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Eric Kot Man-Fai
Born: 30th Dec 1966 Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Dept: Acting
Eric Kot Man-Fai, Chinese: 葛民輝, born on December 30, 1966, is a renowned Hong Kong radio presenter, film actor, and director. He played the role of "Soft Taoist Priest" in the music group Soft Hard, a name that is well known in Hong Kong. Since March 1988, he embarked on his radio broadcasting career at the commercial station and co-founded Soft Hard with Jan Lamb in the same year. His unique and entertaining traffic reports on the "Street Angel" programme made him instantly popular. He started participating in film acting in 1989, further expanding his career to television broadcasting, during which he launched a variety of programmes such as "Peculiar DJs Peculiar Show" and "Peculiar DJs Peculiar Show 2". To date, Eric Kot has participated in the production of more than sixty films. He ended his eight-year radio program career in 1996 and segued into the film industry. He collaborated closely with Wong Kar-wai, the producer of "First Love: The Litter on the Breeze", and successfully directed the films "Four Faces of Eve" and "First Love: The Litter on the Breeze".
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 92
Film: 83 (90%)
Television: 9 (10%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Reality, Music, Documentary, Animation, Family
Filmography
Original title: 誰變走了大佛
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
This suspense drama follows a fugitive magician hiding out on an island where he meets a young boy who may unlock his past and bring his magic tricks ... view
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Original title: 幹鬼屁事
2024
A young soldier was raped four times in one night. Refusing to live with the humiliation, he became a wandering spirit. However, death turned out to b ... view
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Original title: 世間法
2024
Kwong is retired and becomes a full-time volunteer to help the elderly living alone. One day he receives a notice that one of these elders has been fo ... view
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黃耀光
Original title: 填詞L
2024
Believing that writing Cantopop is her God-given talent, Law Wing-sze decides to make it her lifelong career. But as hard as Sze tries to polish her l ... view
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Law's Father
Original title: 夜校
2023
The movie “One Night at School” describes three groups of totally irrelevant people who accidentally encounter in an abandon school one night. One ... view
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Original title: 陰目偵信
2023
YUM Investigation is a detective agency that specializes in the supernatural. With their new member Kojiro, the agency investigates a developer who di ... view
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Papier-mâché Chan
Original title: 屍房菜
2023
A ghost soldier bids farewell to his mother then possesses bodies worldwide to meddle in unfaithful relationships in Taiwan, Japan, Spain and Thailand ... view
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Fake Reporter
Original title: 糖街製片廠
2021
A producer convinces some young creators of horror props to set up a 'haunted house' and use it as a film set. The building is an old haunted film stu ... view
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Boss Choi
Original title: 入鐵籠
2019
My brother "Investing" and his younger brother "Electric Rabbit" grew up in an orphanage. They were adopted by the school worker "Thunder Sir" and rec ... view
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Original title: 翠絲
2018
Tai-hung, in his 50s, lives happily with his wife. Informed of the death of his high school friend, Tai-hung’s secret past resurfaces. The feature d ... view
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Chi Jun
Original title: 逆向誘拐
2018
The financial analysis of a Chinese IT firm has been stolen, and a senior executive at the investment bank that wrote it must pay a ransom before the ... view
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Carlos Lim
Original title: 女皇撞到正
2018
A corporate tragedy and encounter with Helena Law Lan's taoist master leads Mei Qi to meet three relative ghosts who later support the protagonist and ... view
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Buck-toothed Fred
Mar 2018 (first aired)
Two middle-aged men, Sunny and his friend dream of shooting a horror movie based on VR exorcism. In order to raise funds, they routinely scam in the n ... view
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Unknown/various (20 ep.)
