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Rob Cohen
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Rob Cohen

Rob Cohen (born March 12, 1949) is an American film director, writer and producer. He is best known for directing the first Fast and the Furious installment (2001), as well as the action films xXx (2002) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer (2008). He's a graduate in Anthropology and Visual Studies from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and while working as a reader for Universal in the early-1970s discovered the screenplay for what would become The Sting (1973).

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Rob Minkoff
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Rob Minkoff

Robert R. "Rob" Minkoff (born August 11, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Lion King. Minkoff was born in Palo Alto, California. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s in the Character Animation department. He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation, including The Lion King (1994) and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts: Tummy Trouble (1989) and Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990). While…

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Robert Ben Garant
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Robert Ben Garant

Robert Ben Garant (born September 14, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer. He is known for his work on Reno 911!, in which he plays Deputy Travis Junior, and for being a cast member on the MTV sketch comedy series The State. Garant and writing partner, actor Thomas Lennon have written several successful screenplays together, including the Night at the Museum films. Garant and Thomas Lennon created and starred in a 2010 sitcom pilot for NBC called The Strip. How…

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Ron Dean
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Ron Dean

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Ron Wagner

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Rumiko Takahashi
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Rumiko Takahashi

Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, Takahashi is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 200 million copies in circulation. She has won the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, once in 1980 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 2001 for I…

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Ryan J. Condal
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Ryan J. Condal

Ryan J. Condal is an American screenwriter and producer. He serves as showrunner for the prequel House of the Dragon, jointly with Miguel Sapochnik in the first season. He has previously been a showrunner for the American science fiction drama series Colony. He has also worked on a cancelled fantasy western, at the filming of which he met George R.R. Martin. Condal is familiar with A Song of Ice and Fire, having discovered the series when A Storm of Swords was published. According to Martin, C…

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Ryo Ito
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Ryo Ito

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Sam Fell
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Sam Fell

Samuel Jason Fell (born 22 November 1965) is a British animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor. Sam started his career as director on the short film The Big Cheese for 3 Peach Animation. He then joined Aardman Animations and worked on projects like Pop, Peter Lord's Oscar-nominated short film Wat's Pig, as well as Rex the Runt, before directing the 2002 project Chump. He also developed a children's TV series called Rabbits!. In 2001, he came up with the story of Flushed Away which he…

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Sam Levine
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Sam Levine

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Scott Buck

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Scott Mosier
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Scott Mosier

Scott A. Mosier is a Canadian-American film producer, editor, podcaster, writer and actor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he co-hosts the weekly podcast, SModcast.

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Skip Woods
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Skip Woods

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Steve Oedekerk
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Steve Oedekerk

Steve Oedekerk is an American comedian, director, editor, producer, screenwriter and actor. Oedekerk is best known for his collaborations with actor Jim Carrey and director Tom Shadyac (particularly the Ace Ventura franchise), his series of "Thumbmation" shorts and his film Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002).

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Steven S. DeKnight
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Steven S. DeKnight

Steven S. DeKnight (born October 28, 1965) is an American filmmaker and comic book writer. He is best known for being the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the Starz series Spartacus, including Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Spartacus: Vengeance, and Spartacus: War of the Damned, as well as developing the first season of Marvel's Daredevil and Jupiter's Legacy for Netflix. DeKnight previously worked on  Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He…

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T. Hee

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T.I.
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T.I.

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Takahiro

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Tatsuki Fujimoto

Tatsuki Fujimoto (藤本 タツキ, Fujimoto Tatsuki) born on October 10, 1992, or 1993, is a Cinephile Japanese manga artist known for writing several successful works and for his passion for cinema some of his works include Chainsaw Man, Look Back, Fire Punch and Goodbye Eri.

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Tatsuya Endo

Tatsuya Endo (Japanese: 遠藤 達哉, Hepburn: Endō Tatsuya, born July 23, 1980) is a Japanese manga artist. Endo is best known for creating Tista, Blade of the Moon Princess, and Spy × Family manga series among other works. The latter work has been serialized in the Shōnen Jump+ magazine since 2019 and has reached a milestone of more than 28 million physical and digital copies in circulation by the release of its tenth volume. His other works have been published in various Jump magazines. Descriptio…

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Ted Berman

Joining Disney in the 1940s, Berman started off as an animator, but focused on writing and directing in his later years. Berman was also a fine-arts painter. He served on the Disney staff for nearly 5 years. Berman worked on a number of successful theatrical releases by the Mouse House along with his work with The Wonderful World of Color and The Mickey Mouse Club. In the 1980s, he helped direct The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron before he retired from Disney. -Wikipedia

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Ted Post
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Ted Post

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Terry Gilliam
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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Subsequent to his early work with the Pythons, Gilliam became known for directing fantasy and sci-fi films, including "Time Bandits" (1981), "Brazil" (1985), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), "The Fisher King" (1991), "12 Monkeys" (1995), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998) and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassu…

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Tim Kang
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Tim Kang

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Tina Fey
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Tina Fey

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Tom Howe
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Tom Howe

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Tom King

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Tom Oreb

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Tom Raney

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Tom Waltz

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Tom Wheeler
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Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler is an American television writer and producer. He served as the executive producer and show runner for the NBC superhero series The Cape.

