John ShamFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Executive Producer, Producer
  • Mr. Cinema

    Actors: Anthony Wong, Ronald Cheng, Teresa Mo, Karen Mok, Paw Hee-ching

    Synopsis: A poor film projectionist witnesses forty years of Hong Kong history in this socially themed family melodrama starring acclaimed Hong Kong character Anthony Wong. Idealistic leftist Zuo Kong (Wong) has been threading the projector since the 1960s, and from the riots of those early years through Read More

    2007
  • 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

    12/16/05
  • 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

    2004
  • 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

    1991
  • 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

    1991
  • 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

    1989
  • 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

    1988
  • 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

    1987
  • 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

    1987
  • 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 LungRead More

    1987
  • 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

    1987
  • 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

    1987
  • 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

    1986
  • 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

    1986
  • 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

    1986
  • 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

    1986
  • 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

    1986
  • 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

    1985
  • 1985
  • 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

    1985
  • 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

    1985
  • 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

    1985
  • 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

    1984
  • 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

    1984
  • 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

    1984
  • 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

    1984
  • 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

    1983
  • 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

    1981

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