Jack Kao — Actor (20)
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A Chance to Die (2000)
想死趁現在 IMDb TMDB
Chen Yi-wen actor: Miki Mizuno / Leon Dai …
other title: 想死趁現在
Burned by the desire to avenge her dead boyfriend, a Japanese woman learns to shoot a gun, and goes after the local Mafia in Taiwan. Mizuno Miki excels in her role as the grieving and estranged, then vengeful and cold-blooded foreigner.
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In the Heat of Summer (1994)
點指兵兵之青年幹探 IMDb TMDB
Teddy Chan Tak-Sam actor: Jordan Chan Siu-Chun / Power Chan Kwok-Pong …
other title: 點指兵兵之青年幹探
Five cops work and get on each other's nerves during a hot summer. Tak is a gambler, too much so for his girlfriend to risk marriage. Daddy, a single father, is harsh with his son who reminds him of the woman who abandoned them. Monk is mercurial, talkative, a show-off. Kong, a steady family man, keeps the peace. Sam is new, hoping to fit in and make it as a cop. Three brutal and murderous robbers are on the loose, and so is a former soldier, embittered over the loss of his pension, using very real bombs to extort what's due him. It's a dangerous job, and the cops must watch each other's back, regardless of their personal problems.
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Prince of Tears (2009)
淚王子 IMDb TMDB
Yonfan actor: Fan Wing / Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan …
other title: 淚王子
A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was violently put down by authorities), Taiwan came under martial law, and through much of the 1950s brutal reprisals against suspected communists were commonplace. During the years of the "White Terror," thousand of supposed dissidents were killed, imprisoned or simply disappeared at the hands of the military police.
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Requital (1992)
五湖四海 IMDb TMDB
Kevin Chu actor: Tou Tsung-hua / Jack Kao …
other title: 五湖四海
A young Taiwanese man after being released from prison starts his life as a gangster. He goes to Hong Kong to do some business with the Triads.
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Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
一頁台北 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Arvin Chen actor: Jack Yao / Amber Kuo Tsai-Chieh …
other title: Au revoir Taipei / Au revoir Taipeh …
Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.
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Zombie Fight Club (2014)
屍城 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Joe Chien Jen-Hao actor: Andy On Chi-Kit / Jessica Cambensy …
other title: Zombie fight club / 屍城
It's the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime - Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny's boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.
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Asian Connection (1995)
特警急先鋒 IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
林德禄 / 元德 actor: 李修贤 / 陈松勇 …
other title: 特警急先锋 / 特警急先鋒
The Organized Crime Bureau investigates a ring of drug dealers from Taiwan. After losing the life of an undercover cop and $5,000,000 in borrowed drug money Chow and Lee pursue the drug dealer to Taiwan. Chow is caught and pretends to be a Hong Kong drug dealer. With Chow on the inside and Lee on the outside they are lead to the big finale.
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Good Men, Good Women (1995)
好男好女
Hou Hsiao-hsien actor: Annie Shizuka Inoh / Jack Kao …
other title: Hombres buenos, mujeres buenas / 好男好女
An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.
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Daughter of the Nile (1987)
尼羅河女兒
Hou Hsiao-hsien actor: Yang Lin / Jack Kao …
other title: La Fille du Nil / 尼羅河女兒
Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
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GATAO: Like Father Like Son (2024)
角頭－大橋頭
姜瑞智 / Yao Hung-i actor: Sunny Wang / Harry Chang …
other title: Gatao: Like Father Like Son / 角頭－大橋頭 …
Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.
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Wild City (2015)
迷城
Ringo Lam Ling-Tung actor: Louis Koo / Yue Man-lok …
other title: 迷城
Former cop-turned-bar owner Kwok and his underachieving half-brother befriends a drunken woman, they soon find themselves targeted by both her former lover, a high-powered attorney, and the gangster he employs. A suitcase full of tainted cash enters the picture as Kwok finds himself torn between the gangsters and his former colleagues.
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Go For Broke (2024)
重生 TMDB NeoDB
Marc Ma actor: Nick Cheung Ka-Fai / Ethan Juan …
other title: 重生
Zhang Yao, whose family was destroyed by drug dealers, secretly cooperates with Anti-drug team leader An Du. The two join forces to ruthlessly eliminate the evil and vow to wipe out Mukun and Anpei, the top two figures of the criminal group.
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Full Alert (1997)
高度戒備
林岭东 actor: 刘青云 / 吴镇宇 …
other title: 高度戒备 / 高度戒備 …
A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.
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Blood Brothers (2007)
天堂口
Alexi Tan actor: Daniel Wu / Chang Chen …
other title: 天堂口
Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.
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Unbeatable (2013)
激戰
Dante Lam Chiu-yin actor: Nick Cheung Ka-Fai / Eddie Peng Yu-Yan …
other title: 激戰
Fai, once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a boxing match. Fai becomes Qi's mentor and rediscovers his passion to fight not only in the ring but for his life and the cares.