Raymond ChowFilmography

Born:
January 1, 1929 in Hong Kong
Occupation:
Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:
The founder of Hong Kong's massively successful Golden Harvest Films and the man responsible for introducing the international community to the staggering skills of a young martial arts star named Bruce Lee, producer Raymond Chow's longstanding career has yielded some of the most memorable martial...Read More
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  • Iron Monkey

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Yu Rongguang, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Tsang Sze Man, Yuen Shun-Yi

    Synopsis: This kung fu classic weaving fact and myth earned a theatrical release in the U.S. from Miramax eight years after it was produced, following a successful retrospective screening at the 2001 Los Angeles Film Festival. Wong Kei Ying (Donnie Yen) is a master of the Hung Gar style of boxing in Read More

    10/12/01
  • Mai hung pak yan

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Eric Kot, Cheung Tat-Ming, Audrey Fong, Miao Feilin, Asuka Higuchi

    Synopsis: As the Hong Kong economy takes a hit and the killer-for-hire business falls into a slump, a camera man and a professional killer team up to offer the perfect package deal in director Pang Ho Cheung's dark urban comedy. Despite the Asian financial crisis, there are still people in the overcrowded Read More

    2001
  • The Accidental Spy

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang, Vivian Hsu, Kim Min Jeong, Wu Hsing-Kuo

    Synopsis: Jackie Chan tones down the martial arts action but turns up the international espionage in this globe-trotting adventure. Buck Yuen (Jackie Chan) is a sporting goods salesman from Hong Kong who daydreams of living the exciting and dangerous life of an international spy. One day, Buck makes the Read More

    2001
  • Twelve Nights

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Cecilia Cheung, Eason Chan, Nicola Cheung

    Synopsis: A romance split -- appropriately enough -- into 12 sections, Aubrey Lam's 12 Ye examines the vicissitudes of the relationship between Jeannie (Cecilia Cheung), a flight attendant, and Alan (Eason Chan), a materialistic business man. The two meet on Jeannie's birthday after she has a fight with her Read More

    2000
  • San Tau Chi Saidoi

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Leon Lai, Jordan Chan, Shu Qi, Sam Lee

    Synopsis: A team of adventurers are out to save the world in this tongue-in-cheek action comedy from Hong Kong. Mac (Leon Lai), Michelle (Michelle Saram), Bird (Jordan Chan), and Sam (Sam Lee) are the Skyline Cruisers, a team of elite, super-intelligent, crime-fighting secret agents who are called in for Read More

    2000
  • Sing Yun

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Cecilia Cheung, Eric Tsang, Eric Kot

    Synopsis: Hong Kong cinematographer-turned-director Jingle Ma spins this soul-stirring melodrama about love after death. Onion (Taiwanese crooner Richie Ren) is a mute and blind asylum resident who gets killed after a car accident. He is permitted to return to earth for five days on the condition that he Read More

    2000
  • Tokyo Raiders

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen, Cecilia Cheung, Toru Nakamura

    Synopsis: In this fast-moving, light-hearted thriller from Hong Kong, Macy (Kelly Chen) is supposed to marry her Japanese boyfriend Takahashi (Toru Nakamura) during a trip to Las Vegas, but instead he leaves her at the altar. Told that Takhashi has returned to Tokyo, Macy and her friend Yung (Ekin Cheng) Read More

    2000
  • A Man Called Hero

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Kristy Yang, Yuen Biao

    Synopsis: In 1998, Andrew Lau's groundbreaking smash hit The Storm Riders came out of nowhere and resurrected the ailing Hong Kong film industry. Lau's follow-up, using much of the same cast and crew, is another martial arts epic set largely in New York's Chinatown. The film opens in the early 20th century Read More

    1999
  • Bolei Chi Sing

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Leon Lai, Shu Qi, Nicola Cheung, Daniel Wu, Eason Chan

