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Jo Koo
Jo Koo Cho-lam (谷祖琳; born 16 May 1977), sometimes credited as Jo Koo is a Hong Kong actress and singer. Personal life In 2010, Koo married businessman Andrew Lau Wing-hang (劉穎恆), whom she met while studying in Australia. The couple have one daughter, born in 2012, and announced in July 2014 that Kuk was pregnant again. Outside of her acting career, Kuk also runs a chain of dessert shops. Filmography TV series References External links * * Jo Kukat the Hong Kong Cinemagic Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual ( French and English) website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people who created them. The websi ... Jo KooaInstagram 20th-century Hong Kong actresses 1977 births Living people 21st-century Hong Kong actresses Hong Kong film actresses Hong Kong television actresses {{HongKong-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (Hong Kong)
''The Sun '' () was one of the newspapers in Hong Kong, first published in March 1999. It belonged to the Oriental Press Group Limited (東方報業集團有限公司). The paper ceased publication in April 2016. There was also an electronic version of ''The Sun '' on the Internet. Both the newspaper and the electronic version were written in traditional Chinese. Background "No fear for wind and storm and with the emergence of the ''Sun'', a sharp contrast will be found between black and white". (無懼風雨，太陽一出，黑白分明) was the slogan used by ''The Sun '' when it first appeared in the market. The phrase actually means "There is no need to fear trials and tribulations, for once the sun rises, all things will become clear, the righteous will shine and the wrong will hide in the shadows." Since the newspaper market in 1999 has already been well-developed, ''The Sun'' adopted an aggressive marketing strategy to gain as much market share as possible, initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooked On You (film)
''Hooked on You'' () is a 2007 Hong Kong comedy-drama film directed and edited by Law Wing-Cheong and produced by Johnnie To and his production company Milkyway Image. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film stars Miriam Yeung as a fishmonger who strives to fulfill her lifelong dreams before she turns 30. Plot Miu, a fishmonger at the Prosperity Market. Because of her father's debt she gives herself three years to work at the Wet market. She promises herself that she's going to leave the wet market and find a man worthy of her. At the market she always quarrels with her neighbor stall Mr. Fish (Eason Chan), but when a new supermarket threatens their business at the Prosperity Market they work together to fight against it. Cast * Miriam Yeung - Miu * Eason Chan - Fishman * Huang Bo - Porky * Fung Shui-Fan - Miu's father * Stephanie Cheng * Wong You-Nam - Joe * Jo Kuk - Salesgirl at accessory shop * Charmaine Fong * Lam Ka-Tung - Beautician * Hui Shiu-Hung - Bro Hung * Raymond Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All's Well, Ends Well 2011
''All's Well, Ends Well 2011'' (Chinese: 最強囍事) is a 2011 Hong Kong romantic comedy film directed by Chan Hing-ka and Janet Chun. It is the sixth instalment in the ''All's Well, Ends Well'' film series, was released on 2 February 2011. Plot Make-up artist Sammy (Louis Koo) is hired by Dream ( Yan Ni) as the director of a cosmetic company with Claire (Cecilia Cheung) being the only colleague who is willing to assist him. Sammy invites Arnold (Donnie Yen), a fellow make-up artist, to join him. Though Arnold might appear to be a woman's magnet, his heart still lingers with his first love Mona (Carina Lau), a frustrated writer. A minor incident in the new product commercial ties the friendship among Sammy, Arnold and the yacht billionaire Syd (Chapman To). Syd meets Claire and aims to pursue her. Having grown up in a poor family, Claire seizes this as a golden opportunity to live a prosperous life and asks Sammy for help to fulfill her dream, without realising that she has fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Child's Eye
