Karl Maka

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog
Hong Kong
1978
Karl Maka (Director, Actor, Writer) Lau Kar-Wing (Action Director, Actor) Sammo Hung (Action Director, Actor) Meg Lam Jason Pai Piao Lee Hoi-Sang Dean Shek Chung Faat Yuen Biao Eric Tsang (Writer)
Good fun, good fights (Monday, March 4, 2002)
By Hook Or By Crook
Hong Kong
1980
Karl Maka (Director, Actor) Sammo Hung Wu Ma Dean Shek Chung Faat Raymond Wong Pak-Ming (Writer)
somewhat entertaining (Tuesday, March 18, 2003)
All The Wrong Clues
Hong Kong
1981
Tsui Hark (Director) Cinema City (Production Company) George Lam Teddy Robin (Actor, Soundtrack) Karl Maka David Wu (1) Bolo Yeung Eric Tsang Walter Tso Tat-Wah Raymond Wong Pak-Ming (Actor, Writer) Sze-To Cheuk-Hon (Writer) Bill Wong Chung-Piu (Cinematographer)
Wildly silly comedy capers (Tuesday, November 27, 2012)
Aces Go Places V
Hong Kong
1989
Lau Kar-Leung (Director) Lau Kar-Wing (Action Director) Sam Hui Karl Maka Leslie Cheung Nina Li Conan Lee Ha Chi-Chun Lu Yan Walter Tso Tat-Wah Ellen Chan Fennie Yuen Danny Lee Sau-Yin Roy Cheung Mark Houghton Bruce Fontaine James Ha Chang Kwok-Tse (Writer) Richard Lo Sai-Kit (Soundtrack)
Aces have mostly gone to other places by this point (Saturday, April 10, 2021)
Aces Go Places IV
Hong Kong
1986
Ringo Lam (Director) Joe Chu Kai-Sang (Action Director) Cinema City (Production Company) Sam Hui Karl Maka (Actor, Writer) Sally Yeh Sylvia Chang Shek Kin Kwan Tak-Hing Walter Tso Tat-Wah Roy Chiao Cyrus Wong Ronald Lacey Onno Boelee Peter McCaulley Tony Lo Dung-Lei (Soundtrack) Sander Lee Ga-Go (Cinematographer)
More even-keeled than its predecessors (Monday, April 5, 2021)
Aces Go Places III
Hong Kong
1984
Tsui Hark (Director, Actor) Corey Yuen (Action Director) Cinema City (Production Company) Sam Hui (Actor, Soundtrack) Karl Maka Sylvia Chang Naomi Otsubo Jean Mersant Richard Kiel Tsuneharu Sugiyama Ricky Hui Cyrus Wong Huguette Funfrock John Shum Charlie Cho Lowell Lo Ken Boyle Raymond Wong Pak-Ming (Writer) Bill Wong Chung-Piu (Cinematographer) Tang Siu-Lam (Soundtrack)
Lacks the chemistry of its predecessor (Thursday, April 1, 2021)
Aces Go Places II
Hong Kong
1983
Eric Tsang (Director, Actor) Lau Kar-Wing (Action Director) Cinema City (Production Company) Sam Hui (Actor, Soundtrack) Karl Maka Sylvia Chang Yasuaki Kurata Tsui Hark Charlie Cho Walter Tso Tat-Wah Hon Kwok-Choi Raymond Wong Pak-Ming (Writer) Clifton Ko (Writer) Arthur Wong (Cinematographer) Peter Ngor (Cinematographer) Teddy Robin (Soundtrack)
Improves on the original in just about every way (Tuesday, March 30, 2021)
Aces Go Places
Hong Kong
1982
Eric Tsang (Director) Cinema City (Production Company) Sam Hui (Actor, Soundtrack) Karl Maka Sylvia Chang Dean Shek Tsui Hark Anna Ng Goo Ga-Lau Chen Sing Hon Kwok-Choi Walter Tso Tat-Wah To Siu-Ming Fung Ging-Man Raymond Wong Pak-Ming (Writer) Arthur Wong (Cinematographer) Teddy Robin (Soundtrack)
Influential action comedy but terribly dated (Sunday, March 28, 2021)

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