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Demoness From Thousand Years
''Demoness from Thousand Years'' (), also known as ''Chase from Beyond'', is a 1990 Hong Kong action fantasy horror film directed by Jeng Wing-Chiu. Synopsis When the Demoness from a Thousand Years threatens to break into the real world, a Taoist priest sends his two fairy disciples to steal the Bead of Hell, which has the power to destroy the Demoness when combined with the Heaven's Sun Bead. Cast * Joey Wong as Yun Yuk Yi * Jacky Cheung as Mambo * Meg Lam as the Evil * Andy Hui Andy Hui Chi-on (born 12 August 1967) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Hui is considered one of the most successful Hong Kong singers, with an extensive list of Cantonese and Mandarin hits to his credit. Early life Hui's mother is Vietnamese ... as An * Tai Chi Squadron as the Gang Members * Tiffany Lau as Yin * Michelle Sima as Policeman * Hsiao Ho as Modern Sifu * Gloria Yip as Siu Yi * Ku Feng as Ancient Sifu (cameo appearance) * Law Ching-Ho as Policeman * Walter Tso as the Retarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Wong
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Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Dubbed the " God of Songs", he is regarded as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong pop music. Cheung is known for his technically skilled vocals, lengthy tours, and multimillion-selling albums. His successful music and acting career has made Cheung one of Hong Kong's icons. He was elected by Time Magazine as one of the "25 most influential people in the New Hong Kong". Cheung set the Guinness World record for the largest combined audience for a live act in 12 months during his ''" Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century World Tour"'', with 2,048,553 audience members. " ''Jacky Cheung performs for largest combined audience.'' Retrieved on 12 June 2012. Early life Jacky Cheung was bor ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Hui
Andy Hui Chi-on (born 12 August 1967) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Hui is considered one of the most successful Hong Kong singers, with an extensive list of Cantonese and Mandarin hits to his credit. Early life Hui's mother is Vietnamese. He was transferred to Confucian Tai Shing Primary School because his previous school forced him to perform tasks right-handed when he was born left-handed. Career Hui was the first runner-up in the fifth Annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1986. Hui has appeared in more than 25 films. His first music contract came in 1986, and his singing career reached stellar status in 2001 as he won awards of the most favourite male singer. In 2004, Hui was named by Alan Tam as one of the 'New Four Heavenly Kings' along with Hacken Lee, Leo Ku, and Edmond Leung which would be replacing the once lustrous title awarded to Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, and Leon Lai. In October 2005, Andy was declared one of Ten Outstanding Young Persons w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsiao Ho (actor)
Hsiao Ho, (Hsiao Hou) (; Cantonese: Siu Hau, born 2 March 1958 in Meixian District, Guangdong, China) is a Hong Kong martial arts film actor, stunt performer and action choreographer. A Hakka, he has acted in many films directed by Lau Kar-leung, including '' Mad Monkey Kung Fu'' and Legendary Weapons of China. In 1985 he portrayed legendary kung fu warrior Fong Sai-Yuk in the Lau directed action-comedy, '' Disciples of the 36th Chamber'' and also took a lead role in Fake Ghost Catchers, directed by Lau Kar Wing. Fake Ghost Catchers is marketed by Celestial Pictures as being made two years before Ghostbusters (inferring that the idea for ''Ghostbusters'' may have come from the movie). Hou is also known for portraying the "disfigured swordsman" and doubling complicated action scenes in 1993's '' Iron Monkey''. He was also the action director for the movie Shaolin Avengers (1994). In 1982 he was nominated for Best Action Choreography for the movie Legendary Weapons of China (fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Hong Kong
Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841, during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing dynasty. The Qing had wanted to enforce its prohibition of opium importation within the dynasty that was being exported mostly from British India, as it was causing widespread addiction among its populace. The island was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking, ratified by the Daoguang Emperor in the aftermath of the war of 1842. It was established as a crown colony in 1843. In 1860, the British took the opportunity to expand the colony with the addition of the Kowloon Peninsula after the Second Opium War, while the Qing was embroiled in handling the Taiping Rebellion. With the Qing further weakened after the First Sino-Japanese War, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Prevalent elements include fairies, angels, mermaids, witches, monsters, wizards, unicorns, dragons, talking animals, ogres, elves, trolls, white magic, gnomes, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons, dwarves, giants, goblins, anthropomorphic or magical objects, familiars, curses and other enchantments, worlds involving magic, and the Middle Ages. Subgenres Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in fantasy literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Sima
Michelle Sima () (1963–2015) was a Hong Kong actress. Sima is credited with over 25 films. Early life On March 15, 1963, Sima was born in Hong Kong. Career In 1980, Sima became a beauty pageant contestant in Miss Hong Kong, but she was not placed. In 1983, Sima became an actress in Hong Kong films. Sima first appeared as Pak Wing-Sin (or Dior Bai Yongxian) in The Sensational Pair, a 1983 Drama film directed by Albert Lai Gin-Kwok. Sima was active in the 1980s and early 1990s as a supporting actress or sex symbol role in Cantonese Romantic Comedy, Drama, and Horror films. Sima's last film was The Mad Monk, a 1993 Fantasy film directed by Johnnie To Kei-Fung. Sima is credited with over 25 films. In 1996, Sima retired from the film industry. Filmography Films This is a partial list of films. * 1983 ''The Sensational Pair'' - Pak Wing-Sin (or Dior Bai Yongxian) * 1989 Doubles Causes Troubles - Inspector Xu * 1990 ''Demoness from Thousand Years'' (aka Chase From Beyond) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Yip
Gloria Yip Wan-Yee (, born January 13, 1973, in Hong Kong, the elder of two sisters and daughter of prominent businessman Yip Shao) is a Hong Kong actress and singer, best known for her four films with director Lam Ngai Kai, and to Western audiences, her "special appearance" in Lam's '' Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky'' and principal supporting role in the cult classic ''Saviour of the Soul''. Among her more frequent collaborators are Yuen Biao, Lai Kai Ming, and Wong Jing. Her early roles were primarily cute and comedic, while her more recent, post-divorce roles, have primarily been dramatic. She was discovered as a teenager by a Japanese talent scout. Like many movie stars in Hong Kong, she has also pursued a career as a singer, touring in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, and she has released more than half a dozen CDs. In her homeland, she retains a reputation for wholesomeness, a childlike face described as "forever 19 years old," and the philandering of her husban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku Feng
Chan Sze-man (born 3 July 1930), better known by his stage name Ku Feng, is a Hong Kong actor. Background He studied in Beijing, and has appeared in hundreds of films, many of which were produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. () was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, and operated from 1925 to 2011. In 1925, three Shaw brothers— Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shangh .... Filmography Film Television series References External linksGuk Fengat TigerCinema.comat LoveHKFilm.com * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ku, Feng 1930 births TVB actors Hong Kong male film actors Living people Hong Kong male television actors Male actors from Shanghai 20th-century Hong Kong male actors 21st-century Hong Kong male actors Chinese male film actors Chinese male television actors 20th-century Chinese male actors 21st-century Chinese male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin-hung Tam
Sin-hung Tam () is a Chinese opera singer and actress from Hong Kong. Tam is credited with over 140 films. Early life On August 28, 1931, Tam was born in Macau. Career At age 13, Tam entered the entertainment business and started her career performing Cantonese opera. Tam studied under Yam Kim-fai. In 1953, Tam crossed over as an actress in Hong Kong films. Tam appeared in Sworn to Love, a 1953 comedy film directed by Chiang Wai-Kwong. Tam appeared in The Lion's Roar with both Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet Sin, a 1959 Cantonese opera film directed by Chiang Wai-Kwong. In 1970, Tam retired from Cantonese film industry, but in 1987, she returned to acting. Tam is known for her role as Auntie Yung in A Kindred Spirit (1995-1999), a television drama series that was broadcast on TVB Jade TVB Jade (), or simply Jade, is a Hong Kong Cantonese-language free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) as its flagship service, alongside its sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
