Wong Yat-cheong, widely recognized by his stage name Wong Jing (Chinese: 王晶; pinyin: Wáng Jīng), is a renowned figure in Hong Kong cinema, born on May 3, 1955. His career spans various roles, including film director, producer, actor, presenter, and screenwriter. Notably, he made significant contributions to the Hong Kong film industry, especially during the 1990s, and is known for his ability to create films that resonate with the public and generate substantial publicity.
Wong Jing’s early life was closely linked to the film industry; he is the son of the acclaimed film director Wong Tin-Lam. He pursued his education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, graduating with a degree in Chinese literature, a qualification he later described as “useless.” His foray into the entertainment industry began with television, where he worked as a scriptwriter for TVB starting in 1975. Wong Jing transitioned to the Shaw Brothers studio, making his directorial debut with “Challenge of the Gamesters” (千王鬥千霸) in 1981.
Wong Jing’s career is marked by his prolific output, having directed, produced, or written over 175 films, sometimes even taking on acting roles in these projects. His approach to filmmaking is characterized by a mass production method, utilizing directing assistants and working on multiple movies simultaneously. He operates under two production companies he founded: Wong Jing’s Workshop Ltd. and BoB and Partners Co. Ltd. (Best of the Best), the latter in collaboration with director Andrew Lau and writer-producer Manfred Wong.
His filmography includes a wide variety of genres, often incorporating elements like broad comedy, martial arts, erotic thrillers, and gangster films. These films are known for their fast pacing, tonal shifts, and incorporation of different elements like slapstick humor, sentimental moments, cartoonish violence, and sexual content. Wong Jing also often parodies well-known Hong Kong and Hollywood films. Notable collaborations include working with comic actor Stephen Chow on several films like “God of Gamblers II” (1991) and “Royal Tramp I and II” (1992).
Wong Jing’s commercial acumen extends beyond film content and casting; he adopted Hollywood-style cross-media promotional tactics, such as tie-in novels, comic books, and magazine interviews, before they became widespread in Hong Kong cinema. Despite his commercial success, Wong Jing’s style has been criticized as loud and crass, leading to a lower standing among film critics. This criticism is exemplified by a remark he made about Ann Hui’s acclaimed drama “Song of the Exile,” questioning its appeal to audiences.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, Wong Jing’s films experienced a decline in box office performance, attributed to the recession that affected Hong Kong cinema. However, he saw a resurgence in the 2010s with films like “From Vegas to Macau,” particularly gaining success in mainland China. This period marked a renewed phase in his career, demonstrating his enduring influence and adaptability in the film industry.
Pao Lung-Sing, a descendant of the famous Judge Pao Ching Tient, is a 9th-degree corrupt judge (lowest degree) who changes his tune when he tries to champion a woman Chi Siu-Lin, who was framed for killing her husband. As a result, Pao is forced to flee and through a series of events (often hilarious) becomes a 1st-degree judge and comes back to wreak havoc and justice on the guilty.
Mindy Chan (Andy Lau) is a top-notched gambler/swindler. His girlfriend Lily (Christy Chung) and friend Ah Chi are card dealers at the casino where bad guy Lau and his mistress Mona (Anita Lee) frequent. Chor Hung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), a play on the Chinese name for famed retired actress Cherie Chung, is a senior security guard at the local prison. During a card game, Ah Chi and Mindy swindle millions of dollars from Lau, but … Read more
The story tells the story of a collision between Hong Kong police and criminals in 1973, under the instigation of the British, they embezzled huge profits and poisoned the citizens. The Governor of Hong Kong established the Independent Commission Against Corruption
The masters of the Six Major Sects are trapped in Wan On Temple, each of whom was hit with the Ten Scents Poisonous Powder, and have lost all their martial powers.
For decades, all forces in the martial world have been vying for the Dragon Saber and the Heavenly Sword, two renowned weapons. In taking the Dragon Saber, Xie Xun, the Ming Sect’s “Golden Lion King,” had made a slew of enemies. Cuishan (Louis Koo), his god-brother, was forced by the Six Major Sects to reveal Xie Xun’s location and died under Emei Sect Master No-Heavenly mercy’s Sword…
The film tells the story of a monk who realizes he is the reincarnation of Golden Child / Taming Dragon Lohan who was cast down from heaven to experience life and death one hundred times as he broke a sacred rule by falling in love with another fairy, Jade. While Golden Child’s memories were erased, Jade refused to forget their love and accumulated goodwill over one hundred reincarnations…
A gambler is targeted for murder during the wedding of his daughter to his protege. Rainbow, Ken’s daughter, is marrying his pupil, Vincent, at a wedding ceremony in Macau. Vic and Mark, two of Ken’s closest friends, have been invited to the wedding. Mark receives a phone call from Michael Chen on the day of the wedding, warning him that a mysterious tycoon has hired soldiers to assassinate Ken. The wedding is soon ruined, and … Read more
Following his confrontation with the nefarious DOA organization, Ken (Chow Yun Fat) is looking forward to going back to enjoying his retirement. His rest is cut abruptly short when his protégé Vincent (Shawn Yue), who’s now working for Interpol, asks for Ken’s help in taking down the real mastermind behind DOA, Aoi. The two head to Thailand, where DOA’s former chief accountant Mark (Nick Cheung) has escaped with his daughter.