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Tom Wood
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Tom Wood

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Tomohiko Ito
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Tomohiko Ito

Tomohiko Ito (October 20, 1978) is a Japanese anime director, best known for directing the A-1 Pictures projects Occult Academy, the first season of Silver Spoon, the first two seasons of Sword Art Online, and Erased. He currently resides in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

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Tony Fucile
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Tony Fucile

Anthony Jedediah "Tony" Fucile (born September 27, 1964) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and voice actor, who worked for Disney and Pixar animation studios.

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Tony Leondis
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Tony Leondis

Anthony Leondis (born March 24, 1972) is an American former animator, filmmaker, and voice actor, known for directing The Emoji Movie, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Igor, and the unreleased DreamWorks Animation film B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Leondis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Tony Way
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Tony Way

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Udo Kier
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Udo Kier

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Vicky Jenson
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Vicky Jenson

Victoria "Vicky" Jenson (born March 6, 1960) is a film director of both live-action and animated films, and has been said to be "one of Hollywood's most inspiring female Directors". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation, including Shrek, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises.

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Walter Hill
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Walter Hill

Walter Wesley Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American filmmaker. Hill is known for male-dominated action films and revival of the Western. He said in an interview, "Every film I've done has been a Western," and elaborated in another, "The Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories."

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Webb Smith

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Wes Anderson
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Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are known for their symmetry, eccentricity and distinctive visual and narrative styles, and he is cited by some critics as a modern-day example of the auteur. Three of his films, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) appeared in BBC Culture's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000. Anderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The …

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William Wisher
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William Wisher

William Howard Peter Wisher Jr. (May 23, 1955 – July 14, 2026) was an American screenwriter, known for his work with long-time friend James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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Yasiin Bey

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Yoshiyuki Tomino
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Yoshiyuki Tomino

Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野 由悠季, Tomino Yoshiyuki; born 富野 喜幸; November 5, 1941)is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoshiyuki Tomino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Yurika Kubo
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Yurika Kubo

Yurika Kubo (久保 ユリカ, Kubo Yurika, May 19, 1989) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, talent and model from Nara prefecture. She is affiliated with Stay Luck and her record label is Pony Canyon. She is also a member of μ's (pronounced "Muse"), which is part of the Love Live! franchise. She is nicknamed Shikaco. Her old stage names were Yurika Narahara (楢原 ゆりか) and Yurika Kubo (久保 由利香).

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Épicure
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Épicure

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井上瑤

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元奎
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元奎

Corey Yuen Kwai (1951 - 2022) was a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and producer. He was a member of the Peking Opera Schools and one of the Seven Little Fortunes.

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冲方丁
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冲方丁

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刘洵
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刘洵

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午馬
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午馬

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境宗久
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境宗久

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宮下栄治
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宮下栄治

Eiji Miyashita (宮下 栄治, Miyashita Eiji, September 26, 1978) is a Japanese voice actor from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, who is affiliated with Breeze. He was formerly affiliated with Ken Production, Production Baobab and Apte Pro. His main roles include Kyohei Kashihara in Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Sosuke Sugaya in Assassination Classroom, Airzel in Bakugan, Papa in Higepiyo, Kenji Ito in Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Gen Shishio in Kekkaishi, and Takeo Tsurumaru in Shadow Star Narutaru.

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宮崎誠
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宮崎誠

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小山真

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山岡晃
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山岡晃

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島田満
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島田満

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曾江
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曾江

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村山功

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柳川茂

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桑原彰

Akira Kuwahara is the guitarist of the Japanese rock band RADWIMPS.

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椎名豪
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椎名豪

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武田祐介
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武田祐介

Yusuke Takeda is the bass guitarist of the Japanese rock band RADWIMPS. Not to be confused with the member of Elements Garden Yusuke Takeda (竹田 祐介).

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渡辺信一郎
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渡辺信一郎

Shinichiro Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎 Watanabe Shin'ichirō, born May 24, 1965) is a Japanese anime television and film director. He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Space Dandy. Watanabe is known for incorporating multiple genres into his anime creations. In Cowboy Bebop, for example, Watanabe blends classic cowboy western with 1960s/1970s New York City film noir, jazz/blues music, Hong Kong action movies, a…

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神山健治
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神山健治

Kenji Kamiyama is a Japanese director and scriptwriter, known for his work on the TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

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胡偉立
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胡偉立

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胡楓
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胡楓

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葛西治

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西尾徳

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許誠毅
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許誠毅

Raman Hui Shing-Ngai (Traditional Chinese: 許誠毅, born 1963) is a Hong Kong animator and film director best known for co-directing Shrek the Third, and (co) directing several short films, including Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five, Scared Shrekless and Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos.

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都留稔幸

Tsuru Toshiyuki (都留稔幸) is a Japanese animator, designer, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and director. A pioneer of digitally drawn anime, he is known for challenging camera angles and his ultramodern usage of CG backgrounds. Tsuru is also known for his collaborative efforts with animator Hirofumi Suzuki, for which they are described (in the industry) as the "golden pair" for their efforts on shows such as 'Kaze No Yojimbo' and 'Naruto'. His pen-name Yasuaki Kurozu (黒津安明), comes from the names…

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陳木勝
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陳木勝

Benny Chan Muk-sing (Chinese: 陈木胜; 7 October 1961 – 23 August 2020) was a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter. He was fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and was nominated for "Best Director" at the 24th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards for the film New Police Story.

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高雄
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高雄

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Ada Tai
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Ada Tai

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Ade
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Ade

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Adele Lim
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Adele Lim

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Adi Shankar
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Adi Shankar

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