Dante Lam

Dante Lam
林超賢
Lam in 2023
Born	Lam Chiu-Yin (1964-07-01) 1 July 1964 (age 60) British Hong Kong
Occupations	Film director screenwriter film producer actor action choreographer
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	林超賢
Simplified Chinese	林超贤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lín Chāoxián Yue: Cantonese Jyutping lam4 ciu1 jin4

Dante Lam Chiu-yin (simplified Chinese: 林超贤; traditional Chinese: 林超賢; pinyin: Lín Chāoxián, born 1 July 1964) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, actor and action choreographer.

Background

He was trained in the tradition of John Woo as an assistant director and worked as an actor and producer. He often writes and supervises his own choreography. In 2008 he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director for his work on Beast Stalker.^[1]

His 2018 film Operation Red Sea is the second-highest-grossing Chinese film of all time and 9th in the international box office list of 2018. It won him the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director^[2] and the award for Best Action Choreography at the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards.^[3]

In the aftermath of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Lam was contracted by the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) to produce a video, Guarding Our City, intended to help rehabilitate the police force's public image. The 15-minute video was released on 23 January 2021.^[4]

Filmography

Director

• Option Zero (1997)
• Beast Cops (1998)
• When I Look Upon the Stars (1999)
• Jiang hu: The Triad Zone (2000)
• Runaway (2001)
• Hit Team (2001)
• Tiramisu (2002)
• The Twins Effect (2003)
• Naked Ambition (2003)
• Love on the Rocks (2004)
• Heat Team (2004)
• Undercover Hidden Dragon (2006)
• Sparkling Red Star (2007)
• The Sniper (2008)^[5]
• Beast Stalker (2008)^[5]
• Storm Rider Clash of the Evils (2008)
• Fire of Conscience (2010)^[5]
• The Stool Pigeon (2010)^[5]
• The Viral Factor (2011)
• Unbeatable (2013)
• That Demon Within (2014)^[6]
• To the Fore (2015)^[7]
• Operation Mekong (2016)^[8]
• Operation Red Sea (2018)^[9]
• The Rescue^[10]
• Guarding Our City (2021, short film)
• The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)^[11]
• The Battle at Lake Changjin II (2022)
• Guarding Our City with Faith: THE PREQUEL (2023, short film)
• Bursting Point (2023)
• Operation Leviathan (2025) ^[12][13]

Producer

• Runaway (2001)
• Hit Team (2001)
• U-Man (2002)
• Tiramisu (2002)
• Fire of Conscience (2010)
• The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
• The Battle at Lake Changjin II (2022)
• Bursting Point (2023)

References

1. "Hong Kong Film Awards" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
2. "《红海行动》斩获百花奖五项大奖 吴京拿下最佳男主角 成龙黄晓明亮相红毯". Mtime (in Chinese). November 10, 2018. Archived from the original on February 20, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
3. Adriana Rosati (2019-04-15). "The 38th Hong Kong Film Awards reveals all the Winners. Here the full list". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
4. Ho, Kelly (6 March 2021). "Hong Kong Ombudsman to investigate HKFP complaint against police refusal to disclose promo video cost". Hong Kong Free Press.
5. "Dante's dramas". The Straits Times. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
6. Rapold, Nicolas (2014-04-17). "'That Demon Within,' Dante Lam's Hong Kong Pulp". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
7. Why Hong Kong director Dante Lam’s new movie highlights city’s inane attitude to cycling, SCMP, 31 July 2015
8. Staff Reporter (September 16, 2015). "Dante Lam begins Mekong shoot". Film Business Asia. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
9. "Bona Film Seeks Status as Chinese Major Ahead of IPO". variety.com. 6 November 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
10. "Eddie Peng to perform an 'Emergency Rescue' for Dante Lam". cityonfire.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
11. "Tsui Hark, Dante Lam and Chen Kaige prepare 'Wolf Warrior' star Wu Jing for 'The Battle at Lake Changjin' | cityonfire.com". Retrieved 2021-03-14.
12. "Dante Lam to bring the pain with 'Operation Red Sea' sequel | cityonfire.com". Retrieved 2021-04-04.
13. "蛟龙行动". Retrieved 2024-06-24.

External links

• Dante Lam at IMDb