Interpol partners with a wealthy entrepreneur to protect a new invention dubbed The Seed of God.
During the early years of the Republic era, in the North-East region of China, the people are suffering from the power struggle among the local Warlords, bandits, and Japanese invaders. Warlord Lam (Sammo Hung), is not a leader of great vision, but stands firm in his own beliefs. The only paradise within the region is ‘Lucky Town’, the one place where no one dared to attack as it was protected by the seven kung fu … Read more
Chinese Feng Shui master Carson was a “Natural Born Player”, taking names and breaking hearts. Fate had it that he would meet his match, the hot veterinarian Chi-Ling. It was love at first sight but neither could stand the other’s fickle nature lest the affair might have ended as soon as it began. Chi-Ling’s roommates, Big S and Small S came up with a perfect plan – to invite Carson to move in with Chi-Ling … Read more
Wong Jing’s Classroom follows Ling, the new substitute teacher at a suburban high school. She feels something wrong with her class. The students in her Class 4E are an unruly bunch, except for Don Don, who always sits quietly in the corner. Suspecting that her students Gi Gi, Co Co, and Fong engage in prostitution, Ling reports the problems with her class to the dean, only to be told that there has never been a … Read more
Two compulsive gamblers struggle to quit their habit and raise a child. Manfred and Flora are compulsive gamblers who can bet on anything at any time of the day or night, seven days a week. They meet in a Macau casino, where they both lose a lot of money and are taken captive by loan sharks. During their captivity, they develop feelings for each other. They finally fall in love and decide to marry when … Read more
Set within Mongkok, Hong Kong, an area known as the most crowded in the world, a schizophrenic ex-con views his Mongkok surroundings as a prison he can’t get out of after he is released from a 30 years jail sentence.
A female police officer goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant to protect a key witness.
Five graduates from different years come together to celebrate their secondary school teacher Master Jude’s 80-year-old birthday. Master Jude is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who enlightened them on the matter of sex during their school days. Since all of the five men have marital problems, this is a good time for them to meet and share their grievances. However, during the celebration party held in a hotel, they encounter 5 pretty, sexy young models. They fall … Read more
Fanny is a skilled mahjong player and young housewife, who’s usually forbidden from her tile-clicking addiction by her husband Johnny. However, when Johnny falls in with gambler Demon, Fanny gets sent packing. Johnny takes up with Demon’s sister Curvy, and Fanny is left alone and seems to lose her mahjong-playing skills. Luckily, she receives additional training from her mahjong mentor Three Tiles, who also schooled Auntie Fei, as well as sexy player-in-training First Love. With … Read more
Chi Mo Sai (Yuen Wah) meets Wong (Roger Kwok) in Auntie Fei’s (Yuen Qiu) cafe and learns that Wong has photographic memory. He decides to exploit this skill by teaching Wong how to play Mahjong, but Fei, Wong’s boss, strongly objects to it. Despite Fei’s objections, Wong learns Mahjong from compulsive gambler Chi Mo Sai. He impresses triad boss Tin Kau Ko (Wong Jing). Wong falls in love with Tin’s mistress (Theresa Fu) and is … Read more
In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was established, whose operation branch was headed by Yim. Bong and Unicorn also joined the ICAC. Despite threats of violence and intimidation, they managed to bring about the downfall of the empire of graft.
Jay Chou is a soft-hearted, mellow young man that is often fooled and used by women who only want his money. One night, he saved a young and sexy Kung Fu master, Ying Ying and she helped Jay recoup many of his bad debts and kicked his lousy girlfriends away. Surprisingly, Ying Ying is a maestro in gambling – mahjong, football betting, and horse racing. However, Ying Ying suffered from amnesia, and could not remember … Read more
A young woman keeps her true persona a secret in this martial arts action-romance written and directed by Jing Wong
Kit comes from a very fortunate family, with an outstanding police officer father When the family starts to break up, Man impulsively shot Kit’s mother. After Kit’s parents divorced, Kit viewed Man his father as an enemy. As an adult, he vowed to become a police officer, and to join Man’s team, hoping that Man will pay for what he has done. Kit’s cousin, Chi falls for Kit since childhood, but Fung falls for Chi … Read more
We have Carina Lau has Selina the lead actress who is a psychoanalyst, who hangs out with her friends (Athena Chu has an erotic story for woman, Yoyo Mung has a multi-restaurant owner who likes the dangerous side, and Pinky Cheung whose dad is a triad boss goes retirement and know how to fight). The story begins when Selina’s ex came to her and asks her to take care of her wild daughter (Cecilia Cheung … Read more
As befits a full-blooded Jiang Hu (underworld) antic, COTL takes place over the course of a short, frenetic period, feeling to all intents and purposes like one night. It encompasses plenty of gore and cadavers (unless you get the sanitized, inferior mainland version), relying to a large extent on so-called triad codes of honor and organizational culture. At its core resides old boss Dragon Brother, done by Eric Tsang in a repast from his barrage … Read more
The Conmen in Vegas is a 1999 Hong Kong action comedy film produced, written, and directed by Wong Jing and is a sequel to the 1998 film The Conman.
