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Eddy Ko Hung (born 1931 or 1945^{[dubious – discuss]} in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong television and film actor who has worked on the TV stations RTV (now defunct), TVB and ATV. His birthname is Ho Yiu Sum (何耀深 ). He adopted the name Ko Hung as a stage name. He is also sometimes also credited as Ko Hung, Gao Xiong, Eddie Ko, Edward Ko, and Lin Sheng (林琛)^[1]

Biography[link]

Ko started his career in 1980 by acting in the TV series Tai Chi Master produced by the now-defunct TV station RTV. Ko joined TVB later and has since acted in many TV drama series. In 1990, Ko joined TVB's rival ATV and worked there until 1995. In 2000, Ko rejoined TVB and continued acting in many TVB-produced drama series.

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Television[link]

References[link]

1. ^ "HkCinemagic - Eddy Ko Profile

External links[link]

• IMDb entry
• HK Cinemagic entry
• Tian Bo Star Agent (Eddy Ko's agent website)

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Sun Fo 孫科
Premier of the Republic of China
In office 1 January 1932 - 28 January 1932
Preceded by	Chen Mingshu
Succeeded by	Wang Jingwei
In office 26 November 1948 - 12 March 1949
Preceded by	Weng Wenhao
Succeeded by	He Yingqin
President of the Legislative Yuan
In office 29 January 1932 - 24 December 1948
Preceded by	Chang Ji
Succeeded by	Tung Gun-shin
President of the Examination Yuan
In office 1 September 1966 - 13 September 1973
Preceded by	Mo Teh-hui
Succeeded by	Yang Liang-kung
Personal details
Born	(1891-10-21)21 October 1891
Died	13 September 1973(1973-09-13) (aged 81)
Spouse(s)	Chen Suk-ying
Relations	Sun Yat-sen (father) Lu Muzhen (mother)
Children	Sun Tse-ping (孫治平) Sun Tse-kiong (孫治強) Sun Sui-ying (孫穗英) Sun Sui-hwa (孫穗華) children Out-of-Wedlock=Sun Sui-fang (孫穗芳)([Lily Wong]) Sun Sui-fen (孫穗芬) (Nora Sun)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Columbia University

Sun Fo or Sun Ke (Chinese: 孫科; pinyin: Sūn Kē; Cantonese Yale: Syun¹ Fo¹; October 21, 1891 – September 13, 1973), courtesy name Zhesheng (哲生), was a high-ranking official in the government of the Republic of China. He was the son of Sun Yat-sen and his first wife Lu Muzhen.

Biography[link]

Sun was born in Xiangshan (now Zhongshan), Guangdong, China. He travelled abroad to study, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1916 and a Master of Science from Columbia University in 1917. He also received an honorary LL.D. from Columbia. He married Chen Suk-ying and had two sons (Sun Tse-ping and Sun Tse-kiong) and two daughters (Sun Sui-ying and Sun Sui-hwa).

Sun Fo (center) with his family during a diplomatic mission in France in 1938. Pictured from left to right are daughters Sun Sui-ying and Sun Sui-hwa, Sun Fo, his wife Chen Suk-ying, and younger son Sun Tse-kiong. Eldest son, Sun Tse-ping, not pictured, was then living and working in the U.S.A.

After returning to China, Sun was appointed Mayor of Guangzhou (Canton), where the Kuomintang's government headed by his father was headquartered, serving from 1920 to 1922 and again from 1923 to 1925 (between 1922 and 1923, Sun Yat-sen was exiled by Chen Jiongming). As recorded in a China Mail (a Chinese newspaper) on June 4, 1923, there was controversy in relation to a case involving 50,000 yuan and Sun Fo. The case was voiced in public through Mr. Po-Yin Chan (陳步賢, 1883-1965), a Senator of Guangzhou ^{[1] [2]}. In the Nationalist government, Sun served as Minister of Communications from 1926 to 1927, as Minister of Finance from 1927 to 1928 and Minister of Railways from 1928 to 1931.^[3]

In 1928, he became President of Chiao Tung University in Shanghai, and made many administrative and educational reforms, including introducing a Moral Education Department. He created the Science College, which incorporated three departments (Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry).

