Godfrey Ho

Godfrey Ho

Born: November 10, 1948
in Hong Kong, China
Godfrey Ho is considered a master of B-movie Hong Kong actioners. However, a number of his movies are Z-grade movies made with a "cut-and-paste" technique. He would shoot footage for one movie, often using Caucasian actors for exportation, then edit the scenes into several other movies, mixing them with footage from old, unfinished or unreleased Asian movies (using Thai as well as Chinese or Filipino footage), then trying to make the story somewhat coherent through dubbing and voice-overs. He would then have four or five movies while having spent the budget of one. Ho states this style of filmmaking was enforced on him by producer Joseph Lai.

He effectively retired from direction after 25 years making genre films in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Phillipines, he was most recently teaching filmmaking at Hong Kong Film Academy.

Movies for Godfrey Ho...

Enter the Clones of Bruce
Title: Enter the Clones of Bruce
Character: Self
Released: December 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Get ready to play a game of death … and another … and another. The wild documentary Enter the Clones of Bruce dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze.
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Space Ninjas
Title: Space Ninjas
Released: July 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Five high school misfits are called for detention on a Saturday night by their teacher but as the night closes in an elite group of Space Ninjas begin their invasion on the secluded school. After the Space Ninjas kill the teacher, the students are left to fend for themselves, as they try to escape the school grounds and survive the night.
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Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema
Title: Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema
Character: Himself
Released: October 8, 2018
Type: Movie
An insightful look at the history of Hong Kong's exploitation cinema, from the early days of the Shaw Brothers and such shockers as "Killer Snakes" through to the advent of the Category III rating in 1988 and then the June 4th massacre in Beijing. The latter led to a panic in Hong Kong, before the Handover of the former UK colony to Mainland China, and a number of motion pictures proceeded to take freedom of speech (and sometimes political symbolism) to the extreme. This is the story of one of the most curious and invigorating periods in exploitation filmmaking.
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Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1
Title: Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1
Character: Himself
Released: July 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1 is a Documentary on Hong Kong cinema.
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Mr. X
Title: Mr. X
Character: Godfather Ho
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A cut-and-paste movie combining footage from two 1990 HK gangster films with shot-on-video dialogue featuring Joe Lewis, "Chaplin Chang" and director Godfrey Ho in a rare acting role. There is no discernible plot.
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The Iron Super Man
Title: The Iron Super Man
Released: July 19, 1975
Type: Movie
An Earth Defence Brigade is formed to protect the world against invaders from outer space. The ruthless Frang Gang begins its raid against the earth on land, sea and by air. But they meet their match in the super robots of the Earth Defence Brigade.
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Paris Killers
Title: Paris Killers
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Two young men flee Hong Kong after stealing diamonds from their boss and attempt to hide with friends in Paris, but professional hitmen persue them relentlessly throughout France.
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From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema
Title: From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema
Character: self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A look back at the largely undocumented period of early Chinese-language horror cinema, beginning in Hong Kong and the Shaw Brothers and graduating to Taiwan and the production of Calamity of Snakes in 1983.