    Synopsis: A romantic drama, Bolei chi sing/City Of Glass begins with a car crash, in which Raphael (Leon Lai) and Vivian (Shu Qui) are killed in London on New Year's Eve. The two were lovers, but both were married to other people. Raphael's son and Vivian's daughter, both adults, meet in Hong Kong to Read More

    1999
  • Gorgeous

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Bradley Allan, Jackie Chan, Shu Qi, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

    Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan shifts gears in Bolei Cheun, in which martial arts are put on the back burner and romantic comedy is in the forefront. Bu (Shu Qi), the daughter of a pair of Taiwanese restaurant owners, one day finds a bottle floating near the docks with a message inside. The Read More

    1999
  • The Storm Riders

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Sonny Chiba, Kristy Yang, Shu Qi

    Synopsis: Cinematographer Andrew Lau directed this Hong Kong martial arts fantasy from a Manfred Wong screenplay. Wong based his script on a Chau Ting screenplay adapted from the long-running manga by Ma Wing-shing. Martial arts ruler Lord Conqueror (Sonny Chiba) adopts two youngsters as disciples, and a Read More

    1998
  • Hold You Tight

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Yau Chingmy, Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang, Ko Yu-lun, Sandra Ng

    Synopsis: Hong Kong helmer Stanley Kwan directed this study of sexual desire, featuring sexy Chingmy Yau (Naked Killer) in a dual role. Rosa Gao (Yau) loses her ticket at the airport, but a woman who resembles her boards the plane. Gay real-estate salesman Tong (Eric Tsang) puts the make on Fung-wai (Sunny Chan Read More

    1998
  • Portland Street Blues

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Sandra Ng, Kristy Yeung, Alex Fong Chung-sun, Vincent Wan, Shu Qi

    Synopsis: A spin-off from Hong Kong's popular "Young and Dangerous" action series, this fast-paced tale of a lesbian's rise to the top of the Triad hierarchy features top-notch acting and plenty of martial arts excitement. Most of the characters from the series return, and many events taking place in this Read More

    1998
  • Task Force

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Leo Ku, Charlie Yeung, Eric Tsang, Karen Mok, Edmond So

    Synopsis: Patrick Leung (Beyond Hypothermia, Somebody Up There Likes Me) directed this Hong Kong action-crime comedy-drama, centered on plainclothes crimebuster Rod Lin (Leo Ku), who narrates. Lin is the son of a cop who died after he was shot by a thug (John Lone). Crime has overtaken the Mongkok district Read More

    1998
  • God of Gamblers 3: The Early Stage

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: A prequel to the two previous entries in the God of Gamblers saga, this drama follows the apprenticeship of the unbeatable cardsharp Ko Chun. The story begins as his stepfather Kent, one of the world's greatest gamblers, enters him in a competition and then betrays him by arranging things so his Read More

    1997
  • The Soong Sisters

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: "Once upon a time in distant China, there were three sisters. One loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country." So opens this historical, melodramatic chronicle of the influential lives of three daughters from one of pre-Communist China's wealthiest families. Two of the Soong sisters Read More

    1997
  • Comrades, Almost a Love Story

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Destiny brings two people together, but they aren't sure if they're meant to be friends or lovers in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1986, Xiaojun (Leon Lai) arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, full of dreams about life in the big city and determined to make enough money to send for his Read More

    1997
  • Chi So

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Carina Liu, Charlie Yeung, Gua Ah-leh, Theresa Lee, Winston Chao

    Synopsis: Jacob Cheung directed this $1.5 million Hong Kong lesbian drama. Shot in China, the film was first shown in Hong Kong in a two-hour version, but a longer version, the director's cut, runs 158 minutes. In 1990s San Francisco, designer Wai (Theresa Lee) has friction with her boyfriend Wah (Winston Read More

    1997
  • Young and Dangerous 4

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Cheng Yee-kin, Jordan Chan, Michelle Reis, Karen Mok, Man Chi Leung

    Synopsis: Roy Chueng Yiu Yeung was so memorable as a sociopathic supervillian in the previous installment of Young and Dangerous that he returns in this outing as a different character. With the don of the Hung Hing group, Chiang Tin-sung, dead, his underlings journey to Thailand to persuade his brother Read More