''The Child's Eye'' () is a 2010 Hong Kong horror film by the Pang brothers. It takes place in 2008 in Bangkok where six find themselves at the Chung Tai Hotel. After Rainie (Rainie Yang) sees a female ghost and Ling (Elanne Kwong) finds a disembodied hand, they find that while at dinner, the three men they came with have disappeared. Rainie leads the girls to find their friends. ''The Child's Eye'' premiered on 4 September 2010 at the Venice Film Festival, making it the first 3D Hong Kong horror film. The film received negative reviews, most of which took issue with the quality of the script. Plot In Bangkok, six young people on vacation find themselves stranded at an airport due to a riot. A driver takes them to the Chung Tai Hotel, run by Chuen, where Rainie sees a female ghost and Ling finds a hovering hand trying to grab her. While at dinner the three men disappear. Rainie leads the girls with the aid of Man-man and her ghost-seeing dog Little Huang as they try to find them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Love (2010 Film)
''All About Love'' (得閒炒飯 ''De xian chao fan'') is a 2010 Hong Kong film directed and produced by Ann Hui. Based on a true story, the plot concerns two bisexual women who had been lovers in the past and meet again years later in a counseling session for expectant mothers. Hui said in an interview that initially "There were no investors" for the film because the subject of same-sex relationships was banned in China, and the Hong Kong film industry relied on the Chinese market. Ms. Hui, a graduate of the London Film School, described the film as "serious...but it is also very commercial," adding that "Sometimes it is better to make serious issues more acceptable to audiences, by making it a comedy and having big stars so that people will come watch the movie." Cast * Sandra Ng as Macy * Vivian Chow as Anita * Cheung Siu-fai as Robert * William Chan as Mike * Joey Meng as Eleanor * Queenie Chu * Fan Yik-Man * Fung Bo Bo * Raven Hanson * Serina Ha * Jo Kuk as Waiwai * Abe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In A Puff (film)
''Love in a Puff'' () is a 2010 Hong Kong romantic comedy directed by Pang Ho-cheung and starring Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung. The plot revolves around the love story of Cherie and Jimmy, two smokers who met at an outdoor smoking area subsequent to the ban of all indoor smoking areas in Hong Kong. The film is classified as a category 3 film in Hong Kong. ''Love in a Puff'' is one of the films which premiered in the 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival. A sequel, titled ''Love in the Buff'' was released on 29 March 2012 with the film being set in Beijing, China. Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung reprised their roles. A third installment, ''Love Off the Cuff'', was released on April 27, 2017. Plot Since 2007, the Hong Kong government banned smoking in all indoor areas, causing smokers from neighboring buildings to gather for cigarette breaks during office hours at trash bins with ashtrays near their work premises. The regulars started sharing small talks and dirty jokes like f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Womb Ghosts
''Womb Ghosts'' () is a 2010 Hong Kong horror film directed and written by Dennis Law. Plot A dead fetus lives on after death inside a woman's body, existing as a Womb Ghost. Unnatural termination of such life will turn the baby into the evilest and most vicious kind of spirit. The plot takes place mainly in a mental hospital where the women who are being impregnated mysteriously. When a young inmate had a miscarriage, the doctors tried to remove the dead fetus inside her. Little did they know that a horrifying outcome is just one of many things that haunts their mental hospital, a non-stop horror experience where haunting begins when life ends… Only one answer can be given to the existence of such an ungodly creature, the Womb Ghost. Cast Release The film was released on 18 March 2010 in Hong Kong. ''Womb Ghosts'' debuted as the eighth highest-grossing film for the weekend on its premiere. The next week, it charted at ninth place. The film has grossed $211,004 in Hong Kong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poker King
''Poker King'' () is a 2009 Hong Kong comedy film co-written and directed by Chan Hing-Kai and Janet Chun and starring Louis Koo and Sean Lau. Plot People say one's fate has been pre-determined from the start like the cards in a Texas Hold’em game. Uno (Lau Ching Wan), a small-time crook turned casino magnate, and Jack, the scion of a powerful gaming clan lead very different lives until fate brought them together in a poker duel of a lifetime. The setting is Macau, Las Vegas of the Orient, where the buzz in town is that Uno has snared the operations of the venerable Sun Casinos from its deceased owner. In a bid to clear his name, he has the sole heir Jack (Louis Koo) brought back from Canada where he spent the last few years in hiding. Jack, an inept businessman and a socially awkward young man, spent his days playing online poker. When it became clear that he has neither the instinct nor the skills to take over, Uno invokes the owner's will and takes charge of Jack's family bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Written By
