John Shum Kin-Fun

John Shum Kin-Fun

John Shum Kin-Fun (Chinese: 岑建勳) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. His English name is sometimes written as John Sham. Whilst known primarily for his comedic acting roles in Hong Kong cinema, he also spent time as a political activist. He is easily recognisable from his spectacles and curly hair.

  • Title: John Shum Kin-Fun
  • Popularity: 6.212
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1952-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Enping, Jiangmen, China
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  • Also Known As: John Shum, 岑建勋, John Sham
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John Shum Kin-Fun Movies

  • 1984
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    Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

    Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

    5.6 1984 HD

    A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must...

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  • 2009
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    Bodyguards and Assassins

    Bodyguards and Assassins

    6.8 2009 HD

    In 1905, revolutionist Sun Yat-Sen visits Hong Kong to discuss plans with Tongmenghui members to overthrow the Qing dynasty. But when they find out...

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  • 1983
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    Winners & Sinners

    Winners & Sinners

    6.9 1983 HD

    Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning...

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  • 2012
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    A Simple Life

    A Simple Life

    7.5 2012 HD

    The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman who has been the family's helper for sixty years.

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  • 1989
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    Pedicab Driver

    Pedicab Driver

    6.8 1989 HD

    Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects...

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  • 1985
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    Yes, Madam!

    Yes, Madam!

    7.1 1985 HD

    Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two hard...

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  • 1986
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    The Lunatics

    The Lunatics

    7.6 1986 HD

    A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his...

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  • 2002
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    Three

    Three

    5.9 2002 HD

    An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home...

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  • 1991
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    The Banquet

    The Banquet

    5.5 1991 HD

    Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties....

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  • 1988
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    The Eighth Happiness

    The Eighth Happiness

    6.2 1988 HD

    Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in the way!

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  • 1988
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    I Love Maria

    I Love Maria

    6.2 1988 HD

    RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks...

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  • 1986
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    Where's Officer Tuba?

    Where's Officer Tuba?

    6.5 1986 HD

    Tuba is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass section of the police band to pounding the streets. One day, he finds himself caught up...

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  • 1988
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    Painted Faces

    Painted Faces

    7.1 1988 HD

    This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as young men. The story is about their teacher...

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  • 1991
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    Double Impact

    Double Impact

    6.1 1991 HD

    Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in...

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  • 1992
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    Lucky Encounter

    Lucky Encounter

    7 1992 HD

    Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncle who was responsible for his untimely death....

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  • 1981
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    Sealed with a Kiss

    Sealed with a Kiss

    1 1981 HD

    A romance between two mentally handicapped youngsters.

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  • 1989
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    Miracles: The Canton Godfather

    Miracles: The Canton Godfather

    7.1 1989 HD

    A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do...

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  • 1982
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    Happy Sixteen

    Happy Sixteen

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1988
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    Starry Is the Night

    Starry Is the Night

    6 1988 HD

    As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teen-ager Tian-Ah, she remembers her relationship when she...

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  • 1984
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    Pom Pom

    Pom Pom

    6.2 1984 HD

    Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young girl from a ruthless crime lord, as she possesses a...

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  • 2006
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    McDull, the Alumni

    McDull, the Alumni

    5 2006 HD

    In McDull, the Alumni, our protagonist has grown up. He is no longer the little boy who banters with his mates at school. How he wishes he could just...

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  • 1985
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    It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!

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

    7.3 1985 HD

    An illegal dealing of a soda-canned bomb between a crooked Hong Kong cop and two Japanese traffickers goes bad after an associate decides to go...

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  • 1993
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    Guns of Dragon

    Guns of Dragon

    3.9 1993 HD

    a HK cop (Mark Cheng) comes to New York City to try and patch things up with his estranged wife (Yvonne Yung Hung), only to find that the criminal...

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  • 1985
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    Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars

    Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars

    6.6 1985 HD

    The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play...

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  • 1990
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    Curry & Pepper

    Curry & Pepper

    6.3 1990 HD

    Two best friends and cop partners become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen...

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  • 2007
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    Mr Cinema

    Mr Cinema

    5.5 2007 HD

    Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he...

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  • 1984
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    Double Trouble

    Double Trouble

    6 1984 HD

    To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with...

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  • 1985
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    Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom

    Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom

    6.4 1985 HD

    Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven join forces with Mr. Boo in a daring mission involving a jewelry heist and a museum caper.

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  • 1984
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    The Return of Pom Pom

    The Return of Pom Pom

    6.5 1984 HD

    Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven return in this sequel to "Pom Pom." This time out, they join forces with their boss, Inspector Chan, to find...

