Clifford Choi

Directing

Clifford Choi

Born

1946-11-12 (79)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow poster
7.3

Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

1978

The Sword poster
7.1

Swordsman Li Mak-Jan is on a quest to duel the powerful and reclusive Hua Qian Shu. But will a cursed sword and the intrigues of the martial world bring him fame or tragedy?

The Sword

1980

Hong Kong, Hong Kong poster
6.4

Hong Kong, Hong Kong is the story of a young woman, Man Si Sun, who has arrived illegally in Hong Kong from mainland China, and Kong Yuen Sang, a young man who is a gambler and wannabe boxing champion.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1983

Hong Kong, Hong Kong poster
6.4

Hong Kong, Hong Kong is the story of a young woman, Man Si Sun, who has arrived illegally in Hong Kong from mainland China, and Kong Yuen Sang, a young man who is a gambler and wannabe boxing champion.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1983

Teenage Dreamers poster
7.3

Chou Hsiu-Lan plays Ting-Ting, a teenage girl who's starting to get interested in love and romance. Teenage pop star Rowena Cortes co-stars as Shan-Shan one of her best friends, she's a rich girl who has a streak of larceny within her.

Teenage Dreamers

1982

Amnesty Decree poster
7.0

Amnesty Decree is a Hong Kong Drama starring Nina Li Chi

Amnesty Decree

1987

Encore poster
5.3

Story of young love.

Encore

1980

No U-Turn poster
10.0

Comedy about a Taxi driver moonlighting as a race-car driver.

No U-Turn

1982

Big Brother poster
NR

Lee Wai is just been released from prison and is trying to start a new life. He has been imprisoned for commiting a robbery. He visits a gangster, Wong, who had been his partner in the robbery, to ask for his share, which Wong had actually already spent. Wong humiliates him. Later he gathers together a gang and smashes Wais taxi, which Wai relies on to make a living. Now, all hell breaks loose.

Big Brother

1990

Big Brother poster
NR

Lee Wai is just been released from prison and is trying to start a new life. He has been imprisoned for commiting a robbery. He visits a gangster, Wong, who had been his partner in the robbery, to ask for his share, which Wong had actually already spent. Wong humiliates him. Later he gathers together a gang and smashes Wais taxi, which Wai relies on to make a living. Now, all hell breaks loose.

Big Brother

1990

Naughty Couple poster
5.7

Ma publishes books; his marriage is flat and his wife wants attention, so she arranges a photo session in bed with Si, a gay decorator, to make Ma jealous. Her friend, Linda Lo, also unhappily married, is there as well, dressed for the photos, and Si's lover is hiding in another room. Enter Henry Lo with a call girl, and Ma himself, intent on killing Si. Chance intervenes: a best-selling author and a prude, Lovely Pak, pays a call; she wants Ma to publish her books. Mistaken identities and everyone's attempt to seem conservative to please Pak lead to chaos: Si pretends to be Ma; Ma pretends to be a servant. Will Miss Pak sign a contract, and can the married couples find harmony?

Naughty Couple

1994

Grow Up in Anger poster
7.0

The ups and downs of adolescence is sensitively portrayed in this story about three boys growing up in the midst of modern day strife.

Grow Up in Anger

1986

North South West East poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

North South West East

1984

Lai Man-wai: Father of Hong Kong Cinema poster
NR

In the life of Mr. Lai Man-wai, he had seen the most turbulent times of recent Chinese history. From the fall of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the Republic, from the Sino-Japanese War to the founding of the People’s Republic. With a patriotic spirit, he joined the revolution and used the theatre to promote the revolutionary course. For a ‘stronger China’, and ‘education for all’, he chose film as his life long goal and career. Lai was more than the father of Hong Kong cinema was; he was also one of the pioneers of the Chinese cinema. He made Hong Kong’s first short fiction film ‘Zhuangzi Tests His Wife’. He opened the first Chinese owned cinema, the New World Cinema, in Hong Kong…. In the several decades, Lai had devoted his life and fortune in writing this glorious inaugural chapter in early Chinese film history. The technical enhancement, the introduction of foreign techniques and equipment were all part of his contribution to the Chinese cinema.

Lai Man-wai: Father of Hong Kong Cinema

2002

Berkeley Days poster
NR

“Berkeley Days”is a stage play from true characters and true events, which relates an autobiographical story of its playwright and director Clifford Kai Kwong Choi, and his school mates in the years of 1969-1973. He was studying English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. They discussed how they made their choices in the selection of universities and majors. They dug into the history of why the Cantonese, in the past hundred years or so, made a series of efforts to overturn the emperors of the Ching Dynasty. They suffered severe cultural shock when they witnessed the Free Speech Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations by the American students. They loved the experience of mingling and exchanging ideas with the hippies….

Berkeley Days

2025

No artwork available
NR

A retiring primary school teacher and her three teenage grandchildren of different cultural backgrounds cope with the outbreak of the deadly SARS virus in Hong Kong in 2003.

Sand Pebbles

2015

No artwork available
NR

A retiring primary school teacher and her three teenage grandchildren of different cultural backgrounds cope with the outbreak of the deadly SARS virus in Hong Kong in 2003.

Sand Pebbles

2015