Cherie's co-worker
DIRECTOR

text source : HK CINEMA in the Eighties (revised edition, 1999) etc

Johnny To Kei-Fung  "The Enigmatic Case" "Eight Happiness"
Born 1955. Started working for TVB in 1973, first as an office assistant, later promoted to production assistant finally to producer and executive producer. TV work include Yesterday's Glitter(1980), Legend of Wonder Lady(1981), Legend of the Condor Heroes(1983), The Duke of Mount Deer(1984). Films include: The Enigmatic Case(1980), The Big Heat(1988), The Eighth Happiness(1988), All about of Ah Long(1989), A Moment of Romance(1990,prod.)
source : The 23rd HK International Film Festival catalogues (Hong Kong Panorama 98-99)
Ann Hui On-Wa  "The Story of Woo Viet" "Zodiac Killers"
Born in 1947 in Liaoning Province. A graduate of Hong Kong University majoring in English Literature, she spent two years in the London Film School. On returning to Hong Kong, she worked as assistant to director King Hu and subsequently joined TVB where she directed drama series and short documentaries, including Wonderfun(1975), CID(1976) and Social Worker(1977). She joined RTHK in 1978 and made three films for the series Below the Lion Rock, of which the best known is Boy From Vietnam. She made her debut feature in 1979, The Secret. Other films: The Spooky Bunch(1980); The Story of Woo Viet(1981); The Boat People(1982); Love in a Fallen City(1984); Romance of Book and Sword(1987), Starry is the night(1988).
Clara Law  "Flouting Clouds" (RTHK TV WORK)
Born in Macau, educated in Hong Kong. A graduate of Hong Kong University. She started her career in RTHK as assistant writer-director and worked on drama series such as Below the Lion Rock. 1982-85, she went to England to study at the national Film and Television School. On her return to Hong Kong, she once more took up her positions with RTHK, making TV films. Her debut work as director was The Other Half and the Other Half(1988). She has been associated with Eddie Fong, who has written the scripts of almost all her films and also served as her production supervisor. 
Carl Mak Gaa  "It Takes Two"
Born in 1944 in Taishan, Guangdong Province. He came to Hong Kong in 1958 and attended the Tsung Tsin English College. In 1963, he emigrated with his family to New York where he entered the RCA institute of Technology, majoring in electronics. After further studies and a stint as an engineer with the New York Telephone Company, Maka returned to Hong Kong in 1973 to work in the film industry, first as an assistant director. He directed his first feature in 1975 and has since worked prolifically as actor, director and producer in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Together with two of his actor friends Dean Shek and Raymond Wong, Maka founded Cinema City Ltd. in 1980, one of Hong Kong's most successful production companies.
Stephen Shin Gei-Yin  "Eclipse" "Happy Together"
Born in Hong Kong, 1950. A graduate of Chinese University. He started his career in 1975 in television as an assistant director and scriptwriter. He became a film director in 1979, his debut work being the three-episode film, Affairs. He went solo in 1980 with Innocence and consolidated his position with Eclipse(1982). His directorial credits: Love Me and Dad(1984); Brotherhood(1986); Easy Money(1987); Heart to Hearts(1988); Happy Together and It's a Mad, Mad World(1989); Heart into Hearts, A Bite of Love, BB 30(1990); Perfect Match and Black Cat(1991); Heat Against Hearts(1992); The Great Conqueror's Concubine(1994).
Ronnie Yu  "Postman Fights Back"
 Born in 1950 in Hong Kong. Educated mainly in America. He graduated from the university of Southern California and worked in the news department of ABC. He returned to Hong Kong in 1975 and became a producer the following year, his first credit being Leong Po-chih's Jumping Ash(1976). He produced Yim Ho's The Extras(1978) before he took on the task of directing (together with co-director Philip Chan) his first film. The Servant(1979). Subsequent films: The Saviour(1980); The Postman Fights Back(1982); The Trail(1983); The Occupant(1984); Legacy of Rage(1986); China White(1989).
photo : Ronnie Yu, Cherie Chung, Yuen Woo-Ping & Leung Kar-Yan on the set 
Clifford Choi Gai-Kwong  "Hong Kong,Hong Kong"
