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The Laser Man (1988 Film)
''The Laser Man'' is a 1988 Hong Kong film in the style of a crime drama parody A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subj .... External links * 1988 films Hong Kong crime comedy-drama films 1980s parody films 1980s crime comedy-drama films 1988 comedy-drama films 1980s Hong Kong films {{1980s-HongKong-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Hayashi
Marc Hayashi is an American actor and director. He was an early member of the Asian American Theater Company The Asian American Theater Company (AATC) is a non-profit theatre performance company based in San Francisco. Its stated mission is "To connect people to Asian American culture through theatre". Background The Asian American Theater Company was es .... Selected filmography References External links * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American male actors American male actors of Japanese descent American male film actors American film actors of Asian descent {{US-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Leung Ka Fai
Tony Leung Ka-fai (; born 1 February 1958) is a Hong Kong actor who is a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor. As he is often confused with actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tony Leung Ka-fai is known as "Big Tony," while Tony Leung Chiu-wai is known as "Little Tony," nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective age and physical statures. Career Leung has been in the film industry for more than 30 years, starring in a variety of roles. His debut film was ''Burning of the Imperial Palace'' (1983), where he played the Xianfeng Emperor. He would later work with Chow Yun-fat in three films, '' Prison on Fire'' (1987), ''A Better Tomorrow 3'' (1989), and ''God of Gamblers Returns'' (1994). He also appeared as Joyce Godenzi's husband in ''She Shoots Straight'', Joyce's trademark film. In 1991, Leung went to France to appear in Jean-Jacques Annaud's '' The Lover'', based on Marguerite Duras's novel, as the older lover of a young teen schoolgirl, who was played by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Copeland
Joan Maxine Kupchik ( Miller; June 1, 1922 – January 4, 2022), known professionally as Joan Copeland, was an American actress. She was the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller. She began her career during the mid-1940s, appearing in theatre in New York City, where, shortly thereafter, she would become one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio. She moved into television and film during the 1950s while still maintaining an active stage career. She is best known for her performances in the 1977 Broadway revival of '' Pal Joey'' and her award-winning performance in the 1981 play '' The American Clock''. She also played a number of prominent roles on various soap operas throughout her career, including Andrea Whiting on ''Search for Tomorrow'' and Gwendolyn Lord Abbott on '' One Life to Live''. She voiced Tanana in ''Brother Bear''. Personal life Miller was born to a middle-class Jewish family in New York City. Her father, Isidore, was a woman's cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Yeh
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Neva Small
Neva Small is an American theatrical, film, and television actress and singer. She made her singing debut at the age of 10 at the New York City Opera, and her Broadway debut the following year. She has numerous acting credits on and Off-Broadway. She is best known for her portrayal of Chava, Tevye's third daughter and the one who marries a gentile, in the 1971 film ''Fiddler on the Roof''. Early life and education Neva Small was born in New York City to Seldan and Berma Small. She grew up on Central Park West. Her mother graduated in the first class of harpists at Juilliard in 1938, and played in an all-female orchestra at the Waldorf Astoria. Small began singing in an extracurricular after-school program, and acted in Hebrew school and in the Jewish Theater for Children, where she was an understudy for Don Scardino. At age 10, she played Beverly Sills' daughter in ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' (1963) at the New York City Opera. She studied at the LaGuardia High School of Music & A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Workshop
Film Workshop Co. Ltd. (), is a Hong Kong production company and film distributor. It was founded in April 1984 by producer/director Tsui Hark and his now ex-wife, Nansun Shi. Already a director with box office hits, Tsui wanted to create a workshop where the foremost filmmakers could work on films with artistic merit, and at the same time, films that could be commercially rewarding for the financiers behind his projects. The company has not produced a film since 2017. Films In 1984, Film Workshop's first film, ''Shanghai Blues'', turned out to be both a critical and commercial success in Hong Kong; and so were the two subsequent films that Tsui directed: ''Working Class'' and ''Peking Opera Blues''. At this time, Tsui invited other directors to join in. With Tsui producing, John Woo directed ''A Better Tomorrow'', which grossed US$4.5 million locally to set a new record as the highest grossing motion picture in Hong Kong. After having a falling out during the making of ''A Bett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Films Of 1988
A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 1988:. 1988 References External links IMDB list of Hong Kong films* Hong Kong films of 1988 aHKcinemamagic.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Hong Kong Films Of 1988 1988 Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ... 1988 in Hong Kong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Hong Kong
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parody
A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming. Some parody is practiced in theater. The writer and critic John Gross observes in his ''Oxford Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * May 25 – '' Rambo III'' was released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film failed to match the box office earnings from '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985). * July 15 – ''Die Hard'' defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influenced a common formula for many '90s action films, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who's usually holding hostages in an isolated setting. Such films and their sequels are often referred to as "''Die Hard'' on a _____": '' Under Siege'' (battleship), ''Cliffhanger'' (mountain), ''Speed'' (bus), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
