Mark Houghton
Also Known As: Ho Mak , Ma Chung-Sang , Mark Hougton , Mark Housten , Mark Houston , Mark Huston , Mark Miller , Master Mark Houghton
Biography: Mark Houghton is a British former action actor, stunt man and fight choreographer. In 1989, he moved to Hong Kong to train in Kung Fu under Lau Kar Leung, and soon began working in the Hong Kong film industry. He is known as the "White Tiger" of Martial Arts films. He retired from his career in cinema in 2000.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Birthday: March 08, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Angel Enforcers
Overview: Female agents battle a gang of diamond thieves.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-01-14
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Knock Off
Overview: A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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Princess Madam
Overview: Fung and Pan, two policewomen, are assigned to protect a gangster's mistress turned police informant. Her lover orders her assassination, but the attempt fails. In a desperate bid to prevent her going to court, he threatens to kill Pan's stepfather. Pan has no choice but to leave the police force in order to protect her family and seek her revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit
Overview: Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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Live Hard
Overview: In Hong Kong, terrorists from Libya blow up a bus which kills the son of the American consul. The Hong Kong Police Force sends Lui Yung and his team of special agents to investigate the case and destroy the terrorist group. On the other hand, Senior Inspector Hui Tat Ming (Simon Yam) of the Regional Crime Unit is discontented by the fact that he is no longer in charge of the case since it has been transferred to the Politics Department. However, Hui secretly investigates alone to track down the terrorists and bring them to justice
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-07-14
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Fury in Red
Overview: A cop/gangster actioner involving seedy corporate dealings tied with ruthless Vietnamese gangs.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-05-23
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Fight Back to School 2
Overview: Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover as a student.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Fire Phoenix
Overview: After stumbling across a mob hit, a man must run for his life, trying to stay ahead of vicious mercenaries after the $1 million bounty placed on his head.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Kickboxer from Hell
Overview: While in Hong Kong preparing for a big tournament, American kickboxing champion Sean becoms involved with undercover British nun Sophia and her battle against his evil crew of kickboxers
Genres: Horror Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Thunder Kids 3: Hunt for the Devil Boxer
Overview: All Satan needs to enslave the souls of all mankind is the Sacred Sword which is kept by Master William and his son Falcon. The Thunder Ninja Kids battle Satan and his ghouls, and with the help of Falcon's new master Samson, they avenge Master William's murder, vanquish Satan and save mankind.
Genres: Horror Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-10
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City Cops
Overview: Cindy is an American FBI agent who is currently in Hong Kong seeking arch-criminal Kent Tong. In order to bring down Tong and his criminal organization, she teams up with local HK cops David and Johnny.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-11-18
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Outlaw Brothers
Overview: Frankie Chan and Max Mok are high-class car thieves whose sticky fingers get them in trouble with some gangsters, and then some really nasty gangsters. Tough policewoman Yukari Oshima wants to put the thieves behind bars, but realizes that by working together against the gangsters they can both benefit more.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
Overview: King-sized martial arts hero Sammo Hung stars in this wild and wacky blend of action and comedy. Skinny (Karl Maka) and Fatty (Sammo Hung) are a pair of police detectives who soon find themselves on the outs with their boss when they accidentally make a mess of his wedding while chasing Tak, a big league drug trafficker. Skinny and Fatty are forced to leave their jobs, but while on holiday in Singapore, they forget their troubles when they both find love with beautiful women. However, Tak is convinced the former cops are still a threat, and when he abducts their girlfriends, Skinny and Fatty swing into action to rescue them.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-06-28
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Killer Angels
Overview: Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Angel Terminators
Overview: Two Hong Kong policewomen (Ida and Hon) take on a Japanese boss who has returned from a seven-year exile to retake his old turf.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-10-10
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The Vengeance
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-06-02
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Power Connection
Overview: Ray is a Manila cop who travels to Hong Kong on assignment. He searches for his girl friend Lina, and finds her - addicted to drugs. Heung Lan, his ex-partner, is an undercover Hong Kong cop investigating weapons smuggling. She provokes the smugglers by intercepting several shipments in Hong Kong, leading to several good, although brief fights. The drug smuggler kills Lina, and Ray swears vengeance. The head of the gang then returns to the Philippines, and with him, the action shifts back to the Philippines. The lady cop gets more than what she hoped for.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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China Heat
Overview: A special police unit of women fights drug smugglers from Asia to New York. A trio of globe-trotting women led by the glamorous Tie Hua spread mayhem and beauty as they search for the cold-hearted international drug lord Hong Gang. In their wake, they leave a string of broken hearts -- and a trail of broken bones. Sibelle Hu, Alan Lan, Sherry Han, Cindy Mong and Michael Despasquale Jr. co-star in this martial arts action adventure filmed in the style of Charlie's Angels.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1992-05-08
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Dreaming the Reality
Overview: An expert assassin - trained since childhood to be the perfect killer - loses her memory during a mission in Thailand, and ends up in the care of a wry ex-policewoman and her boxing cohort. The equally lethal sister of the assassin pursues her, uncertain of her intentions and whether to kill her.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-07-18
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To Be Number One
Overview: The story of Ho, a Chinese peasant/slave worker who escapes to Hong Kong and becomes one of the most feared gang bosses in Hong Kong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-04-15
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Red Fists
Overview: Siu is a competent, intelligent, smart Hong Kong detective. The case of money smuggling and counterfeiting between Mainland China, Hong Kong and neighboring countries has always happened. Investigator Wong who works under the gang, together with Siu, decide to join forces to end them all.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-07-14
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Angel's Project
Overview: A realistic fight scenes; full punches, kicks, fast kungfu/karate movements, not just handling a safety wire to support high flips and deadly kicks...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Oh! Yes Sir!!!
