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Raging Fire (film)
''Raging Fire'' is a 2021 Hong Kong-Chinese action film written, produced and directed by Benny Chan in his final directorial effort before his death on 23 August 2020. The film stars Donnie Yen as a righteous cop who crosses path with his former protege, played by Nicholas Tse, who is out for revenge on his former mentor for putting him in prison in the past. The film was released on 30 July 2021 in Mainland China and on 19 August 2021 in Hong Kong. Plot Cheung Sung-bong is an officer of the Regional Crime Unit who worked in the front line for many years and cracked many major cases. However, he is seen as an outcast due to his extremely righteous character which affected his career, but his protege, Yau Kong-ngo, respects him as a good officer although Yau does not completely agree with Cheung's overly hard-boiled style and believes in taking shortcuts. Yau manages to reach up to Cheung's level. However, fate unexpectedly brings them to different paths and pits them against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Chan (film Director)
Benny Chan Muk-sing (; 24 October 1961 – 23 August 2020) was a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films such as '' A Moment of Romance'', ''Big Bullet'', '' Who Am I?'', '' Rob-B-Hood'', '' New Police Story'', '' Shaolin'', '' The White Storm'', ''Call of Heroes'', and '' Raging Fire''. He was fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and was nominated for Best Director six times at the Hong Kong Film Awards, include ''Big Bullet'', ''Heroic Duo'', '' New Police Story'', '' Connected'', '' The White Storm'' and '' Raging Fire''. His last film, ''Raging Fire'', earned him Best Director award at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards and the film went on to win Best Film award at the ceremony. Benny Chan died of nasopharyngeal cancer in Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. Life and career Born and raised in Kowloon, Benny Chan first accepted a job in 1981 at Rediffusion Television working in continuity. The following year, he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Lo
Ken Lo (Kenneth Houi Kang Low) (born 19 March 1957) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and stuntman. He is known for his martial arts and stunt work as a former member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team, most notably for his antagonistic role as John in ''Drunken Master II'' (1994). Early life Ken Lo was born on 19 March 1957 as Kenneth Lo Wai-Kwong in Stung Treng, Cambodia. Lo's father is Hong Kong- Chinese and his mother is a Laotian. In 1975, at age 18, Lo and his family moved from Cambodia to Udon Thani, Thailand. Five years later, in 1980, he went to Hong Kong and worked as a tour guide. His idol was Bruce Lee which led him to practise Muay Thai and Taekwondo in Thailand. He won the freestyle fighting championships seven times, so his chance finally came when he made his debut in ''Working Class'' (1985), which was directed by Tsui Hark and starred Sam Hui. Career In 1986, Lo met Jackie Chan in a disco in Hong Kong, where he was head of security, and Chan hired him as his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Cheung
Nick Cheung Ka-fai (; born 2 December 1964) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and director. Background He was formerly a Royal Hong Kong Police officer for four years, but he left the job after his request to be transferred to the criminal investigation department was turned down. He then worked for Danny Lee's film production company. His film debut is ''"Thank you, Sir!"'', as a student at the Royal Hong Kong Cadet School. From 1989 to 1994, he worked at the television station ATV World. Later, he left ATV and joined another station, TVB. He left TVB in 2004, and worked mainly on films. His fame was built on Wong Jing's comedy at first, but he has changed his acting style for more sombre roles since 2003. He was nominated for his first Hong Kong film award in 1999, and won his first award in 2009 for his role in ''Beast Stalker''. He has been nominated many times at the Hong Kong Film Awards and other Chinese film awards since. Cheung has won seven awards for his role in ''Beast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Jing (actor)
Wu Jing, also known as Jacky Wu, (; born 3 April 1974) is a Chinese actor, director and martial artist best known for his roles in various martial arts films such as '' Tai Chi Boxer'', '' Fatal Contact'', the ''Sha Po Lang'' films, and as Leng Feng in ''Wolf Warrior'', its sequel '' Wolf Warrior 2'', and most recently '' The Battle at Lake Changjin''. Wu Jing is one of the most profitable actors in China and his movies are often the highest grossed films in China and around the world. Wu ranked first on the ''Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list in 2019 and 23rd in 2020. Career In April 1995, Wu was spotted by martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, Wu played Hawkman / Jackie in 1996 film '' Tai Chi Boxer'', his first Hong Kong film debut. Since then Wu has appeared in numerous mainland Chinese ''wuxia'' television series. He has also worked with choreographer and director Lau Kar-leung in 2003 film '' Drunken Monkey''. Wu achieved success in Hong Kong action cinema for his role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. In the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop and was named as "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB during the 1980s. In the Philippines, he was previously given the screen name Ricky Chan. By April 2000, Lau won an unprecedented total of 292 awards. He also holds numerous film acting awards, having won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times and the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor twice. In 2005, Lau received the "No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005" award of Hong Kong, yielding a box office total of HK$1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years, and in 2007, he received the "Nielsen Box Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lam
