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Justice Sung II
''Justice Sung II'' (狀王宋世傑(貳)) is a Hong Kong television series. It was first run on TVB in 1999. Plot Episodes 1–3 The story picks up from what was left off in the first installment. Sung Sai Kit (宋世傑) along with his wife, Lin Lung (白玲瓏), and his family, which now includes his son, are trying to elude the Qing officials because he had offended the King's mother and she wants him dead. Seven years later, the Sung family is residing in a northern cold region called San Tong. Sung Sai Kit opens a medicine shop with the help of his wife, who knows medicine and martial arts well. Along the way, Sun Sai Kit meets Lai Sam, who is a peasant with a greedy and evil personality. They can be considered mutual friends at first, but becomes enemies later. Sai Kit also meets Siu Chui, an orphan whose father just died. She seeks the help of anyone who can help her bury her father, in return, she will do anything this person wants. Sai Kit sees this and tries to buy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship Films set in historical times have always been some of the most popular works. D. W. Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' and Buster Keaton's '' The General'' are examples of popular early American works set during the U.S. Civil War. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s. The ''costume drama'' is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowie Wu
Bowie Woo Fung (born 18 January 1932) is a Hong Kong veteran actor and director with family roots in Guangdong, China. A matinée idol in the 1950s and 1960s, he began his acting career in long form Cantonese films 1953, becoming an overnight success with his debut film, ''Men's Hearts''. In his long career he has starred opposite many of Hong Kong cinema's leading ladies, and of particular note are his many collaborations with Josephine Siao in 1960s musicals. For these roles he earned the nickname the "Dance King" for his dancing skills. In the 1970s Woo Fung began working in television and continues to do so as a contract artist to Hong Kong's TVB, with occasional guest appearances in films. Woo Fung remains a very much loved and respected elder in Hong Kong's entertainment industry, and is " godfather" to both Jacky Cheung and Nick Cheung. Woo Fung held a concert on Jun 19, 2021 at the Hong Kong Coliseum. His granddaughters and great-grandchildren also attended live, with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Hong Kong Television Series Endings
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major List of school shootings in the United States by death toll, school shootings in the United States; the Year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome opens in London; online music downloading platform Napster is launched, soon a source of Online piracy, online piracy; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander; a destroyed t-55, T-55 tank near Prizren during the Kosovo War., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Death and state funeral of King Hussein rect 200 0 400 200 1999 İzmit earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Columbine High School massacre rect 0 200 300 400 Kosovo War rect 300 200 600 400 Year 2000 problem rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Climate Orbiter rect 200 400 400 600 Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice, My Foot!
''Justice, My Foot!'' () is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Johnnie To, starring Stephen Chow, Anita Mui and Ng Man Tat. Synopsis Sung is by far the best lawyer in Guangdong and the outlying areas of Southeast China. His skills have earned his family an excellent living, albeit his habit of winning all his cases by whatever means necessary. Because of his shyster ways, none of his sons survived beyond a year old, causing grief for his wife Madam Sung. Upon the death of his 13th son, Sung decides to retire from law and switch to business, opening an inn in the middle of town and a tea stand on the outskirts of the city. Sung finds it difficult to truly give up his former career, and in his boredom reenacts his final case constantly. A chance encounter between Madam Sung and a woman whose husband was suspiciously murdered revives his hopes of returning to court. However, the case is compounded by corrupt magistrates, who make it their goal to bury the truth. Sung needs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwok Fung
Kwok Fung (born 27 October 1951 in Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...) is a veteran actor from Hong Kong. He graduated the first training of TVB in 1971. Filmography Film * '' S Storm'' (2016) * '' Raging Fire'' (2021) Television ReferencesOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwok, Fun TVB veteran actors Living people 1951 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Chung (actress)
Margaret Chung Lai Kei (sometimes romanized as Chung Lai-kai, , born 3 November 1976 in Toronto) is a Hong Kong-based model, actor and yoga instructor. Personal life She was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario as the youngest of three siblings, and moved to Hong Kong at age 18 after signing a five-year contract with TVB. At age 21, she began to support her family with her earnings after her father retired. Chung was romantically linked to Joey Leung, but the pair split in 2006. Chung married businessman Nardone Ruggero in July 2010, and they have two daughters. Her older daughter, Isabella, has Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome. Filmography Television (TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and TVB ...) Film References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chung, Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lau Kong
