Johnny Mak Tong-Hung

Island of Greed

A gutsy police detecive and his team of cops probe into the widespread illegal dealings of a criminal mastermind who schemes to redeem himself by running for government office in taiwan.

Release Date:1997-12-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:22

Lord Of East China Sea II

The continuing saga of the life of one of the most powerful men in China in the first half of the 20th Century. By the late 1920's, Luk has established himself as the overlord of Shanghai; a player in politics, business, and the huge underworld. But his generosity begins to strain his finances. Pondering his future, he decides to make a strong commitment to the country, opting for high society over getting high.

Release Date:1993-05-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

The Bare-Footed Kid

A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.

Release Date:1993-04-03

Department:Directing

Job:Co-Director

Vote Count:32

Reminiscing TV Days

"Reminiscing TV Days" is a six-part series that revisits the development of television in the past 25 years. Topics covered include the rise of TV elites, fierce competition between TV stations, and controversies over spy scandals and court battles. The show features interviews with industry insiders who offer insights into the strategies used to win TV ratings wars and the high stakes involved in recruiting talent from opposing networks. The program also looks at how long-running variety show "Enjoy Yourself Tonight" has managed to stay relevant in changing times, and whether it still has a place in today's television landscape. The number of tokens used this time: 2677

Release Date:1992-01-04

Episode Count:1

Sex and Zen

A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.

Release Date:1991-11-30

Department:Crew

Job:Presenter

Vote Count:90

To Be Number One

The story of Ho, a Chinese peasant/slave worker who escapes to Hong Kong and becomes one of the most feared gang bosses in Hong Kong.

Release Date:1991-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:24

Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express

The final entry in Michael and Johnny Mak's Long Arm of the Law series, Underground Express once again tells a story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China.

Release Date:1990-06-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Sentenced to Hang

After being fired by his penny-pinching boss, Wai and his two life-long friends decide to kidnap and ransom his son. The situation spirals out of control after the boy is accidentally killed as a result. Based on a true story.

Release Date:1989-11-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:10

The Iceman Cometh

When 16th-century Ming guard Fong Sau-ching sets out to capture vicious rapist Feng San, both men end up falling into a glacier to be frozen in time. Thawed out by scientists over 300 years later, the confused guard must learn to cope with the modern world and continue in his quest to vanquish his opponent.

Release Date:1989-08-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:20

Celebrity Talk Show

Release Date:1989-03-10

Character:麦当雄

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Long Arm of the Law III

Michal Mak's second sequel to his brother's action classic finds an ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner fleeing to Hong Kong and forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he loves.

Release Date:1989-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

Midnight Whispers

Midnight Whisper is a radio talk show in which listeners call in to discuss their lives. One evening a gentleman calls in to say that he has been in love with a woman for a very long time – but that his love seems hopeless – she has become the mistress of another man for the love of her daughter. The daughter then calls in to say that the man is lying and that her mother is a terrible woman. Finally, the next day the distraught mother calls in to tell her story. Kung fu diva Moon Lee Choi-fung star in this rare melodramatic turn as Lee Siu-hong, a troubled Mainland Chinese lass who runs away from home to become a Hong Kong prostitute. As her desperate mother (Josephine Koo Mei-wah) scours the colony's pleasure quarters, we see flashbacks of the girl's unfortunate past.

Release Date:1988-12-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

The Greatest Lover

A delightful comedy about three illegal immigrants from China, one of whom (Chow) gets roped into a gentleman-training course - taught by Mui - in order to take revenge on some bitchy beauties who jilted a nasty fellow. Kinda like a gender-reversed My Fair Lady.

Release Date:1988-07-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:7

The Truth

A lawyer is assigned to protect his long-lost mum, who is accused of killing a cop.

Release Date:1988-04-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Long Arm of the Law II

This sequel to the critically-acclaimed box-office winner Long Arm of the Law maintains the same stark realism of the original. In Saga Two, the Royal Hong Kong Police put into operation a new plan to counteract the problem of increasing violent crimes committed by new arrivals from across the border in China. In agreement with Chinese authorities, three Hong Kong detectives go undercover as illegal immigrants in order to infiltrate the powerful gang that is organizing the crime wave. The action is tough and graphic, reminiscent of The French Connection, Hong Kong style.

Release Date:1987-08-29

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:16

Rich and Famous

To pay off his debt as a gambler, a man drags his sister and step-brother into a life of crime and a violent war between rival gang lords.

Release Date:1987-05-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:23

Tragic Hero

After being released from prison, Tang Kat-Yung exacts revenge on Lee Ah Chai.

Release Date:1987-02-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:26

Midnight Girls

Midnight Girls is the story of two women, Blackie (Kitty Chan) and Ling (Ng Man-Ling), who are trying to make a living for themselves so that they can escape the hard-knock existence of Hong Kong’s slums.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Possessed II

Hsiao and his family move into a big apartment which is surprisingly cheap. When they get settled, strange things start to happen. In the 50s, a bar waitress, Lucy lived with her boyfriend Tim in the same apartment. Tim was a US sailor and he had to leave Hong Kong after the holiday. He abandoned Lucy after she was pregnant. Out of rage, Lucy committed suicide and killed her baby boy too. She swore to kill Tim after death. Hsiao's wife and daughter have been possessed by Lucy and her son and Lucy wants to kill Hsiao on his birthday…

Release Date:1984-11-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:8

Crazy 17

Two clutzy teenage girls accidentally steal money from a gangster. Now, with a vicious criminal after them, the girls must rely on their friends and teachers at their high school to protect them.

