Dicky Cheung
Dicky Cheung Wai Kin is a Hong Kong television actor and singer. He entered show business in the early 1980s, signing a contract with television station TVB. He won the 3rd annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1984. Up until the mid-'90s, Dicky struggled for many years working as a low-paid actor, singer and appeared occasionally in films. It wasn't until his brilliant portrayal of the Monkey King character in the 1996 TVB adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West that his popularity began to skyrocket. A sequel to the TV adaptation was planned, but due to a contract dispute with TVB, Cheung left before production began. Benny Chan Ho Man took over the role of the Monkey King in the sequel. Cheung then went abroad to Taiwan to continue his career.
He has appeared in many Taiwanese television productions since then. In 1999, TVB's rival station ATV acquired the Hong Kong broadcasting rights to his Taiwanese television series Young Hero Fong Sai Yuk. Cheung played Fong Sai Yuk, a character also portrayed by Jet Li in his film Fong Sai Yuk. The show was an instant hit in Hong Kong and managed to gain much higher ratings than TVB's own television series. The TVB series showing at that time was Dragon Love, starring Benny Chan Ho Man, who replaced Cheung in the Journey to the West sequel, Journey to the West II.
Dicky Cheung is married to Zhang Qian who had a miscarriage in Spring of 2008. He said that he would like to eventually leave the acting business and seriously consider doing something more meaningful in life such as volunteering to give back to society. Prior to his current marriage, he was in a brief relationship with actresses Elvina Kong and Jessica Hsuan.
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Project A (1983)
A計劃
Marine Police officer Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan) is part of the Marine Police's effort to suppress the pirates, who have been raiding ships for months.Members of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and the Marine Police who have a strong bureaucratic hatred for each other, are forced to work together when...
Journey to the West
宇宙探索编辑部
One UFO sighting after another proves false. He has to beg for money to keep his space-exploration magazine afloat. There are no messages in the TV static. Nevertheless, Tang Zhijun continues to believe in alien life forms and heads to the mountainous southwest of China, to investigate after watchin...
Swordsman (2019)
剑干将莫邪
In the Spring and Autumn period, the King of Chu is brutal. He orders over 100 blacksmiths to make a superior weapon for him. However, the blacksmiths fail, and the King of Chu bursts into rage and has them killed. With no choice, Feng Huzi introduces the secluded sword-making master Ou Yezi’s appre...
Swordsman (1969)
요절검객 팔도검풍
Two friends go around pretending to be Lee Geul, the best swordsman of the nation, to get hospitality and free gifts, but one day they are caught by real bandits who are ready to kill them.
Xiao Yu Erh, separated from his twin as a baby after his parents are murdered and taken by a family friend to "Villains Valley," where he's raised to be a "villain" by a host of outlaws, each of whom has a special skill. When he's old enough, he devises clever means to trap each of his "uncles" and...
The film follows the Tang Monk and his three disciples on their westbound pilgrimage, beating monsters and villains along the way.
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Journey to the West (2019)
敢问路在何方
An upcoming 3D Chinese-American action fantasy film based on the classic novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. The film will be directed by Zhang Jinlai and produced by Mark Johnson.
~~ A co-production with U.S.A.
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Journey to the West is a television series from Hong Kong produced by TVB in 1996, based on the classic Chinese novel of the same name.
The series was very popular during its original broadcast on TVB Jade, mainly due to Dicky Cheung's performance in the role of King Monkey Sun Wukong. In 1998, the...
Swordsman (2013)
笑傲江湖
Xiao Ao Jiang Hu is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong. History speaks of friendship and love, deceit and betrayal, ambition and thirst for power. In the middle of all this is Ling Hu Chong, an orphan who is the senior student of Yue Bu Qun, leader of the Huashan sect, and the protagonist of history. History...
