Joey Wang

Date of Birth: 31 Jan 1967
Country: Hong Kong
Biography: Joey Wang AKA Joey Wong grew up in her native Taiwan, where she was spotted by a talent scout for a modeling agency. Her height and delicate beauty made her one of the most popular Taiwanese models, and Wang went on to have a successful film career. Her ethereal elegance was used to great effect by director Ching Siu-tung in A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) and its sequels.
Total Credits at Criticker: 69 (Actor)
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Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life... (imdb)
Ou-yang Feng (Leslie Cheung) lives in the middle of a desert, where he acts as a middle man to various swordsmen in ancient China... (imdb)
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly... (imdb)
A parody of Louis Cha's novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes (thats the literal translation). (imdb)
Extremely silly comedy about a self-indulgent private investigator who winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food. (imdb)
Dynamo Michelle Khan stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Top fight action. (imdb)
Do San (the God of gamblers) is a legendary gambler helped by his supernatural abilities. He undertakes to help a friend pay a debt by beating his friend's advisory at the card table (imdb)
In this installment of a phenomenal saga of the super natural, four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. Outrageous special effects galore! (imdb)
Hong Kong love-fantasy based on a Chinese legend about a prostitute brought back to life and her search for happiness in modern Hong Kong. (John Stanley)
A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself. The official discovers that the Portuguese are actually after the sacred scroll, and then finds Invincible Asia him/herself, who is not actually dead. (imdb)
You Feng (Joey Wong) -- a beautiful spirit trapped between heaven and hell -- disguises herself as a painted concubine to escape the torment of the Demon King. While she roams the mortal world, the king wreaks havoc on earth. Her only hopes for freedom come from a learned scholar (Adam Cheng) and a benevolent monk (Sammo Hung). Together, the trio takes on the ultimate evil in this haunting horror fantasy from King Hu. (Netflix)
Basically a retread of the first movie, in which the evil Tree Spirit is back with yet another ghost played by Joey Wong. The Swordsman Yen and Leslie Cheung characters are replaced by a Buddhist Abbot and disciple (Tony Leung). Jacky Cheung also pops up again, this time as a money-grabbing swordsman with a neat bag of tricks. (imdb)
The film is a parody of Poltergeist and Ghostbusters along with the evil ghost films of the late 70's and early 80's. The story is about a new high rise office building that's haunted by a ghost patrol of Japanese soldiers from W.W. II. The angry ghosts want revenge and they'll do anything to achieve that goal.
The fallout from a botched Triad gang job forces a young couple to separate – she becomes a kingpin’s unwilling moll and he goes to the Philippines to work as a contract killer. Six years later the two are reunited, but their rekindled emotions and people from the past lead them into extreme danger. (mubi.com)
Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more sinister than they originally anticipated. (imdb)
Two men from Hong Kong journey into the far-reaches of China for some black-market trading, but stumble upon a cave where Princess Wendy, her handmaid Mandy, and evil kung fu master Tin have been in suspended animation for 800 years. The two pals and their new friends escape to HK, only to followed by Tin, who demands Wendy's hand in marriage. With the help of the princess, the two pals practice their Kung Fu skills. However, they are unable to fight Tin until they master the Buddhist fist. (hkcinemagic)
Mr Coconut (Michael Hui), a considerate and good natured country bumpkin from China with obnoxious habits, was invited by his sister to live with her family in Hong Kong for a few months. His brother-in-law, a cowardly shoes salesman, is less than enthusiastic to have him live with them in their already crammed apartment. Mr Coconut had many hilarious misadventures trying to adapt to the new and modern environment while his mischievous niece kept misleading him. (anonymous)
Ga Yat Lung is a young warrior who meets and falls in love with Mung Suet, the day of her sacrifice to the Ghost King. Without her sacrifice all those living in the local village will be destroyed. Ga Yat Lung is helped by Ching, a Fox Demon, to attempt to save Mung Suet and her people. (imdb)
Wah-Jai (Andy Lau) is the jovial, kindhearted triad boss of Hong Kong's Temple Street. When he falls for a Christian missionary, a rival criminal leader with a grudge against Wah-Jai decides to take advantage of the situation...
