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Statistics : 11630 Movies 19215 People 1448 Studios 29 Articles 73 Interviews 12 DVD Reviews 32452 Screenshots 3722 Videos
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Other names : |
麦嘉 Mai4 Jia1 Mak Ga Mak Kais Mak Kar Karl Mak Kar Maka Carl
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Nationality : |
China |
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Hong Kong |
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Director (10), Producer (32), Executive producer (3), Writer (6), Actor (28), Brief appearance (3), Cameo (3), Original Story (3), Planning (1), Presenter (21), Executive Director (1) |
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Biography |
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He moved to HK in 1958 and then five years later he emigrated to New York City where he studied as an engineer. It is difficult to ascertain whether he got his sense of humor on the streets of New York or later when he was working for the telephone company in New Jersey! At some point though he realized this wasn’t for him and returned to HK in 1973 with his American styled humor well in tow. He quickly got into the film business – first as an assistant director and then in 1976 directed his first film.
It was in 1980 though when he formed the film company Cinema City along with Raymond Wong and Dean Shek that Maka was fully able to put his Western influenced comedic imprint upon his films. In 1982, Maka made the first Aces Go Places film with Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang (who he was married to but has since divorced) and these films were tremendously popular in Hong Kong. During the first part of the 80’s, Cinema City was extremely successful – producing a number of comedies that did well and introducing many stars to the public. They also acted as the producers for Tsui Hark’s production company, Film Workshop, and therefore are partly responsible for such classics as Shanghai Blues, Peking Opera Blues and A Better Tomorrow and they also produced films such as Ringo Lam’s On Fire series. Towards the end of the 80’s though Cinema City fell upon hard times when a number of their films collapsed at the box office with Dragon from Russia (1990) being the final nail in their financial coffin. Maka pretty much left the film industry by 1991 and began focusing on the real estate business – but the downturn in the real estate sector during the Asian crash of the late 90’s generated large financial losses for Maka.
In 2000 Maka returned to the film business with his old partner Sam Hui in the geared for the Chinese New Year film Winner Takes All 2000 – but it unfortunately did not fare well at the box office and Maka admitted that perhaps his style of family comedy is no longer popular.
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Winner Takes All |
1977 |
Director |
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Winner Takes All |
2000 |
Producer |
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Winner Takes All |
1977 |
Writer |
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Winner Takes All |
2000 |
Writer, Actor |
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Victim, The |
1980 |
Producer, Brief appearance |
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Undeclared War |
1990 |
Presenter |
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Triads - The Inside Story |
1989 |
Presenter |
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Till Death Do We Scare |
1982 |
Presenter |
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Tiger On The Beat 2 |
1990 |
Producer |
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Tiger On The Beat |
1988 |
Executive producer |
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Thirty Million Dollar Rush, The |
1986 |
Director, Producer, Writer, Actor |
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Super Citizen |
1986 |
Presenter |
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Spooky Kookies |
1981 |
Producer |
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Skinny Tiger & Fatty Dragon |
1990 |
Actor, Presenter |
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Send In The Clowns |
1983 |
Producer |
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Run Tiger Run |
1984 |
Producer, Presenter |
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Prison On Fire II |
1991 |
Producer |
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Prison On Fire |
1987 |
Presenter |
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Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing |
1983 |
Producer |
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Odd Couple |
1979 |
Producer, Actor |
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Occupant, The |
1984 |
Producer |
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No U-Turn |
1981 |
Producer, Actor, Original Story |
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Mummy Dearest |
1985 |
Presenter |
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Merry Christmas |
1984 |
Actor |
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Magnificent Scoundrels, The |
1991 |
Producer, Actor |
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Lucky Stars Go Places |
1986 |
Actor, Original Story, Planning |
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Lifeline Express |
1985 |
Presenter |
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Life After Life |
1981 |
Producer |
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Laughing Times |
1981 |
Producer, Actor |
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Kung Hei Fat Choy |
1985 |
Producer, Cameo |
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Knockabout |
1979 |
Actor |
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It Takes Two |
1982 |
Director, Actor, Presenter |
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Iron Fists |
1979 |
Director, Brief appearance |
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In The Lap of God |
1991 |
Presenter |
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His Name Is Nobody |
1979 |
Director, Actor |
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Hello, Late Homecomers |
1978 |
Actor |
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Heaven Can Help |
1984 |
Presenter |
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He Lives By Night |
1982 |
Producer |
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He Has Nothing But Kung Fu |
1977 |
Actor |
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Happy Ghost 3 |
1986 |
Presenter |
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Happy Ghost 2 |
1985 |
Producer |
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Happy Ghost |
1984 |
Presenter |
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Good, The Bad And The Loser, The |
1976 |
Director, Writer, Actor |
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Ghost Bustin' |
1983 |
Presenter |
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For Your Heart Only |
1985 |
Presenter |
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Family Affair, A |
1984 |
Producer |
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Esprit d’Amour |
1983 |
Producer |
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Eighth Happiness, The |
1988 |
Cameo |
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Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog |
1978 |
Director, Producer, Writer, Actor |
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Dirty Kung Fu |
1978 |
Actor |
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Cupid One |
1985 |
Producer |
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Crazy Partner |
1979 |
Producer |
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Crazy Crooks |
1980 |
Director, Producer, Actor |
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City On Fire |
1987 |
Executive producer |
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Chicken a la Queen |
1990 |
Presenter |
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Chasing Girls |
1981 |
Director, Producer, Cameo |
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Can't Stop The War |
1982 |
Producer, Actor |
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By Hook Or By Crook |
1980 |
Director, Producer, Actor |
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Bodyguard, The |
2016 |
Actor |
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Beware Of Pickpockets |
1981 |
Producer, Actor |
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All The Wrong Spies |
1983 |
Executive producer, Brief appearance |
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All The Wrong Clues For The Right Solution |
1981 |
Producer, Actor, Original Story |
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Aces Go Places V : The Terracotta Hit |
1990 |
Actor, Presenter, Executive Director |
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Aces Go Places IV |
1986 |
Producer, Writer, Actor, Presenter |
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Aces Go Places III : Our Man From Bond Street |
1984 |
Actor, Presenter |
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Aces Go Places II |
1983 |
Actor, Presenter |
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Aces Go Places |
1982 |
Producer, Actor |
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Abracadabra |
1986 |
Producer |
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