George Lam Tsz-Cheung (born 12 October 1947), also known professionally by his surname Lam, is a Hong Kong-based veteran Cantopop singer, singer-songwriter, music producer and actor, with a career that has so far lasted more than four decades. Lam produces most of his own albums, writes many of his own songs, occasionally writes for other artists, and covers other people's songs. Lam has a wide vocal range and is capable of interpreting and performing many different genres of music. He is heavily involved with planning and designing his concerts and his LP/CD covers. He was the one who came up with the first Cantopop rap, "Ah Lam's Diary", and he also pioneered the stringing together of multiple hit Cantopop songs to create a 10-minute long medley which is called "10 Minutes 12 Inches". In 2019, Lam interwove his songs together to put on a musical-like concert, Lamusical. In addition to his singing career, Lam has also acted in some TV dramas, and played lead roles in many films, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Chan (filmmaker)
Benny Chan Muk-sing (; 24 October 1961 – 23 August 2020) was a Hong Kong film director, Film producer, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films such as ''A Moment of Romance'', ''Big Bullet'', ''Who Am I? (1998 film), Who Am I?'', ''Rob-B-Hood'', ''New Police Story'', ''Shaolin (film), Shaolin'', ''The White Storm'', ''Call of Heroes'', and ''Raging Fire (film), Raging Fire''. He was fluent in English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin and Standard Cantonese, Cantonese and was nominated for Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director, Best Director six times at the Hong Kong Film Awards, include ''Big Bullet'', ''Heroic Duo'', ''New Police Story'', ''Connected (2008 film), Connected'', ''The White Storm'' and ''Raging Fire (film), Raging Fire''. His last film, ''Raging Fire'', earned him Best Director award at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards and the film went on to win Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film, Best Film award at the ceremony. Benny Chan d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny So
Kenny So (Chinese: 乔星; Jyutping: Qiao Xing; original name: Su Weijian, foreign name: Kenny So, born on August 6, 1976), is a Chinese lyricist and poet best known for his songs by Nicholas Tse and Jacky Cheung. His movie theme songs received nominations at the 33rd and 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2014 and 2022, respectively. Origin of pen name In an interview, So said that the words "Qiao"( Chinese:乔) and "Xing" ( Chinese: 星) were taken from the names of his two former lovers as a memorial. Early life and education So was born with cerebral palsy. Having cerebral palsy impacted his control of the muscles of the whole body. During his school days, it was very difficult for So to hold a pen. Every time he did homework, he would sweat profusely and struggle with it. Despite his disability, So chose to enroll in public schools and pursue an education. He started to write lyrics in middle school, published his adapted lyrics works online in college. His high score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwok Fung
Kwok Fung (born 27 October 1951 in Hong Kong) is a veteran actor from Hong Kong. He graduated the first training of TVB in 1971. Filmography Film * ''S Storm ''S Storm'' is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese crime action thriller film directed by David Lam and starring Louis Koo, Julian Cheung and Vic Chou. The film was released in China by Huace Pictures on September 14, 2016 and in Hong Kong on September 15 ...'' (2016) * '' Raging Fire'' (2021) Television ReferencesOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwok, Fun TVB veteran actors Living people 1951 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mak Cheung-ching
Evergreen Mak Cheung-ching (, born 18 December 1968), better known as Makbau (麥包), is a Hong Kong actor. He had been an actor with TVB for more than 30 years. Early life Mak was born in Shunde District, Foshan, China, and his ancestral hometown is Qingyuan, Guangdong province. Career Mak was praised for his portrayal of the main antagonist, Leung Fei-fan (Fei Fan Gor), in the 2010 TVB drama ''No Regrets'', for which he won the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role award in the Asian Television Awards 2011 for the same role. He is also known for his voiceover work for cartoons, as well a children show host for ''Flash Fax and ''After School ICU. Mak made his mainland China debut in May 2021 after working with TVB for three decades. His final acting role with TVB was in 2015's '' Captain of Destiny'' and he left TVB in 2019 when his contract expired. He was one of a score of former TVB artists who moved followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Chow
Matthew "Matt" Chow Hoi-Kwong (, born 4 August 1968) is a Hong Kong screenwriter, director, actor and producer. He is best known for his romantic comedy films, and has served as a screenwriter for filmmakers Peter Chan, Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai, and Joe Ma. Career Matt Chow started his career at TVB in 1989 when he was hired by Joe Ma, who Chow considers to be his friend, teacher and boss. Filmography Producer * ''Ghost Office'' (2001) * ''Let's Sing Along'' (2001) Story * ''Let's Sing Along'' (2001) Director * ''L - O - V - E ..... LOVE'' (1997) * '' PR Girls'' (1998) * ''United We Stand, And Swim'' (2001) * ''Let's Sing Along'' (2001) * ''The Attractive One'' (2004) * ''Itchy Heart'' (2004) * ''Golden Chicken 3'' (2014) * '' 12 Golden Ducks'' (2015) * ''Triumph in the Skies'' (2015) Actor * ''Feel 100%, Once More'' (1996) * ''Feel 100%'' (1996) * ''July 13th'' (1996) * ''Till Death Do Us Laugh'' (1996) * ''They Don't Care About Us'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Kok
Derek Kok Jing-hung (, born 18 November 1964) is a Hong Kong actor who had worked for TVB from 1986 to 2015. He filmed over 70 dramas. He is specialised in action and Chinese Kung Fu performance. Career His career started when he entered the New Talent Singing Awards in 1985. Even though he only made it through to the semi-finals, his stage performance, including the acrobatics he demonstrated throughout his performance impressed the folks at TVB. He then entered the TVB Artiste Training Class in 1985 and was signed with the station after completion of the program. The first notable role he played was Lee Yuen Ba in The Grand Canal. He left TVB in 2015 to sign a contract with a mainland Chinese company. In 2020, he also signed a contract with Shaw Brothers. Personal life Between 2007 and 2010, Kok was rumoured to be involved with actress Joyce Tang Joyce Tang Lai-ming (; born 20 January 1976, in Hong Kong) is an actress of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). She entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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