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  • 1986
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    Pom Pom Strikes Back

    Pom Pom Strikes Back

    6.5 1986 HD

    The Hong Kong detectives, Chau and Beethoven, are back once more. This time, their mission is to protect a young girl from a gang boss' henchmen, who...

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  • 1989
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    Little Cop

    Little Cop

    6.7 1989 HD

    Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals. As...

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  • 1984
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    Wheels on Meals

    Wheels on Meals

    6.9 1984 HD

    Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia,...

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  • 2004
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    New Police Story

    New Police Story

    7.1 2004 HD

    Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help...

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  • 1988
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    Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness

    9 1988 HD

    A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a...

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  • 1985
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    The Island

    The Island

    8 1985 HD

    John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited by a group of seriously demented characters,lead...

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  • 1985
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    Friendly Ghost

    Friendly Ghost

    1 1985 HD

    Male chauvinist Ah Wai often boasts of his wife's submission to him. He even persuades her to pretend to be obedient in the presence of his friends...

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  • 1987
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    The Goofy Gang

    The Goofy Gang

    4 1987 HD

    Wai is a waiter in a country club. One day at work he is humiliated by the wife of a millionaire Harry Tse; and in order to get even, he and his gang...

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  • 1986
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    From Here to Prosperity

    From Here to Prosperity

    1 1986 HD

    In Thailand in the 1950s, Detective Au Wei is shot to death by Cha Tin-Hung in a raid because of Cha's involvement with black market diamonds and...

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  • 2013
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    A Complicated Story

    A Complicated Story

    4.8 2013 HD

    Needing money for her brother’s medical treatment, Liu Yazi agrees to become a surrogate mother for a mysterious benefactor. But when the...

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  • 1982
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    To Hell with the Devil

    To Hell with the Devil

    7 1982 HD

    A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl. After he makes the deal, a catholic priest hangs...

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  • 1981
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    All the Wrong Clues

    All the Wrong Clues

    6.7 1981 HD

    A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his...

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  • 1991
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    King of Chess

    King of Chess

    6.5 1991 HD

    Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's...

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  • 1989
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    Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine

    1 1989 HD

    Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready to help those who need it. Therefore, he decides...

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  • 1987
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    Goodbye Darling

    Goodbye Darling

    6 1987 HD

    Tai (Raymond Wong), a loving and caring husband and Josephine (Cherrie Chung), his sweet and darling wife, are a young, merry couple. Tai has a close...

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  • 2004
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    The Miracle Box

    The Miracle Box

    8 2004 HD

    Joanna wanted to become a physician. After she meets Albert, a cancer survivor and fellow doctor, her life changes. Albert's cancer has returned. He...

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  • 1994
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    Moving the Mountain

    Moving the Mountain

    7.8 1994 HD

    ON JUNE 4th 1989, CHINA WAS CHANGED FOREVER. Beijing, May, 1989. the world watched as a hundred students became a thousand, as thousands became a...

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  • 1981
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    Charlie's Bubble

    Charlie's Bubble

    1 1981 HD

    The poetry of teenagers in love is one of the most endearing and enduring traditions in cinema. Philip Chan made his solo directorial debut with a...

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  • 1988
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    18 Times

    18 Times

    6 1988 HD

    Gigi is a young woman with no shortage of potential husbands to choose from. The big problem: every single one of her husbands dies after becoming...

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  • 1980
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    Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

    Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

    7 1980 HD

    Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers...

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  • 1991
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    Sisters of the World Unite

    Sisters of the World Unite

    1 1991 HD

    Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men.

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  • 1983
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    Gun Is Law

    Gun Is Law

    1 1983 HD

    Hong Kong crime movie from 1983

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  • 2002
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    Going Home

    Going Home

    8 2002 HD

    A cop and his son move into a worn-down apartment building. The boy is first menaced by a neighbor girl and then goes missing. The father tries to...

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  • 2024
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    Papa

    Papa

    1 2024 HD

    From director Philip Yung comes another gripping true-crime drama, this time inspired by the shocking 2010 case of a 15-year-old boy who murdered his...

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  • 1986
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    Royal Warriors

    Royal Warriors

    6.9 1986 HD

    When a tough policewoman learns about a group of violent terrorists, she, along with her partner and a Japanese detective, does everything it takes...

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  • 1991
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    The Banquet

    The Banquet

    5.5 1991 HD

    Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties....

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  • 1984
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    Hong Kong 1941

    Hong Kong 1941

    5.9 1984 HD

    Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy...

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  • 1987
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    People's Hero

    People's Hero

    7.2 1987 HD

    Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The robbery goes awry, but before order can be...

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  • 1986
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    Brotherhood

    Brotherhood

    6.5 1986 HD

    Liu and Keung are competent constables and good partners. But Keung is fired just because of a minor mistake. Gradually falling into a financial...

