Cho Wing
Also Known As: 曹榮, Chao Wing, Tso Wing, Cao Rong, 曹荣
Biography: Hong Kong film and television actor and martial arts instructor. Played Monkey King in the TV series "The Journey to the West" and won the 34th Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Action Director Award. Cho Wing won the 34th place for his unique and brilliant martial arts design in “The Chef of the Righteousness”.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Birthday: January 19, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Kung Fu Cult Master
Overview: A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder, serious clan and cult rivalries, and lots of magic and flying.
Genres: Action Fantasy History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-12-18
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White Lotus Cult
Overview: Something like a jumbled, back-to-front version of Tai Chi Master and Fong Sai Yuk. Shifting focus on at least ten major characters makes whatever story there is hard to follow. But there's brother against brother, conflicts of loyalty, even disappointment in love. San (always good guy) is disappointed in his brother Kuang's (weak character) decision to join the Cult, and how the power has corrupted him. Chin Chen (good guy) resists his brother Chan's efforts to obtain the Classics. Chan tortures Chin by mistaking him for a pincushion then, with the help of his cranky but skilled old flame Hung and his daughter Tien, Chin trains San in the Classics, to fight Chan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-12-02
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The Red Wolf
Overview: A group of terrorists murder the captain of a cruise ship and take everyone hostage. Their plan is to steal the uranium being stored in the ship's safe. It's up to a security officer and a pickpocketing cocktail waitress to stop them.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-05-18
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Mistaken Identity
Overview: Mistaken Identity is a Hong Kong Crime-Comedy directed by Tsui Siu-Ming and starring Richard Ng.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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The Stunt Woman
Overview: After moving to Hong Kong from China, a young martial artist starts a promising career as a stuntwoman. She begins to feel accepted in the business, but a passionate affair with a playboy ends up breaking her heart and unleashing her wild side.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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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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Bury Me High
Overview: In a mountainous region in an Asian backwater banana republic, it is said that the descendents of all those buried in its earth will be blessed with fantastic fortune and good health. However, if a special ceremony is not performed on the grounds, then the luck will only last for 24 years. A trio of Chinese Americans decide to venture into these mountains hoping to change their luck; Anna Wong (Moon Lee) is an executive facing a corporate meltdown, Wisely (Chin Ka-Lok) is dying of brain cancer, and UCLA Prof. Chang (Tsui Siu-Ming) is an expert in feng shui. Tin can potentate General Nguen (Yuen Wah) also has designs on the grounds -- hoping to turn his third world, fourth rate country into a superpower. Along the way, the three heroes fall in with a group of local rebels, including the high-kicking Nguen Van Vong (Sibelle Hu).
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-01-10
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Seven Warriors
Overview: In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong remake of Seven Samurai.
Genres: Action Crime Drama War
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-24
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Who Cares
Overview: Tough female cops tussle with Hong Kong Triad societies and also a recently resurrected hopping vampire. Chaos reigns.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-10-04
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Long Arm of the Law III
Overview: Michal Mak's second sequel to his brother's action classic finds an ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner fleeing to Hong Kong and forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he loves.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-01-12
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In the Line of Duty 4
Overview: Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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I Love Maria
Overview: RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks like an oridinary robot, Pioneer 2 has been modelled on Maria, the gang's #2 thug. When Pioneer 2 gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast gang member, an inventor on the police force takes her and changes some of her programming. This new code, plus a few injuries to her logic center, start causing Pioneer 2 to develop her own personality.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-03-10
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City War
Overview: Two cops--both partners and best friends--find their friendship and their lives at stake when they try to take down a ruthless drug dealer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Burning Ambition
Overview: This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-04-13
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Blood Ritual
Overview: A woman is sacrificed and her heart is ripped out of her chest. The police are after these Satanic Cults and they have no leads. A man is released from prison and gets involved in fighting this cultist with a friend and a female singer.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-03-09
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The Nocturnal Demon
Overview: Tow truck driver Tin bears an uncanny resemblance to a psychotic, serial killer, taxi driver -- and now the cops are chasing the wrong man. He and his cousin Wawa must catch the killer on their own to prove their innocence.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-12-22
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Big Brother
Overview: Lee Wai is just been released from prison and is trying to start a new life. He has been imprisoned for commiting a robbery. He visits a gangster, Wong, who had been his partner in the robbery, to ask for his share, which Wong had actually already spent. Wong humiliates him. Later he gathers together a gang and smashes Wais taxi, which Wai relies on to make a living. Now, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Revenge of Angel
Overview: Moon Lee plays a beautiful actress named Angel who is killed in a brutal fashion after she refuses the advances of a gangster. Twenty years later, a struggling young actor (Lau Chi-Wai) comes upon Angel's ghost, who teaches him some new moves which gain him the starring role in the local production, as well as the affection of one of the other stars of the show (Alvina Kong). In return, he and his uncle (Wu Ma) set out to help Angel gain her revenge on the gangster that took her life.
