Gregory Charles Rivers
Also Known As: 河國榮, Ho Kwok-wing, 河国荣, 何国荣
Biography: Gregory Charles Rivers (April 1965 – 2 February 2024), also known by his Chinese name Ho Kwok-wing (Chinese: 河國榮; Jyutping: Ho4 Gwok3wing4), was an Australian–Hong Kong actor. He was known for his roles in various TVB series, and was dubbed "TVB's token gweilo" (white person) for his frequent appearances as stereotypical Caucasian characters.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Queensland, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 30, 1965
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 02, 2024
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Thunder Cops II
Overview: A clumsy policewoman trains hard to avenge her father's death.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-11-18
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Iron Butterfly III: Tomorrow
Overview: Tomorrow is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Genres: Crime Action TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-11-17
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Man on the Edge
Overview: On the eve of the 1997 handover, violence is rampant as the British Hong Kong government has joined forces with the triads to cause chaos in Hong Kong. The gang leader, Lam Yiu-Cheong assigns his crony Ah Lok to take an important role in the destruction. But Lok harbours a secret – he’s an undercover policeman and he’s about to discover a political conspiracy that will shock the country to its core.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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The Iron Butterfly
Overview: The police feel the case is serious, then send Shan, Hui even hand investigation, two at first did not and, as understanding deepens, emotional surge; and Ling-hui is the subordinate Li Jian fell in love. Hui Shan and strengthen business gang raids, thereby forcing each gang leader to surrender Aberdeen, against being next use, health and more were killed.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-25
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The Big Score
Overview: Wong Jing wrote and directed this film, he also co-stars as a shady and bumbling individual who's forced to confront the people who have maimed his best friend and killed the poor guys family. They've also made his life extremely miserable. Danny Lee plays a cop who's job is to protect Wong Jing from a gang of sadistic gangsters. As in all of Wong Jing films, the villains are just plain rotten and they love to hurt and kill people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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A Beautiful Moment
Overview: An ageing bachelor playboy finally meets the girl of his dreams and proposes marriage, only to discover her psychologist stepmom was his first love long ago. The future in-laws initially pretend not to know each other but as the wedding date gets nearer, the rekindling of long-dormant feelings develops into a cross-generational love triangle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2018-02-15
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Everything Under Control
Overview: During a diamond heist, one of the security escorts steals the diamonds and flees. Fellow security escorts Yau Shing and Jelly are forced to help the robber track down the diamond. Tracking the diamonds, they stumble into a secluded village. While they clash with the weird villagers, the three men suspect that they are being haunted by a female ghost.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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Stooge, My Love
Overview: Set in the 1970s, this overlooked gem is about stripper Giu (Carrie Ng) and a mentally handicapped man named Biscuit (Wong He) making ends meet by becoming con artists.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Running on Empty
Overview: Based on a true story, and recreated from the personal account of one of the robbers, the film follows an immigrant from mainland China in 1975 as he works with a team to plan to rob an armored car carrying seven million dollars from the Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong.
Genres: Crime Drama History Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Story of Nam
Overview: Nam was originally a Vietnamese soldier, yet because he hated the cruelty of war, he fled to Hong Kong and was placed in a refugee camp. Anan reunites with his long-lost brother in the camp. The two hope to immigrate to France and have a new life. In the refugee camp, the two gangs headed by big bully Kei and Kuen, who often fight openly and secretly for power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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Shanghai Shanghai
Overview: Little Tiger (Yuen Biao) ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger (Chi-cheung Lam), an honest cop working in a corrupt system. Surmising that life in the police force was not his cup of tea, Little Tiger joins the Swallow Acrobatic Troop, which he excels in because of his kung-fu prowess. When a band of thugs from Chin Hung-yun's (Sammo Hung) group attacks the troop, Little Tiger not only handily fights them back but also infiltrates their organization to destroy them from the inside. Meanwhile, Big Tiger's old flame Mary (Anita Mui) returns from America to join the revolutionaries. Big Tiger soon finds himself torn between his love of this girl and his orders to arrest all revolutionaries.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-01-20
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Floating City
Overview: Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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A Bite of Love
Overview: A vampire is repulsed by the thought of killing in order to stay alive. He becomes the local blood bank's best customer. However, when the bank runs out of blood, he must take a hard look at his situation.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Banana Club
Overview: Story of three bachelors living together, working together as DJs at a radio station, and trying to find true love, together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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A Punch to Revenge
Overview: A crippled man with an invalid son, is so greedy that he forces his wife into prostitution. Then, he makes a deal with a crime boss to pull a big heist and invites his friends from China to help. Meanwhile, Miss Fan (Yukari Oshima), the social worker who attends to Eddy, takes a liking to police officer Peter Lee (Ben Lam). The heist goes awry, and the couple gets involved in bringing the bad guys to justice. A tale of betrayal and revenge, in which law prevails at a great personal cost of its agents.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-09-30
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The Iron Butterfly II
Overview: A Hong Kong homicide detective insists on the same name that his father, Rock Moon, has died and carved it deeply into his heart. In this case her mother is treated in a psychiatric hospital. Have found that their heads are the same in recent drug trafficking and crime-ridden campaigns.
