Hong Kong's famous director Ringo Lam, who directed the "Storm Warriors" trilogy, passed away

According to domestic media reports, Ringo Lam, the famous Hong Kong action film director who directed the famous "Storm Warriors" trilogy, passed away at his home in Hong Kong on the afternoon of December 29, 2018 at the age of 63.

According to Hong Kong media, Lam's wife reported the incident to the police that night, and paramedics arrived at the scene and confirmed that Lam was dead. The police's initial investigation said that there was no suspicion in the incident, and the cause of death needed to be determined after an autopsy.

Ringo Lam was born in Hong Kong in Chaozhou, Guangdong. After graduating from high school in 1973, he entered the third artist training class of Hong Kong TVB. In 1974, he graduated at the same time as Chow Yun-fat and Simon Yam. In 1976, he began to work as a TV drama director, and two years later he immigrated to Canada and studied film at York University in Toronto. In 1982, he returned to Hong Kong to direct his debut film "The Wrong Turn of Events", and quickly grew into a backbone director of Cinema City.

His most famous directorial work is the "Storm" trilogy consisting of "City of Light" (1987), "Prison on Fire" (1987) and "School on Fire" (1988). "City of Light" depicts the complex psychology and tragic fate of undercover police in the gray area, which helped him win the Best Director Award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards and also won Chow Yun-fat the Best Actor Award.

In 1989, Ringo Lam founded the Silver Award Film Company with Chow Yun-fat and others, directed his first film, A World Without Borders (1990), produced Brave Encounter (1990), and planned A Moment of Romance (1990). In 1992, he co-directed Twin Dragons with Tsui Hark.

After entering the 1990s, Ringo Lam directed action movies such as "The Last Crusade" (1990) and "Prison on Fire: The Escape" (1991), which helped him establish a hard-core realistic violent style.

In 1996, Ringo Lam went to the United States to direct the thriller action film "100% Dangerous" starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Natasha Henstridge, which tells the battle of wits and courage between American agents and Russian gangsters. The film won a box office revenue of 14.5 million US dollars in the United States.

In 1997, Ringo Lam returned to the Hong Kong film industry and filmed the psychological police and gangster film series "Full Alert" and "The Dark Eyes", and was nominated for the Best Director at the Academy Awards twice.

Entering the new century, Ringo Lam went to the United States again to collaborate with Jean-Claude Van Damme on the films "The Copycat" and "The Big Bang". The former was even selected as one of the "Top Ten Films" selected by French film critics in 2001.

In 2007, Ringo Lam collaborated with his two old friends Tsui Hark and Johnnie To to shoot the action film "The Iron Triangle", with the three of them responsible for different sections of the story. Tsui Hark was responsible for the "beginning" of the film, Ringo Lam told the "development" of the story based on Tsui Hark's "beginning", and Johnnie To "finished" it at the end. The film was shortlisted for the competition unit of the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

In 2014, Ringo Lam returned to directing after a lapse of 7 years, and collaborated with Louis Koo and Shawn Yue on the action film "Mystery City", which was released in mainland China on July 30, 2015. In September 2015, Ringo Lam started filming the action film "Sky on Fire" starring Daniel Wu, Zhang Jingchu, and Zhang Xiaoquan. The film was released in mainland China on November 25, 2016.