2017
A story of two women, Christy Lam and Wong Tin-lok, who are both turning 30. ... view
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Sun
Original title: 小男人週記3之吾家有喜
2017
Leung Foon, 52 years old, his life experienced three waves: 1.when Ann made him by the boy into a man that day, 2.he married Ann and become a wife sla ... view
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Original title: 港囧
2015
When Xu Lai goes on vacation with his wife and extended family, he gets a chance to meet his former lover. However, his brother-in-law foils his plans ... view
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Policeman
Original title: 失戀急讓
2014
Lung, a hardworking property agent, is facing a serious situation in life. His girlfriend won't marry him unless he can buy her a 1000-sq ft. apartmen ... view
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Gynaecologist
Original title: 分手100次
2014
Sam and Barbara have been together for eight years, but the key to their relationship is breaking up. Each time Barbara threatens to leave, Sam would ... view
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Himself
Original title: 在一起
2013
Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets a ... view
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Drama teacher
Original title: 百星酒店
2013
Hotel Deluxe is basically "All's Well Ends Well 2013", with almost the same cast and crew, and some new faces added in. It tells the story of a team o ... view
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Wah
Original title: 懸紅
2012
Former cop Cho Sai Fung, now unemployed and living off of his savings, learns of 400,000 HK bounty placed on a wanted criminal. He then makes a trip o ... view
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Sergant Chung
Original title: 抱抱俏佳人
2010
A generic romantic comedy for Hong Kong audiences that's successful for what it is. Director Barbara Wong shelves any pretension or undue meaning - wh ... view
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Original title: 甜心粉絲王
2007
Sussie, a super fan of dancer/singer Sum Lee. When Sussie gets a chance to join Sum's entourage as an assistant, however, she is surprised to discover ... view
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So Sik
Original title: 天行者
2006
Ekin Cheng plays Autumn Yip, a triad mobster who gets caught in Thailand and does 8 years in prison before being released. He visits "The Doctor" and ... view
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CL Hui
Original title: 八月的故事
2006
The film follows a girl in Hong Kong between her uncle’s dressmaking shop and her studies; between young and youth. Based on a story by Wai Chan. ... view
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Original title: 談談情說說性
2006
Several stories interweaves into this hilarious comedy. Eric Kot plays the genital dermatologist, Dr. Heung, that loves and respects his own professio ... view
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Dr Zmong Heung
May 2006 (first aired)
Beautiful Cooking is a Hong Kong variety show broadcast on TVB. The show began broadcasting on May 28, 2006 hosted by Ronald Cheng, Alex Fong and Edmo ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 半邊靈
2006
A rich girl Lok Yan (Candy Lo) and her fiance Ko Fung (Carl Ng) come to Hong Kong to meet Yan's poor elder twin sister Lok Ling (also starring by (Can ... view
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Ching Kwok-wing
Original title: 打雀英雄傳
2006
Inferior gangster Flying Dragon has a bad habit of gambling, he thus offends the three great gamble deceivers. Luckily his younger cousin, Roy, who co ... view
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Scott
Original title: 半醉人間
2006
The melancholy Candy runs the Half Mortal, a trendy bar in Hong Kong. She hires Paul; Stella, a part-time employee who's a college student in psycholo ... view
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Tong
Original title: 青春夢工場
2005
The story of four soon-to-be-college grads who are about to embark on the big adventure known as life. The foursome concoct an elaborate plan to hire ... view
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Loan Officer
Original title: 蝴蝶
2004
Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriag ... view
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Ming
Original title: A-1頭條
2004
Ling is a fashion columnist whose ex-boyfriend died in a car accident. Debt collectors Fei and Ma are eyewitnesses on the scene and Fei is certain tha ... view
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Ma
Original title: 花好月圓
2004
Heung, a fishwerwoman, is determined to help Kai, an amateur aromatherapist, find the ultimate elixir for the princess who has a bad case of body odou ... view
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Fishy
Original title: 鬼馬狂想曲
2004
In Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit a ... view
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Muo, Street Cleaner
Original title: 地下鐵
2003
Ming a marriage consultant who runs into the charming but blind Yeuk through a little help of a guardian angel. The wheel of fortune is set in motion ... view
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Shing
Original title: 絕種鐵金剛
2003
In Hong Kong, a terrorist organization plans to blackmail the world's government with the help of two fatal diseases a goofy scientist created. Two In ... view
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Dr Donno
Original title: 大丈夫
2003
Four men attempt to fool around as much as they can before their wives return from a 14-hour Buddhism trip to Thailand. ... view
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Man in Elevator
Original title: 絕種好男人
2003
Nice guy Moses, who cries whenever he tells a lie, is about to inherit a large fortune. Materialistic Didi learns of this and tries to win his affecti ... view
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Romeo
Original title: 一碌蔗
2002
Set in 70s Hong Kong, Just One Look actually tells of Fan (Shawn Yu), whose policeman father commits suicide in a cinema toilet, but Fan believes he w ... view
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Original title: 賤精先生
2002
Gino, a selfish trickster who works for a design firm where he routinely steals ideas and spars with his co-workers. Gino gets into a traffic accident ... view
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Biggie
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Every 200 million years, a cosmic storm weakens celestial powers, unleashing the Heaven Demon. To stop it, a chosen one must retrieve the Three Pure L ... view
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猪八戒 (44 ep.)