Born in 1946 in Hong Kong. After studying in Taiwan's Normal University in 1965-68, Choi went to America to study in the University of California and in the San Francisco State University. He obtained an MA in Film at the latter in 1972. He returned to Hong Kong to join TVB as a producer, working on drama series. In 1978, he was one of the writers of Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, directed by Yuen Woo-Ping and starring Jackie Chan. He taught filmmaking at Baptist College in 1979 and made his feature debut the following year. Films: Encore(1980); No U-Turn(1981); Teenage Dreamers(1982); Hong Kong, Hong Kong(1983); North, South, East, Weat(1984); Two Girls(1985); Grow Up in Anger(1986); Amnesty Decree(1987); City Warriors (prod. only, 1988); Naughty Couple(1994).
Alex Cheung Gwok-Ming  "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
Born in 1951. An early interest in film led him to super 8mm experimental filmmaking, still photography and laboratory effects. He built up a reputation as a short film experimental filmmaker. He was soon co-opted into television where he directed drama series. He left television in 1979 to make his first feature film Cops and Robbers. Cheung is one of the crop of filmmakers who essentially started their careers in television and when switching to film, became known as the Hong Kong New Wave. Films: Cops and Robbers(1979); Man on the Brink(1981); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star(1983); Danger Has Two Faces(1985); Imaginary Suspects(1988); Framed(1989); Midnight Caller (co-dir., 1995); Made in Heaven(1997).
Patrick Tam Gaa-Ming  "Cherie"
Born in 1948 in Hong Kong. His interest in the cinema began when he was attending Wah Yan College and he published reviews in journals such as Chinese Students Weekly. In 1967, he entered TVB as production assistant. He left TVB in 1977 and completed his first film The Sword in 1980. Films: The Sword(1980); Love Massacre(1981); Nomad(1982); Cherie(1984); Final Victory(1987); Burning Snow(1988); My Heart Is That Eternal Rose(1989). He has also doubled as art director for his own Final Victory(1987) and on films such as To Spy With Love(1990). Also supervising editor on Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild(1990) and co-editor on same director's Ashes of Time(1994). Since 1996, he has been working for the script-writing department of the HVD Company in Malaysia. 
Leung Po-Chi  "Banana Cop" "Fatal Love"
Born in 1939 in London. Educated in the UK, in the Leighton Park School, the London Film Shool and the University of Exeter. Leong joined the BBC as a trainee film editor and came to Hong Kong in 1967 to set up a film unit for TVB. The following year, he was promoted to executive producer, producing, on average 10 programs per week including pop shows, talk shows and quiz programs. He left TVB in 1969 to form his own advertising production company and was soon on the track to becoming a feature film director. His first film was Jumping Ash(1976), which was one of the top-grossing films at the time. In 1997, Leong and his daughter, Leong Sze-wing co-directed a four-part video Riding the Tiger.
Stanley Kwan (Assistant director/ Director)
  "The Story of Woo Viet" "Postman Fights Back" "Women"
Born in 1957 in Hong Kong. After attending Pui Ching Middle School, he entered Baptist College in 1976 to study communications. The same year, he enrolled at TVB's Artists' Training Course, and worked part-time for the station for a year. After graduating at Baptist College, he became a full-time TVB employee but left in 1979 to become Dennis Yu's assistant director. He has worked as assistant to Peter Yung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Ronny Yu, Leong Po-chih and Tony Au. He made his debut as director in 1984 with Women. Films: Love Unto Waste(1986); Rouge(1988); Full Moon in New York(1990)
Wong Jing "Prince Charming" "Hong Kong Playboy" "Flying Mr.B"
Born in Hong Kong 1956. Son of film director Wang Tianlin. After graduating from Chinese University, he entered television as a professional scriptwriter, working on many mini-series which have become minor classic such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and CID. He switched to writing scripts for movies in 1978 starting with the script for Cunning Tendency(1978). His debut film as director was Challenge of the Gamesters(1981), for which he also wrote the script.
photo : Cherie, Wong Jing, Chan Wai-Man & Kenny Bee on the set of "Prince Charming"
Chan Nyn Kei "Maybe It's Love" "Chaos by Design"
Choh Yuen   
"Descendant of The Sun" "The Hidden Power of Dragon" "Fascinating Affairs"
David Chiang Daai-Wai  "Heaven can Help"

