15 Facts About Fruit Chan

Fruit Chan Gor is a Hong Kong filmmaker who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people.

Fruit Chan is well known for using amateur actors in his films.

Fruit Chan became a household name after the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which earned many local and international awards.

Fruit Chan's English name is a calque of his personal name Guo.

Fruit Chan's family was poor and Chan worked in an electronics factory while finishing Forms 1 to 3 at night school.

Fruit Chan later got a job as a projectionist in Jordan, Hong Kong, where he developed an interest in international cinema.

Fruit Chan later enrolled in a one-year film studies course at the Film Culture Society, garnering admission by lying about his secondary education experience and working odd jobs to pay for tuition.

Fruit Chan continued his interest in film later on at the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre, a small film club, where he studied script writing and directing.

Fruit Chan began his career as an assistant director to David Lai Dai-Wai in the film Mid-Night Girls.

Fruit Chan later worked as an assistant director to mainstream directors Jackie Chan, Kirk Wong, Ronny Yu, and Shu Kei.

Fruit Chan's break came in 1991 when a film he was working with stopped its production.

Fruit Chan had become the first filmmaker to, independently of the big studios, challenge the genre of Hong Kong films and make realistic films about the political and social situations going on in Hong Kong at the time.

In 2002, Fruit Chan was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.

Fruit Chan was selected to head the jury for the 2015 Taipei Film Festival.

Oshima specifically was the influence for Fruit Chan's film Made in Hong Kong.