Original title: 男人四十
2002
Outwardly, Lam takes pride in his job teaching Chinese literature at an elite school and in his caring wife and two sons. But deep down, the forty-yea ... view
Character:
Wong Yui
Original title: 天下無雙
2002
Two pairs of siblings are destined for each other, but fate throws countless obstacles in the path. When the young Emperor and his sister contrive to ... view
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Original title: 買兇拍人
2001
A hired killer pairs up with an amateur filmmaker to provide clients with satisfying footage of enemies getting whacked. ... view
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Bart
Original title: 百分百感覺2
2001
After graduating from high school, classmates Jerry and Lok move into an apartment together for the freedom to best explore all the best that the worl ... view
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Sunshine
Original title: 情迷大話王
2001
Wonderful can't meet a man who does not lie -- and then she bumps into professional liar Ok, who pretends to be rich in order to win her heart. ... view
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Original title: 特警新人類2
2000
When terrorists abduct a deadly government attack robot, the call is put out to the Gen-Y Cops, an elite task force with lethal fighting skills. Toget ... view
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Dr. Lai Shung-Fung
Original title: 一見鍾情
2000
Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spen ... view
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Bob
Original title: 茱麗葉與梁山伯
2000
Francis Ng is Jordan, a low level triad who finds himself strangely attracted to divorced restaurant hostess Juliet, who’s had a mastectomy and has ... view
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Master Fong
Original title: 星願
1999
A young man, blind and dumb, works as an audio tape typist in a hospital and fostering a tender and sincere relationship with a beautiful but introver ... view
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Angel
Original title: 龍火
1999
An "experimental" film by Eric Kot, featuring an all-star cameo cast. ... view
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Original title: 玻璃樽
1999
When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince char ... view
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Man at Pier
Original title: 失業皇帝
1999
When a very successful CEO is fired for refusing to take bribes from his recently appointed corrupt boss, he finds himself homeless, as well as jobles ... view
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Brother Jing
Original title: 超級整蠱霸王
1998
Oh My God, a doofus nice guy who’s down on his luck after being pranked repeatedly by an evil trickster, asks help from The Tricky King to save his ... view
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Oh My God
Original title: 行運一條龍
1998
Lucky Coffee Shop is well-known for its egg tarts and tea. Waiter Sui, named as Prince Egg Tart, attracts lots of girls but only loves Candy. He and h ... view
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Fook
Original title: 初纏戀後的2人世界
1997
Faced with the task of creating a film about first love for his producer Wong Kar-wai, Kot ruminates on his creative process, his rejected ideas, and ... view
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Original title: 戇星先生
1997
A girl is captured by aliens for mating and bears a baby who possesses extraordinary abilities. This extraterrestrial baby boy grows up speedily and i ... view
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P.K.
