John Shum Kin-Fun

John Shum Kin-Fun

Birthday: 1952-01-01

Place of Birth: Enping, Jiangmen, China

Biography: 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.

Movies

Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuab...

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Bodyguards and Assassins
Bodyguards and Assassins

In 1905, revolutionist Sun Yat-Sen visits Hong Kong to discuss plans with Tongmenghui members to ove...

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Winners and Sinners
Winners and Sinners

Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind th...

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A Simple Life
A Simple Life

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into ...

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Pedicab Driver
Pedicab Driver

Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen ...

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Yes, Madam!
Yes, Madam!

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidde...

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The Lunatics
The Lunatics

A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who ...

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Three
Three

An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-w...

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The Banquet
The Banquet

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer...

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The Eighth Happiness
The Eighth Happiness

Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in t...

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I Love Maria
I Love Maria

RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their kille...

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Where's Officer Tuba?
Where's Officer Tuba?

Tuba is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass section of the police band to pounding t...

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Painted Faces
Painted Faces

This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as ...

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Double Impact
Double Impact

Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their pare...

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Lucky Encounter
Lucky Encounter

Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncl...

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Sealed with a Kiss
Sealed with a Kiss

A romance between two mentally handicapped youngsters....

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Happy Sixteen
Happy Sixteen

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Starry Is the Night
Starry Is the Night

As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teen-ager Ti...

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Miracles: The Canton Godfather
Miracles: The Canton Godfather

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. ...

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Pom Pom
Pom Pom

Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young gir...

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McDull, the Alumni
McDull, the Alumni

In McDull, the Alumni, our protagonist has grown up. He is no longer the little boy who banters with...

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It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!
It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!

An illegal dealing of a soda-canned bomb between a crooked Hong Kong cop and two Japanese trafficker...

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Guns of Dragon
Guns of Dragon

a HK cop (Mark Cheng) comes to New York City to try and patch things up with his estranged wife (Yvo...

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Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. T...

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Curry & Pepper
Curry & Pepper

Two best friends and cop partners become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The...

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Mr. Cinema
Mr. Cinema

Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces ...

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Double Trouble
Double Trouble

To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicio...

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Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom
Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom

Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven join forces with Mr. Boo in a daring mission involving a jew...

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The Return of Pom Pom
The Return of Pom Pom

Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven return in this sequel to "Pom Pom." This time out, they join...

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Pom Pom Strikes Back
Pom Pom Strikes Back

The Hong Kong detectives, Chau and Beethoven, are back once more. This time, their mission is to pro...

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Little Cop
Little Cop

Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the f...

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Wheels on Meals
Wheels on Meals

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling ...

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New Police Story
New Police Story

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgr...

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Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness

A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable t...

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The Island
The Island

John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited ...

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Friendly Ghost
Friendly Ghost

Male chauvinist Ah Wai often boasts of his wife's submission to him. He even persuades her to preten...

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The Goofy Gang
The Goofy Gang

Wai is a waiter in a country club. One day at work he is humiliated by the wife of a millionaire Har...

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From Here to Prosperity
From Here to Prosperity

In Thailand in the 1950s, Detective Au Wei is shot to death by Cha Tin-Hung in a raid because of Cha...

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A Complicated Story
A Complicated Story

Needing money for her brother’s medical treatment, Liu Yazi agrees to become a surrogate mother for ...

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To Hell with the Devil
To Hell with the Devil

A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl....

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All the Wrong Clues
All the Wrong Clues

A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting...

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King of Chess
King of Chess

Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chine...

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Moving the Mountain
Moving the Mountain

ON JUNE 4th 1989, CHINA WAS CHANGED FOREVER. Beijing, May, 1989. the world watched as a hundred stu...

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The Miracle Box
The Miracle Box

Joanna wanted to become a physician. After she meets Albert, a cancer survivor and fellow doctor, he...

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Mr. Sunshine
Mr. Sunshine

Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready t...

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Goodbye Darling
Goodbye Darling

Tai (Raymond Wong), a loving and caring husband and Josephine (Cherrie Chung), his sweet and darling...

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Charlie's Bubble
Charlie's Bubble

The poetry of teenagers in love is one of the most endearing and enduring traditions in cinema. Phil...

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18 Times
18 Times

Gigi is a young woman with no shortage of potential husbands to choose from. The big problem: every ...

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Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young gir...

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Sisters of the World Unite
Sisters of the World Unite

Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men....

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Gun Is Law
Gun Is Law

Hong Kong crime movie from 1983...

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Three: Going Home
Three: Going Home

A cop and his son move into a worn-down apartment building. The boy is first menaced by a neighbor g...

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Papa
Papa

A 15-year-old boy murders his mother and sister. The father, Nin Yuen, returns to his cafe, haunted ...

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Warlords of the Golden Triangle
Warlords of the Golden Triangle

A documentary directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Peter Yung....

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