John Shum Kin-Fun
John Shum Kin-Fun (Chinese: 岑建勳) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. His English name is sometimes written as John Sham. Whilst known primarily for his comedic acting roles in Hong Kong cinema, he also spent time as a political activist. He is easily recognisable from his spectacles and curly hair.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.645 |
Birthday | 1952-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Enping, Jiangmen, China |
Also Known As | John Shum, 岑建勋, John Sham, |
1984
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
5.7/38
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must h...
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Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
2009
Bodyguards and Assassins
6.8/365
In 1905, revolutionist Sun Yat-Sen visits Hong Kong to discuss plans with Tongmenghui members to overthrow the Qing dynasty. But when they find out th...
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Bodyguards and Assassins
1983
Winners & Sinners
6.8/180
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Se...
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Winners & Sinners
2012
A Simple Life
7.5/165
The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman who has been the family's helper for sixty years.
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A Simple Life
1989
Pedicab Driver
6.8/32
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of...
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Pedicab Driver
1985
Yes, Madam!
7.1/95
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two hard kickin...
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Yes, Madam!
1986
The Lunatics
7.7/15
A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his...
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The Lunatics
2002
Three
5.9/68
An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home...
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Three
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
1988
The Eighth Happiness
6.2/10
Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in the way!
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The Eighth Happiness
1988
I Love Maria
6.2/18
RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks...
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I Love Maria
1986
Where's Officer Tuba?
6.5/13
Tuba is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass section of the police band to pounding the streets. One day, he finds himself caught up in...
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Where's Officer Tuba?
1988
Painted Faces
7.1/28
This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as young men. The story is about their teacher Master...
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Painted Faces
1991
Double Impact
6.1/1070
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris,...
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Double Impact
1992
Lucky Encounter
7/5
Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncle who was responsible for his untimely death. Howe...
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Lucky Encounter
1981
Sealed with a Kiss
0/0
A romance between two mentally handicapped youngsters.
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Sealed with a Kiss
1982
Happy Sixteen
0/0
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Happy Sixteen
1988
Starry Is the Night
6/3
As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teen-ager Tian-Ah, she remembers her relationship when she was...
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Starry Is the Night
1989
Miracles: The Canton Godfather
7.1/166
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
1984
Pom Pom
6.2/9
Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young girl from a ruthless crime lord, as she possesses a l...
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Pom Pom
2006
McDull, the Alumni
5/4
In McDull, the Alumni, our protagonist has grown up. He is no longer the little boy who banters with his mates at school. How he wishes he could just...
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McDull, the Alumni
1985
It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!
7.3/3
An illegal dealing of a soda-canned bomb between a crooked Hong Kong cop and two Japanese traffickers goes bad after an associate decides to go agains...
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It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!
1993
Guns of Dragon
3.9/7
a HK cop (Mark Cheng) comes to New York City to try and patch things up with his estranged wife (Yvonne Yung Hung), only to find that the criminal (Pa...
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Guns of Dragon
1985
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars
6.6/141
The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective...
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars
1990
Curry & Pepper
6.158/38
Two best friends and cop partners become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen tim...
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Curry & Pepper
2007
Mr Cinema
5.5/2
Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he s...
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Mr Cinema
1984
Double Trouble
6/1
To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with...
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Double Trouble
1985
Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom
6.4/5
Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven join forces with Mr. Boo in a daring mission involving a jewelry heist and a museum caper.
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Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom
1984
The Return of Pom Pom
6.5/9
Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven return in this sequel to "Pom Pom." This time out, they join forces with their boss, Inspector Chan, to find t...
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The Return of Pom Pom
1986
Pom Pom Strikes Back
6.5/4
The Hong Kong detectives, Chau and Beethoven, are back once more. This time, their mission is to protect a young girl from a gang boss' henchmen, who...
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Pom Pom Strikes Back
1989
Little Cop
6.7/3
Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals. As a...
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Little Cop
1984
Wheels on Meals
6.9/385
Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a...
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Wheels on Meals
2004
New Police Story
7.142/730
Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help fr...
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New Police Story
1988
Edge of Darkness
9/1
A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a c...
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Edge of Darkness
1985
The Island
8/3
John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited by a group of seriously demented characters,lead b...
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The Island
1985
Friendly Ghost
0/0
Male chauvinist Ah Wai often boasts of his wife's submission to him. He even persuades her to pretend to be obedient in the presence of his friends wh...
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Friendly Ghost
1987
The Goofy Gang
4/1
Wai is a waiter in a country club. One day at work he is humiliated by the wife of a millionaire Harry Tse; and in order to get even, he and his gang...
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The Goofy Gang
1986
From Here to Prosperity
0/0
In Thailand in the 1950s, Detective Au Wei is shot to death by Cha Tin-Hung in a raid because of Cha's involvement with black market diamonds and jewe...
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From Here to Prosperity
2013
A Complicated Story
4.8/6
Needing money for her brother’s medical treatment, Liu Yazi agrees to become a surrogate mother for a mysterious benefactor. But when the contract is...
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A Complicated Story
1982
To Hell with the Devil
7/1
A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl. After he makes the deal, a catholic priest hangs...
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To Hell with the Devil
1981
All the Wrong Clues
6.7/7
A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his highly-valu...
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All the Wrong Clues
1991
King of Chess
6.5/13
Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's capital...
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King of Chess
1994
Moving the Mountain
7.8/3
ON JUNE 4th 1989, CHINA WAS CHANGED FOREVER. Beijing, May, 1989. the world watched as a hundred students became a thousand, as thousands became a mil...
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Moving the Mountain
2004
The Miracle Box
8/1
Joanna wanted to become a physician. After she meets Albert, a cancer survivor and fellow doctor, her life changes. Albert's cancer has returned. He e...
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The Miracle Box
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
1987
Goodbye Darling
6/1
Tai (Raymond Wong), a loving and caring husband and Josephine (Cherrie Chung), his sweet and darling wife, are a young, merry couple. Tai has a close...
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Goodbye Darling
1981
Charlie's Bubble
0/0
The poetry of teenagers in love is one of the most endearing and enduring traditions in cinema. Philip Chan made his solo directorial debut with a fil...
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Charlie's Bubble
1988
18 Times
6/2
Gigi is a young woman with no shortage of potential husbands to choose from. The big problem: every single one of her husbands dies after becoming wea...
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18 Times
1980
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
7/38
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and...
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Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
1991
Sisters of the World Unite
0/0
Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men.
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Sisters of the World Unite
1983
Gun Is Law
0/0
Hong Kong crime movie from 1983
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Gun Is Law
2002
Going Home
8/1
A cop and his son move into a worn-down apartment building. The boy is first menaced by a neighbor girl and then goes missing. The father tries to loo...
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Going Home
2024
Papa
10/1
A 15-year-old boy murders his mother and sister. The father, Nin Yuen, returns to his cafe, haunted by memories of a once-happy family: his wife prepa...
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