John ShamFilmography

Electric Shadows

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jiang Yihong, Xia Yu, Li Haibin, Guan Xiaotong, Zhang Yijing

Synopsis: The beauty and tragedies of China's history are reflected in the lives of a handful of film fans in this historical drama. Mao Dabing (Xia Yu) is a delivery man working in a small village in rural China during the latter days of the Cultural Revolution. Mao is a movie fan who lives for the Read More

New Police Story

Actors: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Daniel Wu

Synopsis: A police officer has been disgraced in front of both the department and the entire city, and when the sadistic gang that wronged him attempts to cement their grip on the terrified community, the only man who can come to their aid is the one nobody believes in anymore as the long-running Police Read More

1,000 Pieces of Gold

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Michael Paul Chan, Dennis Dun, Jimmie F. Skaggs

Synopsis: Produced on a shoestring $2 million budget, documentary director Nancy Kelly and her husband, editor Kenji Yamamoto created this romantic western based on a true story. Rosalind Chao stars as Lalu Nathoy, a young woman sold into marriage by her impoverished father in late 19th century China. Lalu Read More

King of Chess

Actors: Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Yang Lin, John Sham, Yim Ho

Synopsis: In Taipei, Taiwan, a television executive is helping the emcee of a television show about child prodigies prepare for a segment featuring a young chess prodigy. While he does this, he remembers a visit to the mainland at the time of the Cultural Revolution to visit a cousin. While traveling by Read More

Bat Leung Gam

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Sammo Hung, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: Famously rotund kung fu master Sammo Hung Yuen-ting stars in this bittersweet drama about Slim, New York City taxi driver who fled his native China during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Though he has only written home once during the sixteen years abroad, Slim ventures back home. Upon Read More

Painted Faces

Actors: Sammo Hung, Ham-bo, Cheng Pei-Pei, Lam Ching-Ying, John Sham

Synopsis: This drama focuses on life at the Peking Opera School and is a loose biography of Hong Kong film stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Sammo Hung portrays Master Yu, the academy's brutal schoolmaster, who takes the youths through the rigorous acrobatic training. The film offers an Read More

Magnificent Warriors

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Ng, Michelle Khan, Derek Yee, Lowell Lo

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh (billed as Michelle Khan) stars as Ming Ming, a bullwhip-wielding pilot and adventurer inspired heavily by Indiana Jones. Ming Ming gets involved in a rebel plot against the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s. Her efforts are confounded then later aided by a con man whom Read More

An Autumn's Tale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Chan

Synopsis: Mabel Chueng directs this wildly popular romantic comedy featuring Chow Yun-fat. With two years worth of savings and starry-eyed ambitions of being an actor, Jennifer Lee (Cherie Chung) leaves her comfortable home in Hong Kong for more modest digs in New York City, above the abode of her bumptious Read More

People's Hero

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ti Lung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ronald Wong Ban, Elaine Jin

Synopsis: Derek Yee Tung-sing directs this critically praised crime thriller about two amateur thugs -- Sai (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Boney (Ronald Wong Pan) -- who bungle a bank heist, resulting in a hostage situation. Unbeknownst to them, one of their hostages is the notorious criminal Sunny Koo (Ti Lung) Read More

The Wrong Couples

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Ng, Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Paul Chiang, Pauline Kwan, Maggi Li

Synopsis: In this comedy, when he returns from a prolonged ocean voyage, a sailor discovers that his wife has left and has rented their apartment to another woman. This new tenant is an "old maid" by local standards and is somewhat set in her ways. He has also been left with the care of his daughter. Read More

Sapporo Story

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Two Chinese girls, one from Hong Kong and the other from Taiwan, wind up living the ever more degraded lives of prostitutes in modern-day Tokyo. They wound up in this situation as a result of unrealistic hopes and dreams, which they persist in believing in even when the evidence of their Read More

Royal Warriors

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michelle Khan

Synopsis: This sequel to Yes, Madam is a good vehicle for the martial arts talents of Michelle Khan (aka: Michelle Yeoh, Yeung Chi-king), the Hong Kong star who gained prominence in the West as a Chinese superspy in the 1997 James Bond thriller Tomorrow Never Dies. The film features Michelle Michelle Khan Read More

The Lunatics

Crew: Producer

Actors: Deanie Yip, Chow Yun-Fat, John Sham, Chun Pui

Synopsis: An exceptional and at times disturbing drama, Lunatics is among the top-grossing films of all time in Hong Kong. The somewhat fact-based tale centers on a social worker's attempts to help the mentally ill people who furtively live and work on the teeming city streets. As the story opens, Fung the Read More

