Ric Young
Also Known As: Eric Young
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ric Young is a British character actor. He was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1944 as Wing-Wah Yung. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then moved to Los Angeles to study method acting under Shelley Winters and Lee Strasberg. He is best known for his role as Dr. Zhang Lee in the TV series Alias (2001–04) and as the henchman Kao Kan in the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ric Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Overview: After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Kiss of the Dragon
Overview: Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-06
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The Last Emperor
Overview: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-04
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The Transporter
Overview: Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Booty Call
Overview: Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double — bringing along her brash friend, Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, Bunz. Things go better than expected. As the evening transitions from the restaurant to the bedroom, the two men go on a madcap search for what will surely make the night complete: condoms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-26
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The Corruptor
Overview: Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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High Road to China
Overview: A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-18
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Fireproof
Overview: A heroic fire captain values dedication and service to others above all else, but the most important partnership in his life, his marriage, is about to go up in smoke.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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Cyborg 2
Overview: In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called Glass Shadow. Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors by using Casella
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
Overview: Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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Keys to Freedom
Overview: The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the imminent transition to Chinese Communist rule. A deadly black market for passports is thriving, controlled by Hong Kong's warlords.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Dragon Chow
Overview: Shezad is a Pakistani refugee seeking his fortune in Hamburg. At night, he sells roses in pubs. During the day, he is looking for a job. He starts working as a dishwasher and soup cook in a Chinese restaurant. Xiao, the waiter, and Shezad dream of opening their own restaurant. Herder, the janitor of the asylum seekers' home and part-time escape helper, has to go abroad. Shezad takes over his job and finds the money for the restaurant in East Berlin by not entirely legal means. So Shezad and Xiao's dream comes true. However, the day of the opening ends differently than the two of them had imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-09-02
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Sex Play
Overview: Young daughter of High ranking political figure gets into trouble when she and her friends compete at bedding the foreign diplomats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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Nixon
Overview: A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Lord Jim
Overview: After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-15
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Success Is the Best Revenge
Overview: Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-26
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The Brides of Fu Manchu
Overview: This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-16
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American Gangster
Overview: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Invasion
Overview: Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Ping Pong
Overview: After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-17
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Nightman
Overview: After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the frequency of evil. This gives him an edge for finding the bad guys, and some special classified wearable gear gives him an edge for fighting them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-23
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Pretty Polly
Overview: Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in Singapore her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-19
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Overview: This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Truth
Overview: A group of film students investigate an abandoned lab and discover a lethal virus that renders people incapable of lying before they die.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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The Chairman
Overview: An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-25
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Seven Years in Tibet
Overview: Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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The Terror of the Tongs
Overview: In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Getting Back to Zero
Overview: Two brothers reconcile their relationship over the death of their father after they inherit his craps table and gambling debt. A dark comedy set in the world of underground casinos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-10
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Chain of Command
Overview: Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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Sketch Artist
Overview: A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own investigation of the murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-26
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The Face of Fu Manchu
Overview: Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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