Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress, Chang is an advocate and a life-long volunteer for World Vision International, the humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. She created an advertisement, sponsored by World Vision, to promote the company and she is a member and advocate for the World Vision-sponsored 30 Hour Famine. Sylvia Chang is married to businessman Wang Ching Hung and they have one son, in July 2000, Sylvia Changs nine-year-old son Oscar was kidnapped and held for a ransom of HK $15 million. The police found him after a few days, safe, change stated, With your life, you have to move on, theres no other choice, so, out of no choice, then, its a matter of your attitude. Clarify or elaborate 1992 The Price of Love Sylvia Chang at the Internet Movie Database
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Rice Rhapsody
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Rice Rhapsody is a 2004 film directed by Kenneth Bi. The cast includes Sylvia Chang and Martin Yan, jackie Chan was one of the executive producers. The film is set in Singapores Chinatown and it is narrated by Jen Fan, owner of a successful restaurant. Her signature dish is Chicken Rice-in fact she is well known for it. Daniel and Harry are gay, and Jen is determined the youngest, Leo and she enlists the help of her friend Kim-Chui, who owns a nearby restaurant. He is less successful than Jen, but is in love with her, Leo has become her life, she is pinning all her hopes of grandchildren on him. She and Kim-Chui hatch a plan that involves bringing Sabine, a female French exchange student, when Sabine arrives, Leo predictably shows little interest in her. It is painfully clear to all except Jen that Leo is in love with his best friend Batman, Sabine is very laid- back and mystical in her outlook, and the family warm to her. It is she who ultimately helps Jen come to terms with her life, when Batman suddenly announces that he is leaving Singapore, Jen finally realises the truth from Leos grief-stricken face, and strikes him in fury. As he leaves the house, she falls down the stairs chasing him, some time later Jen, persuaded by Sabine, attends Harrys birthday party. There she meets many of Harrys gay friends, and she finds them delightful, another obstacle she must overcome is news of Daniels impending gay marriage, she is horrified and cannot accept it. The film ends with Jen finally realising how wonderful her sons truly are and she may also consider a future with the ever-loyal Kim-Chui but this is left open. Rice Rhapsody is a comedy with themes, including homosexuality. The irony is that Jen has three loving, successful sons, Harry, the hairdresser showers her with beauty products. However, She cannot see beyond her concerns about them being gay, both Kim-Chui and Sabine eventually help Jen to accept them for what they are, and the film, although comic, strikes a poignant note as well. An example is the expression in Jens eyes as she gazes at a friends grandson. Food is also an important theme integral to the plot, preparation of food, serving of food, are all lovingly portrayed. Interestingly Sabine the vegetarian never consumes the one thing Jen does best, a comic strand involves some friendly competition between Jen and Kim-Chui, resulting in a TV cookery standoff that allows Leo to reconcile with her
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Karen Mok
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Karen Mok known in the Chinese-speaking communities by Mok Man-wai/Mo Wen Wei, is one of the leading Chinese actors and pop stars. She has won the Golden Melody Award three times, has released over 20 solo CDs, has acted in over 40 movies and has over 36 million followers on Chinese microblogging site Weibo and she speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, German and French. She is of mixed ancestry, her father is half-Chinese and half-Welsh, while her mother is half-Chinese, quarter-Iranian, Mok attended Diocesan Girls School from primary to secondary grade in Hong Kong. When she was a F.5 student, she received the 1st Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards and she later left Hong Kong in 1987 and studied abroad. She attended United World College of the Adriatic near Trieste, Italy from 1987 to 1989 and she also supplied the voice of Princess Kida for the Cantonese dub of Walt Disneys Atlantis, The Lost Empire. Mok played the lead in the 10th anniversary Asian tour of the hit Broadway musical Rent in the lead role of Mimi in 2005 and 2006. Mok carried the torch at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, in October 2008, she launched her own brand of perfume in Hong Kong. Mok conducted a number of concert tours, the most recent ones being The original Karen Mok show, The Age of MOKnificence. She was the first Chinese pop artist to give concerts in Madrid. For her tour REGARDEZ, she acted as concert director. Mok has completed many endorsement agreements with leading brands such as Canon, Kappa, Cadillac, Clear, Chow Tai Fook, Lux, Titus, Mok has 3 step-children and spends her time between London and her international engagements. Mok is an advocate for animals and animals rights and has been involved in numerous campaigns for this purpose. She has also involved with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Asia-Pacifics. In 2007, Mok was involved with MTV EXIT, a campaign against human trafficking in Asia and she presented Traffic, An MTV EXIT Special, a documentary on trafficking. Karen currently serves as ambassador for UNICEF, SPCA, Animals Asia Foundation, Enlighten-Action for Epilepsy, Care for Children, and Roll Back Malaria. In 2016, she was awarded the title of the ambassador of the Italian city of Bergamo. Official website Karen Mok at the Internet Movie Database Karen Mok at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
