John Chong

Production

John Chong

Born

1959-01-01 (67)

Place of birth

Hong Kong

Known for

Production

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In poster
7.0

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

2024

Vengeance poster
6.6

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Vengeance

2009

City of Life and Death poster
7.4

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

City of Life and Death

2009

Butterfly and Sword poster
5.6

A loyalist attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group.

Butterfly and Sword

1993

The Banquet poster
6.1

Crown Prince Wu Luan is in love with Little Wan but left heartbroken when she marries his father, the emperor. The emperor's brother, Li, kills him and Wu Luan tries to avenge his father's death.

The Banquet

2006

The Invincible Dragon poster
4.7

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. He got himself into fights with the Macau detective, as well as an American Army veteran Alexander who has a secret linkage to Kowloon’s background…

The Invincible Dragon

2019

Film credits

Behind the camera

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In poster
7.0

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

2024

Vengeance poster
6.6

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Vengeance

2009

City of Life and Death poster
7.4

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

City of Life and Death

2009

Butterfly and Sword poster
5.6

A loyalist attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group.

Butterfly and Sword

1993

The Banquet poster
6.1

Crown Prince Wu Luan is in love with Little Wan but left heartbroken when she marries his father, the emperor. The emperor's brother, Li, kills him and Wu Luan tries to avenge his father's death.

The Banquet

2006

The Invincible Dragon poster
4.7

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. He got himself into fights with the Macau detective, as well as an American Army veteran Alexander who has a secret linkage to Kowloon’s background…

The Invincible Dragon

2019

Gen-X Cops poster
5.4

Four young officers of the Hong Kong Police are joined together to fight against organised crime using all possible means, even if this would lead them to break the law… Their first assignment is to eliminate a gang of criminals who have stolen a shipload of explosives.

Gen-X Cops

1999

Gen-Y Cops poster
4.5

When terrorists abduct a deadly government attack robot, the call is put out to the Gen-Y Cops, an elite task force with lethal fighting skills. Together with a trigger-happy FBI agent, the Gen-Y Cops race against time to destroy the robot before it destroys their city.

Gen-Y Cops

2000

Z Storm poster
6.0

ICAC principal investigator William Luk takes his job seriously, and he needs every last scintilla of support from his team to take on the powerful and cunning Supt Wong, who is corrupt to the core. Wong is an enthusiastic tool of the monstrous Malcolm Wu, a cowboy big-time share trader who will stop at nothing to secure a large slice of the upcoming float of the HK government pension fund, worth billions.

Z Storm

2014

Triangle poster
6.5

Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening when a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure buried under a high-security government building.

Triangle

2007

Option Zero poster
5.8

With the retreat of the British government from Hong Kong, the S.B. Team, an elite secret police force, is also on its way out. However, this team of highly trained cops have one final mission together and they are in for the fight of their lives!

Option Zero

1997

Seoul Raiders poster
6.2

Agent Lam (Tony Leung) sets out to track a pair of plates used to make fake American dollars. When he discovers the plates, they are conned out of him by enigmatic US Embassy workers Owen (Richie Ren) and JJ (Shu Qi). With the trail now leading to Korea, Lam sets off in hot pursuit. There, amidst the dangerous and glamorous urban landscape of Seoul, Lam finds himself confronting an underworld crime boss known as the Polar Bear, head of the biggest counterfeiting organisation in Asia.

Seoul Raiders

2005

Beast Cops poster
6.5

Tung is a street cop in Hong Kong who's friends with a Triad named Fai. Fai hires a hit man to murder a business rival; the hit goes wrong and Fai, implicated in the incident, goes on the run.

Beast Cops

1998

Tempting Heart poster
6.0

A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.

Tempting Heart

1999

Twilight of the Warriors: The Final Chapter poster
NR

The final installment of the Twilight of the Warriors trilogy.

Twilight of the Warriors: The Final Chapter

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Kung Fu Angels poster
1.0

An unruly and spoiled girl Nancy is sent to the Physical Education College, which cultivates students into sports elites with strict regulations. Although her cousin Ken tries to help her get used to the ascetic life there, it doesn’t turn out as he intended. In order to pursue the handsome captain Tom, Nancy quits her favorite volleyball, but joins the Kung Fu team. What really annoys her is another girl Tina, who sees Nancy’s crush on Tom, is still chummy with Tom. Experiencing inter-school Kung Fu tournament enables Nancy to learn a lot from the Principle, her teammates and even rivals. Through tears and pains, the young ones grow up and get closer to their dreams. Since then, Nancy has found that practicing Kung Fu is no longer for wooing a guy…

Kung Fu Angels

2014

Assembly poster
6.9

Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in the civil war between the communists and the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang.

Assembly

2007

Point of No Return poster
6.8

Min is an assassin. His adopted son Eagle and his son KK kill another assassin, Michael, because he broke the rule of the assassin group. This breeds contempt in Panther, Michael's brother. He tries every means to identify Eagle and wants to kill him. When all come to failure, he frames Eagle to have broken the group's rule.

Point of No Return

1990

Tales from the Occult poster
4.4

Three short films about the hidden horrors that lurk behind the urban landscape of Hong Kong.

Tales from the Occult

2022

First Option poster
6.5

Despite negative psychological evaluations, Mike Wong is assigned as the captain of the SDU, a special task force linked to the Customs Department. Their mission: apprehend nasty drug dealers, led by the “Ice Queen.” To do this, Mike has to team up with customs cop Minnie. Despite their clashes, the two learn to understand each other, but not before things get bad.

First Option

1996

Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul poster
5.1

Rapunzel: While attending the birthday celebration of the scion of some record company, an ex-hair model who aspires to make a comeback in the entertainment business gets her tresses burnt by a spoiled brat. She walks into a hair salon to salvage her sole pride and joy, only to meet her most macabre end. Cheshire Cat: A woman whose cat was gruesomely disemboweled in the street has since opened a feline rescue center. When a man who poses as an animal lover alerts her to a potential case of cat torture, she accompanies him to the scene, only to realize that he is the real perpetrator and his next target could be human. Tooth Fairy: A dental nurse befriends a chef in the street. When he visits her clinic to check on his teeth, he is tortured by the dentist who fancies her. The morning after, the dentist is found murdered in the clinic. All fingers point to the chef who happens to be mentally unstable. Little do the police know that the real culprit is still at large.

Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul

2023

Framed poster
7.3

Simon Yam plays a cop that has just been released from jail after serving some years there. He claims he is innocent of all charges, and was in fact "framed".

Framed

1989

To Miss with Love poster
6.0

When a new teacher arrives, she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the students from her class. Jimmy Lin is harbouring an unrequited crush on childhood friend Athena Chu. However, he is too shy to reveal his feeling to her when he discovers that she has fallen for the cool kid in class, Nicky Wu. Meanwhile, another student Dicky Cheung has gotten himself into trouble with the triads after failing to pay a debt owed to them. With so much going on, how will Sharla Cheung find a way to solve the troubles of her students and get them to study hard to pass their exams?

To Miss with Love

1992

Love and Sex Among the Ruins poster
5.4

An impotent taxi driver sets out to find a cure and encounters a dancer, a lesbian, a policewoman, and a male painter on his journey.

Love and Sex Among the Ruins

1996

Theft Under the Sun poster
4.3

During an operation with a master criminal, an undercover cop fails his mission because he was shot by an uniform officer. His superior suspects he has become a bad seed and refuses to allow him to rejoin the force. In order to prove his innocence, the cop decides to follow the thief to the Sino-Russian border on an arms struggle deal, but on the way they are chased by Mainland police. During the escape the cop and the criminal become friends. When they return to the Hong Kong border, the police awaits on the other side and...

Theft Under the Sun

1997

Tales from the Occult: Ultimate Malevolence poster
2.5

Features three short films– Killing Me Softly, No Way Out and Memento Mori – revealing the most terrifying and ugly side of human nature. The final chapter of Tales From The Occult is unpredictable, where life and death are just a thought away.

Tales from the Occult: Ultimate Malevolence

2023

Beijing Rocks poster
6.1

A rock and roll story that portrays the decay of political and cultural lacunae that have separated China and Hong Kong for so long.

Beijing Rocks

2001

Look Up poster
NR

Jointly presented by Hong Kong’s four renowned film companies - Sil-Metropole Organization, Emperor Motion Pictures, Media Asia Film and One Cool Film Production - Look Up is a Sil-Metropole Organization production produced by John Chong and co-directed by young filmmakers Daniel Chan, Tim Poon, Elvis Hau and Sunny Yip. The film runs through four Hong Kong Stories from 1997 to the present, to detail the days we have passed through these years.

Look Up

2022

Twilight of the Warriors: Dragon Throne poster
NR

The second installment of the Twilight of the Warriors trilogy. In 1950s Hong Kong, brothers Lui Cheng-tung and Chen Jim fled to the lawless Kowloon Walled City at the peak of their careers. They endured hardships, waiting for a chance to reclaim their losses. During this time, they encountered a man who significantly influenced their struggle to regain what they had lost.

Twilight of the Warriors: Dragon Throne

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A Date in Portland Street poster
7.0

A couple from China, husband and wife, are estranged when the man relocates to Europe to pursue formal training in art. When they reunite some time later in Hong Kong during his summer vacation, they find that they've each grown emotionally, but in different ways. Will they be able to reconcile their differences?

A Date in Portland Street

1995