Bau Hon-Lam
Also Known As: Hon Lam Bau, 鮑漢琳 , Baau Hon-Lam, 鲍汉琳
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 12, 2007
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Year of the Dragon
Overview: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Lam Ah Chun
Overview: Looking for a job, Ah-chun is sent off into the countryside to a seemingly haunted mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-06-29
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Tricky Business
Overview: Happy specializes in playing tricks. But he refuses to work for Shi, a rich man, as the job is against his principle, Shi is very angry and asks for the help of Ling, the enemy of Happy. By coincidence, Happy meets Moon, a blind girl suffering from cancer. Happy feels pity and also falls for her. However, he isn’t aware that it is just a trick…
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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Passion
Overview: 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 lazy weekend afternoon, the two women conjure memories of Cora's husband, his life, his death, and his passionate affair with Sylvia. A series of wistful flashbacks reveal the sometimes touching, sometimes painful circumstances around the women's deep friendship with one another, and their love for the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-07-24
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The Story of a Refugee
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-24
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The Sausage Chase
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-14
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No Big Deal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Private Life
Overview: Sam Lee has just been crowned Miss Hong Kong 1986, and she meets rich playboy George on a plane. They seem to take an immediate dislike to each other. Then, in the next scene and completely without explanation, they are in bed together. They remain lovestruck and as close to inseparable as circumstances allow for the remainder of the story. There are some hurdles, the most significant being George's long-term girlfriend Doris, who is also George's boss's daughter. Initially, Doris takes Sam's arrival calmly. But she chooses to bribe Sam's agent, which results in Sam being charged and taken to court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-08-13
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ICAC: Steak Fee
Overview: The second episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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God of Gamblers' Return
Overview: Ko Chun, the God of Gamblers, vows to keep his identity hidden while looking for the gangsters who murdered his pregnant wife.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-12-24
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God of Gamblers
Overview: Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Little Knife, an amateur gambler, offers him shelter and realizes that he has a penchant for gambling.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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God of Gamblers II
Overview: Sing finds Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-12-13
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Working Class
Overview: Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing are buddies and all dismissed creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor labor relationship. The manager, supervisor and foreman are always picking on their subordinates. Finally the workers decide to take an united front to oppose their superiors.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-08-09
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Tri-Star
Overview: A priest hears a prostitute's confession, a tale which has a 200,000 HK$ debt as its centerpiece. The prostitute accidentally leaves behind an envelope with her address in the confessional.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-02-15
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Dances with Dragon
Overview: Aaron, a young, successful Chinese businessman, drifts on to a rural island after a scuba accident. Mistaken for an illegal immigrant, he is forced to take refuge in a small, family-run grocery store. Enjoying the riches to rags transition, he tells nobody his true identity, and falls in love with the grocery store owner's daughter, Yvonne. But while Aaron enjoys his life of anonymity, Yvonne covets the chance to escape her poverty. Meanwhile, in Aaron's absense, a plot has been hatched to take over his company. Are Aaron's and Yvonne's lives too different to find happiness together?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-12-19
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Triads: The Inside Story
Overview: Li Man-Ho comes to Hong Kong after his father's death following a double crossed peace meeting at the hands of a rival gang. The family's business begins to crumble as rival organizations stir violence and trouble in acknowledgment of this weakness. Li Man-Ho reluctantly agrees after pressure from other members to temporarily act as leader in order to restore stability and order. But he is soon faced with violence, betrayal and confusion, in this world he tried so long to avoid.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-08-03
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Perfect Exchange
Overview: Mindy Chan (Andy Lau) is a top-notched gambler/swindler. His girlfriend Lily (Christy Chung) and friend Ah Chi are card dealers at the casino where bad guy Lau and his mistress Mona (Anita Lee) frequent. Chor Hung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), a play on the Chinese name for famed retired actress Cherie Chung, is a senior security guard at the local prison. During a card game, Ah Chi and Mindy swindle millions of dollars from Lau, but they are caught. Lau makes a deal with Mindy - in exchange for Ah Chi (who had been kidnapped), Mindy needs to go to prison and find out where a guy named Robinson (Kwan Hoi-San) has hidden $3 billion dollars worth of bonds.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance Thriller Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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The Banquet
Overview: 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. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-30
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A Killer's Blues
Overview: Fourteen years ago, Wai Yat Ming (Ti Lung) went to the US to settle affairs for triad boss Sun (Bao Fang), but ended up in prison. Finally free again, Wai wants to start over with his girlfriend (Olivia Cheng) and adopted daughter (Fennie Yuen), but he finds it hard with Sun's feuding son and nephew, Kit (Mark Cheng) and Chong (Roy Cheung), constantly raising trouble in the gang. Seeing his own misguided past in them, Wai fruitlessly tries to guide them in the right direction. He eventually decides to make a clean break and leave Hong Kong, but Sun's sudden death pulls him back into the violence of the underworld.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-07-29
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All for the Gamblers
Overview: All for the Gamblers is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Alex Man
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-01-24
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Tricky Brains
Overview: A trickster-for-hire, known as the Tricky Expert, is hired to ruin the lives of a father and son by making them think that he's a part of the family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-02-02
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