Undercover cop Leung Foon is having trouble taking down the illegal trading operation headed by crime boss Ferrari. So to accomplish his mission, he asks for help from the renowned Master Wong, an expert in gambling tricks.
Kids fend for themselves at a high school with a serious fighting problem. A brainy private school student is transferred to a far less elite institution, where he must fend off classmates who settle scores with fistfights.
In Hong Kong, a terrorist organization plans to blackmail the world’s government with the help of two fatal diseases a goofy scientist created. Two Interpol agents went to stop their evil plot of world domination, but one of them became a victim of one of the diseases and wanders off acting like a six-year-old child. He mindlessly walks into a bullied action film star’s mansion, and the star, Jones Bon, was forced to babysit him … Read more
King, the Con Man, is regarded as the successor of God of Gamblers. Dragon opts for gambling and approaches King, hoping to learn gambling tricks from him. They really take to each other and become good partners. On a gambling ship, King meets Ma Kau Man, the grand gambling banker who can affect the results of every soccer match and horse race, and San Ken, a laughing tiger, who plots to make use of King’s … Read more
A doctor falls in love with a mysterious young woman, unknowing that he has stepped in a paranormal world of a sinister past and the loss of innocent lives. He must find the true intentions about the young woman and bring those that did her and her family harm to justice.
Based on a popular TV series. Pop Superstar Leon Lai is Billy Kay, a white-collar office worker with no future who has decided to break up with his equally floundering girlfriend. Now, six years have passed and Billy is a successful billionaire.
Lui is the tyrant of gamblers in Macau. He puts forward a masked Saint Of Gamblers to cover for him in the casino. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam has lost his livelihood since the real Saint Of Gamblers retired. So he sets out in search of the new Saint. He discovers God Bless You, who possesses extraordinary powers and takes him under his wing. God meets Ho, the Goddess Of Gamblers from Thailand, and learns that she … Read more
After failing to save his wife from ‘The Doctor’, Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor’s gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom … Read more
After the events in God of Gamblers II, Tai-Kun who lost his ESP powers has regained the abilities again and seeks revenge against Sing, the Saint of Gamblers. When Tai-Kun, aided by his fellow disciples, exerts ESP powers under full force against Sing who is doing likewise to them, the spacetime becomes distorted and sends Tai-Kun and Sing to Shanghai in 1937. Meeting his own grandfather Chow Tai Fook and the benign millionaire Ding Lik, … Read more
Stephen Chow plays a rich playboy who is blown up by a mafia boss when he flirts with the boss’s girl. Through a series of circumstances his professor makes him a synthetic (robotic) body that allows him to change into a variety of “Mrs. Wong’s Household products” like a microwave and toothpaste. Chow eventually goes to work at a school notorious for it’s rowdy students and singlehandledly disciplines them all. He then goes on to … Read more
Chow returns to play Ko Chun, a skilled gambler who now lives in retirement in France. Wu Xingguo plays an evil gangster who forces Ko out of retirement by killing his pregnant wife. Ko is forced to team up with a variety of other people to win out in the end. Wu Chien-lien plays Chow’s romantic interest, Chingmy Yau plays a Taiwanese femme fatale, and Tony Leung provides much of the laughs.
The story of Wilson Bond, a pimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a botched first assignment for the group, he is made a servant to the Prince, the very person the Heaven and Earth society want to overthrow. What follows is plenty of mayhem and laughter.
Set in World War II, Casino Tycoon chronicles the story of Benny, a young graduate played by Andy Lau, who flees Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion and heads for the gambling haven Macau. Once in Macau, he impresses a local businessman who has ties to organized crime, he slowly builds his way up in the ranks of the Macau underworld which ultimately leads to trouble.
Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned the real empress. Lone-er is bent on eliminating the person who disclosed her true identity, Wilson Bond. But more complications ensues when Lone-er is assigned to protect the Prince, whose servant is none other than Wilson Bond.
During the Ming dynasty, Mo Kake takes an invincibility drink to defeat the best Japanese warrior, Super Sword. Three years later, the samurai returns, determined to take the power of 7 Maidens to defeat Mo Kake.