    1997
  • The Stunt Woman

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Michelle Yeoh

    Synopsis: After wowing audiences both in Hong Kong and abroad with her jaw-dropping stunts during Supercop, Michelle Yeoh stars in this melodrama -- directed by Ann Hui -- about a stuntwoman struggling to survive in Hong Kong's notoriously cutthroat film industry. Kam (Yeoh) is a fearless stunt double Read More

    1997
  • Kitchen

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Though perhaps best appreciated by those familiar with Banana Yoshimoto's 1988 cult novel, this film version offers a quirky love story that will still please the uninitiated. The story is presented from the viewpoint of Louie, a young hairstylist who attends the funeral of the grandmother of his Read More

    1997
  • Viva Erotica

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Shu Qi

    Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed work Full Throttle, Derek Yee Tung-sing made the unusual move of not only collaborating with movie industry unknown Law Chi-leung, but also to make category III sex comedy. After a string of commercial flops, art house director Sing (Leslie Cheung) resorts to making a Read More

    1997
  • A Queer Story

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: Unusual for its straightforward handling of gay themes and homophobia, this commercially-oriented Hong Kong comedy-drama chronicles the upcoming wedding of marriage counselor Law Kar-Sing. But Law is gay and the thought of marrying Chuen, to whom he has been informally betrothed for many years Read More

    1997
  • Who's the Woman, Who's the Man

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Following up on his wildly popular gender bending comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Peter Chan Ho-sun picks up immediately where the original left off. Chi-wing (Anita Yuen Wing-yee) -- a young lass who dressed like a man to grab the attention of songwriter Sam (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) -- has Read More

    1996
  • The Blade

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: The godfather of the Hong Kong action spectacular, Tsui Hark adapts Chang Cheh's 1967 martial arts masterpiece The One-Armed Swordsman into a two-fisted yarn about violence and revenge. On (Zhao Wenzhou) is a nebbish orphan working at sword manufacturers. When he learns of first the vicious murder Read More

    1996
  • Hu-Du-Men

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Josephine Siao Fong-fong

    Synopsis: The title phrase refers to the crossing of lines. In Cantonese opera, an actor who literally becomes his or her character, leaving all sense of the original self behind is said to have crossed the imaginary hu-du-men. This comedy drama centers on Lang Kim-sum (portrayed by one of Hong Kong's Read More

    1996
  • Rumble in the Bronx

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Bill Tung, Françoise Yip, Marc Akerstream

    Synopsis: After years as a major star in most of the rest of the world, Jackie Chan finally broke through to stardom in the United States with Rumble in the Bronx, a dubbed and re-edited version of Hung Fan Kui. Here Chan plays Keung, a police officer from Hong Kong who travels to New York to attend the Read More

    1995
  • Butterfly Lovers

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: A traditional Chinese opera provides the basis for this nonmusical sweet & sour romance that tells the tale of a 4th-century student who finds himself confused when he becomes attracted to a fellow student. Unbeknownst to him, the "he" is really a she in disguise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1995
  • Summer Snow

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: In this Hong Kong comedy drama a father's illness brings him closer to his daughter-in-law. May is married with a teenage son. She works as an executive in a trading company. After her mother-in-law drops dead from a stroke, she and her husband, Sun Bing, reluctantly take in Old Sun, a former air Read More

    1995
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Vivian Wu, Sab Shimono

    Synopsis: This third film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series finds the half-shelled ninjas traveling back in time to 17th-century Japan in order to save April O'Neil (Paige Turco). Once there, they also use their skills to help a rebel army battle an evil leader. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide Read More

    1993
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Paige Turco, David Warner, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Michelan Sisti, François Chau, Kenn Troum, Leif Tilden

