Fruit Chan
Also Known As: 陈果, 陳果, Chan Guo, Chan Kou, Tin Sam-Fat, Eighteen, Tin Sup-Fat, Fruit Chan Gor, 田十八
Biography: Fruit Chan Gor (born April 15, 1959 in Guangdong, China, is an independent Hong Kong Second Wave screenwriter, filmmaker and producer, who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong, Wong Yau-Nam in Hollywood Hong Kong) in his films. His name became familiar to many Hong Kongers only after the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which earned many local and international awards. On August 22, 2007, Chan announced that he will make a film focusing on Bruce Lee's early years, specifically, the Chinese-language film, Kowloon City, will be produced by John Woo's producer Terence Chang. The film will be set in 1950s Hong Kong. Chan's credits include Durian Durian. Also, Stanley Kwan stated that he was talking with Lee's family to make a movie about the late action movie icon. Further, in April, Chinese state media announced that its national broadcaster started filming a 40-part TV series on Bruce Lee to promote Chinese culture for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Guangdong, China
Adult: No
Birthday: April 15, 1959
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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The Law Enforcer
Overview: A police officer is suspended for assaulting gang members who threatened a young woman and her boyfriend. Meanwhile, his fellow officers need help in catching a group of murderous thugs about to make a big time bust.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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Yes, Madam!
Overview: Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-11-30
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My Name Is Fame
Overview: Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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3 Days of a Blind Girl
Overview: Mrs. Ng, who is left temporarily blind after an eye operation. Second day, her husband takes off to Macau for a business trip. Soon afterwards, Sam, a former patient of Dr. Ng, shows up to Mrs. Ng with sinister motives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-05-27
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His Fatal Ways
Overview: A righteous straight-laced China Public Security officer with supernatural powers is sent to Hong Kong to catch two ruthless thieves. His police tactics proves hilarious when he teams up with his Hong Kong counterpart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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Temporary Family
Overview: Lung, a hardworking property agent, is facing a serious situation in life. His girlfriend won't marry him unless he can buy her a 1000-sq ft. apartment in one year’s time; whilst Charlotte desperately needs a place to stay after her divorce. Along with Lung’s intern Very, a mainland rich, they become co-owners of the office girl Hak’s small flat that was left to Hak by her estranged mother.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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Finale in Blood
Overview: Cheng is an attention-seeking no-hoper who works at a radio station, announcing food prices. But when his path crosses with that of Fong Yan's ghost, the telling of her story helps Cheng become the star presenter of the nightly serial.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Righting Wrongs
Overview: Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-11-27
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Lost Souls
Overview: Like many Hong Kong people, the Ling family are hoping to immigrate to Canada - but then they all die in a gas poisoning accident. Something wimpy like dying isn't going to stop them from their Canadian dreams, but it turns out migrating in the next life takes money, too. In order to raise funds to head west, the Lings return to the mortal world and get to work making money through various jobs, raising plenty of hilarious havoc and misunderstandings along the way.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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Inspector Pink Dragon
Overview: A blundering Hong Kong police inspector, Ma Yu Long, goes under cover to investigate a high-class businessman, Teng Kuo Chiao, who was bribing city planning officer Ma Yu Yu to build roads to suit his needs and is suspected to be liable in Yu's death. In the meantime, Long courts Yu's high school sweetheart, Julia, who wants the inspector to cheat Chiao out of some money as part of the revenge deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-07
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Naughty Boys
Overview: Frequent Jackie Chan cohort Mars stars as Sing, an ex-con who's supposed to dig up the buried loot of his three still-jailed buddies...but when he gets to it, he finds that the treasure chest is full of rocks! The other three are convinced that Sing stole the goods for himself, so Sing decides to hide out with his kick-butt cousin Kuen, played with athletic aplomb by kung-fu princess Kara Hui! But some insurance investigators (Carina Lau and Billy Lau) are also after the loot, and there's even a mousy travel agent (future director Clarence Fok) thrown in for good measure. It all adds up to numerous shenanigans and action-comedy hijinks, culminating in a knockdown action finale set in a warehouse! Wooden crates, two-by-fours, and more props than you can name are used and abused in the name of creative eighties HK-style action, which Jackie Chan and company are only too glad to dispense to the audience!