Adapted from the famous Chinese classic novel of the same title by Wu Cheng'en, a writer of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), "Voyage en Occident" in its television version is directed by director Yang Jie. In 1986, the series took the lead in television hearings. Based on the real pilgrimage of the mon...
Swordsman I (2001)
刀歌之短刀行
The story began with the assassination of the Wulin alliance leader, Shen Yu Men. His lookalike, Meng Xiao Hua, was coerced into assuming Shen’s identity. Xiao Hua, a lowly cook with no martial art skills, suddenly found himself thrust into a treacherous world where he cannot tell friends from foes....
The Proud Twins (2005)
小魚兒與花無缺
Separated at birth and brought up by rivalling masters, twins Hua Wu Que and Xiao Yu Er reunite 18 years later to collaborate and combine forces so as to nullify a conspiracy to take over the martial arts world. This attempt by movie director Wong Jing to turn renowned novelist Gu Long’s classic mar...
The story is centred around an uneducated street urchin Wei Xiao Bao, who was born and raised in a brothel by his mother. Through a series of misadventures, he managed to make his way from the southern playground of Yangzhou to Beijing, the seat of Manchurian imperial power and bumbling accidentally...
Tells the modern legend of the Qingping convent on the Wutai mountain and their role in the war of resistance.
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Chor Lau Heung brings his three girlfriends with him to attend Tso Hing Hau's birthday party. On the way, they meet Song Siu Ching, a spoilt and arrogant girl. After arriving at Tso's house, strange things start happening. Tso's daughter, Ming Lai, is in love with Sit Ban, a youth from a rival famil...
The story is set in the middle of ancient China’s Ming Dynasty: Four martial art experts, led by emperor’s uncle, formed an imperial secret service, called them self "The Dragon’s Protectors."
Immediately after they have foiled the assasination attempt of the emperor, a complex and devious conspira...
Fong Tin Mow is a troublemaker who perfectly inherited his father's arrogant personality. Lashed by her wicked behavior, Fong's fiancée, Yau Siu Ching, finds a clever way to tame her: she will marry Fong Tin Mow only if he promises to become the city's best policeman. To prove his ability to change,...
Can a kind and honest man pick himself up off the streets and achieve the highest level of success? Shen Wan San is a kindhearted, honest man who barely has enough food to be able to feed himself on most days. But he manages to turn himself into the richest businessman during the Ming Dynasty, all w...
A big comedy taking place during the Ching dynasty, The Luckyest Man staged Dai, the only son of a very rich family in the rural area. Frustrated by the village's tolerance of men with several wives, Dai swore to be faithful to one woman. But as a matter of fact, Dai ends up having two wives himself...
Chu Liuxiang is the famous "Chief of Bandits" in the jianghu. His qinggong is unmatched and he leaves behind a trail of fragrance everywhere he goes. Once, Chu enters the palace to steal a treasure called the "Amber Guanyin", which contains a wooden figurine carved by "Little Li Flying Dagger" Li Xu...
Mystery of the Twin Swords II (1992)
日月神劍之捉妖奇兵
The second season starts with the wedding between Ah Yat and Ching Ching, which gets interrupted by a man who claims to be her betrothed husband and that the anklet she wears is the proof of their arranged marriage. However, it was revealed that he had killed the true man she was suppose to marry, a...
Project A (2007)
A計劃
Taking place in Hong Kong in 1915, the goal of Xiao La Ba since he was a child is to rid the world of evil. That's how he entered the Marines. With a few other comrades, he entered Project A to attack the pirates. The adventure begins when they infiltrate the pirates
Taiji Prodigy (2002)
少年張三丰
The early years of legendary Tai Chi Master Zhang Jun Bao are vividly realized in this stirring 40-episode epic series. On the advice of a fortuneteller, the superstitious Zhang family sent their newborn son Bao to a Buddhist monastery. Bao subsequently became a superb martial artist by the time he...
