Karl Maka

Karl Maka

Total Credits at Criticker: 22 (Actor), 9 (Director), 5 (Writer)

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    Knockabout
    The film follows two con artist brothers, Yipao (Yuen Biao) and Taipao (Bryan Leung). One day they are cheated out of their ill-gotten gains in an encounter with Jia Wu Dao (Lau Kar Wing). They try to fight him, to retrieve their money, but are defeated, so they ask him to train them, hoping to become the best fighters in the city.
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    The Odd Couple
    Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing play dual roles as both masters and students of the sword and spear styles of kung fu. Comic mayhem ensues when the students get kidnapped and the masters must rescue them.
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    The Victim
    Leung Chun-Yau must uncover the identity of a deadly martial arts killer before it's too late.
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    He Has Nothing But Kung Fu
    He's lost his memory, but not his skill: After a fierce battle with a local tong, Hoi is thrown over an embankment and left for dead. He survives the ordeal but has lost all of his memory, but not his kung-fu. His fateful meeting with a beggar leads to their teaming up for cleaning up that tong. (imdb)
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    Mad Mission
    A "James Bond" type burglar named King Kong (Sam Hui) tries to redeem himself and joins forces with Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl Maka), a bumbling police detective from the states, to try to track down a rare set of stolen luscious diamonds before it ends up in the hands of a notorious European gangster named "White Gloves." The two unlikely duo are supervised by Supt. Nancy Ho, a masculine, fiery-tempered policewoman. (imdb)
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    Mad Mission Part 2: Aces Go Places
    An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure (clearly meant to represent Henry Kissinger) and charged with killing the series' unlikely pair of heroes, bald detective Albert Au (Karl Maka) and reformed criminal King Kong (Sam Hui). The film is quite lively, as Albert's relationship with the fiery Superintendent Ho (Sylvia Chang) has hit the skids... (allmovie.com)
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    Mad Mission Part 3: Our Man from Bond Street
    A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it. (imdb)
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    Mad Mission Part 4: You Never Die Twice
    Baldy and King Kong shuttle between New Zealand and Hong Kong to recover a hi-tech prism that can impart superhuman powers. (imdb)
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    Mad Mission Part 5: The Terracotta Hit
    Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers. (imdb)
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    Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon
    Fatty and Baldy are a pair of detectives dealing with a crime syndicate of triad gangsters. After a jewellery robbery, they later find Lai (Carrie Ng), a woman who is associated with the gangsters, but end up getting themselves into trouble for going into the women's changing room. The gang leader, Wing (Lau Kar Wing), learns that one of his henchman, Johnny (Tai Bo), has leaked his secrets so he is beaten up by the gang. (wikipedia.org)
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    Lucky Stars Go Places
    In Hong Kong, a world trade center, the terrorists of Libya are trading weapons for diamonds from Japan's Yakuza. Police commander Walter Tso, orders to stop the barter. People plan to have the Lucky Stars to steal the diamonds and bait them to get the Libyans. But the Lucky Stars said No to their leader Kidstuff. Kidstuff has to recruit five new Lucky Stars from the force. (hkcinemagic.com)
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    Merry Christmas
    Daughter and sons try and set up their widowed father with their next door neighbor.
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    All the Wrong Clues
    In the 40s, a private detective (George Lam) is disturbed by the girlfriend of Al Capone(Karl Maka). She wants to flee with him. (hkcinemagic.com)
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    All the Wrong Spies
    A private detective gets mixed up with stolen Nazi atomic bomb formulas. (imdb)
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    Dirty Kung Fu
    A small-time thief uses his kung fu skills to best local thugs and reap a nice little reward in the process. But his life and livelihood are threatened when a master criminal rolls into town with deadly skills. (Netflix)
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    His Name Is Nobody
    Another of the Old School indies that helped to establish the kung fu comedy genre, this scattershot effort stars Lau Kar-wing as bumbling conman Peking Dog, who seeks to learns the secrets of the trade from super thief Sting (Dean Shek Tien). The pair begin a lucrative partnership but may end up making even bigger money if Sting accepts an offer from his equally crooked brother (Karl Maka, who also directed) to eliminate notorious assassin Ping the Dreg (Chung Fat). (hkcinemagic.com)
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    Laughing Times
    Dean Shek, a wanderer, lived his life in poverty and hunger, ran into the chase of the police and Wong Wai, a poor orphan who was used by the villain Karl Maka in committing crimes. They turned out to be good friends. Meanwhile, Dean fell in love with a singer. Later on, he met Wu Ma, who drank his days away because of Karl Maka's abuses. Evil Carl Mak was dealing in slave trading and had captured the singer and the orphan. Dean and Wu Ma ventured their lives to rescue them... (hkcinemagic.com)
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    Beware Of Pickpockets
    Mak Kar, a faithful and honest constable, was ordered to arrest Dean Saki, a pickpocket. However, each time he was caught, he was released by lack of evidence. Although Dean was a tricky man, the money he pickpocketed from those dirty rich people was spent on the seven poor orphans with whom he lived in an old shaky church. Dean had an intention to buy a house where he could keep more orphans. (hkcinemagic.com)
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    Chasing Girls
    Afro-haired Robert demonstrates over and over to his gawking cousin how easy it is to pick up girls. Robert eventually narrows the field down to two girls. One is a TV model, the other a rich girl with a red sports car working as a waitress. Robert finds the part after the pickup to be a bit more difficult. (hkcinemagic.com)
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    Hello, Late Homecomers
    An omnibus of tales from the three directors, Sit, Maka and Woo. Each dealing with true love and romance. The third and the best one of the tales deals with a hen-pecked husband trying to kill his wife. An action packed tale written and directed by John Woo who lets the fireworks fly! (imdb)
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    Winner Take All
    A taxi driver can never catch a break. He is often robbed, to the point that his loved ones have come to expect it. His luck changes one evening when he discovers that he holds a winning lottery ticket.
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    Crazy Crooks
    Slapstick movie about 2 swindlers, Kong Kun Chat (Karl Maka) and Moo Pi Chide (Dean Shek) who gamble with fake money with someone else to get back real money. At least Kong and Moo thought it was real money. Turned out the money was also fake, and a death warrant is issued for them. Luckily, a little kid Mak Tau saves their lives. - Yellow Hammer
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