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Hot Summer Days
Overview: In "Hot Summer Days" a hot summer heat wave engulfs the Chinese territory, while the movie covers the lives of various characters during that time. There's chaffeur Wah who tries to woo foot masseur Li Yan via text messages, air conditioner repairman Ah Wai interested in biker girl Ding Dong, a master sushi chef who spurns the love of writer Wasabi, country hick Da Fu who tries to impress teddy bear factory worker Xiao Qi Angela Baby by standing out in the hot noon sun for 100 days, & photographer Leslie Guan & assistant attempting to track down a woman who they believed cursed the photographer into blindness ...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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The Longest Summer
Overview: It is July 1st of 1997, and Hong Kong is bright in celebration. The United Kingdom handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China leaves Ga Yin, and his fellow soldiers without work. Which leads them to find employment and money any way they can get it. Without much success, Ga Yin decides to join his brother Ga Suen in the triad gang world.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Simply Actors
Overview: When undercover cops start losing their lives to drug lords who blame their demise on "poor acting", the Police Force counters by sending Hong Kong's Finest to acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2007-06-19
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My Lucky Stars
Overview: Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-02-10
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Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
Overview: The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-08-15
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Her Fatal Ways 2
Overview: Mainland Inspector Cheng Shih-Nan once again leaves the Mainland with her cousin Hsiou Sheng to tackle a Hong Kong-related murder. They get help from their Hong Kong brethren, including the brother of Wu Kei Kuo, and the race is on to find the bad guys! But there are still many mysterious portions of Hong Kong’s capitalist culture for Shih-Nan to explore, including the wonder of karaoke!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-06-13
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The Age of Miracles
Overview: A psychic widow (Anita Yuen) makes a bargain with Death (Roy Chiao) in order to save her son's (Alan Tam) life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-02-03
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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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Monkey Business
Overview: Hong Kong comedy film.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-01-07
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: A young rebel falls for the sister of a local kickboxing champion. In order to stay out of jail, he is advised by his parole officer to begin training in the art of kickboxing. His romance with the girl blossoms but comes to a crashing halt when he is forced to face her brother in the ring. When the brother is accidentally killed, the romance ends and the young kickboxer participates in illegal street fights. When the kickboxer has a shot at the Golden Belt against the Japanese champ, he soon learns that this may be the final fight of his life. Written by Ninja01
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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Devoted to You
Overview: Jane, born in a lower-class family and neglected by her parents, becomes a rebellious girl. She enters a famous high school by personal relationship of her aunt. May, born in a rich family and spoiled by her parents, is very capricious. Isolated by her classmates, Jane keeps silent and swallow everything. Not until one day, when she rescued May, who has constantly saved Jane from being embarrassed in class, Jane shows her power and is greatly respected by May.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-04-11
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Mrs K
Overview: "Mrs K" is a story of a woman who gives everything that she has to protect her husband and daughter when enemies from her past come hunting her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Naked Ambition
Overview: John and Andy, comic section editors of a magazine, become unemployed because of the winding-up of the publisher. Together with three other colleagues, they publish their own porn magazine, which turns out to be very well-received in the market. Their sexual fantasies are realized, and on the other hand, they become the tycoons in the porn circle. Yet, with a change in their moral values and a seducing environment surrounding them, challenges await their love...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2003-10-20
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The Top Bet
Overview: Sing and Mei are two siblings with special powers which the former uses to gamble. When both are unavailable, a gangster hires Fanny, a con artist, to compete in a gambling competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-03-07
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Now You See Love... Now You Don't
Overview: This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a tiny village in Hong Kong. The plot revolves around his love interest who has run off to work in downtown Hong Kong and many culture clashes between the peasants and urban life are highlighted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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Run Papa Run
Overview: A lawyer falls in love with a gang boss, gets knocked up and drags him to the altar. One evening, cradling the crying infant, he metamorphoses into a doting daddy, and henceforth devotes his life to keeping her from finding out his true identity. His light and joy grows into a teenager, and alas, falls for the son of a cop, while rival gangs move in on his turf.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2008-04-10
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Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday
Overview: A young boy's journey to puberty. Awkward first time experiences are a combination of jest and melancholy as only adolescence can ignite.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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Those Merry Souls
Overview: Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two movie stunt actors in Hong Kong and are suspicious of Lung's father Chiu's mysterious behavior. Unbeknownst to them, Chiu was commissioned as a "messenger" by the Spirit World to take newly-departed souls to the other side. When Tak suffers a major accident on the movie set, Chiu keeps Tak's soul from being taken away, thereby, reviving him.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Action Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-05-30