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  • 1989
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    Eight Taels of Gold

    Eight Taels of Gold

    7.3 1989 HD

    An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.

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  • 1987
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    Magnificent Warriors

    Magnificent Warriors

    6.5 1987 HD

    A daredevil airplane pilot and spy, who fights against the occupying Japanese forces in China, must rescue the ruler of the city of Kaal from the...

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  • 1985
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    Night Caller

    Night Caller

    3 1985 HD

    Inspector James Wong, a family guy cop, goes deep into a case and gets involved with a deranged killer. His partner and friend, Inspector Steve Chan,...

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  • 1989
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    Seven Warriors

    Seven Warriors

    6 1989 HD

    In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong...

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  • 1988
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    I Love Maria

    I Love Maria

    6.2 1988 HD

    RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks...

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  • 1985
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    Welcome

    Welcome

    1 1985 HD

    A girl from war-devastated Hong Kong in 2005 returns to the present to destroy the man responsible for bombing himself and his VP boss at a...

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  • 1987
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    Final Victory

    Final Victory

    6.7 1987 HD

    Shy and timid Hung is asked by his jailbird brother to look after his mistress and his unsuspecting wife. Chaos and many hilarious situations arise...

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  • 1988
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    King of Stanley Market

    King of Stanley Market

    1 1988 HD

    Self-styled ladies man Richard Ng gets depressed when all those around him are finding love while he remains single.

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  • 1987
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    An Autumn's Tale

    An Autumn's Tale

    7.4 1987 HD

    Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.

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  • 1987
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    The Wrong Couples

    The Wrong Couples

    6 1987 HD

    Upon returning home, sailor Yu (Richard Ng) is shock to discover that not only his wife left him, but the house has also been sub-letted to an old...

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  • 2008
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    Wushu

    Wushu

    6.1 2008 HD

    A group of Wushu students stumble into a child kidnapping ring run by an alumnus.

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  • 1989
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    Seven Warriors

    Seven Warriors

    6 1989 HD

    In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong...

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  • 1987
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    Sapporo Story

    Sapporo Story

    1 1987 HD

    Two Chinese girls become prostitutes in Tokyo.

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  • 1986
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    Pom Pom Strikes Back

    Pom Pom Strikes Back

    6.5 1986 HD

    The Hong Kong detectives, Chau and Beethoven, are back once more. This time, their mission is to protect a young girl from a gang boss' henchmen, who...

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  • 1986
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    Legacy of Rage

    Legacy of Rage

    7.2 1986 HD

    A man is framed for murder by his drug-dealing best friend who covets his girlfriend, leading to eight years in jail and a vow of revenge upon...

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  • 1984
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    Double Trouble

    Double Trouble

    6 1984 HD

    To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with...

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  • 1989
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    My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

    My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

    7.1 1989 HD

    The fallout resulting from a botched Triad gang smuggling job forces a young couple to separate - she becomes a kingpin’s unwilling moll and he...

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  • 1988
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    Fury

    Fury

    7 1988 HD

    Chik (Philip Chan), Lucky (Michael Wong), Chi-to (Waise Lee), and his ex-girlfriend Ngao (Carrie Ng) who he is still sweet on but is married to Lucky...

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  • 1981
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    Charlie's Bubble

    Charlie's Bubble

    1 1981 HD

    The poetry of teenagers in love is one of the most endearing and enduring traditions in cinema. Philip Chan made his solo directorial debut with a...

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  • 1986
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    The Lunatics

    The Lunatics

    7.6 1986 HD

    A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his...

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  • 1986
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    Kiss Me Goodbye

    Kiss Me Goodbye

    6 1986 HD

    Sing runs into Icy when they are working for a concert. It's not until Sing finds Icy in a phonograph record shop that they know each other's name....

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  • 1987
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    People's Hero

    People's Hero

    7.2 1987 HD

    Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The robbery goes awry, but before order can be...

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  • 1988
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    King of Stanley Market

    King of Stanley Market

    1 1988 HD

    Self-styled ladies man Richard Ng gets depressed when all those around him are finding love while he remains single.

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  • 1986
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    Passion

    Passion

    6.5 1986 HD

    Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a...

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  • 1989
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    Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine

    1 1989 HD

    Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready to help those who need it. Therefore, he decides...

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  • 1991
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    Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Thousand Pieces of Gold

    6.8 1991 HD

    In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town,...

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  • 1989
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    Eight Taels of Gold

    Eight Taels of Gold

    7.3 1989 HD

    An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.

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  • 1989
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    Celebrity Talk Show

    Celebrity Talk Show

    9 1989 HD

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