James Wong Jim
James Wong Jim (Chinese: 黃霑; Jyutping: wong4 zim1; Cantonese Yale: wòhng jīm; 18 March 1941 – 24 November 2004, also known as "霑叔" or "Uncle Jim") was a Cantopop lyricist and songwriter based primarily in Hong Kong. Beginning from the 1960s, he was the lyricist for over 2,000 songs, collaborating with songwriter Joseph Koo (a.k.a. Koo Kar-Fai) on many popular television theme songs, many of which have become classics of the genre. His work propelled Cantopop to unprecedented popularity.
He was also well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, screenwriter, and talk show host. He took part in creative directing positions within the entertainment industry in Hong Kong.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.387 |
| Birthday | 1941-03-18 |
| Place of Birth | Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China |
| Also Known As | Huang Zhan, Wong Cham-Sam, Jimmy Wong, Jim Wong, 黄沾, 黃湛森, Wong Jim, James Wong Jim, James Wong, |
1997
The Mad Phoenix
7.7/18
A Cantonese librettist enjoys immense popularity over the course of decades, followed by decline.
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The Mad Phoenix
1994
Screwball '94
2.6/5
A teenage boy awakens a ghost from an antique pot. To be reincarnated the ghost must help his present day counterpart by helping him find romance.
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Screwball '94
1992
Stooges in Hong Kong
3.286/7
James Wong stars as a late night talk show host who tells some of the dirtiest jokes and is insanely popular. His show is the biggest rated late night...
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Stooges in Hong Kong
1990
The Wildgoose Chase
4/1
Chung, Yam and Koo work for the same advertising agency. Chung is a philanderer. Yam lives with his girlfriend who is a TV reporter, requiring irregul...
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The Wildgoose Chase
1989
City Squeeze
5/1
Wong is a supervisor at Yau's firm, he is often taken advantage of because of his integrity and timidity. Yau has struck rich because of his wife's we...
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City Squeeze
1989
Mr. Sunshine
0/0
Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready to help those who need it. Therefore, he decides to...
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Mr. Sunshine
1974
Games Gamblers Play
6.5/13
Michael Hui stars as Wen, a convict who's always out to make a quick dollar through gambling. Being behind bars doesn't stop him from making something...
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Games Gamblers Play
1989
Miracles: The Canton Godfather
7.082/164
A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do...
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Miracles: The Canton Godfather
2004
In-Laws, Out-Laws
0/0
An ensemble comedy centering on a family's hijinks around Lunar New Year, based on a hit television show.
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In-Laws, Out-Laws
1985
Fascinating Affairs
3/1
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Fascinating Affairs
1988
The Diary of a Big Man
6.2/15
A two-timing bigamist finds himself concocting scheme after scheme with his best friend, Chi Hung, to prevent either of his wives from discovering his...
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The Diary of a Big Man
1998
Bishonen
6.389/18
Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the...
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Bishonen
1990
Happy Ghost IV
5.6/9
A group of college kids discovers the remains of an evil warlord from an old cave and brings it to their dormitory, which ultimately awakens the warlo...
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Happy Ghost IV
1976
CID: Murder
0/0
One episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “CID” series based on real murder incidents in Hong Kong
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CID: Murder
1992
Under the Rose
6.5/2
James Wong and his female assistant visited various kinds of pleasure-houses, including invisible dens, high-tech private dens, smuggling blackpoints...
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Under the Rose
1994
Return to a Better Tomorrow
6.3/33
An adventure that delves into the dark caverns of the underworld and tells the tale of three chivalrous gangsters who attempt to escape the powerful c...
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Return to a Better Tomorrow
1994
Awakening
5/4
A famous "feng shui" master (fortune teller) gets a wake-up call when a distraught ex-customer threatens to expose him as a fraud.
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Awakening
1994
I Have a Date with Spring
8/1
On the eve of the Hong Kong 1967 social unrest triggered by the miss-management of the colonial government, Butterfly Yiu was given an accidental chan...
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I Have a Date with Spring
1993
All's Well End's Well, Too
5.8/14
Chow Tung is a licentious man who was arranged to get married along with his ugly sister Gut to partners not of their choice. Chow, being a filial son...
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All's Well End's Well, Too
1992
Once Upon a Time a Hero in China
4.5/6
The story of a cook who tries to stop an opium ring in ancient China.
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Once Upon a Time a Hero in China
1992
Rich Man
0/0
A triad gangster is sent to prison and there he meets a millionaire who takes him under his wing. When back out he is showered with wealth. There is o...
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Rich Man
1985
The Musical Singer
7/1
Entertainment manager James Wong loses his lead singer Jannie Fong when she breaks her contract. Angered, he turns his efforts to making a young dance...
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The Musical Singer
1990
Promising Miss Bowie
0/0
Miss Bowie is more or less happily raking in the cash until her life is complicated by the sudden reappearance, after 20 years, of her first (and pres...
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Promising Miss Bowie
1994
It's a Wonderful Life
5.7/13
This 1994 Chinese New Year offering takes place over a period of time between one Christmas and Chinese New Year's eve. We are introduced to thirteen...
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It's a Wonderful Life
1994
I Will Wait for You!
6.7/3
A Hong Kong version of the 1978 American film Same Time, Next Year, I Will Wait For You stars the winning screen pair of Anita Yuen and Tony Leung Ka...
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I Will Wait for You!
1988
My Dream is Yours
6/3
Nightmares become reality for two people, and also bring them together. One is an office worker who also works at 7-11 at night, who also has a pretty...
