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This image, sharing many similarities with the Columbia Pictures logo, is featured at the beginning of many of Godfrey Ho's movies.
This image, sharing many similarities with the Columbia Pictures logo, is featured at the beginning of many of Godfrey Ho's movies. }} Columbia Pictures Industries Inc is an American Film production and distribution company

Godfrey Ho (Chi Kueng Ho (何志強)) (1948–) is a former Hong Kong-based film director. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film.

He is best known for his Ninja films, a series of 1980s martial arts films made with a cut-and-paste technique. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. For other uses see Martial arts (disambiguation Martial arts film is a Film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. For a pejorative meaning see Cut and paste job In Human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer Ho would film footage for one film, and then edit and splice the shots together in a different order, often adding in footage from other films, and then dubbing over the result to create an (almost) coherent finished product. In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a Motion picture. This allowed him to create four or five films with the budget of one, though it is often difficult to discern how much of the finished product he actually filmed himself. Ho has directed over 90 films, of which approximately 40 contain the word "ninja" in the title. [1]

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Background

A screenshot from Godfrey Ho's Ninja Thunderbolt, showing roller-skating ninjas chasing a bubble car through Hong Kong.
A screenshot from Godfrey Ho's Ninja Thunderbolt, showing roller-skating ninjas chasing a bubble car through Hong Kong. For the modified American sedans also called "bubbles" see Hi-Riser (automobile.

Reliable biographical information on Ho is difficult to come by, due to his obscurity and his recent relative inactivity (he directed only one film between 1995 and 2005, compared with more than 60 from 1980 to 1990). The problem is further exacerbated by his frequent use of pseudonyms. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) He has been credited under more than 20 different names during the course of his career, although his motives for doing this are unclear. Interestingly, neither Godfrey Ho nor any of his other pseudonyms are his real birth name, which, according to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), is Chi Kueng Ho (何志強). The name at birth is the name a child is given by his or her Parents according to a generally universal custom, and legal requirement to file a form of Birth

Ho's pseudonyms include Godfrey Hall, Zhi Jiang He, Benny Ho, Chi-Mou Ho, Chun-Sing Ho, Charles Lee, Stanley Chan, George King, Ho Jeung Keung, Fong Ho, and others. In the Chinese-speaking world, Ho is usually credited by his real name.

Career

A notable feature of many of Godfrey Ho's films was the presence of the B-actor Richard Harrison in a lead role. A B-actor is an Actor who has appeared regularly in B-movies including low-budget films genre films (e Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor (and occasionally a writer/director/producer born on May 26 1936 in Salt Harrison, a reasonably well-known American B-movie actor in the 1960s and 1970s, agreed to act in several of Ho's films in the early 1980s, although this footage was later spliced into many more of Ho's films without Harrison's knowledge. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Harrison has stated that the damage done to his acting career by this association with Ho's films led him to retire in 1990. [2]

Many of Ho's movies are revered by aficionados of bad movies as being among some of the most unintentionally hilarious movies ever created, featuring, among other things, Benny Hill-esque car chases run on sped-up film, roller-skating ninjas, and superfluous rape scenes which often have little or no connection with the already disjointed plot. Alfred Hawthorne Hill ( 21 January 1924 &ndash 19 April 1992) better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English Roller skating is the Traveling on smooth terrain with roller skates Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person Ho is also noteworthy for his uncredited use of music from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars, Wendy Carlos, Miami Vice, Iczer One, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Steve Hillage among others, as background music in his films. Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan is the second feature film based on the Star Trek Science fiction Television series, following Star Wars is an epic Space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14 1939 is an American Composer and electronic Musician. Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. is a dark Sci-fi Anime with a predominantly female cast It was created by Toshihiro Hirano, and has a small but devoted fan-following among Otaku Pink Floyd are Tangerine Dream is a German Electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. Steve Hillage is a British musician best known as a guitarist

Latest information

Godfrey Ho now teaches digital movie-making in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Film Academy. [3]

Quotation

"I used to be a movie maker. Now I am teaching people to make movies. It really makes me glad when my students are happily showing me their works. Only if you've been through the whole process, can you understand how satisfactory and delightful it is. "[4] (translated from Chinese)

Filmography

This is an incomplete list of movies commonly attributed to Godfrey Ho. It may be impossible to ever tell with certainty how many and which of these films are directed by Ho since even he is unsure on the subject. [5]

As Director:

See also

External links

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