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Arrest the Restless
Overview: Two juveniles get mixed up in a street gang, resulting in the murder of a rival gang leader. A crooked cop pins the murder on the boy, but a detective who knows the truth risks his career to help the kid out.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-05-14
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In the Mood for Doyle
Overview: Christopher Doyle is one of the best known and most acclaimed directors of photography in world cinema. Born in Australia, he sees himself as an Asian citizen rather than a Westerner. His artistic contribution to the films of Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Jimou and Fruit Chan films, among others, is indisputable. Filmed in DV and Super8, this documentary is a kind of wild and stylized road movie -- from Bangkok to Hong Kong, via New York. The camera follows this eccentric and outrageous artist as he gives us his thoughts on his past and present work. From the recent sets of Invisible Waves by Thailand's Pen ek Ratanaruang, and M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, to the locations in Hong Kong where he shot some of his most famous pictures, such as In The Mood for Love and Dumplings, Chris Doyle talks about his cinematic fascination for Asian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-30
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All's Well, Ends Well 2011
Overview: Popular beautician Sammy (Louis Koo) has the good fortune of being hired as the CEO of a cosmetics company, but quickly finds that he has his work cut out for him when the female employees reject him outright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2011-02-02
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The Haunted Cop Shop
Overview: The police station used to be the army club during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Many Japanese officers committed hara kiri there on V-J Day. The old building thus became a ghost house. Petty thief Ming is detained in the basement. It is the Ghost Festival when ghosts are allowed one night's leave. The Colonel shows up and bites Ming, who becomes a vampire.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-11-19
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Women on the Run
Overview: The plot includes the plight of two women who both find themselves betrayed by the men they love. It's a violent female 'buddy' movie, with two mismatched heroines, a policewoman and a drug addicted prostitute joining forces to seek revenge.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
Overview: In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film is that it's not an ode to celebrities but about the role cinema plays in ordinary people's lives. It's a love letter to cinema, filmmakers and audiences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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No. 7 Cherry Lane
Overview: Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-09-02
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Still Human
Overview: A Hong Kong man with a disability hires a Filipino migrant worker to care for him. As they spend more time together through different seasons, they start learning about themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2018-11-06
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Curry & Pepper
Overview: Two best friends and cop partners become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen time as well as the love of the reporter while after a murderous arms dealer.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-05-23
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In Between Loves
Overview: Taxi driver Lung is obsessed with TV news reporter Jenny Tung. He attempts to gain her affection by providing minor news stories, but her arrogant lawyer boyfriend, John Liu gets in the way. He tells Lung that she is only interested in major events. When a series of murders begins to plaque the city, Lung begins to feed Tung info on the killings but is he more connected than he lets on?
Genres: Comedy Thriller Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-10-14
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Five Lonely Hearts
Overview: Five naive and lively girls, each with a lonely and throbbing heart, in this plain summer vacation, they encountered many exciting, ridiculous, bizarre and adventurous things...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Family Light Affair
Overview: Fresh from his smashing directorial debut comedy, "Let's Make Laugh", Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting returns to the screen with this seriocomic look at the clash of cultures which result when a Mainland Chinese peasant brings his family to Hong Kong. "Family Light Affair", whose Chinese title literally translates as "City Lights", is the director/writer's warm-hearted memoir of street life in the early 1980s, featuring an eclectic cast of pop music and kung fu stars who shine in their poignant roles.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-02-02
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Operation Scorpio
Overview: Budding comic book artist Yu Shu finds himself living out the fantasies of his alternate world when he saves a young girl from an illegal prostitution racket. With the aid of his fecund imagination and the help of an aging kung fu expert Yu Shu becomes something even he had never dared dream -- a hero in real life.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-09-10
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Heart of Dragon
Overview: A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-09-14
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Dragons Forever
Overview: A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-02-11
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Keep Rolling
Overview: One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2020-12-03
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Love: Amoeba Style
Overview: May Ching has three roommates. Tung is the career minded account executive with a business minded girlfriend. Long is the slacker chasing a blind date over the Internet. And 'Brad Pitt' is the playboy who never sleeps with the same woman twice. When all four friends find themselves suddenly out of a job, they decide to open up a bar. In the course of setting up the business, the three boys reexamine their romantic life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-02-27
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Blossoms Under Somewhere
Overview: A story of two female secondary students, one with spasmophemia and the other dyslexia, getting into troubles when they try to seek self-identity through online business at the moral edge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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