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My Dream is Yours
1991
The Gambling Ghost
4.6/6
Sammo Hung plays three different characters: Fatty, Fatty's father and Fatty's grandfather, Hung Kau. Fatty is a hotel worker, yearning for sudden wea...
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The Gambling Ghost
1993
Flirting Scholar
7.4/163
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant gi...
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Flirting Scholar
1988
Tiger on the Beat
6.4/58
A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of Lethal Weapon. The wacky twoso...
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Tiger on the Beat
1990
Tiger on the Beat 2
6.1/8
Lam, a cop approaching 40 but without much accomplishment, always wants to achieve something memorable before his retirement. He is obliged by his sis...
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Tiger on the Beat 2
1992
Twin Dragons
6.7/381
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two...
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Twin Dragons
1987
Road Warriors
3.5/3
Traffic cops set out to take down a spoiled, rich, reckless driver responsible for a school bus accident, in writer/director Danny Lee's examination o...
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Road Warriors
1989
The Romancing Star III
2/3
Four mismatched and contentious Hong Kong couples consider swapping partners but realize they're happier as they are.
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The Romancing Star III
1992
James Wong in Japan & Korea
6/1
James Wong narrates this lusty and rude sex travelogue, using himself and two friends as examples of what and what not to do. Much of the footage is r...
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James Wong in Japan & Korea
2001
Visible Secret
6.4/14
A man develops a relationship with a woman who has mysterious supernatural abilities.
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Visible Secret
1989
Burning Sensation
4.3/3
A firefighter salvages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building, which releases the gentle ghost of a Chinese opera singer, killed in a stage f...
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Burning Sensation
1993
Laughter Of Water Margins
4.4/5
Tiger fighter Wu Sung was originally a coward. But when he was drunk, he was extremely courageous. One time at Jingyang Gang, Wu Sung got drunk and ki...
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Laughter Of Water Margins
1990
Doctor Vampire
6.2/4
Chinese doctor has his car break down in England. he wanders into a castle where vampires congregate. After having sex with a Chinese vampire he leave...
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Doctor Vampire
1988
Mother Vs Mother
6/2
"Romeo and Juliet" in Hong Kong, except the widow Capulet is father Montague's childhood sweetheart. The young lovers try to reconcile their mothers w...
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Mother Vs Mother
1977
Chinatown Kid
6.3/12
Struggling to survive the murderous gang wars of Hong Kong, Tan Tung, a young martial arts street fighter, successfully takes on all challengers—until...
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Chinatown Kid
2000
Funny Business
7/2
Fuk Ching (Michael Hui) runs a farm in Mainland China. Persuaded by a Western businessman, the two put together a joint venture scheme to build a hote...
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Funny Business
1988
Fractured Follies
5.4/8
Joe, a reckless cab driver, accidentally hits someone with his taxi. The person he hit is May, a sweet girl who walks with a limp due to one of her le...
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Fractured Follies
1991
The Banquet
5.5/12
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties....
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The Banquet
1997
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
6.1/28
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.
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A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
1994
Best of Best
3.5/2
An eccentric tale of competition and corruption within a seemingly ordinary insurance company. When a young female insurance agent is found murdered,...
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Best of Best
1975
My Wacky, Wacky World
10/1
My Wacky, Wacky World is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Sammo Hung
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My Wacky, Wacky World
1985
The Dancing Warrior
6.5/2
This flick is about this gung fu dancing, alcoholic beverage guzzler named Andy Ho (Cheng Tien Chi). The title of this flick sounds like this bad warr...
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The Dancing Warrior
1982
My Darling, My Goddess
0/0
Kok is a bored valet driver who spends most of his day dreaming about the beautiful bikini-clad woman whose picture he has taped up to his office wall...
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My Darling, My Goddess
1989
Just Heroes
6.6/21
A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.
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Just Heroes
1988
Double Fattiness
5/4
Siu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her spirit was unable to cross over to the other side,...
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Double Fattiness
1992
Summer Lover
3.5/2
Romantic comedy from Hong Kong.
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Summer Lover
1988
The Crazy Companies
5.7/7
A rivalry between two brothers causes chaos through out the business world. Can the good brother defeat his greedy elder brother at his own game? Only...
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The Crazy Companies
1992
Fight Back to School 2
6.753/89
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 com...
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Fight Back to School 2
2001
The Making of 'Youling renjian - Visible Secret'
0/0
2001 documentary
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The Making of 'Youling renjian - Visible Secret'
1992
Key to Fortune
4/5
A fake documentary that takes a hidden camera look at Hong Kong's sex industry.
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Key to Fortune
1989
Spiritually a Cop
6/1
A young man wants to be a Hong Kong police officer but is too short to qualify. However, he doesn't let that stop him: he goes around impersonating an...
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Spiritually a Cop
1991
Stooges in Tokyo
1/2
Three perverted idiots go to Tokyo on a business trip.
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Stooges in Tokyo
2000
Love Paradox
4/1
An aspiring dancer meets her former fiance's gay lover, while her friend's beau is attracted to a new neighbor.
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Love Paradox
1993
Iron Monkey
7.4/289
Iron Monkey is a Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood. Corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named...
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Iron Monkey
1993
Film ohne Fesseln - Das neue Hongkong Kino
7.3/3
A German documentary on Hong Kong cinema.
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Film ohne Fesseln - Das neue Hongkong Kino
1975
Let's Rock
0/0
Drama by James Wong Jim
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Let's Rock
1988
Carry on Dancing
0/0
Cheung Sheung and Tze Ngor are twin sisters. Tze Ngor is a lunatic and stays in a mental hospital. But out of a madcap incident, Cheung Sheung is "che...
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