    Synopsis: The crime-fighting Turtles -- Michaelangelo (Michelan Sisti), Donatello (Leif Tilden), Raphael (Kenn Troum), and Leonardo (Mark Caso) -- return in this quickly made sequel to the popular superheroes' first film. The story concerns arch-enemy Shredder, who kidnaps nutty professor Jordan Perry David Warner Read More

    1991
  • Once Upon a Time in China

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Kent Cheng

    Synopsis: Though generally unknown to Western audiences, Tsui Hark is considered a giant among Asian filmmakers and this exceptional epic, combining hard-hitting martial-arts action with romance, comedy, history, genuine poignance, and sharp insight into the effects of the century-long encroachment of Read More

    1991
  • A Show of Force

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Amy Irving, Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kevin Spacey

    Synopsis: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Melendez (Amy Irving) investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

    5/11/90
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais, Ray Serra, Michelan Sisti, Michael Turney, Leif Tilden, James Saito

    Synopsis: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie is the live-action, feature film adaptation of the cult comic book and the popular animated television show. After prolonged exposure to radiation, four teenage turtles--Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello--have mutated into ninjas and have begun Read More

    3/30/90
  • Black Dragon

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Richard Ng

    Synopsis: This Hong Kong film is inspired by two of Frank Capra's films: the 1933 classic Lady for a Day, and Capra's own 1961 remake, Pocketful of Miracles. Directed by Jackie Chan, Chan also stars as Dragon, an up-and-coming gangster in 1930s Hong Kong who rises through the mob ranks by a series of lucky Read More

    1989
  • China O'Brien 2

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Cynthia Rothrock

    Synopsis: The final chapter in the two-volume series finds sheriff China O'Brien (Cynthia Rothrock) still the bedrock lawperson of Beaver Creek. The small village is once again invaded, this time by a group of Vietnam-vet outlaws led by a drug-dealing madman (Harlow Marks). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989
  • Wan-ch'un ch'ing-shih

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Spring Swallow (Chinese name Yin Ch'un-yen, played by Lu Hsiao-fen) is a young widow of a peasant who is placed in an arranged marriage with a distant, uncommunicative businessman. Nobody consulted her about any of this, and after trying to make a go of her marriage, she Read More

    1989
  • China O'Brien

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: David Blackwell, Steven Kerby, Cynthia Rothrock

    Synopsis: While staying in her hometown for a vacation, a martial-arts-trained police officer (Cynthia Rothrock) finds herself running for sheriff after her father (David Blackwell) is killed by a local crimepin (Steven Kerby). As the long arm of the law, China O'Brien avenges her father's death. The film Read More

    1988
  • Jackie Chan's Project A 2

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Carina Lau

    Synopsis: This slapstick martial arts film is often regarded as superior to the original Project A. Dragon (Jackie Chan) runs against the pirates he defeated in the first film and also gets in trouble with corrupt cops, and a revolutionary group that includes popular Hong Kong actress Michelle Cheung. Many Read More

    1987
  • Chocolate Inspector

    Crew: Executive Producer

    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
  • The Protector

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Roy Chiao, Victor Arnold, Kim Bass

    Synopsis: Although this American action film, which has little of Jackie Chan's comedic martial arts, was less successful in the U.S. than hoped, it is still a worthy effort. Chan plays Billy Wong, a New York cop whose partner is murdered by Hong Kong gangsters. His new partner is Danny Gorani (Danny Read More

    1985
  • Police Story

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Cho Yuen, Bill Tung, Kenneth Tong

    Synopsis: This was internationally famous Jackie Chan's breakthrough action film, the work that got him past the ethnic boundaries of Hong Kong and into competition at the New York Film Festival in 1986. It also got him into the hospital after performing a stunt in which he fell through a glass canopy Read More

    1985
  • Lassiter

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto

    Synopsis: This feature-length story about the heist of $10 million in Nazi diamonds primarily rides on star Tom Selleck's popularity as TV's Magnum, P.I., (a 1980s show), since the plot turnarounds, slighted character development, and stock situations are not that engaging on their own. The setting is 1934 Read More

    1984
  • Wheels on Meals

    Crew: Executive Producer

    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
  • Teppanyaki

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Michael Hui, Sally Yeh, Lo Hoi-Pang

    Synopsis: Comedian Michael Hui Koon-man stars and directs this wacky comedy about Johnny Huang, a nebbish chef who endures the presence of his obese overbearing wife and his sadistic father-in-law who relishes little more that shaving the eyebrows off of his victims. His life a constant familial nightmare Read More

    1984
  • Cannonball Run II

    Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

    Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

    Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

    1984
  • And Now, What's Your Name?