Genres: Horror Drama Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-07-19
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To Catch A Thief
Overview: Developer Ms. Cheung (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) yearns for a quieter life in Hong Kong and moves to the countryside, getting herself caught in a showdown between a gang of jewel thieves and two police officers along the way. While Ms. Cheung survives the ordeal, the thieves' injured getaway driver (Siu-Chun To) sneaks into Cheung's moving van and escapes to the countryside, into Cheung's new home. As Cheung settles down into her new environment, she befriends Pak-Lam (Pak Lam Cheng), a skillful and inquisitive little boy who lives in the village. While Pak-Lam helps Cheung tend to her house, he encounters the injured thief. After a brief exchange, Pak-Lam realizes the thief has a harmless and non-aggressive attitude and decides to shelter him in his secret makeshift hideout, not knowing his new friend has in his possession a bag of stolen jewels, in which both the police and the gangsters are searching for.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-07-12
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Possessed
Overview: A secretary is forced into an affair with her boss after an sexual assault. She spirals into madness and commits a violent crime - castration.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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The Black Morning Glory
Overview: Hong Kong thriller that sees Michelle Reis being trained as an assassin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Mirage
Overview: Photographer and adventurer Tong (Yu Rong-Guang) spots a mirage of a beautiful woman while on a mission and is obsessed by the beauty of her. Heading into Mongolia with best friend (Tsui Siu-Ming), the discovery of the woman and her true nature is anything but beautiful however as she's the leader of a gang of desert bandits.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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Miracle 90 Days
Overview: In a battle over a magical egg, Sandra Ng and her evil uncle accidentally turn a monkey into a human.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Bloody Brotherhood
Overview: Wah is the only one in his family lucky enough to survive the deadly boat passage from China to Hong Kong. Once in Hong Kong, he searches for opportunities he heard so much about. After struggling for months, he discovers that this is all but a myth.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-01-07
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Justice, My Foot!
Overview: An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-07-02
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The Needle of The Sea Goddess
Overview: In order to improve his fighting power, Sun Wukong asks Old Master Taishang to upgrade the Golden Cudgel. However, the cauldron was destroyed and the cudgel fell to the earth and disappeared. In order not to annoy Sun Wukong, he decides to send a child named Silver Horn to the mortal world to find the Cudgel. In a fight with a bandit, Yinkaku befriends the village bully Haewa, who has lost his magic power. Under Yin Horn's coercion, Haeva agreed to help find the whereabouts of the Cudgel. At the Old Demon River, Haeva is forced by the Nine-Headed Insect to reveal the prototype of the Cudgel at the moment of crisis, thus solving the nightmare that has been haunting Haeva for 18 years. However, the sudden appearance of the Monkey King brings more doubts to Silver Horn and Haeva, whether there is a sudden change in the heavenly court, who is destroying the alchemy furnace and who is holding the Cudge
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-03-28
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Born to Defence
Overview: Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-02-16
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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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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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