A two-timing bigamist finds himself concocting scheme after scheme with his best friend, Chi Hung, to prevent either of his wives from discovering his bigamy. The unwanted intervention of a police officer as well as a series of unfortunate events lead to the wives discovery of the whole plot. They team up with Chi Hung's exasperated fiancée, Ka Lai, to exact revenge upon the two men. (imdb)
A clumsy, easy-going but tough restaurant chef witnesses a murder of a cop. This leads him to a world of trouble, as the killer seeks to silence him. Luckily, the vengeful partner of the dead cop is there to help him. (imdb)
Based on part of the old Chinese novel Shuihuzhuan (usually translated Water Margin) this movie follows the fortunes of Imperial Guard Instructor Lin Chong, framed by the evil Marshal Gao Qiu and betrayed by his colleague Lu Qian. Befriending renegade officer-turned-monk Lu Da, Lin Chong finds himself facing the loss of all he holds dear, but puts in some heavy duty martial arts and leaping about before the closing credits. (imdb)
An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus. (imdb)
When the boss of a highly profitable Triad family is forced to flee from Hong Kong, rival gangs swoop in to steal any piece of the action they can. York Koo (Andy Lau) becomes the family's acting boss, and must do what he can to handle the difficult situation, with mounting pressure from both the Hong Kong police, and rival families. (imdb)
In this sci-fi adventure, a scholar travels to the Himalayas in search of his missing friend Professor Kwan. Kwan has taken a holy relic from a five-year-old monk. When Kwan is killed in a plane wreck, the scholar agrees to help the gifted child retrieve the coveted item. (allrovi.com)
The first installment of a two-part crime epic from Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Jing, the meandering and complicated Casino Tycoon chronicles the life of Benny Ho Hsin (Andy Lau from Casino Raiders), a poor boy who has risen to the top of his college class and won prizes for his academic diligence. He has also made an enemy, the nasty Fu Chia-chin (Wilson Lam) who is jealous of Benny and wants his girlfriend Vivian (Joey Wang). (allrovi.com)
Released later in the same year as its predecessor, Wong Jing's lengthy and involved crime epic Casino Tycoon II continues the story of Benny Ho Hsin (Andy Lau) who rose from poverty in the first film to become a real-estate and casino mogul despite suffering numerous tragedies along the way. The sequel has Benny falling in love with an attractive young actress named Ti Yun (Michelle Lee) and dealing with problems caused by his former partner Nieh (Lau Siu-ming). (allrovi.com)
Officer Tuba (Samo, of course) isn't much of a cop. About all he can do is play the tuba in the police band. When his colleague, a sergeant (David Chiang) is killed, he makes Tuba promise to take revenge. And Chiang means it. His ghost keeps coming back, to annoy Tuba into keeping his promise. Tuba is a coward, and resists, but Chiang fights back by making Tuba do embarrassing things, including making him appear an idiot in front of his sweetheart (Joey Wong) and her parents. (hkcinemagic.com)
Two men plot to kill their beautiful but nagging and unbearable wives. (imdb)
After learning that his father was killed by the notorious Chinatown Triad, Simon Yam becomes a cold-blooded killer determined to get his revenge. When one of his assassinations is witnessed by Joey Wang, Yam plans on silencing her forever. Instead, Yam finds himself falling for Wang, and they must now run for their lives form both the cops and the Triad assassins! (hkcinemagic.com)
Sammo and Kenny are lowly employees if a jewelry shop. Sammo too often is the target of abuse from the manageress. One day the two are sent to show the diamonds to a sheik. They are robbed on their way to the bank. One by one they are being accused to be in collusion with the robbers. That makes Sammo very angry. To get even, he plans to kidnap the manageress. Kenny somehow learns of the plot. Sammo gets the wrong woman, accidentally kidnapping Joel. (hkcinemagic.com)
Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Jing (God of Gamblers) directed this typically dotty crime-comedy, which meshes graphic violence with a truly peculiar sense of humor. The story centers on a dedicated police inspector named Kung Ching (Danny Lee) and his efforts to bring down the criminal kingpin Panther Wong (Lung Fong). (allrovi.com)
An evil witch expells a fairy from her kingdom, and we meet up again with the fairy a thousand years later, when she meets and enchants a policeman. Now the policeman must try to win the fairy's heart while busting criminals--that's two full time jobs! (hkcinemagic.com)
After a botched attempt to nab a drug smuggler in a parking garage, police detectives Ho Ting-Bon (Yun-Fat Chow) and Cheong Yan (Fong Liu) accidentally cause a runaway car to hit a young woman, Kwong Sun (Joey Wang), who is in the city illegally. Sun then fakes amnesia in order to protect her illegal identity, and is put-up for several nights by Bon. While Sun struggles to find her identity papers in Hong Kong and relatives to take her in, Bon feels compelled to let her stay in his home. (imdb)
