Name
Allen Fong
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1947-07-10 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Hong Kong, China
Biography
Allen Fong Yuk-ping (方育平) (born July 10, 1947) is a film director and one of the leaders of the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His cinematic style is highly influenced by Italian neorealism. He also usually uses personal or real-life stories as the basis for his films.
Despite his limited number of productions, he is one of the directors to have won "Best Director" three times at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Others who share this achievement are Ann Hui and Johnnie To. He won in 1982 for Father and Son. His 1983 film Ah Ying was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.
Known For
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In 1937 Shanghai, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet-cute in darkness under ...
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An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which th...
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A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from...
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Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his dau...
- 1995 The Golden Girls as Assistant Director
- 1986 Just Like Weather as Narrator
- 1983 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as Reporter
- 1989 Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive as Taxi Driver
- 1984 The Devil’s Box
- 1998 Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema as Self
- 1995 Summer Snow
- 1984 Shanghai Blues as Beggar
- 1983 Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns as Self
- 2001 Battlefield Network ( 63 episodes )