Lau Kong () is a Hong Kong actor who worked on the network TVB. Biography Little is known of Lau's private life, but he has been acting since 1976, when he first joined the now defunct network Commercial Television, he later joined RTV (now ATV, Lau would be an actor there from 1979-1982. From 1982 onwards, Lau has been serving as veteran actor there, portraying various types of roles, (mostly as a patriarch, and many TVB actors and actresses have been his "son" or "daughter“, and there are very few actors in TVB that have never worked with him. Filmography Films *''Last Hurrah for Chivalry'' (1979) *''Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils ''Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'' is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised concurrently from 3 September 1963 to 27 May 1966 in the newspapers ''Ming Pao'' in Hong Kong and '' Nanyang Siang Pau'' in Singapore. It has been ...'' (1982) *'' Queen of Kowloon'' (2000) *'' Beast Stalker'' (2008) *'' The Stool Pigeon'' (2010) Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hoi-sang
Lee Hoi-sang (born April 15, 1941) is a Hong Kong martial arts film actor and martial artist, known for his roles in ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'' (as Abbot Li Hai Sheng) (1978), '' Shaolin Challenges Ninja'' (1978), ''The Incredible Kung Fu Master'' (1979), ''The Young Master'' (1980), ''The Prodigal Son'' (1981), '' Project A'' (1983), ''Shaolin and Wu Tang'' (1983) and ''Disciples of the 36th Chamber'' (1985), alongside actors such as Jackie Chan, Gordon Liu, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and even Bolo Yeung. Life Lee Hoi-sang is a master of Wing Chun Boxing. He served as a Martial arts instructor and an action movie actor (Debuting in British Hong Kong) since his early years. During the 70's and 80's he joined Asian Television producers with his real Kung Fu, therefore he often plays martial arts roles in Asian Tv Dramas, and also many other supporting roles. For some of his audience he was known as "King of Fighters". Lee Hoi-sang was a disciple of Yip Man Ip Man, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Lok Lam
Law Lok-lam (, born 20 October 1948) is a veteran Hong Kong character actor currently under Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) management. A versatile actor who has acted in many Hong Kong television dramas since the 1970s. He has been in so many dramas that he became internationally known as "the actor that died 5 times in one day or 24 hours" when five dramas he starred in were broadcast on the same day showing him in dying scenes. Law originally joined TVB in 1976 as a film extra, but left the same year to return to rival station Commercial Television (CTV). Almost a decade with another rival station Asia Television (ATV), he returned to TVB in 1990. He was one of five artistes awarded the "TVB Professional Actor Awards" in 2014 for his many years as a dedicated TVB employee. Early life Law was born in the province of Chaozhou, Guangdong, China and immigrated with his family at the age of 14 to Macao. One of his earliest jobs was working at a plastic factory and accompanying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Chu
Mimi Chu (), born Choo Yit Mei () is a Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress and singer. She lived in Singapore before moving to Hong Kong. She has appeared at many events. As an actress, she is a recognised face in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia having appeared in both Hong Kong and Singaporean productions. Mimi still owns a HDB flat in Singapore and her children are educated in Singapore. Her older brother is the founder and chairman of a listed company in Singapore. She is the sister-in-law of Hong Kong actor and former policeman Joe Ma. Filmography Film * '' Reunion Dinner'' (2022) * ''A Moment of Happiness'' (2020) * ''A House of Happiness'' (2018) * ''Secrets in the Hot Spring'' (2018) * ''Kidnap Ding Ding Don'' (2016) * ''Magic Barber'' (2015) * '' King of Mahjong'' (2015) * '' Money Game'' (2015) * ''Kiasu'' (2014) * ''Eternal Love'' (2014) * '' Delete My Love'' (2014) * ''Mr. & Mrs. Gambler'' (2013) * ''I Love Hong Kong 2012'' (2012) * ''Twisted'' (2011) * ''The China's Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King-kong Lam
King-kong Lam is a TVB actor born in Hong Kong, 13 October 1970. He previously played comedic characters, and now recently villains. Accident In August 2000, he was caught drunk driving. The incident caused a fire and small explosion. Luckily, there were no casualties. Television series *When Lanes Merge *A Fistful of Stances *A Watchdog's Tale *Beyond the Realm of Conscience *When Easterly Showers Fall on the Sunny West * The Four *Speech of Silence *The Money-Maker Recipe *Forensic Heroes II *A Journey Called Life *The Gentle Crackdown II *The Ultimate Crime Fighter *Men Don't Cry *On the First Beat *War and Destiny *Life Art *Treasure Raiders *Face to Fate * Land of Wealth *Net Deception *A Pillow Case of Mystery *Real Kung Fu *Women on the Run * Misleading Track *Guts of Man * The Academy *The Prince's Shadow *My Family *To Catch the Uncatchable *Seed of Hope *Virtues of Harmony II *Vigilante Force *Take My Word For It * Burning Flame II *A Step into the Past *Armed Reactio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
