Fruit Chan
Date of Birth: 15 Apr 1959
Country: Hong Kong
Total Credits at Criticker: 13 (Actor), 19 (Director), 13 (Writer)
Biography submitted by Thegoodboy
Find more information about Fruit Chan at The Internet Movie Database
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A bracing triptych of horror stories uniting three of East Asia's most compelling directors -- Japanese cult figure Takashi Miike, Hong Kong's Fruit Chan and Korea's award winning Park Chan-Wook. (Lions Gate Films)
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Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally retarded brother... (imdb)
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In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighbourhood of Hong Kong... (imdb)
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No woman can resist the temptation of potential rejuvenation - for some it's a dreamy blissful chase; for others a never-ending nightmare of endless pursuit. But Qing can afford it all. An ex-starlet turned wife of a prominent rich man, Qing is destined to have this dream come true... (imdb)
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This Hong Kong ghost story stars Lawrence Cheng as a nutty radio broadcaster whose life is saved by a ghost named Fang Yin (Nonie Tao). She was killed in the titular bloody finale of a romantic triangle gone wrong, and their stories are intertwined. (All Movie Guide)
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Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence. (imdb)
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It is July 1st of 1997, and Hong Kong is bright in celebration. The United Kingdom handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China leaves Ga Yin (Tony Ho), and his fellow soldiers without work. Which leads them to find employment and money any way they can get it. Without much success, Ga Yin decides to join his brother Ga Suen in the triad gang world. (imdb)
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Yan (Qin Hailu) and Fan (Mak Wai Fan) are neighbors in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district. Yan is a 21-year-old prostitute who works for a pimp and spends her off-hours watching TV in her miniscule apartment or hanging out with other prostitutes at a local cafe. She has come to Hong Kong from mainland China to make money and on her more profitable days services nearly 40 men... (All Movie Guide)
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A prostitute named Tong Tong enters the life of a man who runs a barbecue pork restaurant and quickly begins to ruin his life, as well as the life of his two rotund sons, and a local gangster. (imdb)
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We see everyday life through the experiences of people using public toilets in several countries, including China, India, Korea and New York. The stories flow into each other and cross over several times and over the course of the movie, we learn how the main characters are related (nofreelist.com)
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Evil spirits released from old celluloid causes a film crew to slowly go insane while in production on a new project. (imdb)
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The first film is Stolen Goods. It stars Yam, a man in Hong Kong who has recently lost his job and decides to make money by stealing funeral urns and blackmailing the families into buying them back from him. The second story is A Word in the Palm. The film is about a fortune teller who retired from his job to study music, but retains the ability to see ghosts. The final film is Jing Zhe. The film stars Josephine Koo who is asked to beat up an unusual woman. (wikipedia.org)
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1:99 Shorts (2003) - TV Movie
Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the Information Service Departement of the ... (imdb)
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Late at night, 17 passengers board a bus in Hong Kong. As they emerge from a tunnel, they realize that everyone else has vanished. In the post-apocalyptic city, they encounter mysterious ailments, a Morse code communication, and a strange man wearing a gas mask. Panic sets in as the survivors disappear one by one. Based on the 2012 novel Lost on a Red Minibus to Taipo.
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A wondrous prostitute plies her trade while living on a boat in Hong Kong. With a superhuman libido and three loving husbands, she doggedly devotes herself to her work. Using sex to satirize the era, this film brims with intense desire. (imdb)
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A satirical comedy set during the 1976 earthquake of Tangshan, which then zips forward to 2009 offering a Matrix-like science fiction story of contemporary China. (imdb)
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The undercover agent with dragon tattoo Kowloon continually helped the police to solve mysterious cases, which made him known as a rising star. However, his impulsive personality dragged him into endless troubles.
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Savage satire comes with ghosts and cartoonish violence in Fruit Chan's Coffin Homes, a gruesome set of horror tales with Hong Kong's astronomically priced housing market as the backdrop. (imdb)
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An old school anthology consisting of three short films, Tales from the Occult is the first in a new omnibus series about the hidden horrors that lurk behind the urban landscape of Hong Kong.
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