This surprisingly effective comedy wack-fest follows the exploits of three low-income fellows as they struggle to muddle through their dissatisfying lives. Hui is a bachelor who lives with mom and vows never to marry rich. Unfortunately, his new girlfriend Joey Wong is secretly the daughter of a rich instant-noodle magnate. Worse still, Hui finds himself working at her factory with two of his chief rivals. (lovehkfilm.com)
1000 years before our time: Master Cho-Lo, a Taoist priest (Lam Ching-Ying) and his two understudies go on a quest to fight an evil Japanese demon. When the Taoist priest and his two helpers impose a ritual on the demon, they're all thrown into a time vortex and finally find themselves in modern day Hong Kong. Now the fight continues - in a different time and with many new problems... (Letterboxd)
Shih Erh (Biao Yuen), a Taoist monk disciple, takes in a scholar named Tsui Hung-Chuen (Lawrence Ng) after he inadvertently burned down his house after battling a demon. (imdb)
The story takes place in a beautiful pavilion in 1930's Suzhou. Jade is a famous songstress courtesan, marrying into the noble house. She develops a dubious relationship with a female cousin of the family and also being admired secretly by her butler. LAN, the cousin, is a modern woman who wants to be independent and serves her country, but when she meets the charismatic Shing, an official from the North, all her plans go astray. (themoviedb.org)
Joey was at the age of twenty-two and she was an independent and cheerful girl. She worked in an advertising company and she met a boy named Chiu Kwok Chiao who had just returned from America. Chiu was at the age of twenty-four. He seemed childish, when he met Joey, he fell a victim to her beauty. After a period of time they were in a low spirit because Joey was more intelligent than Chiu. Lui Lai Ho was Joey's mother and she was forty years old. (hkcinemagic.com)
A suspense thriller revolving around BRIGITTE LIN CHING HSIA as a successful attorney with a deep dark secret. The secret leads to extortion and murder when JOEY WANG and PAULINE WONG step into the picture. (hkmdb.com)
A hilarious action adventure about an unstoppable trio of undercover cops known as the "Cypress Tigers". (hkmdb.com)
Shing (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) is a artist draws his dream girl Ching Ching (Joey Wang) in a comic strip, When he gets into an accident she is thrown into the real world. (imdb)
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains disappear. Based on these factual events, this movie takes off with a science fiction story involving a space rocket which places a satellite in orbit containing a secret cargo. The satellite crashes on a remote island and footprints are found in the sand leading away from the crash site. (themoviedb)
Tao is a ruthless loan shark, whose brother, Fu Sai Hang, is the captain of the local police. When the mob kills Tao, his brother comes for revenge. Aided by his sister's daughter, Hor-Yee (Joey Wang) to bring down the mob to justice. (imdb)
A unlucky in a local 7-11 releases two ghosts that screws with Yik (Joey Wang) and Tang (Jacky Cheung) putting a large sum of money when they are sleeping, but mistakenly resulting the two spend the money and thus the two ghosts forcing them to bring two fresh bodies to pay their consequences!
AKA Cheese And Ham Story; Curry And Pepper 3; ????; ????III; Cheese and Ham are two men with nothing better to do in their lives. Until they meet a man dying of throat cancer who will pay the two men a large sum of money to kill a woman, whom he wants dead. The problem? She is the hottest chick, the two men have ever seen, and they are having a very difficult time trying to kill her. (imdb)
Louie, spoiled pop star has a one night stand with beautiful dancer Anita. Then Anita tells Louie that she dreamed of being a singer and later he brings her to stage and becomes a star. Anita has fallen in love with Louie, but Louie loves Julia. However, Louie later finds out that Julia is dating his father Kent. Louie then leaves Hong Kong and heads to Paris leaving his career behind. Then he meets Yuan Yu Shih, a Vietnamese refugee that suffers from a war wound... (imdb)
Amin travels to his home from America to take some photos for a company but finds a girl named Chiang Jo Ping (Joey Wang), falls in love with her, but actually it turns out that Jo Ping is a ghost. (imdb)
Bodyguard Ah Sun is sent to protect his boss' son, only to meet and fall in love with his gorgeous mistress. (imdb)
The young emperor Kangxi is attempting to select a bride. His mother has arranged for young available women to visit him so that he may choose. (imdb)
Sam Lee has just been crowned Miss Hong Kong 1986, and she meets rich playboy George on a plane. They seem to take an immediate dislike to each other. Then, in the next scene and completely without explanation, they are in bed together. They remain lovestruck and as close to inseparable as circumstances allow for the remainder of the story. There are some hurdles, the most significant being George's long-term girlfriend Doris , who is also George's boss's daughter... (imdb)