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Tsui Hark  "Peking Opera Blues"
Born in 1951 in Vietnam. He came to Hong Kong in 1966 for his secondary education. 3 years later, he entered the Southern Methodist University in Texas, from which he graduated in 1975. He had interrupted his studies to co-direct a 45-minute documentary on Asian American history From Spikes to Spindles. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977 to begin work as a TV producer-director, first for TVB, then for the now defunct CTV. He began work on his first feature in 1978. 

 

Michael Hui "Happy Ding Dong"
Born in 1942 in Guangdong Province. A graduate of Union College, Chinese University, Hong Kong. He was a high school teacher and the manager of an advertising agency before joining TVB as show host in 1968. He became a successful TV performer with his Hui Brothers' Show. In 1972, director Li Hanxiang offered him the lead in The Warlord and his acting career was launched. He went on to star in three more films by Li Hanxiang before he embarked on his own career as actor-director with Game Gamblers Play in 1975.

 

Yon Fan  "Double Fixation" "Last Romance"
Born in Hankou in 1947. He was taken to Hong Kong by his family at the age of three and was educated here and in Taiwan. He went to the United States in 1969 to take up a course in advertising and has dabbled in choreography, theatre and performance. He returned to Hong Kong in 1973, establishing the Far-Sun Film Co. Ltd. to distribute French films in the territory. Yeung has built up a carrer as a still photographer and has published several books cataloguing his photography. He became a writer-director for television in 1978 and entered the film industry as a director in 1984, all along maintaining his status as a professional photographer. His feature films have mainly been in the romance genre.

 

 Mabel Cheung  "An Autumn's Tale"
Alex Law, Jackie Chan & Mabel Cheung (from your left to right)
A graduate of Hong Kong University, she studied drama and writing at the University of Bristol. After returning to Hong Kong, she worked as a producer-director at RTHK in 1978-80 before going off to New York University to study filmmaking in 1980-83. She made her debut in New York, directing The Illegal Immigrants for Shaw Brothers in 1984. Films: An Autumn's Tale(1987); Painted Faces (co-scr. only, 1988); Eight Taels of Gold(1989). She was also credited as "production designer" on Painted Faces (1988).

 

David Lai   "Spiritual Love"
Born in 1953 in Guangdong Province. He was brought up and educated in Hong Kong. After a short stay in the United States to pursue studies in pharmacy, he returned to Hong Kong to seek employment in various occupations including a newspaper agency, the stock exchange and the cloth and garment business. He entered the entertainment industry in 1974, working as a news cameraman for RTV (now ATV). He was later promoted to assistant director and then director and writer. His ability was recognized by Johnny Mak, then head of the RTV production department. When Mak left RTV to establish his own film production company in 1981, he took lai along and gave him his first opportunities at feature film direction. 

 

Joe Cheung  "Bet on Fire" "18 Times"

photo : Wong Kar-Wai & Joe Cheung

Michael Mak(Johnny Mak's brother)  "Moon, Stars & Sun"

Norman Law "Walk on Fire"
Born in 1948 in Macau. He was educated in Hong Kong and joined Shaw Brothers Studio in 1966 to become writer-director. In 1976, he left Shaws to join Ng See-yuen's Seasonal Film Corporation, serving as assistant to Ng on such popular hits as Drunk Monkey in the Tiger's Eyes, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow(1978) and also contributed to their scripts. He became director in 1980 with Lackey and the Lady Tiger. Principal works: Sweet and Sour Cops(1981); Uprising of Nam Cheong City(1982); Gun is Law(1983); A Hearty Response(1986); Family Honour(1990).

Ringo Lam  "Wild Search"
Born in 1955 in Hong Kong. Lam enrolled in a training course for acting organized by TVB after his high school graduation. Initially an actor, Lam switched to become assistant director and writer. Dissatisfied with his TV career, he went on to study filmmaking in Canada's York University and after returning to Hong Kong, helmed the production of Esprit d'Amour(1983). He won the Hong Kong Film Award For Best Director for 1987's City on Fire. In 1989, he founded the Born-Top Company with actor Chow Yun-fat, its first production being Wild Search. For his own company, he served as supervising producer on A Moment of Romance(1990).
photo : Fat gor, Cherie & Ringo lam on the set of "Wild Search"

John Woo  "Once a Thief"
Born in 1948 in Guangzhou. Educated at the Matteo Ricci College in Hong Kong. He took a keen interest in film and drama from an early age. He entered the industry in 1969 when he joined Cathay Film Company as a production assistant and later, as assistant director. In 1971, he moved to Shaw Brothers and worked as assistant director to Zhang Che. He made his directorial debut with a kung fu film The Young Dragons in 1973 and joined Golden Harvest in the same year. 



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