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Benny Chan Muk-sing (simplified Chinese: 陈木胜; traditional Chinese: 陳木勝; pinyin: Chén Mùshèng; 24 October 1961 – 23 August 2020) was a Hong Kong filmmaker. Chan was nominated for Best Director six times at the Hong Kong Film Awards, include Big Bullet, Heroic Duo, New Police Story, Connected, The White Storm and ...
Aug 23, 2020 · Benny Chan, widely regarded as one of Hong Kong’s leading action directors, has died aged 58. Chan was suffering from nasopharyngeal cancer. He had fallen ill while shooting Raging Fire,...
Aug 24, 2020 · Hong Kong director Benny Chan, who is known for directing movies such as New Police Story (2004) and A Moment Of Romance (1990), died of cancer on Sunday (Aug 23) at 58. He leaves behind his...
- A Moment of Romance (1990) Chan announced his arrival as a film director in some style with this debut, which went on to become one of the most recognisable Hong Kong films of the 1990s.
- Big Bullet (1996) Despite his career-long affinity for mainstream action movies, Chan was well recognised beyond the confines of genre filmmaking. The filmmaker received the first of his five best director nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Big Bullet, which ranks among the best action movies ever made in Hong Kong.
- Divergence (2005) An entertaining crime thriller elevated by Aaron Kwok Fu-shing’s transformative performance, Divergence is an ambitious narrative experiment, Chan working with a convoluted script by revered screenwriter Ivy Ho.
- The White Storm (2013) Chan paid homage to John Woo’s heroic bloodshed movies in this preposterous yet utterly compelling drug cartel thriller, which was so popular with audiences that it spawned a blockbuster sequel – by another director, Herman Yau Lai-to – six years later.
Jul 18, 2022 · The late director Benny Chan, who passed away in 2020, was posthumously awarded the best director prize for his cops-and-robbers actioner Raging Fire at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Aug 24, 2020 · Benny Chan Muk-sing, who died on Sunday at the age of 58, was responsible for several of the best Hong Kong action movies of the past 30 years. It was a genre he had loved since he was a...
According to Hong Kong Apple Daily, Benny — known for his films like New Police Story, Gen-X Cops, Shaolin, Who Am I?, and the award-winning Big Bullet — suffered from nasopharyngeal cancer. He...
