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Kwan Kam Pang. Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer . Kwan landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred Chow Yun-fat, and was a big box-office ...
Stanley Kwan. Director: Lan Yu. Stanley Kwan was born on 9 October 1957 in Hong Kong. He is a director and producer, known for Lan Yu (2001), Hold You Tight (1998) and Rouge (1987).
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Mar 16, 2021 · HKIFF: Stanley Kwan’s Quiet, Determined LGBTQ Career Earns Festival Focus. From growing up as a film buff to becoming one of Hong Kong’s most iconic film directors, Stanley Kwan is known as a ...
- Though he grew up next to a movie theater and often went to see films with his father, Stanley Kwan didn’t dream of a career in cinema when he was a young child; up until middle school, he was focused on studying science.
- Kwan initially trained as an actor, but he quickly discovered that his passion lay in production. Within the stratified studio system of the Hong Kong film industry, he transitioned quickly into the roles of script supervisor and assistant director, working with Hong Kong New Wave titans such as Patrick Tam (Nomad, 1982) and Ann Hui (Boat People, 1982).
- Having witnessed Kwan’s rise in the studio system, actor turned producer Vicky Leung Lee Siu-ha convinced him to begin his career as a director. Like him, she had been involved in Ronny Yu’s The Savior (1980) and Ann Hui’s The Story of Woo Viet (1981).
- Kwan’s third feature film, Rouge, was produced by Jackie Chan. At the time, Chan had an acting and producing contract with Golden Harvest, a company that surpassed Shaw Brothers to become Hong Kong’s most productive and commercially successful studio in the 1980s.
Jan 11, 2012 · Stanley Kwan, a banker whose 1969 creation, the Hang Seng index, became a widely used gauge for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, died on Dec. 31 in Toronto. He was 86. His death was confirmed by the ...
Jun 6, 2019 · Over his 30 year career, filmmaker Stanley Kwan has made his mark as one of the most important voices in Hong Kong cinema. He is celebrated for his transformative representations of women in films like Rouge, White Rose, Red Rose and Centre Stage, and for the acclaimed gay-romance Lan Yu. Moreover, as one of the few out-gay A-list directors in ...
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Directed by Stanley Kwan • 1986 • Hong Kong Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chow Yun-fat, Elaine Jin. Stanley Kwan’s sordid tale of lust and murder begins as three friends—beautiful model Billie (Irene Wan), up-and-coming starlet Ping (Elaine Jin), and singer Ling (Tsai Chin)—become involved with T...