Release Date:1984-09-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Long Arm of the Law

A group of desperate Chinese criminals hope to make a quick, effortless score in Hong Kong. Things go afoul, and the gang must hide out until the heat dies down, besmirched with the blood of an undercover cop.

Release Date:1984-07-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:34

Everlasting Love

An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.

Release Date:1984-03-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:5

Possessed

An insane man is shot dead by two cops, Kung and Hsiao, after he refused to listen to them and stabbed a woman dead. After the encounter, the two cops always strange things and Hsiaos girlfriend is also haunted. To reduce the fear of hiring police a Taoist to sort out this problem ...

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:5

Crimson Street

Sally (Sally Yeh) is a club singer, caught in a love rectangle between three men: Stone (Kenny Bee), a bank robber newly released from prison, club owner Paul King (Michael Chan Wai-Man) and Pow (Melvin Wong), a policeman.

Release Date:1982-11-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Lonely Fifteen

Directed by David Lai, the provocative 80s Hong Kong classic Lonely Fifteen follows a group of delinquent teenage girls and their downward spiral. Spurning home and school for various reasons, four troubled and alienated schoolgirls descend into crime, sex, drugs, prostitution and tragedy. Lonely Fifteen received seven nominations at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards and won Best Actress for teenaged lead Becky Lam in her first and only film appearance.

Release Date:1982-04-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:5

Jaws

Zhou Tianming and Siu Zhenbang and Siu Huixian were originally close friends , but Zhenbang and their father Xiao Bailing took advantage of the danger and swallowed up the Zhou family's property when the Zhou family's business was in difficulty. Tianming snubbed his girlfriend Zhu Shuzhuang because of the great changes in his family and his dedicated career, and at this time Zhenbang actually developed a relationship with Shuzhuang and proposed to her, and Tianming hated the Xiao family even more. Later, Zhou's father had a heart attack after a conflict with Bai Ling, and eventually died, and Tianming did not hesitate to use Huixian to marry her in order to take revenge. After marriage, Tianming gradually encroached on the Xiao family's business, trying to restore the Zhou family's industry and revive the Zhou family's prestige, but because it became more and more crooked, it eventually caused an irreparable situation.

Release Date:1979-11-05

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Reincarnated

Reincarnated is a 60 episode 1979 wuxia television series and was produced and aired by Rediffusion Television in Hong Kong and also a series of books, TV and films written by Wong Ying who co-wrote some of Gu Long stories, such as the Six Spine-Chilling Stories Series and other people.

Release Date:1979-07-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:60

Vote Count:2

Enigma

Song Fangting was pursued by Li Kangrui, and the two could fight hot, but unexpectedly, Kang Rui later empathized with Jian Ruoqi and broke up with Fang Ting. Fang Ting followed her mother's advice and became a dancer, but unfortunately met someone else. Fang Ting met Kang Rui again, and the two communicated again, but Ruoqi found out that she insulted Fang Ting in front of Kang Rui, embarrassing Fang Ting. Fang Ting was arranged to serve a general in Thailand, after which the general was killed, Fang Ting got his property and devoted herself to developing her career, and she joined the entertainment industry and became a celebrity. Unfortunately, in the end, Fang Ting ended up bankrupt and owed a huge debt, she married Ruoqi's father Jian Ruiming for money, and wanted to take revenge on Ruoqi, and the struggle between the two became more and more fierce.

Release Date:1979-03-19

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Crocodile Tears

Restaurant owner Lu Ganyu has two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Lu Wenjun, becomes a journalist and later opens his own newspaper. However, his newspaper is suppressed by rivals, making him realize the cunning nature of the business world and prompting him to change. Wenjun uses the wealthy Huang De to help him, but he later forces Huang to sell his shares. Wenqi, Wenjun's sister, marries Huang despite her family's objections, but they don't get along. Wenjun falls in love with Xiao Ailian and Zou Shujuan. Although he marries Shujuan, he can't forget about Ailian. In his bid for success, Wenjun ignores his family and even associates himself with Meng Yanhong, a famous matchmaker, leading to his eventual success but estrangement from his loved ones. Meanwhile, Huang and Wenjun's enemies conspire to take him down.

Release Date:1978-04-23

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

The Ten Assassinations

Release Date:1976-08-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:50

Ten Sensational Cases (II)

Ten Sensational Cases (II) chronicles several horrific crimes, including murder, kidnapping, robbery, and triad-related attacks. Each perpetrator has a different motive, and the crimes' twists and turns make them particularly difficult for law enforcement to investigate. Fortunately, justice ultimately prevails and the criminals are caught. Synopsis: 49 characters.

Release Date:1976-06-07

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Ten Sensational Cases

Release Date:1975-11-27

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Golden Horse Awards

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

Release Date:1962-10-31

Character:Self

Episode Count:1