Original title: 算死草
1997
Stephen Chow plays a selfish yet in some places kind hearted barrister who tricks his servant in doing things for his own benefit. Eric Kot playing th ... view
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Ho Foon
Original title: 小倩
1997
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other. ... view
Character:
Ten Miles (voice)
Original title: 超級無敵追女仔
1997
A super rich tycoon (Michael To) decides to become an ordinary person and joins a sushi bar. He and the other three people in the bar (Jerry Lamb, Nat ... view
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Dick
Original title: 天才與白痴
1997
Mentally-challenged Fai (Eric Kot Manfai) lives a simple life with his mother, but he is eventually abandoned by her when she leaves him to get remarr ... view
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Original title: 愛情Amoeba
1997
May Ching has three roommates. Tung is the career minded account executive with a business minded girlfriend. Long is the slacker chasing a blind date ... view
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Yam Chi Long
Original title: 百分百啱Feel
1996
Five popular screenidols star in this sequel to the original "Feel 100%." Finding their relationship on the rocks, Marco (Noodle) and Yen(Sammi) take ... view
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Monster
Original title: 4面夏娃
1996
Made up of four short stories. One, a lonely hooker can't stop crying whenever she has sex with her clients. She approaches a shrink and ends up stalk ... view
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Chan Giu's husband
Original title: 港督最後一個保鑣
1996
A political satire on Hong Kong before the 1997 takeover. Two bodyguards compete to protect the governor while the governor romances the political wom ... view
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Lugo
Original title: 百分百感覺
1996
The main characters are two male best friends, Jerry and Hui Lok, and their female friend, Cherie. The story revolves around their relationships with ... view
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Hui Lok
Original title: 偷偷愛你
1996
Spunky girl-next-door Tung Tung, who's hot for rich guy, Chi Wing, but she can’t say two words to him thanks to one of those afflictions that occurs ... view
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Yim Sai Chung
Original title: 天空小說
1995
An experimental film directed by Jan Lam. It is reminiscent of Wong Kar-wai films like Fallen Angels and has an homage to Edward Yang's The Terrorizer ... view
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Original title: 無敵反斗星
1995
The Shaolin master asks his three students to find the stolen Kung Fu scroll back from a castle, which is full of monsters. ... view
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Gump
Original title: 賭聖II：街頭賭聖
1995
Blackie Tat looks for a new Saint of Gamblers, and finds him in the form of a dimwitted mainlander. ... view
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God Bless You
Original title: 廟街故事
1995
Miu (Ekin Cheng) grew up on Temple Street, where most of the gangsters in the area gathered, but he never hung around with them. When he accidentally ... view
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Crab
Original title: 花月佳期
1995
Despite both their desires to meet a future partner, Yan and Kong develop an animosity toward one another after a troubled meeting during 'Affinity Da ... view
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Little Shrimp
Original title: 整蠱王
1995
Happy specializes in playing tricks. But he refuses to work for Shi, a rich man, as the job is against his principle, Shi is very angry and asks for t ... view
Character:
Lau Huet
Original title: 富貴人間
1995
South Africa’s diamond king, Jue Gung, neglected his loved ones and decided to return to Hong Kong for the New Year. His family attempts to gain fav ... view
Character:
Jue Faat
Original title: 三個相愛的少年
1994
Young gay men in Hong Kong. Hoi, Fa, and Kau have been friends since Third Form. They're now young gay adults sharing an apartment. Fa, who writes fil ... view
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Kau / Gau Goo Leung
Original title: 仙人掌
1994
A lonely and broken hearted Hall (Leon Lai) settles down in a rustic cats town in Mexico hope to start a new life. Unfortunately his striking resembla ... view
Character:
Leung
Original title: 新同居時代
1994
Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant l ... view
Character:
Keung
Original title: 城市獵人
1993
A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food. ... view
Character:
Entertainer
Original title: 豪門夜宴
1991
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to ... view
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English Teacher
Original title: 漫畫奇俠
1990
The Little Princess and her bodyguard Jiang travel 200 years from the past to the present day, relentlessly pursued by the evil General Shea Hai, a vi ... view
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Electrician Number 2
Original title: 小心间谍
1990
The band features rock enthusiast Teddy and his bosomy Playgirls. They have just signed into a rock bar when the trouble starts. Two Japanese hit men, ... view
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Soft Fujiyama
Original title: 小男人周記 II 錯在新宿
1990
The hilarious sequel to the 1989 hit The Yuppie Fantasia, Brief Encounter in Shinjuku brings back Lawrence Cheng as a thirty-something Hong Kong yuppi ... view
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