James Wong Jim
Birthday: 1941-03-18
Place of Birth: Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Wong Jim, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Mad Phoenix
A Cantonese librettist enjoys immense popularity over the course of decades, followed by decline....
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Stooges in Hong Kong
James Wong stars as a late night talk show host who tells some of the dirtiest jokes and is insanely...
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Screwball '94
A teenage boy awakens a ghost from an antique pot. To be reincarnated the ghost must help his presen...
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Mr. Sunshine
Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready t...
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City Squeeze
Wong is a supervisor at Yau's firm, he is often taken advantage of because of his integrity and timi...
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The Wildgoose Chase
Chung, Yam and Koo work for the same advertising agency. Chung is a philanderer. Yam lives with his ...
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Games Gamblers Play
Michael Hui stars as Wen, a convict who's always out to make a quick dollar through gambling. Being ...
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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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The Diary of a Big Man
A two-timing bigamist finds himself concocting scheme after scheme with his best friend, Chi Hung, t...
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Bishonen
A hustler and a model policeman who is uneasy with his own secret homosexuality begin a secret relat...
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Happy Ghost IV
A group of college kids discovers the remains of an evil warlord from an old cave and brings it to t...
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In-Laws, Out-Laws
An ensemble comedy centering on a family's hijinks around Lunar New Year, based on a hit television ...
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CID: Murder
One episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “CID” series based on real murder incidents in Hong Kong...
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Under the Rose
James Wong and his female assistant visited various kinds of pleasure-houses, including invisible de...
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Return to a Better Tomorrow
An adventure that delves into the dark caverns of the underworld and tells the tale of three chivalr...
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Awakening
A famous "feng shui" master (fortune teller) gets a wake-up call when a distraught ex-customer threa...
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Once Upon a Time a Hero in China
The story of a cook who tries to stop an opium ring in ancient China....
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I Have a Date with Spring
On the eve of the Hong Kong 1967 social unrest triggered by the miss-management of the colonial gove...
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All's Well End's Well, Too
Chow Tung is a licentious man who was arranged to get married along with his ugly sister Gut to part...
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Rich Man
A triad gangster is sent to prison and there he meets a millionaire who takes him under his wing. Wh...
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The Musical Singer
Entertainment manager James Wong loses his lead singer Jannie Fong when she breaks her contract. Ang...
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Promising Miss Bowie
Miss Bowie is more or less happily raking in the cash until her life is complicated by the sudden re...
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It's a Wonderful Life
This 1994 Chinese New Year offering takes place over a period of time between one Christmas and Chin...
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I Will Wait for You!
A Hong Kong version of the 1978 American film Same Time, Next Year, I Will Wait For You stars the wi...
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My Dream is Yours
Nightmares become reality for two people, and also bring them together. One is an office worker who ...
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The Gambling Ghost
Sammo Hung plays three different characters: Fatty, Fatty's father and Fatty's grandfather, Hung Kau...
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Tiger on the Beat 2
Lam, a cop approaching 40 but without much accomplishment, always wants to achieve something memorab...
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Tiger on the Beat
A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-com...
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Twin Dragons
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the p...
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Road Warriors
Traffic cops set out to take down a spoiled, rich, reckless driver responsible for a school bus acci...
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The Romancing Star III
Four mismatched and contentious Hong Kong couples consider swapping partners but realize they're hap...
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James Wong in Japan & Korea
James Wong narrates this lusty and rude sex travelogue, using himself and two friends as examples of...
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Visible Secret
A man develops a relationship with a woman who has mysterious supernatural abilities....
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Burning Sensation
A firefighter salvages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building, which releases the gentle gh...
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Laughter Of Water Margins
Tiger fighter Wu Sung was originally a coward. But when he was drunk, he was extremely courageous. O...
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Doctor Vampire
Chinese doctor has his car break down in England. he wanders into a castle where vampires congregate...
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Mother Vs Mother
"Romeo and Juliet" in Hong Kong, except the widow Capulet is father Montague's childhood sweetheart....
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Chinatown Kid
Struggling to survive the murderous gang wars of Hong Kong, Tan Tung, a young martial arts street fi...
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Funny Business
Fuk Ching (Michael Hui) runs a farm in Mainland China. Persuaded by a Western businessman, the two p...
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Fractured Follies
Joe, a reckless cab driver, accidentally hits someone with his taxi. The person he hit is May, a swe...
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The Banquet
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer...
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A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her...
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Best of Best
An eccentric tale of competition and corruption within a seemingly ordinary insurance company. When ...
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The Dancing Warrior
This flick is about this gung fu dancing, alcoholic beverage guzzler named Andy Ho (Cheng Tien Chi)....
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My Darling, My Goddess
Kok is a bored valet driver who spends most of his day dreaming about the beautiful bikini-clad woma...
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Just Heroes
A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to ta...
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Double Fattiness
Siu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her ...
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The Crazy Companies
A rivalry between two brothers causes chaos through out the business world. Can the good brother def...
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Fight Back to School 2
Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched in...
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Key to Fortune
A fake documentary that takes a hidden camera look at Hong Kong's sex industry....
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Spiritually a Cop
A young man wants to be a Hong Kong police officer but is too short to qualify. However, he doesn't ...
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Love Paradox
An aspiring dancer meets her former fiance's gay lover, while her friend's beau is attracted to a ne...
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Iron Monkey
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a ma...
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Carry On Dancing
Cheung Sheung and Tze Ngor are twin sisters. Tze Ngor is a lunatic and stays in a mental hospital. B...
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Fortune Hunter's Plot
When Fu suffers a heart attack, his relatives hover around him hoping to get a slice of his great we...
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Hong Kong Criminal Archives - Female Butcher
"Rainy Night Butcher" Lam Gor-Wan, a night shift taxi driver who dismembers prostitutes by day in hi...
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Red Headed Stranger
Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed ...
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Flirting Scholar
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich ...
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BB 30
Pao is a terrible lawyer who has never won a litigation. He is a righteous man but his unstable char...
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