In 1931, the near civil war caused by the arrest of Hu Hanmin and the invasion of Manchuria forced Chiang Kai-shek to resign. For one month, he was President of the Executive Yuan (Premier). He found the government was paralysed by the absence of the party's Big Three: Hu, Chiang, and Wang Jingwei. High level negotiations brought the latter two back into politics with Wang becoming premier.

Sun disagreed with Chiang extensively on their objectives, Sun desired to put off war against the Communists in favor of war against Japan, and reach an agreement with the Communists.^[4]

Sun became President of the Legislative Yuan from 1932 to 1948 (the first to head the Legislative Yuan under the 1947 Chinese Constitution, which he helped frame). From 1947 to 1948 he was Vice Chairman of the Nationalist Government and he served again as President of the Executive Yuan from 1948. During this time, he gained the reputation of having an "iron neck" —an outspoken liberal against Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarian tendencies, he could not be purged because he was the son of Sun Yat-sen. In the first election for president and vice president under the new Constitution in 1948, Sun stood for the vice presidency against Li Zongren and Cheng Chien.^[5] Despite his previous veiled criticisms of Chiang, Sun remained the favored choice of Chiang, but Li (one of Chiang's rivals in the Kuomintang) won the election.

He was a member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee from 1926 to 1950. Leading the left wing of the Kuomintang, he advocated cooperation with the Communist Party of China in the fight against the Japanese military occupation of 1931-1945, and represented his party in negotiations with Zhou Enlai.

Following the full-scale Japanese invasion of 1937, Sun Fo was tasked with obtaining military assistance from the Allied Powers. Turned down by the U.S., Britain, and France, he turned to the Soviet Union. In direct talks with Joseph Stalin in 1937, 1938, and 1939, he secured the crucial arms and ammunition that prevented the total defeat of Nationalist forces. But while Chiang Kai-shek wanted the arms primarily to fight the Communists, Sun Fo insisted that the threat to China's national integrity came foremost from the invading outside forces.

At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, he exiled himself to Hong Kong until 1951, and moved to Europe from 1951 to 1952, and finally resided in the United States from 1952 to 1965.

After years of political differences with Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Fo returned to serve in the government of the Republic of China in Taipei as a Senior Advisor to President Chiang from 1965, and as President of the Examination Yuan from 1966 until his death in 1973. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Soochow University in Taiwan from 1966 to 1973.

While at least three other women have claimed to be daughters of Sun Fo, they have never appeared in any Sun family photos, and their claims to being members of the Sun family have been denied by Sun Fo and Chen Suk-ying, and rejected by the governments of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan.

Sun Fo and his wife are buried at Yangmingshan Private Cemetery, in the Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Johnnie To
Chinese name	杜琪峯
Chinese name	杜琪峯 (Traditional)
Chinese name	杜琪峰 (Simplified)
Pinyin	dù qífēng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	dou6 kei4 fung1 (Cantonese)
Origin	Hong Kong
Born	(1955-04-22) 22 April 1955 (age 57) Hong Kong
Other name(s)	Johnny To
Occupation	film director, producer
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director 2000 The Mission 2004 PTU 2006 Election Best Film 2004 Running on Karma 2006 Election Golden Bauhinia Awards Best Director 2000 The Mission 2004 PTU 2007 Exiled Best Film 2000 The Mission 2004 PTU 2006 Election 2007 Exiled Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best Director 1998 A Hero Never Dies 1999 The Mission 2003 PTU 2005 Election 2006 Exiled Best Film 1999 The Mission 2005 Election 2006 Election 2 Golden Horse Awards Best Director 1999 The Mission 2004 Breaking News

Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong,^[1] To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his action and crime movies, which have earned him critical respect^[2][3] and a cult following.

