Known for Writing
Barry Wong Ping-Yiu (Chinese: 黃炳耀) was a Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and actor. He was hailed as one of the most prolific screenwriters of Hong Kong cinema, penning scripts for some of the top filmmakers and actors during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Born
November 20, 1946
Died
October 15, 1991 (age 44)
Birthplace
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Filmography
96 films


Hard Boiled
1992 · 2h 6m
country: Hong Kong
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.


Fun and Fury
1992 · 1h 41m
country: Hong Kong
A martial arts comedy, vacillating between action setpieces and goofy sight gags.


Slickers vs. Killers
1991 · 1h 37m
country: Hong Kong
Success Hung, an ace cell phone salesman who his feeling the heat from young, up and comer Miss Cheng. One day, Hung witnesses a mob hit. Though the panic-stricken salesman tries to tell his friends about the incident, Hung's gift for exaggeration in the past makes everyone suspicion of his claims except for a relative the deceased who comes to believe that Hung pulled the trigger.


Scheming Wonders
1991 · 1h 31m
country: Hong Kong
A fun action/comedy movie where Conan Lee & Shing Fui On team up to grab a gang of jewelery robbers with Ben Ng as their leader.


Pantyhose Hero
1990 · 1h 38m
country: Hong Kong
Two policemen must pretend to be a gay couple in order to investigate the murders of homosexuals in Hong Kong.


She Shoots Straight
1990 · 1h 32m
country: Hong Kong
Hong Kong police officer Mina Kao marries Huang Tsung-Pao, who is a member of a law enforcement dynasty. His father and his many sisters are also officers, and the eldest sister Chia-Ling is one of the highest ranking women in the police department. When a Vietnamese gang begins a rampage through the city, the women must overcome their suspicion of one another to bring the criminals to justice.


Outlaw Brothers
1990 · 1h 37m
country: Hong Kong
Frankie Chan and Max Mok are high-class car thieves whose sticky fingers get them in trouble with some gangsters, and then some really nasty gangsters. Tough policewoman Yukari Oshima wants to put the thieves behind bars, but realizes that by working together against the gangsters they can both benefit more.


The Fortune Code
1990 · 1h 29m
country: Hong Kong
Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.


Vampire Buster
1989 · 1h 33m
country: Hong Kong
In ancient China, a demon was defeated in a fierce battle with a priest, who sealed it's evil spirit in a vase. Centuries later, during the cultural revolution, rebels attempted to gain possession of the vessel from the priest's descendant; however, he threw it into the ocean to keep it from being tampered. The vase was recovered years later in Hong Kong and was auctioned off to a councilman. The demon, unfortunately, escaped and took control of the councilman's body, beginning a spree of terror in the city.


Pedicab Driver
1989 · 1h 35m
country: Hong Kong
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.


18 Times
1988 · 1h 27m
country: Hong Kong
Gigi is a young woman with no shortage of potential husbands to choose from. The big problem: every single one of her husbands dies after becoming wealthy! As a result, Gigi is obscenely rich, but she can't seem to find a "Mr. Right" that won't die! Numbers one through seventeen all get shuffled off the mortal coil, making Gigi promise to never love again. But when charming Jack Wong shows up, will Gigi risk love for the eighteenth time?


Eastern Condors
1987 · 1h 37m
country: Hong Kong
A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.


Righting Wrongs
1986 · 1h 36m
country: Hong Kong
Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive.


Mr. Vampire II
1986 · 1h 29m
country: Hong Kong
Chaos ensues after a team of archaeologists accidentally breaks the seals of a sleeping vampire family, which prevent them from waking up.


Where's Officer Tuba?
1986 · 1h 32m
country: Hong Kong
A police officer tracks down a murderous criminal gang with the help of the ghost of his former partner, who was shot by the same group.


Millionaires' Express
1986 · 1h 48m
country: Hong Kong
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.


Yes, Madam!
1985 · 1h 33m
country: Hong Kong
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.


Heart of Dragon
1985 · 1h 31m
country: Hong Kong
A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.


Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
1985 · 1h 34m
country: Hong Kong
The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.


My Lucky Stars
1985 · 1h 36m
country: Hong Kong
Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.


Friendly Ghost
1985 · 1h 32m
country: Hong Kong
Male chauvinist Ah Wai often boasts of his wife's submission to him. He even persuades her to pretend to be obedient in the presence of his friends who are impressed. This leads to a separation when his wife's older spinster sister comes to know of it. Despondent, he moves to an old house only to find that it is haunted. The ghost and he become friends after much hassle, but when the ghost falls in love with Ah Wai's wife, believing her to be the spinster sister, a battle of life and death follows.


Double Trouble
1984 · 1h 35m
country: Hong Kong
To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with the help of Bunny, who is a kid running out from an orphanage. John and Bunny, therefore, become good friends.


Funny Face
1984 · 1h 27m
country: Taiwan
A comedy about a couple of poor-looking people who take part in a TV matchmaking programme.


The Dead and the Deadly
1982 · 1h 39m
country: Hong Kong
Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral services. When the body Ma Lun Chio is brought back to the village by a new wife and her "brother", Wai Li is suspicious. He sets out to find out how his friend died, but things are not what they seem.


Dragon Lord
1982 · 1h 36m
country: Hong Kong
Dragon and his madcap pal Cowboy spend their days getting into mischief, frustrating the elders, chasing girls, and competing in the village sport. When Dragon overhears a fiendish plot by smugglers to sell China's national treasures overseas, the pair leap into action. Also, Cowboy's wealthy father is kidnapped by the villainous and lethal Big Boss, and the scene is set for a furious martial arts showdown.