Valerie Chow Kar-Ling
Also Known As: Valerie Chow Kar-Ling, 周嘉玲 , 주가령, Rachel Shane, Jialing Zhou, Kar-Ling Chow, Valerie Chow, والری چو
Biography: Valerie Chow Kar-Ling is a former Hong Kong actress, fashion publicist and entrepreneur. She has starred in numerous films and several television series, most memorably in Wong Kar-wai's internationally acclaimed 1994 feature, Chungking Express, which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards. A former Miss Hong Kong runner-up (1991), she is also the first Chinese model to be signed by US cosmetics company Revlon in 1998. Since 2003, she has worked primarily as a fashion publicist and in 2010, opened Mama Kid, a children's designer concept store in Hong Kong. In 2018, she made a surprising return to acting, starring in the film Prison Architect by renowned Chinese visual artist Cao Fei. The film was commissioned by Tai Kwun, the Centre for Heritage and Arts in Hong Kong, and screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival as part of their Forum Expanded programme.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Birthday: December 16, 1970
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Gender: Female
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Chungking Express
Overview: Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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Hero
Overview: Ma Wing Jing and his older brother Ma Tai Chueng arrive in Shanghai to make their fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Be-friending a powerful mobster Wing Jing is given his nightclub in return for saving Tam Sei's life. Unfortunately, another Gangster wants the territory a well. Corruption and violence rule the streets as Wing Jing and Tam Sei must battle not only the rival gangs but the corrupt police officials as well.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-06-17
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Bridge of Dragons
Overview: The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang killed her father to gain more power than he had working for the King, so she decides to run away. Warchild is the one who has to bring her back to Ruechang, but the one thing no one counted on happens... Warchild and Halo falls in love, and together they take on the forces of Ruechang... Written by Zorteper -
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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Futuresport
Overview: In the not too distant future, a new deadly sport is the only way to stop a war that will kill millions. Fix is the creator of the sport, but the spotlight has always been on Ramzey. Now this hothead must use the game to stop the Revolution.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-30
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High Risk
Overview: After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-07-01
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Inner Senses
Overview: This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when Jim begins seeing the same things she does and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror Thriller Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-03-28
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Street Angels
Overview: After her gangster boyfriend Walkie Pie skips town to evade a murder rap, beautiful Tung Yen hooks up with a wealthy nightclub owner, Brother Man, only to have her ex return with guns blazing.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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Sausalito
Overview: Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spends time with her 8-year old son, Scott. Ella meets Mike at Sky House, an infamous pick-up joint. Awkward strangers at first, they nonetheless find passion and what they want in each other.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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The Case of the Cold Fish
Overview: On the peaceful Lantau Island of Hong Kong, a murder takes place. A Eurasian is suspected until he turns out to be a cop from the city S.W.A.T team. The laid-back chief inspector Chow of the island is forced to collaborated. The ways of a city cop and the ways of a country cop collides into series of laughs.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-07-14
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The Blade
Overview: A young man adopted by a renowned swordsmith, discovers that his real father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs foul of a group of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he eventually learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront the man who murdered his father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-12-21
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Lover of the Last Empress
Overview: The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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Twenty Something
Overview: Young friends (Jordan Chan, Moses Chan, Farini Cheung) look for happiness but find only fleeting pleasure in barhopping and one-night stands.
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-04-08
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father
Overview: Yuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel gimmick, Yuen meets his parents during their joyous courtship. Yuen comes to understand and admire his dad, and reflect on his own moral defects.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-12-11
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Ghostly Bus
Overview: The victims of a bus crash live on as ghosts, but some having a pressing need to finish the business of their earthly lives.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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Spider Woman
Overview: Michael Wong is walking in a circle, he is not only facing a complex human relationship as well as inharmonious relationship with some terrible persons. Those affairs push Michael to the death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Healing Hearts
Overview: Intended as the pilot for a an E.R.-style medical drama set in Hong Kong, Healing Hearts features Tony Leung as Lawrence, a doctor whose personal life has been left in shambles after the tragic hit-and-run death of his wife. As Lawrence sets off to find the driver and bring him to justice, one of his colleagues finds himself distracted by a beautiful coma patient. Healing Hearts was directed by Gary Tang and features Leung Chiu-Wai, Michelle Reis, Kenny Bee, Stephen Fung, and Jackie Lui.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-09-03
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Phantoms
Overview: In the peaceful Colorado town of Snowfield, something evil has wiped out the community. And now, it's up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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The Vampire Combat
Overview: Master Mao Lung is so obsessed with the supernatural that he keeps an eye on the "Yin" wife of his eldest disciple, Hsu Yao Tu. Hu succeeds in keeping the master concealed. A century later, everybody has a new life without memory of the past. Mao Lung's loyal but evil follower swears to take revenge and save his master from the subdued world at any price.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Wind Beneath the Wings
Overview: Valerie Chow plays Ling, an attractive young lass studying to be a stewardess. Ling struggles to maintain her studies while being harried by her rich, lecherous classmates and a powerful old man who is hell-bent on having her marry his geeky son (Yu Rongguang). Of course, she eventually meets hunky flight steward Chan Kai-ming (Moses Chan Ho) and true love blooms in the friendly skies.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-06-24
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Dream Killer
Overview: Police officer Cheng (Michael Wong) gets into a brawl with another man while he's off duty out of town. When the other man is found murdered the following day, Cheng assists the local authorities in their investigation, despite their drastically different crime-solving methods.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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Red Zone
Overview: Red Zone is a Hong Kong Action movie produced by Jackie Chan
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Freaky Story
Overview: The three girls were able to travel together due to company arrangements. They happily arrived at the destination island. No one expected that there would be a series of chilling murders.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-04-11
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Prison Architect
Overview: The two protagonists – an architect and a prisoner living in parallel realities in the present time and an ambiguous distanced past, respectively – conjure up imaginations and experiences of imprisonment. In their dialogue across space and time they debate the relations between humans, the world, and freedom. They talk of visible and invisible imprisonment, existentialism as a means of self-redemption, and at the same time question the relationship of humans to the space around them. An attempt at reconciliation with the world and human nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2018-09-08
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The Armed Policewomen
Overview: Dirty Harry meets Charlie's Angels in this cheapie crime thriller directed by Chueng Kon-man. Hoping to stem Hong Kong's exploding crime rate, the police decide to issue guns to select number of female officers. Soon bumbling veteran Madam Chu (Carrie Ng) and young eager beaver rookie Ling (Valerie Chow) are assigned as partners. On their first day on the job together, they happen upon a massive arms cache belonging to notorious gangster Law Man-tat (Ng Man-tat). Soon afterwards, Chu's husband and son are murdered by mobland thugs. Looking for revenge, she goes undercover as a crime world lawyer, winning Law's trust. Yet when she tries to transfer some incriminating evidence onto a computer disc, she gets caught red handed. Chu is beaten and strapped to a bomb, while her abductors demand $10 million ransom. Meanwhile, Ling who fell for rakish detective Ng (Roy Cheung) is working on her own way to free Chu and get the baddies.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-08-17
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