Pang Ho-cheung

Pang Ho-Cheung
Pang Ho-Cheung (left) at the premiere of his film, Exodus, at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Chinese name	彭浩翔
Pinyin	Péng Hàoxiáng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Pang4 Hou5 Cheung4 (Cantonese)
Born	(1973-09-22) 22 September 1973 Hong Kong
Other name(s)	Edmond Pang
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, actor, playwright
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Director 2004 Men Suddenly in Black Golden Bauhinia Awards Best Screenplay 2002 You Shoot, I Shoot 2005 Beyond Our Ken Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best New Director 2004 Men Suddenly in Black

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Pang (surname).

Edmond Pang Ho-Cheung (Chinese: 彭浩翔) is a Hong Kong novelist, playwright, actor and filmmaker.

Biography

Pang was born in Hong Kong in 1973. At the age of 15, he started using a video camera to direct short films with his elder brother.

After graduating from high school, he studied abroad in Taiwan for half a year, before returning to Hong Kong where he worked for Hong Kong Asian Television Limited as a gag show writer. He later wrote his first novel, and served as a columnist for various newspapers and magazines.

Movie career

In 1997, at the age of 24, Pang began 18 months of research for his first novel, “Fulltime Killer”. The novel went on to become extremely popular, selling more than 100,000 copies in Hong Kong. It was then reworked as a radio program and later adapted into a feature film in 2001.

While Pang was still a television and radio host, he decided to fulfil his dream of being a film director. Pang directed the horror film, Ghost, which featured in the Tribeca Film Festival 2010.

Muse Magazine film critic Perry Lam has praised Pang for 'often demonstrat[ing] a Kafkaesque talent for seeing the absurd in the mundane realities of everyday life.'

His feature film Love in the Buff opened the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, in March 2012. The film is a sequel to the successful romance Love in a Puff. Both star Miriam Yeung Chin-wah and Shawn Yue Man-lok.

Filmography

Producer

• You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
• Isabella (2006)
• Exodus (2007)
• Trivial Matters (2007)
• 指甲刀人魔 (short film) (2010)
• 假戏真做 (short film) (2010)
• 谎言大作战 (short film) (2010)
• 爱在微博蔓延时 (short film) (2010)

Novelist

• Fulltime Killer (2001)

Director

• You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
• Men Suddenly in Black (2003)
• Beyond Our Ken (2004)
• A.V. (2005)
• Isabella (2006)
• Exodus (2007)
• Trivial Matters (2007)
• Love in a Puff (2010)
• Dream Home (2010)
• Love in the Buff (2012)
• Vulgaria (2012)
• Aberdeen (2014)
• Women Who Flirt (2014)

Actor

• Mysterious Story I: Please Come Back (1999)
• The Faterangers (1999)
• You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
• Leaving in Sorrow (2001)
• Men Suddenly in Black (2003)

Writer

• Undercover Blues (2000)
• Killer (2000)
• The Cheaters (2001)
• You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
• Men Suddenly in Black (2003)
• Beyond Our Ken (2004)
• A.V. (2005)
• Isabella (2006)
• Exodus (2007)
• Trivial Matters (2007)
• Love in a Puff (2010)
• Dream Home (2010)
• Love in the Buff (2012)
• Vulgaria (2012)

External links

• Official Website
• An Interview with Edmond Pang Ho Cheung
• Edmond Pang Ho-Cheung at the Hong Kong Movie Database
• Hong Kong Movie World
• IMDb entry