Joe, a taxi driver who finds love when he accidentally hits someone with his taxi. The victim is May, a sweet girl who walks with a limp due to one of her legs being longer than the other. Joe mistakenly thinks that he's crippled May for life, so to make it up to her he works for her family, helping them run their grocery store. Soon, he falls in love with May, but she's slow to return his affection. (imdb)
A model (Joey Wong) gets raped by a photographer (Wilson Lam). Meanwhile, she falls out with her best friend (Carol Cheng) due to her boyfriend (Alex Man), who's a cop. (themoviedb)
Wacky comedy filmmaker Jeff Lau (All For the Winner) directs Carry On Hotel, a madcap comedy filled top to bottom with Hong Kong stars! The setting is a five-star Singapore hotel, and the players and situations
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Ginny aka Ah Ching is a beautiful but very brittle singing star who agrees to be the face of a new hotel and a new drink. But she is tortured by the suicide of her lover the previous year. Soon, Ginny is found dead, hanging in her bathroom. The company directors panic and try to cover up. But Ginny's ghost obligingly reappears, and directs a junior staff member to a house in the country where a lookalike replacement can be found is a twin named Ah Fen... (imdb)
Yat (also called Rebecca) has a husband who alternates between violent and uncaring, and he is about to leave her. She should be overjoyed, but reports him missing. Yat and sister Ling are pleased when he returns, but is it really him ? The new Mr Yip is generally nicer to Yat, but also carries on with Ling. Yat becomes involved with handsome Sai Ming / Simon, and he's the one who calls her Rebecca. But Simon is murdered, and suspects abound. (HKMDB)
Three colleagues at a Hong Kong corporation put in overtime at the office one night and stumbled upon a bag filled with 10 million dollars in cash. Ecstatic with their wealthy find, they took the money and began to concoct a safe plan to spend it. (imdb)
When Fung's cop boyfriend Tats puts her supposedly reformed triad father behind bars, her daughter Fung aims to rid the organization of it's dirty ties, but one of Fung's father chief goons Cheong in a deliciously over-the-top portrait of plans for a very hostile takeover. To ensure her cooperation, he rapes her, videotapes her naked the deed, and sells copies to his pals when he's whipping her, insulting her, killing her relatives, making her watch him have... (imdb)
A Japanese singer believes her father has been kidnapped. She goes to Hong Kong to find him. (themoviedb)
The Little Princess and her bodyguard Jiang travel 200 years from the past to the present day. They are relentlessly pursued by the evil General Shea Hai, a vicious and seemingly indestructible puffy-faced Blood Devil demon who wants to get his hands on a magical pearl the Little Princess possesses. Sweet Kot-Yee, her fat, greedy brother Chu Tai-Lit, and two goofy electricians come to the aid of the Little Princess and Jiang. (themoviedb)
Two assassins KK (Patrick Tam, Director Of My Heart Is That Eternal Rose) and Ah Dee (Jacky Cheung, Swordsman) start a chain of revenge by executing another professional killer. KK's father and Ah Dee's Boss Uncle Min (Kenneth Tsang, Police Story 3: Supercop, The Killer) gets caught in the middle of the situation. (imdb)
In this chilling and darkly funny gothic fantasy, a beautiful fox spirit living under an ancestral curse falls in love with her mortal enemy, much to the displeasure of her mother. Her supernatural destiny is further complicated by the Hunt King, a relentless tracker intent on stopping her from fulfilling the fate decreed by her bloodline. Stylish and haunting, this magical tale of love, terror and magic will sweep you away! (imdb)
In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later
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Yuan, Chonglu door magistrate's wife to the husband, because of sexual desire and dissatisfaction with the people of adultery, after being found was "riding wooden donkey" lethal torture. The magistrate's infant daughter Ah Ying (Joey Wang) is betrothed to the Wu Feng Yun. A newlywed husband Martial infant and a half months, to return home to visit Edie magistrate. Lovers in a tree halfway lots of rest. (imdb)
The film follows the rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling. (themoviedb)
Ivan is falling in love with a Chinese girl he saw on the portrait and decides to go look for her. (themoviedb)
The Last Song (1998) - TV Series
Just when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a man meets a university professor who is also at the point of killing himself. A woman nearby intervenes, one thing leads to another, and the three lost souls move in together. Each episode is a distinct story about the sometimes painful, sometimes warm romances between them and the people they meet while sharing an apartment. (imdb)