Passion

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sylvia Chang, George Lam, Cora Miao

Synopsis: Sylvia Chang stars and directs this low-key drama about the complex relationship between two middle-aged friends who sit down and reminisce about their lives. Wendy (Chang) and Ming (Cora Miao) are inseparable friends who are both in love with handsome lawyer John (George Lam). When Wendy can't Read More

Lao Niang Gou Sao

Crew: Producer

Actors: Deanie Ip, Elaine Jin, Jacky Cheng, Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Synopsis: A wife becomes a widow when her policeman husband commits suicide by jumping off the roof of his building at work. Shocked at his death, she is further surprised to discover he had a mistress and a four-year-old son in Taiwan. After an attempt on the widow's life, the mistress is murdered, leaving Read More

Legacy of Rage

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brandon Lee, Michael Wong, Chan Wai-Man, Mang Hoi

Synopsis: The first film role of the late Brandon Lee, this Hong Kong thriller is the story of Brandon (Lee), a hard-working young man who has an unfortunate friendship with Michael (Michael Wong), a gangster who has his eye on Brandon's girlfriend May (Regina Kent). Michael frames Brandon for the murder of Read More

Island

Synopsis: Leung Po-chi directs and Sammo Hung produces this grim horror flick about a school field trip gone horribly horribly wrong. Mr. Cheung (John Sham Kin-fun) takes a half-dozen high school students for a two-day outing on a remote island. Soon after they are dropped off, they realize that the Read More

The Island (Life and Death)

Actors: John Sham, Tse Ching Yuen, Ronald Wong Ban, Timothy Zau, Amy Kwok

Night Caller

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Melvin Wong, Philip Chan, Pauline Wong

Synopsis: In this uneven mystery-thriller by Philip Chan, little Edith sees her mother stabbed to death by a "night caller" disguised in a raincoat and hat and then is so traumatized that she loses her ability to speak. Three CID inspectors take up the case: the intrepid James Wong (Melvin Wong) his partner Read More

It's a Drink, It's a Bomb!

Actors: John Sham, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Sporting one of the most humorous titles around, this film -- directed by David Chung Chi-man -- is an unlikely sci-fi Christmas flick. The film opens with a nefarious band of Japanese criminals putting a powerful explosive that they swiped from a mad scientist and in a can of Sarsae cola. Of Read More

Yes, Madam!

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh makes her starring role debut in this police drama\action spectacular, directed by Corey Yuen. The film opens with the fierce, relentless Inspector Ng (Yeoh) cleaning the clocks of a band of thieves. Meanwhile, vicious crime boss Tin (James Tien Chun) puts a hit out on his accountant Read More

Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street

Actors: Sam Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: After appearing in cameos in the first two Aces Go Places movies, it was only a matter of time before cult filmmaker Tsui Hark took a turn in the director's chair himself, and the result is a spectacularly silly send-up of the spy genre and one of the series' best installments. King Kong (Sam Hui) Read More

The Return of Pom Pom

Actors: Richard Ng, John Sham, Deanie Ip, Philip Chan

Synopsis: As a sequel to Pom Pom I, this attempt at slapstick comedy is glued together by a story about a detective and his bride, also a policewoman, who are trying to save their former boss in the precinct from a frame-up. Thwarting their every move is a new, antagonistic boss, some gangsters, and the Read More

Wheels on Meals

Actors: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng, John Sham

Synopsis: Following up from their success with Project A, martial arts-comedy trio Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao head out to Spain for this screwball kung-fu flick. Thomas and David (Chan and Yuen) run a Chinese lunch wagon in the streets of Barcelona. One day, David encounters a beautiful Read More

Hong Kong 1941

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip, Man Chi Leung

Synopsis: This melodrama is one of many that have embraced the period setting of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Chow Yun-Fat, in an award-winning performance, plays a poor worker at a small rice shop. He befriends a rickshaw driver (Alex Mann) who falls in love with the shop Read More

Winners and Sinners

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng, John Sham

Synopsis: In this entertaining Hong Kong comedy-action-drama, five creatively-named criminals (Teapot, Vaseline, Exhaust Pipe, Curly Jerk, and Ranks) get out of prison and decide to "go straight" by starting a cleaning business. One of their customers is the underworld counterfeiter "Boss Chau," also Read More

Sealed With A Kiss

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Production Manager

Synopsis: Kenneth Ip had been a film critic and an editor of a film magazine before trying his hand at directing Sealed with a Kiss, and his former occupations undoubtedly influenced his approach here. Instead of following the usual bullet-ridden, body-strewn plots of other commercial Hong Kong releases, he Read More