Wong Ching Movies
At one time there was a special genre of Hong Kong entertainment films which focused on gamblers and their like. In 1989, that genre was decisively revived thanks to the very successful release God of Gamblers. In that earlier film, among his other accomplishments, the master gambler played by Chow Yun Fat managed to pass on many of his skills and abilities to a younger associate, played by Andy Lau. In this one, Lau's character, now a master gambler in his own right, is being pestered by a young man (Stephen Chow) with intermittently available psychokinetic powers (the ability to move objects with the mind). However, not only is that ability only available to the boy when he's in love, but there's a lot more to the gambling business than the ability to cheat occasionally. They get into enough trouble to keep the story moving briskly, and this comic action film did well enough to warrant a sequel. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andy Lau, Stephen Chow, (more)
- 1987
Intrigue and mystery surround this martial-arts film set in the Shanghai of the 1920s. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1987
During a Hong Kong currency revaluation, old banknotes are routinely replaced by banks. The old notes are generally burned each day. However, by Friday evening at one bank, there is a cache of over thirty million old Hong Kong dollars which will go unburned until the next Monday. A bank employee gets the notion that stealing this cash would be an easy and relatively harmless way of getting rich quick, and he enlists some friends to help him get it. However, he has told one too any people, and he is opposed in his scheme by a nun who will gladly bash heads in order to save souls. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Karl Maka
- 1987
The hero of this story suffered horribly from watching his well-to-do father not only be murdered, but lose his reputation due to the manipulations of a sadistic and hateful gang boss. He hits on a scheme of getting his digs of revenge in by besting the foul fellow in a game of mah-jongg. All the action takes place in Singapore in the 1930s, where the villain owns a nightclub featuring the lovely Patricia Ha as a singer. In addition to game action, a good many fight scenes spice up the story, along with a few love scenes. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Man Chi Leung, Chin Siu Ho, (more)
- 1984
Comedy is not as funny as its title would suggest. Although it has its moments, most of the characters, acting, and dialogue are warmed-over versions of well-worn precedents. The setting is Shanghai in the late 1940s when the leaders of the criminal underworld meet in that densely-packed city to decide on who will be "first among equals." Three buddies and petty thieves steal belongings from the criminal leaders, and then are mistaken by the same gangsters as high-level crooks themselves. That sets off a series of "funny" murders as the three try to escape their untenable situation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wong Ching
- 1982
Lau Kar-wing spins this restrained horror-comedy flick about a beautiful lass cursed with terrible luck. Irene Leen (Olivia Cheng Man-ar) has the misfortune of having three husbands die on her wedding day. After consulting a slew of fortunetellers, she understandably vows never to marry again. The ghosts of her dead husbands, however, band together to end her loneliness and find her a mate. The prospective spouse they choose is Bruce (Alan Tam Wing-lun), and they spend much of the film trying to get the two together. Complications arise when another ghost tricks Bruce into venturing to the notorious Haunted Island to swipe a pearl from the Ghost King. To make matters worse, he decides to go on the day of the Ghost Festival, the day of the year when ghosts rise from the underworld and party on earth. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alan Tam, Olivia Cheng, (more)
- 1981
In a gripping horror movie about ghosts, possession, reincarnation, and just plain bad luck, Ah Kan (Chan Chen) encounters sinister turns of fate where he works (a fellow security guard dies by choking on a bone, another is strangled by a wet newspaper), and he becomes frightened enough to consult with a Taoist priest. The priest informs him that his workplace had been the site of kidnappings and murders, his house is another source of unnatural influence, and he was born on a day that makes him vulnerable to wandering ghosts. These dark forces also threaten his pregnant wife and unborn child, leading Ah Kan on a harrowing journey into the unknown in order to protect himself and his family. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yueh Hua
- 1980
Dennis Yu directed this nasty but effective Hong Kong reworking of several American rural horror films of the 1970s including The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, and The Hills Have Eyes. Five teenagers head into the woods on a camping trip and are terrorized by a family of five inbred psychopaths who rape one of the girls and brutally murder her brother. The girl is so traumatized by her horrifying experience that she is sent to a mental hospital and is unable to testify at the trial, leading the judge to release the men for lack for evidence. That sets the stage for the revenge portion of the film, as the angry father of the insane girl and murdered boy goes to the woods to dispatch his own brand of justice with cruel homemade traps to catch the doomed rapist-killers. Kent Cheng's portrayal of the lethargic, dull-witted Moe is among the highlights of this generally standard rape-revenge shocker, with Chen Sing and Wong Ching appearing as well. Future mainstream director Eddie Fong co-wrote the script with Lee Tan. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wong Ching
- 1979
Childhood chums Biggie and Tiny (Roy Chiao and Richard Ng) grow up together in the slums of Hong Kong. One of them becomes a policeman, the other a professional con-man. When it begins to appear that Tiny was set-up to take the fall for a jewel robbery, he persuades his friend Biggie to join him in stealing them back from the real robbers, including a highly respected member of Hong Kong society who bears the coveted letters O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) after his name, and is privileged to call himself "Sir." In the film's climactic highlight, the two old friends must wrestle with the complex security measures which conceal the jewels. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Ng, Cora Miao, (more)
- 1978
Pop singer Rowena Cortes stars in this Hong Kong thriller. In the story, Cortes and her auto mechanic sidekick, played by Roy Chiao, stumble across the location of an amazing amount of stolen money and are chased all over the Crown Colony by the thieves and others. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rowena Cortes, Roy Chiao, (more)
In this martial arts adventure, crooks kidnap the Young Dragon's girl friend and now he must overcome many dangerous obstacles to save her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