Genres: Romance Crime Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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Those Were the Days
Overview: Those Were the Days is a Hong Kong Drama starring Eric Tsang
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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Little Big Master
Overview: The story of a hopeful headmaster who perseveres in running a kindergarten for underprivileged children in Yuen Long, despite many challenges and little reward. Based on true events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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L.A.Connection
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Red Zone
Overview: Red Zone is a Hong Kong Action movie produced by Jackie Chan
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Mission Dynamo
Overview: The Vietnam war and terrorists led by Torosky battle it out with South Vietnamese forces assisted by the American Army. For squad leader Merlin and PFC Bill, the war has become so meaningless that they don't care anymore. Seeing their friends die, they decide to desert and soon discover that there is no sanctuary in the jungle. It's only a matter of time before Torosky catches up with them.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Thief of Time
Overview: A dimwitted thief, mistakes for a spy, in order to free himself he holds the honest driver, as a hostage. They end up in a tunnel and traveled back in time. Throughout their travels, they meet figures in the martial arts world including the "God of Sabre" and "Sword Saint."
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Edge of Justice
Overview: In British-ruled Hong Kong, a powerful British prosecutor attempts rape, leading to the victim’s death. Maggie Chan, the lawyer seeking justice, faces bribery and corruption that jeopardize the case. She takes a daring risk in court to uncover the truth.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Get Outta Here
Overview: In a construction site under the full moon, construction workers dig too deep and inadvertently wake up Joe (Alex Lam), a vampire that has been lying underground for a century. Dazzled by the vibrancy of a modern city at night, Joe wanders around and runs into Apple (J. Arie), a jilted girl planning to kill herself. Eager for a taste of blood, Joe follows her home and helps her and her grandmother get rid of thugs sent by a real estate developer who wish to buy them off. What started as a battle for property turns out to be a battle among vampires.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Legendary Couple
Overview: When an honest company employee is falsely accused of being an accomplice to a robbery, and his wife dies through police incompetence, he seeks revenge by launching a one-man crime spree, starting with the abduction of his former boss's spoiled daughter. But she soon begins to understand his motives, and becomes his lover and willing accomplice.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Her Fatal Ways 4
Overview: In this third sequel, Mainland cop and perennial straight-woman Cheng decides on a civilian life in Hong Kong, but her immigration quickly proves comical.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-04-28
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Lucky Fat Man
Overview: Chow Chong Fat and Wat Kam Heung, who knew each other since young, are coming to their 10th wedding anniversary. Fat always works as an accountant and also a handy man in the family business “Lo Wat Kei” founded by Heung’s father. Fat is ordered around by Heung’s family members every day. Bullied by Heung’s mom, uncle and aunt, Fat leads a very miserable life. The only thing that brings Fat out of his rigid and boring life in “Lo Wat Kei” is the reunion with his dream lover Ceci. Lacking the joy of life, Fat buys a lottery ticket which wins him the first prize of 20 million HK dollars. But this is just the start of the whole exciting story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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Forced Nightmare
Overview: A female psychic leaves her mainland home to visit Hong Kong. Along the way her bus crashes killing everyone on board except her as her powers protected her but it also causes the dead passengers to re-aminate. So, she seeks the help of a famous Tao Priest to put the dead back to rest.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-03-26
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The Figures from Earth
Overview: Five hundred years ago, to practice witchcraft, a bat elf forces her sister, Siu-chu to lure strong men so that she can suck their blood. A priest stops Siu-chu from killing two guards by using his supernatural powers. After fighting, both parties are wounded. To help the guards cope with bat elves, the priest gives them string instruments, swords and thousand-year-old snow pearls. Unexpectedly, the guards swallow the snow pearls and it takes them five hundred years to resurrect……
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-05-19
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Funny Business
Overview: Fuk Ching (Michael Hui) runs a farm in Mainland China. Persuaded by a Western businessman, the two put together a joint venture scheme to build a hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-11-02
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American Force 3: High Sky Mission
Overview: Fighting from the air or in the deepest jungle, the enemy must be crushed. A group of deadly American commandos led by Colonel Cobra during the Japanese occupation of the Philippine's in World War II. Some of the locals are collaborating with the enemy, so the Americans must tackle rebels, suicide attacks and booby traps as they carve their path through the jungle in search of the Japanese.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Act of Gangs
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Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Lion Rock
Overview: In 2011, Lai Chi-wai – one of the top rock climbers in Asia – lost everything when a motorcycle accident took away his ability to walk. Rather than succumbing to his fate, Lai found his own way of scaling those dizzying peaks again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2019-11-14
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My People, My Country
Overview: Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Exodus
Overview: A darkly comic tale of a world in which the female population are slowly, and methodically doing away with their male counterparts.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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The Sinking City: Capsule Odyssey
Overview: Hong Kong is just a ridiculous place full of lies. In this prosperous city, there are a group of people that have to live in the ‘space capsule’, which is a large seminar room subdivided into small living rooms. In such a small living space, this group of people all struggle to fight for their ideal lifestyle which reflects the spirit of Hong Kong.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Casino Raiders
Overview: Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-29
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All U Need Is Love
Overview: When the Grande Hotel suddenly detected a suspected Covid case, the epidemic prevention center ordered a total blockade. All guests staying in the hotel must accept mandatory quarantine for 14 days. Everyone is isolated in the hotel, and the relationship between people is getting closer unconsciously. Everyone has lived through difficult times together, and learned to cherish what may be the last time to get along with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2021-04-22
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Justice Is Blind
Overview: In December 1974, a 16-year-old girl was murdered after borrowing a phone at an ice cream shop. The next day, her naked body was found hidden in a TV box on the street. The only suspect in the case was the owner of the ice cream shop, Au-Yeung Wing Cheung.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-08-01
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The Supernormal 3
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Love Is......?
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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One Step Beyond
Overview: This documentary is about metaphysics, physiognomy, fungshui and the unseen world. Ming Lam and Ng Kong explore the causes and origins with a number of masters in this field who explain the what about. The content includes the haunted KCR advertisement and mystery, secrets about moving into new houses and ghost inspectors, mystic experience of celebrities in the show business.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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