Lawrence Ah Mon

Lawrence Lau
Chinese name	劉國昌 (traditional)
Chinese name	刘国昌 (simplified)
Pinyin	Liú guó chāng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	lau⁴ gwok³ coeng¹ (Cantonese)
Origin	Hong Kong
Born	Union of South Africa
Occupation	Director
Ancestry	Shunde, Guangdong, China

Lawrence Ah Mon or Lawrence Lau Kwok Cheong (劉國昌) (born 1949) is a Hong Kong film director. His films are notable for their lurid exploration of the problems of the poor in modern Hong Kong, such as Gangs (1986), Spacked Out (2000), Gimme Gimme (2001) and City Without Baseball (2008). He has also made several films about colonial and postcolonial subaltern history in Hong Kong, such as the Lee Rock series (starring Andy Lau) and Queen of Temple Street (1990).

He was born in Pretoria, South Africa.

He has been nominated for Best Director in the Hong Kong Film Awards twice.

Filmography as director

Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)
Tactical Unit - No Way Out (2009)
Besieged City (2008)
City Without Baseball (2008)
My Name is Fame (2006)
Gimme Gimme (2001)
Spacked Out (2000)
One and a Half (1995)
Even Mountains Meet (1993)
Three Summers (1992)
Arrest the Restless (1992)
Gangs '92 (1992)
Lee Rock III (1992)
Dreams of Glory: A Boxer's Story (1991)
Lee Rock II (1991)
Lee Rock (1991)
Queen of Temple Street (1990)
Gangs (1988)

External links

Lawrence Ah Mon at the Internet Movie Database
HK Cinemagic entry

Films directed by Lawrence Ah Mon

Queen of Temple Street (1990) Lee Rock (1991) Lee Rock II (1991) Spacked Out (2000) My Name Is Fame (2006) City Without Baseball (2008) Besieged City (2008) Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)

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Films	Final Justice (1996) Intruder (1997) The Longest Nite (1998) Expect the Unexpected (1998) A Hero Never Dies (1998) Running Out of Time (1999) The Mission (1999) Needing You... (2000) Wu yen (2001) Love on a Diet (2001) Fulltime Killer (2001) Running Out of Time 2 (2001) Second Time Around (2001) Fat Choi Spirit (2002) My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) Love For All Seasons (2003) PTU (2003) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Running on Karma (2003) Breaking News (2004) Throw Down (2004) Yesterday Once More (2004) Election (2005) 2 Become 1 (2006) Election 2 (2006) Exiled (2006) Eye in the Sky (2007) Triangle (2007) Hooked on You (2007) Mad Detective (2007) Linger (2008) Sparrow (2008) Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms (2009) Accident (2009) Vengeance (2009) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Punished (2011) Life Without Principle (2011) Drug War (2012) Blind Detective (2013) A Complicated Story (2014) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014) Office (2015) Trivisa (2016) Three (2016)

Filmmakers	Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai Law Wing-cheung Patrick Yau Matt Chow Cheang Pou-soi Lawrence Ah Mon Ringo Lam Tsui Hark Jeffrey Lau

Screenwriters	Yau Nai-hoi Au Kin-yee Yip Tin-shing Szeto Kam-Yuen Ivy Ho

Crew	Dennis Law Cheng Siu-Keung Martin Chappell May Mok Patrick Tam Lai Yiu-fai

See also	Tactical Unit series

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