Horace Wong

Películas

La batalla del lago Changjin
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Los soldados chinos ganaron la batalla en el lago Changjin, también conocida como la batalla del embalse de Chosin, en condiciones climatológicas extremas. La lucha entre Estados Unidos y China, que tuvo lugar desde el 27 de noviembre al 24 de diciembre de 1950, es considerada como una de las batallas más violentas de la Guerra de Corea.
Operación Mar Rojo
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Jiaolong es un agente de las fuerzas navales que trata de sortear a los piratas en la costa somalí, al menos hasta que reciba la orden de evacuar a un grupo de ciudadanos chinos de un país en el que acaba de declararse una guerra civil. Dante Lam se sumerge en aguas bélicas en este explosivo thriller.
Kung Fu Yoga
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El profesor de arqueología chino Jack se une a una hermosa profesora india y a su ayudante para intentar localizar un tesoro perdido. En el Tíbet, encuentran en una cueva de hielo los restos del ejército real, que había desaparecido junto con el tesoro, pero son perseguidos por un peligroso descendiente de un líder del ejército rebelde.
Asesino Kung Fu
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Un asesino va por Hong Kong matando a los máximos exponentes de las artes marciales. Cuando Xia, asesino convicto y experto en kung fu, se entera de esto ofrece a la policía atrapar al asesino y recuperar su libertad. Sin embargo, el astuto asesino se le escapa una y otra vez, aunque dejando claro que Xia será su último desafío. Este se niega a dejarse arrastrar a un duelo a vida o muerte, hasta que el asesino amenaza a la mujer que más le importa.
Reign of Assassins
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Cuando una mujer encuentra los restos de un místico hindú, deja la banda de asesinos a la que pertenece, para poder llevarlos a su legítima tumba. Pero, antes de cumplir con su cometido, se somete a una drástica operación de cirugía facial, cambia de nombre y de vida e incluso se casa.
La comédie humaine
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The story revolves around a Spring, a hitman from mainland China who is on a mission in Hong Kong with his partner Setting Sun. However, Spring falls ill and comes under the care of a screenwriter by the name of Soya and they find themselves developing into a tight and everlasting friendship.
Simply Actors
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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.
Home Sweet Home
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May's son has gone missing, and in order to win him back, the devoted mother is going to have to face her worst fears as she navigates a treacherous maze of incomprehensible evil. If she can make it out alive, she might just get a second chance at motherhood. If she falls prey to the darkness that surrounds her, however, she will suffer a fate worse than death as she is forced to confront every mother's worst nightmare.
Drink-Drank-Drunk
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A romantic comedy, the film is about Siu Min, a Budweiser girl who takes pity on Michael (Daniel), an ethnic Chinese restaurateur from France drinking away his misfortune because his food is too sophisticated for (and thus unpopular with) the working class neighborhood in which both work. Unsatisfied with spending her days as a beer girl, the ambitious Siu Min becomes Michael's partner in the restaurant business, and eventually falls in love with him. Michael, however, must reconcile his dream of traveling the world with his other dream of running a successful restaurant.
El mito
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En el 221 A.C. el primer emperador de China, Qin Shihuang, comenzó a edificar una tumba real pese a pretender ser inmortal. El mausoleo se finalizó en 37 años. La leyenda estableció que para asegurar el más absoluto secreto, todos cuantos trabajaron en el proyecto fueron enterrados en vida junto al emperador difunto. No hubo supervivientes. A lo largo de los siguientes 2.000 años, historiadores, buscadores de tumbas, y aventureros sin escrúpulos han estado buscando el tesoro real oculto en el interior. Pero nadie ha logrado localizar siquiera la entrada al mausoleo. Así, el tesoro del primer emperador, en el que se supone que está el célebre y legendario elixir de la juventud, permanece intacto.
Fantasia
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In Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit and the Hong Kong Columbia Radio Night School graduate Pufferfish, he follows the target Lascar Row. The trio stumbles into an antique shop and breaks many antiques in the store. The cheap Man force Kit and Pufferfish to take responsibility. Kit wisely makes Pufferfish take sole responsibility. The dumb Pufferfish helpless buys the pile of shattered antiques with his own money. In the pieces he finds a broken magic lamp...
Black Mask 2
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Mientras busca una cura para la anomalía biológica que le otorga super poderes, Black Mask se topa con un grupo terrorista que pretende lanzar una bomba de ADN sobre la raza humana. Pero, para poder detenerlos, primero debe combatir contra un grupo de luchadores profesionales mejorados químicamente. Tienen la facultad de convertirse en mutantes con una fuerza monstruosa e intentan que todo el mundo se convierta en un mutante.
Espía por accidente
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Bei trabaja en una tienda de deportes mientras sueña con tener una vida llena de aventuras. Todo cambia para él cuando un día corriente decide salir del trabajo para seguir a unos hombres sospechosos. Pronto descubre que están a punto de cometer el asalto a una joyería y decide entrar en acción.
King of Comedy
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Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village's community center.
Too Many Ways to Be No. 1
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A small-time triad must make a fateful decision to discover who he is. With that decision, his life can diverge in two paths, each leading to an ultimate fate.
Dream Lover
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Popular Hong Kong actress Sharla Cheung actually produced two versions of this romantic seriocomedy -- starring in the second one, Romantic Dream -- and they both played theaters in the same month. Jacklyn Wu stars as Kitty, a beautiful and wealthy woman who becomes the ideal love of Cheung Kar-shing (Tony Leung), an inventor who participates in illegal road races in his spare time. Their relationship blossoms into romance, but when Kitty's father goes into hiding and leaves behind over ten million dollars in unpaid debt, she leaves Hong Kong without telling Cheung where she's going. Shortly thereafter, Cheung strikes it rich when he is paid ten million dollars by a Japanese computer firm for a chip he has invented, but money does little to relieve his aching despair in Kitty's absence.
He & She
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Tony Leung Ka-Fai stars as a gay man who helps the spiritedly Anita Yuen through her single motherhood when her married boyfriend (Lawrence Cheng) impregnates and abandons her. Tony and Anita share the burden of parenthood, despite all of life's persistent issues (love, money, etc.).
Organized Crime & Triad Bureau
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The head of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, Inspector San Lee, will do anything to put triad boss Tung in jail.
The Mad Monk
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El dios Dragon Fighter Lohan acepta el desafío por parte de los otros dioses para cambiar el destino de un mendigo, una prostituta y un villano en tres días. Para conseguirlo renace en la Tierra como un simple mortal y lucha contra un malvado demonio para evitar el Infierno en la Tierra.
The Bare-Footed Kid
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Tras la muerte de su padre, un joven campesino, cuya inocencia rivaliza con su destreza en las artes marciales, busca la ayuda de un viejo amigo de la familia, encuentra trabajo en una fábrica textil y recibe el afecto de una profesora de escuela. Cuando todo parece irle bien, un desdichado incidente le pondrá en contra de su benefactores.
Hard Boiled: Hervidero
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Yun-Fat es un duro policía encargado de detener una operación de contrabando de armas y de encontrar al asesino de su compañero. John Woo continúa con su personal estilo de violencia casi poética y tiroteos con ritmo en un thriller que cuenta con numerosos seguidores, toda una cinta de culto dentro del cine de acción. En España se estrenó en el año 1995, resultando un fracaso en taquilla.
Dragones gemelos
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John y Boomer son dos gemelos idénticos que fueron separados poco después de nacer, cuando el segundo fue raptado por un criminal y criado por una alcohólica. Años después, John vive en América y es un famoso músico clásico, mientras que su hermano es un mecánico a quien le apasionan las peleas y las carreras de coches. Los dos gemelos vuelven a encontrarse accidentalmente cuando John viaja a Hong Kong.
The Banquet
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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.
Casino Raiders II
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Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his son Kit. Having previously tried to shut down the gambling den and take over by paralyzing Fan and framing Kit for another man's murder, ruthless local Triad boss, James goes a step further by murdering Fan. Driven only by money and the pursuit of two valuable 'Jade stones', James kidnaps Kit's daughter so he will surrender gambling in order for James to win the upcoming Championship.
Red and Black
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In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later, after the Mao communist Revolution, he's inadvertently ressurected by his unsuspecting son and returns long enough to infect the people's leader.
Front Page
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Hui, an owner of a Hong Kong tabloid magazine company hires martial artist Bill Lee to help him get a good headliner for a magazine story to, hopefully, save his failing business.
Una bala en la cabeza
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Año 1967. Ben, Frank y Paul crecieron juntos en los suburbios de Hong Kong. Su amistad se ve amenazada cuando un día, tras un violento enfrentamienro con Ringo, un camorrista malcarado, éste muere y los amigos se ven obligados a huir a Vietnam, un país en plena guerra entre el norte y el sur. Allí sus planes para empezar una nueva vida pronto se frustran...
A Moment of Romance
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Él es un chico que pertenece a las tríadas, atrapado en un círculo de violencia que ve con impotencia la imposibilidad de salir. Ella, una joven estudiante de familia adinerada que no conoce más espacio que la burbuja de cristal construida por su familia. El destino propicia su encuentro cuando, tras un golpe fallido de la banda de Wah Dee (Andy Lau), toma como rehén a la primera chica que ve por la calle que no es otra que Jo Jo (Chien-Lien Wu).
Amor y Muerte en Saigón
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Precuela de los dos filmes anteriores, estamos en el año 1974. Un joven hongkonés, Mark, viaja a Saigón al final de la guerra de Vietnam para llevarse a su tío y primo a Hong Kong . Allí, se encuentra con una misteriosa mujer fatal, la adorable Kitty. Según se ve relacionado con sus turbios negocios, una trágica historia de amor se avecina.
