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Patrick Tam Ka-ming ( Chinese: 譚家明; pinyin: Tán Jiāmíng; born 25 March 1948) is a Hong Kong film director and film editor. He is known as the seminal figure of Hong Kong New Wave [1] Career. Tam directed the 1987 film Final Victory, scripted by Wong Kar-wai.
Patrick Tam. Director: After This Our Exile. Patrick Tam was born on 25 March 1948 in Hong Kong. He is a director and editor, known for After This Our Exile (2006), Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020) and Love Massacre (1981).
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Patrick Tam Kar-ming is a Hong Kong film director and editor. Part of Hong Kong's New Wave of film directors in the late 1970s and 1980s, Tam's works have enjoyed great acclaim. He is also known as the mentor of Wong Kar-wai, and worked as an editor on Days of Being Wild (including Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's appearance in the last scene) and Ashes ...
Hong Kong New Wave film directors Patrick Tam Ka-ming and Ann Hui On-wah both began their careers making programmes at Hong Kong broadcaster TVB, and Hui looked to the more...
After This Our Exile (父子, literally Father-Son) is a 2006 Hong Kong drama film directed by Patrick Tam. A critical hit, the film won both the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film awards, as well as netting Aaron Kwok his second consecutive win for the Golden Horse Award for Best ...
An icon of the Hong Kong New Wave, Patrick Tam’s work as a filmmaker is essential to understanding the entire movement itself, as well as much cinema coming from the region today.
In 1977, he left TVB to become a film director. His works ''The Sword'', ''Love Massacre'' and ''Nomad'' were characterized by an innovative usage of the film language, and assured Tan's position as one of the representatives of Hong Kong New Wave Directors.
