Patrick Tam
Nacimiento : 1948-01-01, Hong Kong
Historia
Patrick Tam Kar-ming is a Hong Kong film director and editor. Part of Hong Kong's New Wave of film directors in the late 1970s and 1980s, Tam's works have enjoyed great acclaim.
He is also known as the mentor of Wong Kar-wai, and worked as an editor on Days of Being Wild (including Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's appearance in the last scene) and Ashes of Time.
Tam has worked as an academic since 1995, and now serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Director
A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
Editor
Cuenta la historia de Dave (Daniel Wu), un policía que salva sin querer la vida de un líder de una banda famosa en Hong Kong a través de una donación de sangre. Esto simboliza que esencialmente están hechos de la misma materia. Cuando el líder de la banda vuelve a sus formas delictivas, Dave hace suya la misión de enfrentar a los elementos en el mundo criminal de la ciudad contra la otra, con consecuencias nefastas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
Director
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
Editor
Ha llegado la hora, como sucede cada dos años, para los miembros más veteranos de la tríada más antigua de Hong Kong –la Wo Shing Society– de elegir a su nuevo líder. Las rivalidades feroces emergen entre los dos candidatos a hacerse con el cargo. Lok (Simon Yam) es el favorito para ganar, pero su rival, Big D (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), no se detendrá ante nada para que eso cambie, incluyendo ir en contra de años de tradición e influenciar el voto con el dinero y la violencia. Una lucha por el poder que amenaza con partir a la tríada en dos. ¿Podrá la Wo Shing Society mantener el equilibrio entre sus métodos tradicionales de fraternidad y el mundo de los negocios del siglo XXI?
Editor
En la antigua China, Ouyang Feng es un decaído armador de katanas conducido por la envidia hacia su amigo y adversario. Tiene miedo al amor después de que un equivocado romance le rompiera el corazón. Feng es un solitario a perpetuidad, pero el cazador de recompensas que trabaja para él como “ciego espadachín” y otro de sus mejores guerreros descubren el infatigable secreto de amor verdadero que guarda Feng mientras resguarda su actitud hacia sus guerreros y la valiosa lección que ellos le han enseñado...
Editor
A young woman searches for information about her father who starred in the classic movie 'Days of Tomorrow', which she is helping to remake. She finds out about his restless youth, career in the 1970s Hong Kong film industry, and tragic love affair.
Editor
Hong Kong, años 60. Yuddy, un joven atractivo y seductor, descubre que la ex-prostituta alcohólica que le ha criado no es su verdadera madre y que además se niega a revelar la identidad de ésta. Esto provoca en Yuddy serios conflictos emocionales que le llevan a forzar a dos mujeres a luchar por su amor...
Production Design
A young couple separates under pressure from vicious Triad gangsters – she becomes a mobster's unwilling moll, and he travels abroad to work as an assassin. But their love stays strong, and when the two are reunited, their rekindled emotions lead them into extreme danger.
Director
A young couple separates under pressure from vicious Triad gangsters – she becomes a mobster's unwilling moll, and he travels abroad to work as an assassin. But their love stays strong, and when the two are reunited, their rekindled emotions lead them into extreme danger.
Art Direction
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.
Writer
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.
Director
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.
Art Direction
Shy and timid Hung is asked by his jailbird brother to look after his mistress and his unsuspecting wife. Chaos and many hilarious situations arise when Hung is caught between the two women.
Director
Shy and timid Hung is asked by his jailbird brother to look after his mistress and his unsuspecting wife. Chaos and many hilarious situations arise when Hung is caught between the two women.
Writer
The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.
Story
The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.
Director
The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.
Screenplay
Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Director
Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Original Music Composer
The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
Director
The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
Writer
Li Mak-Jan is a swordsman who has wandered for a number of years searching for the reclusive master swordsman Hua. After encountering two fellow swordsmen, Li comes across his old love, who tells him that not only has their town fallen on hard times (the temple is in ruins) but, worst of all, in the time he has been away she has moved on and married another man. Turns out, her husband is quite evil, of course, and just a little bit insanely jealous as well as very interested in swords, particularly those belonging to masters. The husband sends his henchman to kill Li, but Li escapes.
Director
Li Mak-Jan is a swordsman who has wandered for a number of years searching for the reclusive master swordsman Hua. After encountering two fellow swordsmen, Li comes across his old love, who tells him that not only has their town fallen on hard times (the temple is in ruins) but, worst of all, in the time he has been away she has moved on and married another man. Turns out, her husband is quite evil, of course, and just a little bit insanely jealous as well as very interested in swords, particularly those belonging to masters. The husband sends his henchman to kill Li, but Li escapes.
