Snakeheads (film)
''Stowaway'' (), alternatively known as ''Snakeheads'', is a 2001 Hong Kong action film based on the true story of a group of stowaways from Fuzhou illegally immigrating to the United Kingdom in 2000. In the incident, 58 illegal immigrants suffocated to death in an airtight truck of tomatoes at Dover, England on 20 June 2000. '' People's Daily'', 2000-08-04. Retrieved on 2008-11-10. Synopsis In June 2000, a group of Fuzhou people spend a fortune for various reasons to be smuggled to the United Kingdom. They are first sent to[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
Clarence Fok Yiu-leung (霍耀良) is a Hong Kong film director and actor from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is perhaps best known for directing the international cult classic ''Naked Killer'' (1992). He was once asked by producer Mario Kassar to direct ''Basic Instinct 2''.Source: interview on ''Naked Killer'' DVD Awards Fok was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in ''Let's Make Laugh II'' (1985). Filmography As director * ''Special ID'' (2013) * '' Dating a Vampire in Bed'' (2006) * '' Don't Open Your Eyes'' (2006) * ''Martial Angels'' (2001) (as Clarence Ford) * '' Snakeheads'' (2001) * ''Queen of Kowloon'' (2000) * '' Don't Look Back... Or You'll Be Sorry in Bed'' (2000) (as Clarence Ford) * ''Century of the Dragon'' (1999) * '' The H.K. Triad'' (1999) * '' Her Name Is Cat'' (1998) (as Clarence Ford) * ''Cheap Killers'' (1998) * '' On Fire'' (1996) * '' Thunder Cop'' (1996) * '' Passion'' (1995) * ''The Black Panther Wa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2000s Cantonese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hong Kong Films
The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including its worldwide diaspora). For decades, Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world following US cinema and Indian cinema and the second largest exporter. Despite an industry crisis starting in the mid-1990s and Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997, Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now arguably a part of the cultural mainstream, widely ava ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2001 Films
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chan Jun Kin
Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) * Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach *Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach * Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman *Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist *Chan Romero (born 1941), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and musicians * Chan Santokhi (born 1959), President of Suriname and former chief of police *Bang Chan (born 1997), member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids *Heo Chan (born 1995), member of the South Korean boy band Victon *Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai Computing and media *chan-, an abbreviation for channels in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) *chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard CHAN *African Nations Championship or ''Championnat d'Afrique des Natio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Annie Wu (actress)
Annie Wu (born 21 August 1978) is a Taiwanese actress and model. She has mainly acted in mainland Chinese TV series, and was featured in Jackie Chan's '' Police Story 4: First Strike''. Though not fluent in Cantonese, she has also been featured in several Hong Kong films and magazine spreads. During her part in ''First Strike'', Jackie Chan joked how horrible her Cantonese was and subsequently her voice was dubbed over with another voice. After several years with small parts in Hong Kong movies she is no longer active in the Hong Kong entertainment scene, and has primarily acted in roles in China. As of 2007 she is still acting and maintains a blog about her life. She's currently featured in a Korean/China co-produced series called ''Mama's Soup House.'' In 2012, Wu married Aaron Liao, the son of Liao Hui, a former vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. They have one daughter, Mia, born in 2014. They have one son born in 2019. Filmography *' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Chow Man-Kin
Michael Chow Man-Kin ( 周 文 健) is a Beijing-born Hong Kong-based actor. Filmography * '' Inspector Chocolate'' (1986) - Inspector Leung * '' Goodbye Darling'' (1987) - Party Member with gun * '' City War'' (1988) - Bobby * ''The Big Heat'' (1988) - Assassin * ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' (1988) - Peter * '' Heart to Hearts'' (1988) * ''Police Story 2'' (1988) - CID Cop * '' Keep on Dancing'' (1988) - Mental patient * ''Blood Call'' (1988) - Michael * '' The Eighth Happiness'' (1988) - Ying-Ying's boyfriend * '' Raid on Royal Casino Marine'' aka. '' The Inspector Wears Skirts III'' (1990) - Captain * ''God of Gamblers'' (1989) - Casino manager * ''Miracles'' (1989) - Dai Jek Dung * '' I Am Sorry'' (1989) * '' Hearts No Flowers'' (1989) * ''Nobles'' (1989) - Blind Date * '' Her Fatal Ways 2'' (1991) - Ah Fu * ''Fallen Angel'' (1991) (TV) - Angel * '' Alien Wife'' (1991) * ''Her Fatal Ways'' (1991) - Niu * ''Cash on Delivery'' (1992) - Rookie gigolo * ''Fight Back to School II ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oscar Leung
Oscar Leung (, born 1979) is an actor previously contracted to TVB. His uncle is the actor Bryan Leung. Filmography TV dramas Films Micro Film , - ! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" , My AOD Favourite Awards , - , - ! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" , TVB Anniversary Awards The TVB Anniversary Awards (), officially known as the TVB Awards Presentation, is an annual awards ceremony honoring TVB's programming achievements in Hong Kong television; despite claims that it is the region's equivalent to the American E ... , - References External links * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leung, Oscar 1979 births Living people Hong Kong male film actors Hong Kong male television actors TVB veteran actors 21st-century Hong Kong male actors ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benny Lai
The Jackie Chan Stunt Team (), also known as Jackie Chan's Stuntmen Association, is a group of stuntmen and martial artists who work alongside Jackie Chan. Founded in the 1970s, it initially included Hong Kong action stuntmen and martial artists, before expanding to include international talent over the next several decades. History The JC Stunt Team was established in 1976 and originated from the relationships Chan formed in his early starring roles in Hong Kong action movies. Several of his co-stars and stuntmen hired by the film studios began working together regularly. This engendered a familiarity of one another's skills and abilities and it made sense for them to become a working team. Some of the members had received training at the Peking Opera schools, similar to Chan. By 1983, and the release of the film '' Project A'', the stunt team had become an official organisation of six members. The organisation meant that the stuntmen not only received insurance coverage, but ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |