John Wakefield

Acting

John Wakefield

Born 1963-08-16 · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

He is an actor, known for Man Wanted (1995), Murders Made to Order (1993) and Tou shen gu zu (1992).

Acting credits

China Dolls poster
5.2

Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him.

China Dolls

1992

Police Story 3: Super Cop poster
6.9

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Police Story 3: Super Cop

1992

Once Upon a Time in China III poster
6.4

Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.

Once Upon a Time in China III

1993

Fight Back to School 2 poster
6.8

Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover as a student.

Fight Back to School 2

1992

Rhythm of Destiny poster
7.2

Two brothers Ah B and Dee live in two different worlds. Ah B decides to quit his smuggling business for a new life, but accidentally involves the innocent Dee into the smuggling case.

Rhythm of Destiny

1992

Sex for Sale poster
3.6

A Triad trafficking in firearms and drugs between Hong Kong and Zhuhai but most of their illicit activities were raided by the Chinese Police Officer, Ng. The Triad whistle blower Yuen, who was so angry that he kidnapped Ng's wife, maltreated her until she was unwillingly to be a prostitute in Hong Kong. Yuen's niece was a narcotics agent in Hong Kong Anti-drugs and Narcotics Bureau, cooperated with Ng to put Yuen in jail....

Sex for Sale

1993

Legend of the Brothers poster
8.5

Chronicles the rise of two brothers from their start in the 1940'sas illegal immigrants from China to the 1970's when they became the heads of the most powerful triad group in Hong Kong. Kent Cheng is the wise brother who must constantly help out his rash younger brother, Ray Lui. Another one of these true-life stories that seems to glorify triad life. Predictable at best.

Legend of the Brothers

1991

Thou Shalt Not Swear poster
3.4

The straight-laced Inspector Chow and the psychic Inspector Lau go undercover to hunt down a serial killer targeting a group of old childhood friends.

Thou Shalt Not Swear

1993

Big Bullet poster
6.7

Hotheaded cop Bill Chu gets relegated to the Emergency Unit after a dustup with his inept boss. When the mob kills Chu's pal and ex-colleague during a turf-war hit, he rounds up his motley department cohorts and embarks on a mission of revenge against the gangsters.

Big Bullet

1996

Echoes of the Rainbow poster
7.6

Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.

Echoes of the Rainbow

2010

Lee Rock II poster
6.9

Lee Rock is now the most powerful person in the police force, but he chooses to retreat, because he knows the rules of the power struggle.

Lee Rock II

1991

Angel Terminators poster
5.2

Two Hong Kong policewomen (Ida and Hon) take on a Japanese boss who has returned from a seven-year exile to retake his old turf.

Angel Terminators

1992

Forced Nightmare poster
5.8

A female psychic leaves her mainland home to visit Hong Kong. Along the way her bus crashes killing everyone on board except her as her powers protected her but it also causes the dead passengers to re-aminate. So, she seeks the help of a famous Tao Priest to put the dead back to rest.

Forced Nightmare

1992

Arrest the Restless poster
6.5

Two juveniles get mixed up in a street gang, resulting in the murder of a rival gang leader. A crooked cop pins the murder on the boy, but a detective who knows the truth risks his career to help the kid out.

Arrest the Restless

1992

Three Summers poster
8.0

Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of his youth. Against the backdrop of that locale, his young sister has recently befriended a group of adolescents who visit the isle perennially - every summer - and who share their individual stories with her. One tale at a time, she begins to experience life vicariously through the others' recollections.

Three Summers

1992

Man Wanted poster
5.8

Undercover cop Lok Hwa takes two years to become the trusted lieutenant of rising Hong Kong drug lord, Feng. The night of the big bust, Feng's flaming car crashes spectacularly into the sea; Feng is presumed dead. Hwa returns to the force and to June, his patient girl friend. Also, to save Feng's lover Yung from a life of crime, Hwa gives her his pager number and promises to be there for her. A year later, Feng reappears, asking Hwa's aid with one last task before he returns to the mainland forever. Feeling sentimental, Hwa agrees to help and finds himself set up to take the fall in a drug war. June is in danger, too, and death awaits as Yung realizes it's Hwa she loves.

Man Wanted

1995

Murders Made to Order poster
7.0

Following the tragic events of Sting of the Scorpion, Maggie finds herself stripped of her rank and committed to an insane asylum. The crooked cop who put her there offers to procure her release and reinstatement - if she'll go undercover as a bar hostess to spy on the triads. The whole thing's a setup, of course, and soon Maggie is on the run from the law, as well as nursing a bad heroin addiction. She finds refuge in the criminal underworld, where she accepts a job as an undercover assassin. But when her identity is exposed, Maggie has both sides of the law gunning for her life.

Murders Made to Order

1993

Hong Kong Criminal Archives - The Robbery poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hong Kong Criminal Archives - The Robbery

1991

The Big Deal poster
6.0

The "Saint" is a secret group comprised of a martial arts master and his two oddball daughters. They were brought to this earth to uphold justice by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

The Big Deal

1992

Sting of the Scorpion poster
NR

A group of police friends are investigating a suspicious fellow officer who might be involved in drugs and prostitution.

Sting of the Scorpion

1992

Fatal Assignment poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fatal Assignment

1995

Unclassified File poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Unclassified File

1994

Hong Kong Criminal Archives - Black Money poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hong Kong Criminal Archives - Black Money

1991

Win or Die poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Win or Die

1997