His films, often made in collaboration with the same group of actors, screenwriters and cinematographers, frequently explore themes of friendship, fate and the changing face of Hong Kong society.^[4][5] Sometimes described as "multifaceted and chameleonic"^[3] due to his ability to switch tones and genres between movies, To is nonetheless seen as having a consistent style, which involves mixing subdued realism and social observation with highly stylized visual and acting elements.^[4]

To heads the Hong Kong-based production company Milkyway Image with his frequent co-director Wai Ka-Fai.

Career[link]

Johnnie To began his career at age 17^[1] as a messenger for the Hong Kong television studio TVB. From there To moved up the ladder, working as an executive producer and director on TV shows starting in 1973. In 1978, he shot his first theatrical feature, but continued working in television.

An assistant TV director in the Shaw Studios era, To became famous when his 1989 film All About Ah-Long, starring Chow Yun-fat, became one of the biggest box office hits in that year. In 1988, he co-directed The Big Heat, his first action movie. The film was produced by Tsui Hark. The end of the 1980s also saw some of To's biggest commercial successes, the vast majority of which were comedies. His 1988 film The Eighth Happiness was that year's highest grossing movie.^[6]

In 1996, To and frequent collaborator Wai Ka-Fai formed Milkyway Image, a production house that specializes in cost-efficient independent films made by To and Wai, as well their frequent collaborators from Law Wing-Cheong to scriptwriter Yau Nai-Hoi.

In April 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[7]

Critical reputation[link]

A genre filmmaker who produces work for a mainstream audience, To has developed a very strong reputation in English-language film criticism. In his review of To's 2008 film Sparrow for the website of Tisch Film Review, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes: "To has directed some of the best movies of the last two decades; he is more astounding than almost any other director working today. His cinema is exciting (but never tiring), intelligent (but never distanced), and, above all, emotional."^[8] Reviewing To's Exiled for the Chicago Reader in 2007, critic Fred Camper writes: "...like many great filmmakers — Howard Hawks, John Ford, Raoul Walsh — Hong Kong-based To makes movies that are both commercially viable and animated by a powerful artistic vision."^[5] Defining To's vision, Camper adds that "To’s worldview can take precedence over the narrative"^[5] and praises the director for his "subtle visual poetry."^[5]

To has also earned the admiration of foreign filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, who called To's 2005 film Election "the best film of the year".^[9]

Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam of Muse Magazine sees To as 'a gifted storyteller and dramatist who has made up his mind to be a stylist and visual poet,' but also observes that 'his insistence on elegance and control limits his work. He perfects his images until you begin to feel like a clumsy intruder for even looking at them. Rarely do you get beneath the decorous surface and feel a character's lifeblood.'^[10]

Festivals and awards[link]

Commercially successful in his native Hong Kong, To's films have regularly appeared at international festivals, most notably in Europe and North America. At the Venice International Film Festival, Throw Down was screened Out-of-Competition in 2004; Exiled was shown in Competition at the festival in 2006; Mad Detective was shown in Competition in 2007.

Five of To's films have been featured at the Cannes Film Festival: Breaking News premiered as an Out-of-Competition midnight screening in 2004;^[11] Election was shown in Competition in 2005;^[12] its sequel, Election 2 (aka Triad Election), was screened in Out-of-Competition midnight screenings in 2006, and Triangle was screened in Out-of-Competition midnight screenings in 2007; Vengeance competed for the prestigious Palme D'Or in 2009. At the Berlin International Film Festival, Sparrow was shown in Competition in 2008.

In North America, To's films have been consistently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Mission, Fulltime Killer, PTU, Breaking News, Throw Down and Mad Detective all screened between 1999 and 2007. In 2006, Election, Election 2, and Exiled were screened.

In 2005, To received the "Time Machine Career Achievement Award" at the Festival de Cine de Sitges, Europe's most prestigious film festival specializing in genre films. To was also honoured as a "Filmmaker in Focus" of 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2009, while Vengeance competed at Cannes, To was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in recognition for his films.^[13]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Johnnie To at the Internet Movie Database
• Johnnie To at LoveHKFilm.com
• Interview with Johnnie To at IFC.com