Patrick Tam

Patrick Tam

Nascimento : 1948-01-01, Hong Kong

História

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.

Perfil

Patrick Tam

Filmes

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong
Director
A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
That Demon Within
Editor
Um policial salva um homem agonizante, mas é perseguido por alucinações violentas e mortais ao descobrir que salvou um assassino cruel destinado a matar novamente.
After This Our Exile
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.
After This Our Exile
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.
Eleição
Editor
Como acontece a cada dois anos, é chegada a hora dos membros da Sociedade Wo Shing elegerem seu novo presidente. A rivalidade emerge entre os candidatos que disputam o cargo. Lok (Simon Yam) é o favorito para ganhar, mas seu rival Big D (Tony Leung Ka Fai) não medirá esforços para que isso mude, incluindo contrariar anos de tradição e influenciar o voto com dinheiro e violência.
Cinzas do Passado Redux
Editor
Outrora caçador de recompensas implacável, agora o espadachim Ou-yang Feng é dono de uma estalagem no deserto onde passa o dia suspirando pela esposa do irmão. Entre seus funcionários está seu amigo Huang Yao-shi, cujas visitas anuais são um de seus raros prazeres.
Days of Tomorrow
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.
Days of Being Wild
Editor
Yuddy (Leslie Cheung) é um homem diletante que seduz mulheres mas mantém uma relação conturbada com a mãe adoptiva (Rebecca Pan), a quem pressiona para saber a identidade e o paradeiro da mãe verdadeiro. Uma das mulheres com quem ele se relaciona é Li zhen (Maggie Cheung), que termina a relação e fica destroçada quando ele não a aceita de volta. O guarda da zona, Tide (Andy Lau), torna-se seu confidente e desenvolve silenciosamente uma particular afeição por ela. Entretanto Yuddy enceta uma relação com Mimi (Carina Lau), mulher extrovertida a quem também acaba por deixar. Para Yuddy a única mulher que interessava conhecer era a mãe incógnita.
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
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.
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
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.
Burning Snow
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.
Burning Snow
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.
Burning Snow
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.
Final Victory
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.
Final Victory
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.
Cherie
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.
Cherie
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.
Cherie
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.
Nomad
Screenplay
Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Nomad
Director
Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Love Massacre
Original Music Composer
The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
Love Massacre
Director
The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
The Sword
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.
The Sword
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.