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Joseph Koo is a Actor, Lyricist, Sound and Compositor Chinois born on 1 january 1933
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai (born January 1, 1933 in Guangzhou, China) is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs. He has two siblings: an older sister, the famous Chinese singer Koo Mei (顧媚), and a younger brother, Koo Kar-Tseung (顧嘉鏘).
(1972)
(Original Music Composer)
(1972)
(Original Music Composer)
(1971)
(Sound)
(1978)
(Sound)
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Birth name Gu Gaa-fai (顧嘉煇)
Nationality Chine
Birth 1 january 1933
Death 3 january 2023 (at 90 years)
Awards Bronze Bauhinia Star, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality Chine
Birth 1 january 1933
Death 3 january 2023 (at 90 years)
Awards Bronze Bauhinia Star, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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(1972)(Original Music Composer)
(1972)(Original Music Composer)
(1971)(Sound)
(1978)(Sound)
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Filmography of Joseph Koo (43 films)
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Happy Ghost III (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Ringo Lam, Johnnie To
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Maggie Cheung, Raymond Wong Pak-ming, Tsui Hark, Charlie Cho, Joseph Koo, Stanley Tong
Roles Mr. Koo Ka Yan
Rating62%
The spirit of the late female singer Tsui Pan Han (Maggie Cheung) waits in the afterlife for a chance to be reincarnated. She meets the Godfather (Tsui Hark) who has found an appropriate musical family for her to be reincarnated with. Her opportunity to be born into the new family is ruined when Sam Kwai (Raymond Wong) takes the pregnant wife to the wrong hospital. Pan Han is given one month to find a new body to assume her reincarnation in, and decides in the meantime to harass Sam Kwai. One time, the head prefect Tai Cheuk-yee (Fennie Yuen) is possessed by Tsui to stir up a row in a sex club, causing a bunch of gangsters to be imprisoned. Kwai eventually summons Happy Ghost to help him out.
The Last Message (1975)
, 1h38Directed by Michael Hui
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy
Actors Michael Hui, Roy Chiao, Ricky Hui, James Tien, Dean Shek, Joseph Koo
Roles Doctor in operation
Rating63%
Tim (Michael Hui) and Lee (Samuel Hui) are emloyees of a mental hospital working as an orderly and nurse respectively. One day a crazy man named Cheng Ming (Roy Chiao) is institutionalized who carries a bag of trash. Tim and Lee discover that the bag is full of artifacts from the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately they are all broken pieces and cannot be traded for money. Then Chiang talks about a Princess and Tim and Lee figure that Cheng knows where are the artifacts from. Later on, Cheng dies from heart attack and Tim and Lee find Princess (Eileen Humphreys) and find out that she is Cheng's daughter. Princess tells them that her father discovered a sunk boat at the coast of Hong Kong. Tim and Lee starts to plan for their luxurious life, including quitting their jobs, and set out to find the artifacts. They do discover tons of it and brings it to trade for money. However, the ones Tim and Lee find are revealed to be fakes. With their dreams of luxury over, Lee gets his job back and Tim got insane and became a mental patient.
Scriptwriter
Impetuous Fire (1977)
Directed by John Lo Mar
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alan Tang, Candice Yu
Roles Lyricist
Young Iris (Candice Yu), diagnosed with an incurable disease, has her parents’ consent to travel the world before the end.
Sound
Fist of Legend (1994)
, 1h43Directed by Gordon Chan, Yuen Woo-ping
Origin Hong kong
Genres Martial arts, Kung fu, Action, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Jet Li, Chin Siu-ho (錢小豪), Shinobu Nakayama, Billy Chow, Paul Chun, Yuen Cheung-Yan
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating74%
Chen Zhen (Jet Li) is attending class in Kyoto University when some Japanese karate students from the Black Dragon Clan burst in and attempt to force him out because he is Chinese. Mitsuko Yamada (Shinobu Nakayama), one of Chen's female classmates who has a crush on him, along with Chen's professor and other students, speak up for him. The thugs turn violent but Chen easily defeats them using a variety of controlled Chin Na techniques. The Japanese thugs' sensei, Funakochi Fumio (Yasuaki Kurata), who is also Mitsuko's uncle, arrives to take control of the situation and apologizes for his students' behavior. Fumio is impressed by Chen's skill and converses with him, and Chen learns that his master Huo Yuanjia has died after losing in a match against a Japanese martial artist. Chen is distraught after hearing the bad news and he leaves for Shanghai immediately.
The Kung Fu Cult Master (1993)
, 1h38Directed by Sammo Hung, Wong Jing
Origin Hong kong
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Historical
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films, Wuxia films
Actors Sharla Cheung, Jet Li, Chingmy Yau, 黎姿 (en anglais : Gigi Lai, lychee, JJ. ), Sammo Hung, Francis Ng
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating64%
Zhang Wuji and his parents return from an isolated island and travel to Mount Wudang to celebrate his grandteacher Zhang Sanfeng's 100th birthday. Several martial artists attempt to force Zhang Wuji's parents to reveal the whereabouts of his godfather, Xie Xun, but they refuse and commit suicide in defiance. Zhang Wuji has been seriously injured by the Xuanming Elders and almost dies, but Zhang Sanfeng shows special care towards him and attempts to preserve his life. However, that incurs the jealousy of his senior Song Qingshu, who collaborates with Zhou Zhiruo of the Emei Sect to harm Zhang Wuji.
