Kirk Wong Chi-Keung

Directing

Kirk Wong Chi-Keung

Born

1949-03-28 (77)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Kirk Wong Chi-Keung (born 1949) is a Hong Kong based film director and actor. He is most famous for directing the Jackie Chan film Crime Story.

Known for

Casino Raiders poster
6.5

Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.

Casino Raiders

1989

God of Gamblers II poster
6.9

Sing finds Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.

God of Gamblers II

1990

Twin Dragons poster
6.9

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

Twin Dragons

1992

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon poster
6.4

Before the events of A Better Tomorrow (1986), Mark 'Gor' Lee heads to Saigon during the Vietnam War to bring home his uncle and cousin, but his task becomes complicated when a well-known criminal tries to help him.

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

1989

Kung Fu Jungle poster
6.8

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

Kung Fu Jungle

2014

The Big Hit poster
6.0

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.

The Big Hit

1998

Film credits

1990s · 12 titles

God of Gamblers II poster
6.9

Sing finds Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.

God of Gamblers II

1990

Twin Dragons poster
6.9

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

Twin Dragons

1992

The Mad Monk poster
5.9

The gods in heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan.

The Mad Monk

1993

The Fortune Code poster
6.5

Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.

The Fortune Code

1990

Shanghai 1920 poster
4.5

Billy Fong, a Chinese boy working the Shanghai docks, becomes friends with Dawson Cole, the spoiled son of an American shipping tycoon. As adults, the friends become business partners. Dawson wants to run a legitimate trade, but Billy craves the power that comes with leadership among the cities gangster underground.

Shanghai 1920

1991

Those Were the Days... poster
7.5

A gangster gets mixed up with drugs after witnessing a friend killed during a gang fight.

Those Were the Days...

1995

Shanghai Shanghai poster
6.2

Little Tiger ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger, an honest cop working in a corrupt system. Surmising that life in the police force was not his cup of tea, Little Tiger joins the Swallow Acrobatic Troop, which he excels in because of his kung-fu prowess. When a band of thugs from Chin Hung-yun's group attacks the troop, Little Tiger not only handily fights them back but also infiltrates their organization to destroy them from the inside. Meanwhile, Big Tiger's old flame Mary returns from America to join the revolutionaries. Big Tiger soon finds himself torn between his love of this girl and his orders to arrest all revolutionaries.

Shanghai Shanghai

1990

Cinema of Vengeance poster
6.2

A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favorite Chow Yun-Fat.

Cinema of Vengeance

1994

Police Confidential poster
7.0

A Hong Kong policeman (Simon Yam) seeks honesty and loyalty amid corruption, crime and violence.

Police Confidential

1995

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

No artwork available
NR

A young urban couple are deciding they want kids. However, after Wong Chiu Wai dies Cheng Lai Ying is left with only one choice... to make use of the fertility clinic.

Fait Accompli

1994

Crystal Fortune Run poster
9.0

An assassin known as Wind Yip (Sharla Cheung) is thought to be a robot after she is seen ripping the guts out of the president of a large corporation and dodging a hail of bullets from police. Later, she shows up at the corporation to steal the Diamond of Emperor Chen which is the key to a vast treasure. But another group of thieves, led by Ko Kit (Anita Yuen), are also trying to steal the diamond for their boss who has labeled the operation the Crystal Fortune Run. After guards are alerted, Ko takes the jewel and leaves Wind to fend off the guards.

Crystal Fortune Run

1994

1980s · 15 titles

Casino Raiders poster
6.5

Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.

Casino Raiders

1989

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon poster
6.4

Before the events of A Better Tomorrow (1986), Mark 'Gor' Lee heads to Saigon during the Vietnam War to bring home his uncle and cousin, but his task becomes complicated when a well-known criminal tries to help him.

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

1989

I Love Maria poster
6.4

A gang of criminals terrorizes Hong Kong with two killer robots, one of which is modelled on the gang's female thug, Maria. When the robot gets damaged during a mission, an inventor working for the police captures and reprograms her to develop an independent personality.

I Love Maria

1988

Legacy of Rage poster
7.3

A man is framed for murder by his drug-dealing best friend who covets his girlfriend, leading to eight years in jail and a vow of revenge upon release.

Legacy of Rage

1986

Long Arm of the Law III poster
6.1

An ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner flees to Hong Kong and is forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he loves.

Long Arm of the Law III

1989

The Big Heat poster
6.3

Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the HKPD on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more sinister than they originally anticipated.

The Big Heat

1988

Long Arm of the Law II poster
7.0

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 organising the crime wave.

Long Arm of the Law II

1987

The Yuppie Fantasia poster
6.5

Marital ups and downs and extramarital flings provide the background to this uproarious tale of life in an advertising agency. Yuppie ad-man Leung Foon separates from his similarly career-focused wife Ann, tries to get back together with his former girlfriend, and flirts with his woman boss, before questioning whether he was better off where he started.

The Yuppie Fantasia

1989

Forever Young poster
6.2

Five orphans, five friends. They grow up together, still good friends, and travel to Thailand, where a witch doctor has invented a brew which returns one to childhood permanently. Robberts attack and force the five to test the brew. Rescue comes after four of them have shrunk into child sizes, leaving Bo the only adult. The doctor forgets how to reverse the process and the quintet return to Hong Kong. Teacher Wong takes the four children into a primary school.

Forever Young

1989

Fatal Bet poster
10.0

Sam Rogers and Crab are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with Japanese gangsters, how far will their friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.

Fatal Bet

1989

Fury poster
7.6

Chik (Philip Chan), Lucky (Michael Wong), Chi-to (Waise Lee), and his ex-girlfriend Ngao (Carrie Ng) who he is still sweet on but is married to Lucky now, are aiming to make a score on a deal with a Taiwan triad when things take a turn for the BLOODY because Chi-to's cousin, who arranged the deal, set them up.

Fury

1988

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns poster
NR

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

1983

Just Like Weather poster
6.6

Allen Fong portrays the strains of marriage through the eyes of a young couple.

Just Like Weather

1986

The Path of Glory poster
9.0

Undercover cop Cheung returns to his police academy for training. He has to be discharged earlier. Once outside he is brutally murdered by the ‘Gang of Four.’ Three years later, his pupils now police officers, track down the gang and avenge the death of their tutor.

The Path of Glory

1989

Danger Has Two Faces poster
7.0

Martial art film standout Liang Chia-jen brings the same animalistic intensity from his early heroic bloodshed films to his Danger Has Two Faces tough, ex-cop character now relegated to becoming a pet store owner. The stern Police Superintendent Liu played by Chu Chiang sets the stage for his later role in John Woo's The Killer while new comer Fei Hsiang must do Serpico-like things to find out which cop is paid for by the mob.

Danger Has Two Faces

1985

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Big Hit poster
6.0

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.

The Big Hit

1998

Crime Story poster
6.8

A special agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn't that simple.

Crime Story

1993

Organized Crime & Triad Bureau poster
6.4

The head of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, Inspector San Lee, will do anything to put triad boss Tung in jail.

Organized Crime & Triad Bureau

1994

Organized Crime & Triad Bureau poster
6.4

The head of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, Inspector San Lee, will do anything to put triad boss Tung in jail.

Organized Crime & Triad Bureau

1994

Taking Manhattan poster
5.1

Ho has a bright future with Hong Kong's police force. ButHo's wife wants to emigrate to the United States. So he winds up in Manhattan on the New York police force. Ho's wife meets Chinese 'wheeler- dealer' Chan who teaches her how to double her money overnight. She changes from a tender wife into a hard business woman as Ho watches helplessly. In fact, Ho has been given his new undercover assignment: to investigate Chan and his suspected criminal background. So the Hos and the Chans keep on meeting, loving and hating, all the while in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge until the explosive end.

Taking Manhattan

1992

Gunmen poster
5.3

This story follows a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. His department is overrun with corruption, while gangsters rule the city via the opium trade.

Gunmen

1988

Rock N'Roll Cop poster
5.1

A Hong Kong cop is sent to mainland China to find a group of killers. Meanwhile, a cop discovers that his former love is aiding the gang of crooks.

Rock N'Roll Cop

1994

Rock N'Roll Cop poster
5.1

A Hong Kong cop is sent to mainland China to find a group of killers. Meanwhile, a cop discovers that his former love is aiding the gang of crooks.

Rock N'Roll Cop

1994

Love to Kill poster
5.6

A woman looks to a cop for help against her abusive husband, who constantly rapes, beats, and belittles her and her son, but the husband catches wind of the cop's plan.

Love to Kill

1993

Return to Action poster
7.5

HK action movie directed by Chen Kuan Tai, starring himself with Alex Man, who both want to seek revenge!

Return to Action

1990

Flash Future Kung Fu poster
6.0

Imagine an old-school martial arts melodrama about competing fighting schools dropped into the grungy sci-fi world of Blade Runner, and you have an idea of the curious mix of styles in Flash Future Kung Fu. Eddy Ko is the maverick star pupil of an honorable school who secretly engages in underground "Black Boxing" bouts, a black market sport off limits to the school. The ambitious X-Gang, a bloodthirsty neo-Nazi-like organization, plots to take care of Ko and his friends and take over the city with their army of mind-controlled zombie soldiers. In true Hong Kong fashion, it boils down to a showdown of champions, and this one takes place in a boxing ring in an eerily empty warehouse with video coverage broadcasting the event all over.

Flash Future Kung Fu

1983

Police Confidential poster
7.0

A Hong Kong policeman (Simon Yam) seeks honesty and loyalty amid corruption, crime and violence.

Police Confidential

1995

Pink Lady poster
3.8

A depressing, sweet tale about the relationship between two former school girls that cannot survive in a strict, ignorant world.

Pink Lady

1992

Lifeline Express poster
6.2

Kind-hearted Fatso Ng earnestly entreats Buddha to save his midget brother Tiger from an early death. In a passionate outburst, he pledges half his lifespan in return for sparing Tiger. It seems to work ....... too well. Fatso had been told last year by reliable fortune teller Big Mouth Kwan that he would have a long life, but his fortune has now changed. Meanwhile, Tiger is making the most of his renewed lease of life, working hard to get into the panties of three busty nurses. Fatso "spoils" the fun by following Big Mouth Kwan advice - avoid sex if you want any chance of changing your bad fortune. Fatso begins to lose his sanity and goes into the hospital. His only hope of being saved is the weird hospital shrink, who believes in the occult.

Lifeline Express

1984

The Disciples poster
5.8

Four highly trained martial artists are dispatched to protect a high-profile baseball player from hired kidnappers.

The Disciples

1999

The Club poster
6.8

Mainly the story of Sai, a rascal who works at a gang-operated nightclub, and his conflicts with a rival gang.

The Club

1981

True Colours poster
7.7

Lung and Wong are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled from his motherland to escape a death penalty. Lung returns after five years and runs into Wong who becomes a priest of an orphanage.

True Colours

1986