Teddy Chan Tak-Sum
Also Known As: 陳德森 , Chan Tak-Sam, Teddy Chan Tak-Sum, Teddy Chan, Chen De-Sen, 陈德森, 진덕삼
Biography: Teddy Chen Tak-Sum is a Hong Kong film director and artist.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Adult: No
Birthday: April 26, 1958
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
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Viva Erotica
Overview: Sing's last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won't do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-11-28
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Hui's Comedy: A Look Back Featurette
Overview: Look back on 4 comedy classics with 7 top filmmakers of our time. Explore the cultural impact of The Hui Brothers – the most successful cinema trio in Hong Kong history.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2016-04-04
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Kung Fu Jungle
Overview: A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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Infernal Affairs II
Overview: In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2003-10-01
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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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I've Got You, Babe!!!
Overview: Marriage is a tomb of love? This film depicts the struggle of modern man to choose between bachelorhood and marriage. A sensitive yet comical look at love and commitment between men and women in the '90s. Chronicling the lives of a typical yuppie couple, Charcoal (Lau Ching-Wan) and Veronica (Ron for short) (Anita Yuen). Anita's goal in life is to have a baby, which certainly is not Charcoal's goal. Anita's best friend Ada (Lai Mei-Han) and her husband (Dayo Wong) are having a baby at the same time. However, Dayo surprisingly is a womanizer which leads to problems between the couple. In addition, Charcoal's ex-fiance Joyce (Annabelle Hui) is always around the corner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-03-03
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Hello! Who Is It?
Overview: May is a prostitute with both a sick mother and son to look after. After being raped and accidentally killed by a group of construction workers, her ghostly self takes over the phone lines to execute revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-04-28
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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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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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Lover's Tear
Overview: A cop in the Hong Kong anti-smuggling unit goes to mainland China to retrieve some confiscated contraband. His real objective, though, is to arrest the boss of the smuggling ring. His goal is endangered, though, when he falls for the gang boss' daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Meaning of Life
Overview: Obstetrician Joey Fong helps childless couple Shiu and Lan kidnap an unloved child and then decides she wants to have a baby with heartless news reporter husband Terrence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-27
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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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The Banquet
Overview: Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-30
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Lost and Found
Overview: A woman diagnosed with leukemia meets a Chinese-Scottish sailor who she loses contact with. In order to find him she enlists Worm, a man who runs a “lost and found” business, and the two set out to find what she’s looking for.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Hong Kong Superstars
Overview: Hong Kong Superstars is a documentary
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Island
Overview: A cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-08-10
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Cageman
Overview: The story about a young, unemployed man, who after being kicked out is desperate enough to live anywhere. He is directed to Fatso, who owns the caged establishment, and is given a living space.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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Love Among the Triad
Overview: Simon Yam Tat-wah and Rosamund Kwan Chi-lam star in this gauzy melodrama about the life and loves of the gangster elite, directed by Andy Chin Wing-keung. The film centers around Ching Kit, a mob boss who instead of using typical tools of underworld shakedowns -- mob hits, blackmail, and the like -- employs the dinner party to negotiate deals, to forge partnerships, and craft revenge. When Ching works out a deal with the Portuguese mob that would give him partial control of Macau's casinos, he quickly learns that treachery lurks around every corner. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing, Cecila Yip Tung, and Pauline Wong Siu-fung also appear.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-03-21
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Hong Kong Showgirls
Overview: A struggling acting troupe uses an old abandoned porno theater to rehearse. As one strange occurrence follows the next, it becomes clear that the hall is haunted by a dancer who died in a mysterious theater fire years ago.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-06-01
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Shed Skin Papa
Overview: As a director faces a series of setbacks in life including debt and divorce, his elderly father suddenly regains his youth.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2016-12-16
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Emotional Girl: Doubt of Distress
Overview: Jean meets former school friend Ivy by chance at a disco. Ivy says she was kicked out of school for flirting, and proves this by making a concerted pass at Stephen, Jean's businessman father much to the disgust of his live-in girlfriend Judy. The affair starts off with a spark but slowly fizzles and the relationship between two girlfriends is put to the test with this relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-10-28
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The Accidental Spy
Overview: A fun-filled story about an ordinary guy about to kick into an action-packed adventure. Jackie Chan plays a bored and unsuccessful salesman who never thought his life would amount to anything. All that changes one day when he becomes an instant hero by foiling an attempted bank robbery.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-01-18
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0506HK
Overview: Quentin Lee returns to Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. As he explores his desire to move back there from Los Angeles, he interviews local artists, filmmakers, friends, and family about why they are in Hong Kong and why they choose to be there.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2007-07-06
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Development Hell
Overview: Fukazawa Hiroshi chronicles the efforts of Teddy Chen to make Dark October, a film about Sun Yat-sen
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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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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Heart Against Hearts
Overview: George Lam and Carol Cheng play a couple who finally settle down after a long-running love marathon. Their troubles begin when George loses his job and becomes a house-husband, while Carol and daughter (Vivian Chow) become the breadwinners of the family.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-04-16
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Heaven Can't Wait
Overview: Foreign - Tony is a wily, pessimistic scam artist who uses an ancient superstition to build a hilariously enterprising business. Lam is his sometime business cohort and Chan is the kind-hearted boy next door who falls victim to Tony's tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Fight Back to School
Overview: Chow Sing Sing is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit. But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-07-18
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