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: A young photographer (Kenny Bee) is introduced to the amoral, materialistic life in Hong Kong through his experiences with three different women in this exceptionally understated drama about his transformation. The first woman is a famous television and movie star whose one-track monetary mind Read More

    1984
  • The Body Is Willing

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: In this softporn movie from Hong Kong, the sex scenes are artificial enough to seem absurd -- not a good start for a film that sells itself as erotic. The story concerns a Japanese singer who is in Hong Kong to promote a new recording when she runs into her ex-lover and the old flame is re-ignited Read More

    1983
  • Winners and Sinners

    Crew: Executive Producer

    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
  • Better Late Than Never

    Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

    Actors: David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith, Kimberly Partridge, Catherine Hicks

    Synopsis: The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably weary David Niven plays Nick, the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old heiress Bridget (Kimberly Partridge). Charley (Art Carney) shows up to cramp Nick's act, claiming that he Read More

    1983
  • The High Road to China

    Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

    Actors: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley

    Synopsis: O'Malley (Tom Selleck) is a heavy-drinking, tough biplane pilot flying the skies of China for fun and profit when Eve (Bess Armstrong) seeks him out to help her find her father before he is declared dead and she loses an inheritance to the evil Bentik (Robert Morley). O'Malley does not really want Read More

    1983
  • Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain

    Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

    Actors: Yuen Biao

    Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark spins this lavishly designed fantasy epic featuring some of the most cutting edge, oft-imitated special effects of the day. The film, set in 5th century China, centers on Ti Ming-chi (Yuen Biao) a young innocent from the West Zu army who wandered away from Read More

    1983
  • The Miracle Fighters

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Yuen Cheung-Yan

    Synopsis: Yuen Woo Ping directs the Hong Kong martial arts action film The Miracle Fighters. A high priest has ridden the coattails of a prince in order to gain power. The prince dies, forcing the priest to set up a stooge to take the prince's place. The newcomer rebels, learns martial arts, and then takes Read More

    1982
  • To Hell With the Devil

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Ricky Hui, Chung Fat

    Synopsis: Bedazzled meets the Warner Bros. cartoons with this supernatural comedy directed by future action film auteur John Woo. The film centers around Bruce Lee (Ricky Hui Koon-ying), a failed composer and general loser who has hit rock bottom. One day, the devil (Chung Fat) appears before Lee, promising Read More

    1982
  • The Prodigal Son

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Yuen Biao, Frankie Chan, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung

    Synopsis: In this classic martial arts film from Hong Kong, Yuen Biao plays the effete son of a wealthy man who is halfheartedly studying kung fu, though his father has to pay ringers to fight him (and, of course, lose). When he finds out that his father has been deceiving him, Biao decides he must learn Read More

    1982
  • Dragon Lord

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Chen Hui-Min

    Synopsis: International martial arts superstar Jackie Chan directed and choreographed (along with veterans Corey Yuen and Fung Hark-on) this action-packed follow-up to The Young Master. Chan also stars as Dragon, a rebellious young man who is always getting into trouble along with his best friend, Cowboy Read More

    1982
  • Megaforce

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Edward Mulhare, George Furth

    Synopsis: A crack military team led by pilot Ace Hunter (Barry Bostwick) is called in to save democracy in a small nation threatened by tyranny. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1982
  • Plain Jane to the Rescue