Overview: A cop turns fugitive when he is framed for the murder of a keywitness in a weapons smuggling investigation. On the run the cop befriends a psychic who helps him to capture the real killer.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-05-21
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Mission of Justice
Overview: After opening with gratuitous soft-core intercourse, followed by the killing of the heads of a criminal gang seeking control of Thailand’s drug trade, things get a little better. In an early role, Carrie Ng leads a Thai police task force and issues a lot of orders while posing in a rather striking paramilitary uniform! Moon Lee and Yukari are sent into the jungle as undercover operatives running a sting operation. Eventually they run the gang to ground, ambushing a river opium convoy amid a string of double-crosses. Although hundreds of rounds are expended throughout the movie, the gun play tends to be formulaic.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-03
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In the Heat of Summer
Overview: Five cops work and get on each other's nerves during a hot summer. Tak is a gambler, too much so for his girlfriend to risk marriage. Daddy, a single father, is harsh with his son who reminds him of the woman who abandoned them. Monk is mercurial, talkative, a show-off. Kong, a steady family man, keeps the peace. Sam is new, hoping to fit in and make it as a cop. Three brutal and murderous robbers are on the loose, and so is a former soldier, embittered over the loss of his pension, using very real bombs to extort what's due him. It's a dangerous job, and the cops must watch each other's back, regardless of their personal problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Will of Iron
Overview: Maggie came back to Hong Kong and gathered her grandmother back to Vancouver for good. She took this opportunity to bunch up with her boyfriend Michael, best friends Jackie and his wife Carol. Although Michael convinced her that the couple had moved to Macau, incidentally they met each other on the street. Maggie couldn't believe her own bare eyes that Jackie was already addicted to cocaine. And the most absurd fact that Michael was the drug dealer himself. Jackie owed the mob a great deal of money; and one of the gangster, Chau Sung was determined to force Jackie to the corner.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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Love, Guns and Glass
Overview: Simon Yam, gang boss, turns himself in to the cops in order to spare his buddies. He spends ten long years in jail during which his no good wife gambles away all his money and raises his little daughter into an ungrateful slutty teen with an attitude. When he returns to his former life. He generously loans money to a high class gal, Cecilia Yip with financial troubles. His wife and daughter leave him. In despair over the mess he has made of his life, he proposes to Cecilia hoping to start over and go straight. In spite of their different class status, the two fall for each other and make a go of her failing factory.
Genres: Action Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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Mad Mad Ghost
Overview: Uncle Ying is a fortune teller / Taoism Priest with a failing business and five apprentices. He takes a janitor/nightwatchmen job at a soon-to-be remodeled house, only to find its haunted!
Genres: Horror Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-11-13
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Angel On Fire
Overview: A beautiful supermodel-turned-gangster double crosses her ruthless partners after the gang steals a precious relic from a Manila museum. Now an enterprising young Interpol agent, with the help of a comical taxi driver, must stop the vicious gang and return the relic to its rightful owners.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-07-03
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I Am the White Tiger
Overview: Stuntman, action director, and martial arts legend Mark Houghton tells his story of breaking into the Hong Kong film industry, his struggle with injuries and depression, and the promise he made his teacher, the legendary filmmaker Lau Kar Leung.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-18
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She Shoots Straight
Overview: Hong Kong police officer Mina Kao marries Huang Tsung-Pao, who is a member of a law enforcement dynasty. His father and his many sisters are also officers, and the eldest sister Chia-Ling is one of the highest ranking women in the police department. When a Vietnamese gang begins a rampage through the city, the women must overcome their suspicion of one another to bring the criminals to justice.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-04-07
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Tiger on the Beat 2
Overview: Lam, a cop approaching 40 but without much accomplishment, always wants to achieve something memorable before his retirement. He is obliged by his sister to find a decent Chinese girl for his nephew, Baffalo, who is an "American Born Chinese". But Baffalo has an eye for a sweetie, Ellen, who has accidentally witnessed a murder. The incident gets Lam, Baffalo and Ellen being involved in a ruthless underground arms smuggling ring, wich sends the killer to eliminate them.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-02-10
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Final Run
Overview: This is Midnight Angel without the female caped-crusaders. Once again, Yukari Oshima steals the show as she seeks revenge against the drug overlord who killed her fiancee.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-04-10
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The Legend of Drunken Master
Overview: Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-02-03
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Shaolin Popey
Overview: A high school loser dreams of winning the heart of the principal's daughter, but his chances are slim as long as her bruiser boyfriend's around. Fortunately, a chance meeting with a pair of Shaolin-trained kids (previously seen in DRAGON FROM SHAOLIN) gives him the fighting skills needed to come out on top. An unusual but entertaining blending of teen romantic comedy and martial arts slapstick
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-08-05
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Angel's Mission
Overview: An undercover Japanese cop tries to find some girls who have mysteriously disappeared in Hong Kong.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-04-20
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Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple
Overview: Fun-loving young Shaolin initiates get the better of two bungling assassins hired to chop off the right hand of their crochety master, who commands magical kung-fu powers.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-12-04
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