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Anthony Wong (Hong Kong actor)
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Anthony Perry, known professionally as Wong Chau-sang or Anthony Wong, is a Hong Kong actor. Anthony Perry was born on 2 September 1961 to an English-born sailor, Frederick Perry, and his father walked out on the family when he was four, which prompted his mother to relocate the family to Hong Kong. In his acting career, Wongs established a reputation for openly critiquing the Hong Kong film industry and its practices, actors performances and pop culture in interviews, during his late teens, Wong moved to Britain to attend a college of further education. He returned to Hong Kong to attend a course in hairdressing until he quit to join ATVs training programme when he was 21. After completing ATVs training programme, he continued his training at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He had stated in an interview that his mixed ethnicity initially caused him to be typecast as a villain, due to institutionalised racism in the Hong Kong film industry during this period. He, however, won an Hong Kong Film Award for his performance as a serial killer. In the following years, Wong appeared in a range of genre films including Rock n Roll Cop, Hard Boiled, The Heroic Trio, Infernal Affairs, The Mission. Wong had also appeared in a number of international English-language films including The Painted Veil and The Mummy, in 1995, Wong made his directorial debut with The New Tenant. In 2014, Wong made his debut in Dinner Confidential. He also became the first Hong Kong actor to had won Best Actor awards in films, stage theatre and he also became the first Hong Kong actor to ever won TVBs Best Actor award on his first nomination. Wong is the singer of a local Hong Kong punk rock band. Wong is married and has three sons called Omar Wong, Ulysses Wong and William Wong, in a 2005 interview with Star eCentral, Wong stated that amongst his prolific output during the 1980s and the 1990s, a considerable number of films he appeared in were poor and exploitative. He, however, has no regrets because he needed the money to support his wife, their sons and his mother
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SPL: Sha Po Lang
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SPL, Sha Po Lang is a 2005 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Wilson Yip, and starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung and Simon Yam. The film was released in Hong Kong on 18 November 2005, Yam portrays a retiring police detective who resorts to the use of questionable methods in order to catch Wong Po, a ruthless triad boss. The title Sha Po Lang refers to three words derived from Chinese astrology that each represent a different star capable of good or evil depending on their position in the heavens. The movie is set before 1997, prior to the return of Hong Kong to the Peoples Republic of China, Chan Kwok-chung, a Hong Kong police inspector, has dedicated his career to putting Wong Po, a notorious triad boss, behind bars. While escorting a witness with damning evidence of Wongs wrongdoings to court, Chans car is rammed by another car driven by Jack, Jack proceeds to kill the wounded witness and his wife, but spares their young daughter. Chan survives with a piece of glass stuck in his head, after the glass is removed, the doctor informs Chan of a tumor in his brain that will soon kill him. Chan becomes even more determined to bring down Wong Po, using any means necessary, three years later, Ma Kwun, a police officer from another precinct, is assigned to replace Chan, who is going to retire soon. Ma will lead Chans team, composed of Wah, Sum, the three men are very protective of Chan, who has since adopted the slain witness daughter. An electronics shop owner brings to the station a video tape of Wong Po torturing an undercover agent. In the video, Wong hits the agent repeatedly with a golf club, Chan and his colleagues decide to alter the tape, intimidate the shop owner into accusing Wong Po of being the murderer, and eliminate the real killer. Ma, who beat up a drug trafficker so badly that the latter has become mentally handicapped, has vowed to abstain from using questionable means in his career. He is upset when he sees Chan and his colleagues resorting to use underhanded means to frame Wong Po for murder and he witnesses Chans team murdering the henchman that killed the undercover agent, and confronts the four of them, resulting in a brief fight. Despite their disagreements, Ma still assists Chan and the later in the arrest of Wong Po. The group receives a message warning them against leaving the station that night. Ignoring the threat, Lok goes to buy a gun to serve as Wong Pos murder weapon, later that night, Jack sneaks up on Wah and Sum and stabs them to death. Ma rushes to them but arrives too late. Before dying, Wah confesses to Ma that he, Sum and Lok had stolen money from Wong Po to help Chan raise his adopted daughter, a copy of the original video tape is sent to Chans superior, Cheung Chun-fei. Seeing that Chan had tampered with evidence to frame Wong Po, Cheung releases Wong, an elderly policeman called Uncle Ba helps Chan avoid arrest
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