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Ricky Hui

    Synopsis: John Woo directed this third film in a series about the bumbling, working-class, tomboy heroine Lam Ah-chun, or in this instance, Plain Jane (Josephine Siao, aka Siao Fong Fong), a role Siao first played in a television series. Lam is hired as an assistant to the aging owner of the Zanda Read More

    1982
  • The Cannonball Run

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

    Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

    1981
  • Death Hunt

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter

    Synopsis: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Johnson, a trapper, has extensive knowledge of wilderness living, but Millen has the resources of the Canadian police at Read More

    1981
  • Security Unlimited

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Sam Hui

    Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong comedy trio Michael, Sam and Ricky Hui star in this box-office smash hit. Chou Sai-cheng (Michael Hui Koon-man) runs Wong's security company with an iron fist. Called "The Crab" by his haggard employees because he walks like Charles Bronson, Chou is in charge of training the Read More

    1981
  • Encounter of the Spooky Kind

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung, Lam Ching-Ying

    Synopsis: Courageous Cheung (Sammo Hung) has a reputation for taking on any dare, no matter how foolish it may be, in order to prove his unabashed bravery. Though his friends often take advantage of his misguided machismo by luring him into dubious dares in which they attempt to scare him and laughingly Read More

    1981
  • Super Fool

    Crew: Producer

    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
  • Dragon Forever

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: Sammo Hung directs himself and Jackie Chan in the Hong Kong action film Dragon Forever. Chan plays a lawyer who discovers that his client is a drug king. Chan teams up with a hapless friend (Hung) and a mentally unstable associate (Yuen Biao) to stop the kingpin. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • Battle Creek Brawl

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine de Bell, Mako, Ron Max, Rosalind Chao

    Synopsis: After the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, writer/director Robert Clouse made several attempts to reproduce the success of his Enter the Dragon, which belatedly made Lee a household name in America. Clouse felt (with good reason) that Jackie Chan could be the next big martial arts star in America, and Read More

    1980
  • The Magnificent Butcher

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Sammo Hung

    Synopsis: Yuen Woo-ping directs this classic of the period kung fu epic. Butcher Wing (Sammo Hung) is the most talented and the most troublesome pupil of Master Wong (Kwan Tak-hing). One day while helping to stop a robbery, Butcher runs afoul of the power, and evil, Master Ko (Lee Hoi-sang), resulting Read More

    1980
  • The Happenings

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Bits and pieces of a rootless night are never fully brought together as a group of four young men and two women meet in a disco and then on leaving, get into trouble. Their names (King Kong, The Kid, Peter Pan), their attitudes, and their hip clothing reveal heavy-duty borrowings from Europe and Read More

    1980
  • Last Hurrah for Chivalry

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Damian Lau

    Synopsis: This 1978 martial arts film by director John Woo was wrapped nearly 20 years before 1997's Face/Off would bring him mainstream acceptance in Hollywood. His star was rising already in this routine story enhanced by his characteristic signature: dazzling fight sequences, flawed heroes, and Read More

    1978
  • Follow the Star

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Rowena Cortes, Roy Chiao, Wong Ching

    Synopsis: Pop singer Rowena Cortes stars in this Hong Kong thriller. In the story, Cortes and her auto mechanic sidekick, played by Roy Chiao, stumble across the location of an amazing amount of stolen money and are chased all over the Crown Colony by the thieves and others. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

    1978
  • The Game of Death

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian, Colleen Camp

    Synopsis: Star Bruce Lee died before this film was completed, thus the producers were forced to pad out the running time with outtakes and alternate shots. They also lifted chunks of footage from Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon. The finished product finally hit the screens in 1978, five years Read More

    1978
  • The Contract

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Michael Hui, Sam Hui, Ricky Hui

    Synopsis: The owners of a Hong Kong television station play a legalistic trick on new employees. They are forced to sign a piece of paper which legally binds them to work for the station for eight years, no matter what. In this comedy, Chi-Man (Michael Hui) gets together with an inventor and a magician to Read More

    1978
  • The Amsterdam Kill

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Robert Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen, Keye Luke