The Killer (El asesino)
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Sin abandonar su particular estilo que combina el melodrama al más puro estilo Douglas Sirk con la violencia de Peckinpah, el director asiático John Woo consigue su obra maestra dentro del género de acción "made in Hong Kong": una violencia desatada irrumpe tras momentos de calma.
All About Ah-Long
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Chow Yun-fat plays Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend changes the course of their lives.
The Big Heat
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A cop is losing the control of his right hand and cannot pull the trigger on time anymore. Before any accident happens, he decides to resign. Meanwhile his friend and informer is brutally murdered in Malaysia. Before leaving the force, he decides to find the killers with the help of his buddy, a young cop and an inspector from Kuala Lumpur.
Heart to Hearts
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The first of the three titles in the screwball Hong Kong "Hearts" series. Alex, a creative director, temporarily fills in as conductor for a choir. Two playful kids give him a big headache. One of them is Wei Man. Her mother is a neurotic single parent. She believes that Alex has an illicit desire towards Man and nearly takes him to task for it. She eventually discovers that Alex is a gentleman and mutual attraction blossoms into a love affair. Soon after, Alex's ex-girlfriend comes back to him, wanting to patch up their relationship. He is torn and must decide between the two.
Fatal Love
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Leslie Cheung picks up a girl while driving his car in a remote location and offers her a ride back home.
Walk on Fire
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Sergeant Kwok Wah (Andy Lau) and Ho Lung (Ray Lui) are both colleagues and best friends. Ho Lung has developed hatred with a gang leader Dick. Dick sends Hung (Cherie Chung) as a bait to kill Ho Lung. Swore to take revenge for his best friend, Kwok Wah works with Ho Lung's partner Mother (Kent Cheng) to unveil the enemy. Kwok Wah saves Hung during an operation and Hung starts to like Kwok Wah. Kwok Wah and Mother follow their plan to capture Dick, but it ends in vain and both of them get into a gunfight. Hung is killed for saving Kwok Wah during the gunfight. Though heart-broken, Kwok Wah and Mother go on fighting the villain...
Honor, plomo y sangre
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Sung Tse-Ho recibe una oferta de libertad condicional anticipada por parte de la policía a cambio de espiar a su antiguo jefe y mentor, Johnny Lung, de quien se sospecha que dirige una operación de falsificación.
Golden Swallow
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A poor scholar named Lo Chih-Chiu, played by Anthony Wong Yiu-Ming, rescues a swallow from three mischievous boys, and frees the bird afterward. The bird then magically takes the form of a beautiful lady named Hsiao-Hseuh, played by Cherie Chung, who falls in love with the scholar because he had saved her life. She returns the deed by rescuing him from a ruthless band of warlords. She and her sister, Hsiao-Shang, are both originally swallows, but can change into human forms due to witchcraft and wizardry. Hsiao-Hseuh later confronts Chih-Chiu, and later reveals she is a servant of an evil witch queen, who feeds on human blood. When the witch discovers their friendship and bond, she was on the verge of destroying him, but Hsiao-Hseuh pleads for his life in exchange for their separation. After being back in the custody of the witch queen, Hsiao-Hseuh sneaks out and reunites with Chih-Chiu, but posing as a different person to hide her identity.
Una historia china de fantasmas
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Un inocente inspector de Hacienda llega a la ciudad donde tiene que recaudar impuestos, pero sólo tropieza con dificultades: la lluvia ha borrado los registros de su libro de cuentas y se ha quedado sin dinero. No tiene más remedio entonces que pasar la noche en una misteriosa casa situada en un bosque encantado. Allí conoce a una hermosa mujer, pero ignora que se trata de un fantasma que está obligado a capturar jóvenes para su cruel y perversa ama. El fantasma y el inspector se enamoran y, con la ayuda de un guerrero experto en el arte de la esgrima, lucharán contra el Señor de la Oscuridad para que el alma de la mujer pueda descansar en paz.
Peking Opera Blues
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The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines: Tsao Wan, a patriotic rebel who dresses as a man; Sheung Hung, a woman in search of a missing box of jewels; and Pat Neil, the daughter of a Peking Opera impresario.
Un mañana mejor
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Ho y Mark pertenecen a la mafia y Kit, el hermano pequeño de Ho, es policía. Después de realizar un trato que sale terriblemente mal, Ho es detenido por la policía y Kit queda totalmente perplejo al conocer su verdadera identidad. Tres años después, Ho sale de prisión y se encuentra con un hermano que no quiere saber nada de él y un jefe de la mafia que quiere volver a hundirlo. Por suerte, Mark Lee está para ayudarlo.