Ringo Lam Ling-tung

Also Credited As:

Lam Ling-tung, Ringo Lam
Photo of Ringo Lam Ling-tung

Biography

Nevertheless, he has helmed some of the key films of the "heroic bloodshed" cycle of HK action movies. The hard-hitting heist film, "City on Fire" (1987)--best known stateside as the unacknowledged but indisputable inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's 1991 debut "Reservoir Dogs"--gave Lam his first major hit and inaugurated a series of features ("Prison on Fire" 1987; "School on Fire" 1988).

Lam's films are noted for the grim realism of their …

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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

Born

November 30, 1954

LATEST CREDITS

Twin Dragons

Card Player No 1 at Test Centre, Director

Prison on Fire (Gaam Yuk Fung Wan)

Director, Executive Producer

Full Contact (Xia Dao Gao Fei)

Director

Long Hu Feng Yun

Director

Muk lo hung kwong

Director

The Adventurers (Da Mao Xian Jia)

Director

Maximum Risk

Director

In Hell

Director

Undeclared War (Sheng Zhan Feng Yun)

Director, Producer

Prison on Fire II

Director

Cupid One (Oi San Yat Ho)

Director

Full Alert (Ko Dou Gai Bei)

Director, Executive Producer

Aces Go Places IV: Mad Mission

Director

Burning Paradise

Director

The Other Side of a Gentleman

Director

Esprit d'Amour

Director

Touch and Go (Yi Chu Ji Fa)

Director

Replicant

Director

Wild Search

Director

School on Fire (Xue Xiao Feng Yun)

Director

Triangle

Director