The series tells the story of two brothers, Ah Yat and Ah Yuet and the battle between the immortals and devils. After giving birth to Ah Yat, the immortals are informed that the next child will represent them in the next dual of the century against the devils. So, the head devil then turns the unbor...
Heroes emerged in large numbers during the tumultuous and short-lived Sui to early Tang dynasty period. Most famous among them are Qin Qiong, Luo Cheng, Cheng Yao Jin, Shan Xiong Xin and Wei Chi Gong, known as the "Five Tigers of Sui and Tang", who would help Li Shi Min defeat rebels and rivals and...
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The story begins with a Chinese chess match between the king of China (in red pawns) and the king of Khitan (in black pawns). However, this game uses real people on the chessboard. When the game starts, the King continues to lose his pawns and starts to get angry. This is due to his "loyal" chancell...
A monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat, and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself as the Qítiān Dàshèng or “Great Sage Equal to Heaven”. His powers grow to match the force...
~~ Adapted from the classical novel "Journey to the West" (西游记) by 吴承恩 (Wu Cheng En).
~~ Three versions available: 45 episodes (HK version) || 60 episodes (Satellite TV) || 66 episodes (Terrestrial TV)
When Lok Yin (Alex Man) continued his studies in the United States, he was imprisoned for 7 years for manslaughter. His girlfriend, Ching Jan (Idy Chan) then married his best friend, Ling Fung (Wilson Lam). After returning to Hong Kong, Yin is determined to modernize his family's department store bu...
During the chaotic Warlord Era, an eccentric soldier has a sudden stroke of luck and is promoted seven ranks to Marshal. He, along with his three silly friends, do all sorts of bizarre things. Meanwhile, externally, three wild warlords are eyeing him like a tiger. Internally, he doesn't know whether...
Smart Kid (2001)
机灵小不懂
Bu Dong is a smart and witty monk who has a mysterious connection to the Ming Emperor. He becomes the unconventional teacher of a group of chaotic students, one of whom is the Crown Prince. At first, the students are rude and mischievous, but eventually, Bu Dong gains their trust and slowly changes...
The story centered around a circle of friends who met during their high school days. Each had their own unique family background. In a period of 10+ years, together, they experienced the ups and downs in friendship, love, work and family relationships. The first third of the series is particularly c...
Kung Fu Soccer (功夫足球) is about the soccer world intwined with talented people. Each character has a special Kung Fu talent that they use to play soccer.
Lam Chung Fu (Anthony Wong) was once a great soccer player in China. While at the top of his soccer-playing career, his brother sets him up an...
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Wai Siu Bo is the son of a prostitute who works in a brothel in Yangzhou. After joining the Heaven and Earth society he heads to the Capital and gets enrolled into the service of the Grand Eunuchs. There he becomes friends with the young emperor Hong Hei (Wai mistakes the emperor as another young eu...
Young Hero Fang Shi Yu (1999)
少年英雄方世玉
Young Hero Fang Shiyu is a 1999 Hong Kong television series based on the story of Chinese folk hero Fang Shiyu. It starred Dicky Cheung as the titular protagonist.
In the beginning, Fang Shiyu was a troublemaker in Guangzhou, constantly fighting. His mother, Miao Cuihua, helps him in clearing him o...
Meng Xiao Shan's adventures as he does whatever he could to get wealthy, kidnapping, stealing, impersonating gods, and agreed to marry a Ge Ge, as long as he can also marry his true love.
During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a wealthy household in Huaxian County, Guangdong. The head of the household Chen Hong's wife died early, and his son was not filial, so Chen Hong placed his hopes on his new wife to birth him a son. Jing and Xu Yanxia, a couple, assisted Chen...
Newlyweds Lam Kim Long and Lai Bo Chu were on their honeymoon when their plane was hijacked, killing them and everyone else on board. Heaven took pity on the young couple and promised them another chance to be together in the next life. He was reincarnated as Chai Leung Seng, while she became a poor...
Happy Spirit (1985)
開心女鬼
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