Ringo Lam Ling-Tung was a Hong Kong film director, producer, and screenwriter.
28 Facts About Ringo Lam
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Ringo Lam directed City on Fire in 1987, which led him to winning his first Hong Kong Film Award.
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Ringo Lam followed up City on Fire with other similar films that shared a dark view of Hong Kong society.
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In 1996, Ringo Lam made his first American film, Maximum Risk starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Ringo Lam would continue working on film productions in both Hong Kong and two more American productions with Jean-Claude Van Damme until 2003.
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Ringo Lam was born in British Hong Kong in 8 December 1955.
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Ringo Lam started his career by enrolling in the TVP Actors Training Program in 1973.
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Ringo Lam took over as director for Po-Chih Leong after he had finished about one-third of the film Esprit d'amour as the film's producer Karl Maka needed a cheap replacement and hired him.
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Ringo Lam followed this with the romantic comedy film Cupid One released 1985.
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Ringo Lam stated in interviews that he directed the film as a favor to Karl Maka, who helped give Ringo Lam his start.
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Ringo Lam won the award for Best Director award at the 1987 Hong Kong Film Awards for City on Fire.
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In 1988, along with Karl Maka, Ringo Lam had a brief acting role in the film The Eighth Happiness.
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Ringo Lam then continued his On Fire series with School on Fire which was released in Hong Kong on 20 August 1988.
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Ringo Lam stated in interviews that Touch and Go was an assignment took for hire in order to keep himself in the film business.
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Ringo Lam released a second film in 1991 titled Prison on Fire II.
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Ringo Lam followed it up with Burning Paradise which differed from his previous films by being a period film featuring the Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk opposed a film set in an urban environ.
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In 1995, Ringo Lam directed another period film set in 1975 starring Andy Lau titled The Adventurers.
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In 1996, Ringo Lam made his American debut with the film Maximum Risk starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Ringo Lam returned to Hong Kong where he shot his next film Full Alert which was budgeted at $13 million.
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Ringo Lam followed up Full Alert the next year with The Suspect which was shot in the Philippines.
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Ringo Lam directed two more films in 2003: the Hong Kong production Looking for Mr Perfect and the American direct-to-video release In Hell starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Ringo Lam next took a break from filmmaking after finding dissatisfaction with the filming environment in Hong Kong after Finding Mr Perfect did poorly in the box office.
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In 2007, Ringo Lam co-directed a section of the portmanteau film Triangle with Tsui Hark and Johnnie To.
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On 29 December 2018, Ringo Lam was confirmed dead at his Hong Kong residence at age 63, after his wife found him unresponsive in his bed.
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Ringo Lam had been working on a film "Eight and a Half" with Milkyway Image with Ann Hui, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-Ping.
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Ringo Lam is one of the six veteran Hong Kong filmmakers who contributed segments to the Johnnie To-produced anthology film Septet: The story of Hong Kong.
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When Ringo Lam began to shoot the films he wanted to make after the success of Aces Go Places IV, he began his On Fire series.
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Ringo Lam chose the English titles for these films stating that it gave them "a sense of energy, of action".