King of Beggars (1992)
, 1h40Directed by Gordon Chan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Stephen Chow, Sharla Cheung, Ng Man-tat, Lawrence Cheng, Yang Mi, Natalis Chan
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67%
Set in the Qing dynasty in China, the film features a fictionalised story of the martial artist So Chan (蘇燦; Mandarin: Su Can), who is popularly known as "Beggar So" (蘇乞兒) and was one of the Ten Tigers of Canton.
A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1989)
, 2h25Directed by Ching Siu-tung
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Zhang Yimou, Gong Li, Yu Rongguang, Wu Tianming
Rating66%
The First Emperor searches for the elixir of immortality, and he despatches 500 teenage boys and girls to help him accomplish this task. One of his soldiers, General Meng Tianfang falls in love with one of the despatched maiden by the name Dong'er. When their forbidden love is exposed, the girl reveals she has found the elusive elixir and secretly gives it to Meng. The emperor orders their execution and the soldier is sentenced to death by being encased alive in clay as a terracotta warrior, only to be reawakened in the 1930s when a struggling actress, Zhu Lili, the reincarnation of the girl who remembers nothing of her past life, accidentally stumbles upon the tomb of the First Emperor. The soldier struggles to adapt to a new era while the two are pursued by archeological looters and thugs.
Paper Marriage (1988)
, 1h27Directed by Alfred Cheung
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Romance, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Sammo Hung, Maggie Cheung, Alfred Cheung, Dick Wei, Billy Chow, Carlo Chin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Set in Canada, a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer named Bo Chin (Sammo Hung) accepts promise of payment to marry a Hong Kong woman named Jade Lee (Maggie Cheung) so she can get Canadian citizenship. They realize too late that they have been set up in a complicated plan to cheat them out of the woman's money. Their adventures begin when Bo is forced back into the ring and Maggie tries her hand at mud-wrestling!
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
, 1h45Directed by John Woo
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films
Actors Chow Yun-fat, Dean Shek, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Emily Chu, Regina Kent
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71%
Several years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Sung Tse-ho (Ti Lung) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on his former boss and mentor, Lung Sei (Dean Shek), who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Wu (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark his retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Lung.
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
, 1h35Directed by John Woo
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Tsui Hark, Emily Chu, John Woo
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating73%
Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung) works for the Triad, whose principal operation is printing and distributing counterfeit US bank notes. Ho is a respected member of the organization and is entrusted the most important transactions. Mark Lee (Chow Yun-Fat), another high-ranking member of the group, is his best friend and partner in crime.
Happy Ghost III (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Ringo Lam, Johnnie To
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Maggie Cheung, Raymond Wong Pak-ming, Tsui Hark, Charlie Cho, Joseph Koo, Stanley Tong
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
The spirit of the late female singer Tsui Pan Han (Maggie Cheung) waits in the afterlife for a chance to be reincarnated. She meets the Godfather (Tsui Hark) who has found an appropriate musical family for her to be reincarnated with. Her opportunity to be born into the new family is ruined when Sam Kwai (Raymond Wong) takes the pregnant wife to the wrong hospital. Pan Han is given one month to find a new body to assume her reincarnation in, and decides in the meantime to harass Sam Kwai. One time, the head prefect Tai Cheuk-yee (Fennie Yuen) is possessed by Tsui to stir up a row in a sex club, causing a bunch of gangsters to be imprisoned. Kwai eventually summons Happy Ghost to help him out.
, 1h35Directed by Tsui Hark
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Martial arts
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films, Wuxia films
Actors Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Adam Cheng, Moon Lee, Damian Lau, Corey Yuen
Roles Main Title Theme Composer
Rating66%
Dans les montagnes sacrées de Zu, un monstre aux pouvoirs immenses tente de renaître. De courageux chevaliers, avec l'appui d'un jeune éclaireur, ont 49 jours pour sauver le monde.
The Dead and the Deadly (1982)
, 1h34Directed by Wu Ma
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Sammo Hung, Wu Ma, Lam Ching Ying, Cherie Chung, Chung Fat, Tsang Choh-lam
Roles Music
Rating62%
Après un étrange rêve, le jeune Chu Wang-lei apprend que son meilleur ami Long Xiang vient de décéder. Considérant son décès comme suspect, il va tenter de percer le mystère entourant sa mort.
The Brave Archer 3 (1981)
, 1h32Directed by Chang Cheh, Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Alexander Fu Sheng, Philip Kwok, Ti Lung, Chiang Sheng, Lo Mang, Kara Hui
Rating62%
Kuo Tsing et sa compagne Huang Yung poursuivent leur quête du manuscrit du général Yue. En chemin, ils sont attaqués par Iron Palm, leur ennemi de toujours, qui blesse gravement la jeune femme. Une dame aux cheveux blancs les envoie chez l’ancien empereur Yuan devenu moine, seule personne capable de la sauver. Pour y parvenir, ils devront passer les épreuves tendues par ses disciples : un pécheur, un bûcheron, un fermier et un lettré. Après avoir guérie Huang Yung, Yuan leur raconte son histoire.
Beware Of Pickpockets (1981)
, 1h31Directed by Wu Ma
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Dean Shek, Karl Maka, Wu Ma, Raymond Wong Pak-ming
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56%
Righteous officer Big Nose is ordered to arrest pickpocket Extra Hand. However, each time he was caught, he was released due to a lack of evidence. Although Extra Hand is a tricky man, he is actually a Robin Hood like pickpocket who steals dirty money from the rich to raise seven orphaned children that he adopted. Extra Hand plans to save money to build an orphanage for the children to live in.