Philip ChanFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Director, Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

  • Twin Dragons

    Actors: Teddy Robin, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Anthony Chan, Philip Chan

    Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan stars opposite knockabout comedy sensation Jackie Chan in this story about identical twins separated in childhood who are unexpectedly reunited years later. While on the run from a Hong Kong hospital, an escaped convict takes an infant hostage, leaving the Read More

    4/9/99

  • Hard-Boiled

    Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Bowie Lam, Philip Chan, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kwan Hoi-Shan

    Synopsis: Hard-Boiled is the last film directed by Hong Kong action auteur John Woo before his arrival in the U.S. This 1992 thriller, along with The Killer, is widely seen as one of his best from his Hong Kong days. Every ingredient of the quintessential Woo thriller is present, including his ever-present Read More

    1992

  • Double Impact

    Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alan Scarfe, Alonna Shaw, Philip Chan

    Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme proves that two cracked heads are better than one in Double Impact. Van Damme plays twins Chad and Alex, who were separated at birth when their parents were brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. Incredibly both Chad and Alex have grown up to become Read More

    8/9/91

  • San Bungan Batleung

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui

    Synopsis: In this antic comedy, Michael Hui stars as the editor of a struggling Hong Kong tabloid, the "Truth Weekly." In his never-ending quest to ensure readership, he sometimes has to contrive facts to fit his stories. In this movie, he has assigned one of his reporters (Samuel Hui, Michael's brother in Read More

    1990

  • Bloodsport

    Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker

    Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in the aptly titled Bloodsport. An American soldier at large in Hong Kong, Van Damme becomes involved in the Kumite (also spelled Kumatai), a highly illegal kickboxing competition. Whoever survives the bout will be crowned Kumite champion of the Read More

    2/26/88

  • Chocolate Inspector

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Michael Hui, Anita Miu, Ricky Hui, Michael Chow

    Synopsis: Inspector Chu (Michael Hui) has long been known by the name of Chocolate Inspector because of his addiction to a popular chocolate confection. He is also a bumbling idiot of the most incredible kind, who can't see a thief stealing something right in front of him. In fact, he failed to notice a Read More

    1987

  • Tongs: A Chinatown Story

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Simon Yam, Larry Tan, Anthony Gioia

    Synopsis: Philip Chan spins this low-budget gangland saga shot and set in New York's Chinatown. Brothers Mickey and Paul Lee (Simon Yam and Tam Pak-pan respectively) arrive in the Big Apple with two wildly different ambitions. While Mickey simply wants a study and get ahead, Paul wants to become a big-name Read More

    1986

  • Sheng Gang Qi Bing

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Lam Wai

    Synopsis: Violent and bloody at regular, brief intervals, this actioner from Hong Kong (known as "Xianggang" in Mandarin, or "Fragrant Harbor") features a gang from mainland China who sneak over to the thriving city to rob a jewelry store and then find themselves caught in a local Triad war. Everything goes Read More

    1985

  • Night Caller

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    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

  • The Return of Pom Pom

    Crew: Director

    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

  • Long Goodbye

    Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Rosamund Kwan, Philip Chan, Dolly Carpio, Or Chung Heung

    Synopsis: Chow Yun Fat, star of many a John Woo actioner, is top-billed in Long Goodbye. Alternately known as Hunting Heads, this is the story of a vengeance-motivated hit man. His methods are unorthodox, not to mention gruesome. The film is alternately known as The Head Hunter. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Read More

    1982

  • Sealed With A Kiss

    Crew: Producer

    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

  • Super Fool

    Actors: Richard Ng, Philip Chan

    Synopsis: Kwong (Richard Ng) and his friend (Philip Chan) escape the mainland by swimming across the water to Hong Kong, where they are welcomed by a fortunate stroke of luck. A popular kung-fu movie star has just disappeared into the murky deep of Hong Kong's harbor on a shoot, and Kwong is literally a Read More

    1981

  • The Security

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Actors: Eddie Chan

    Synopsis: Ah Wei used to be a policeman but his many battle scars and bullet wounds have demoted him to the daily grind of a sercurity guard. His existence is anything but boring, however, as this Hong Kong film like all the others, thrives on shoot-outs, chases, and enough violence to keep an audience Read More

    1981

  • Encore

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Danny Chan, Leslie Cheung

    Synopsis: Teen love and angst are at the nexus of this standard comedy-melodrama from director Clifford Choi. Hong Kong singer Danny Chan is the hero who is not only trying to make it through school and into life intact, he has to somehow deal with an uncle who loves his bottle just a little too much (one Read More

    1980

  • The Servant

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Chu Kong, Chan Wai-Man, Philip Chan, Melvin Wong

    Synopsis: Inspector Chow had the effrontery to put the mobster and drug kingpin Lau in prison. While in prison, Lau plots his revenge. The first part of it requires that he have Inspector Chow murdered. The second part requires that he make a big splash in the criminal world by stealing an Italian diamond Read More

    1979

  • The Extras

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Tsang Kong

    Synopsis: Popular Asian filmmaker Yim Ho directed this entertaining look at the trials and tribulations which movie extras must endure in the Hong Kong film industry. Hakky Ho (Yee Lui) is an aspiring actor who is frustrated by his lack of success, but gets an extremely low-paying job as an extra and Read More

    1978

  • Foxbat

    Crew: Screen Story

    Actors: Rick van Nutter, James Yi Liu

    Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, this action-adventure thriller concerns the race to obtain the blueprints of a MIG-25 "Foxbat" Soviet fighter plane which has landed in Japan, complete with a pilot who is asking for asylum. Undercover U.S. spy Michael Saxon (Henry Silva) is trying to get the microfilms Read More

    1977

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