    Synopsis: Robert Mitchum seems more aloof and detached than usual in the Hong Kong-produced crime caper Amsterdam Kill. Mitchum plays a washed-up police officer, hired by DEA agent Bradford Dillman to help plug up a security leak. Someone is blabbing the name of the department's contacts in Hong Kong, and Read More

    1977
  • The Boys in Company C

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Jim Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson

    Synopsis: Cowritten by director Sidney J. Furie, The Boys in Company C charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. Led by Stan Shaw, the quintet is shipped off to Vietnam. The film makes no bones about the demoralizing effect the war has on its participants, nor the pigheadedness of the military Read More

    1977
  • S.T.A.B.

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Greg Morris, Sombat Metanee, Krung Srivilai, Tham Thuy Hang, Anoma Palalak

    Synopsis: In this actioner, an adventuresome mercenary teams up with a government anti-drug agency to find a huge cache of stolen gold. If he succeeds, the hero will earn a cool $5 million. With his crack commando team of Vietnam vets, plus a couple of curvy, scantily clad and super tough women, tears the Read More

    1976
  • The Double-Crossers

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Chen Sing, Chen Hui-Min

    Synopsis: In this action thriller, a double-crossing smuggler gets his comeuppance. Action takes place in Singapore, Hong-Kong and Bali. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

    1976
  • The Man from Hong Kong

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Jimmy Wang Yu, George Lazenby, Ros Spiers, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward

    Synopsis: The Far East and the Land Down Under are about to have a head-on collision in this action drama. Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) is an undercover detective from Hong Kong sent to Australia to crack open the operation of a Sydney mob boss named Wilton (George Lazenby). Fang puts his skills as a hang glider Read More

    1975
  • Enter the Dragon

    Crew: Associate Producer

    Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Shih Kien, Bob Wall

    Synopsis: One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee's career, Enter the Dragon achieved success by presenting a series of superbly staged fighting sequences with a minimum of distractions. The story finds Lee as a martial-arts expert determined to help capture Read More

    1973
  • Return of the Dragon

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Tony Liu, Ch'eng Pin Chih, Chu'eng Li, Huang Jen Chih, Liu Yun, Mali Sha, Sho Kosugi, Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Malisa Longo, Robert Wall

    Synopsis: Bruce Lee's pre-Enter the Dragon outing is a surprising change of pace from his usual hard-hitting action fare because it favors humor as much as it does kung-fu. It's also notable because it represents Lee's only venture as a director. For the most part, Return of the Dragon works thanks to its Read More

    1973
  • Deep Thrust: The Hand of Death

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Chang Yi, Angela Mao Ying

    Synopsis: The hero of this Hong Kong-filmed kung fu fest, Chang Yi, sets out to close up a Japanese gambling ring. He does so to avenge the suicide of his girl friend. Along the way, Chang Ying must deal with Angela Mao, the dead girl's revenge-driven sister. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

    1972
  • Hapkido

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: The early '70s martial arts feature Hapkido (also released in some English-speaking regions under the title Lady Kung Fu) marks one of the few films of its genre, from that era, to sport a female heroine. Angela Mao stars as Yu Ying, one of three students of Master Han Jae Ji (the real-life Read More

    1972
  • The Chinese Connection

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Maria Yi, James Tien, Tien Feng

    Synopsis: One of the best action films starring the legendary Bruce Lee, this movie features the martial artist as Chen Chen, who returns to his former school in early 20th century Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While probing the man's death and seeking vengeance Read More

    1972
  • Fists of Fury

    Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

    Actors: Chin Shan, Li Hua Sze, Miao Ke Hsiu, Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, Nora Miao, James Tien, Han Ying Chieh, Mao Ker Hsiu

    Synopsis: Martial arts master Bruce Lee solidifies his standing as one of the great action stars in Fists of Fury, the story of a Chinese country boy (Lee) sent to live in Thailand with his uncle and cousins. Around his neck is a charm representing his promise to his mother not to fight, a promise which is Read More

    1971

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