''Written By'' ( zh, t=再生號, s=再生号, first=t) is a 2009 Hong Kong fantasy drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Wai Ka-Fai, and starring Lau Ching-Wan and Kelly Lin. Lau plays a lawyer who is killed in an accident, leaving behind his wife, daughter, and son. He is resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel, where he finds himself a grieving husband who lost his family and his sight during a car accident, living in an alternate reality. The film premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival in June 2009, and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 10 July 2009. Plot "Lau Ching-Wan plays a lawyer who dies in a car wreck just before answering his daughters question about ghosts, leaving behind his wife, daughter and son. To console herself, his daughter (blind from the crash) writes a novel where she, her mother and brother have died in a car wreck but her father(but blind) has survived. To her surprise, the character of her father in her book deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Come With The Rain
''I Come with the Rain'' is a 2009 neo-noir thriller written and directed by Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung, starring American actor Josh Hartnett. After making three movies about Vietnam, Tran Anh Hung intended to make a baroque action film, a passionate thriller, both intense and poetic, haunted by three characters from the mythology of film and the Western world: the serial killer, the private investigator, and the Christ figure. The action takes place in Los Angeles, Mindanao and Hong Kong and brings together American and Asian actors. The film score is written by the Argentine Academy Award Winner Gustavo Santaolalla and the English alternative rock band Radiohead. The filmmaker also makes heavy use of post-rock music, including songs by Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and A Silver Mt. Zion. The film premiered in Tokyo at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills on May 27, 2009. Synopsis Two years after killing Hasford, a serial killer, in the line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vengeance (2009 Film)
''Vengeance'' () is a 2009 action thriller film co-produced and directed by Johnnie To, and written by Wai Ka-Fai. It stars Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Wong, Gordon Lam, Lam Suet, Simon Yam, Michelle Ye and Sylvie Testud. The film tells the story of Francis Costello, a French chef and former assassin whose daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren are attacked by a gang of Triads. Costello travels to Macau to embark on a quest for revenge, enlisting the aid of three hitmen. The film explores the themes of assassination, violence and the influence of Triads in modern society.Johnnie To (Director). (2009). ''Vengeance'' otion picture Hong Kong, France: Milkyway Image. Produced by Milkyway Image, the film was released by ARP Sélection in France, and Media Asia Films in Hong Kong. The idea of To directing an English-language film originated with ARP co-founders Michèle and Laurent Pétin, who had Alain Delon in mind for the lead role. In 2006, after Delon turned down the role, the Pét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Cop & Papa Crook
''Lady Cop & Papa Crook'' () is a 2008 Hong Kong crime film written and directed by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, and starring Sammi Cheng and Eason Chan. Chan plays the kingpin of a red diesel crime ring who is forced to team up and co-operate with a hot-tempered police officer (Cheng) when his son is kidnapped, thus beginning an unlikely alliance between fellow police officers and criminals. The film marks Cheng's first feature-film role after a three-year absence from the Hong Kong cinema scene, her last film being the 2005 film ''Everlasting Regret''. After filming, ''Lady Cop & Papa Crooks theatrical release date was delayed several times, due to the film not meeting Chinese censorship standards, which resulted in several scenes being reshot. The film later received a confirmed Hong Kong release date of 1 January 2009 in Hong Kong and Singapore. Plot John Fok (Eason Chan) is the kingpin of illegal red diesel in Greater China. When an oil tanker explodes accidentally, he beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
