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Chinese name
  
高志森 (traditional)

Role
  
Film director

Name
  
Clifton Ko


Birth name
  
Ko Chi-sum

Chinese name
  
高志森 (simplified)

Partner
  
Perry Chiu

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Born
  
6 August 1958 (age 65) Hong Kong (
1958-08-06
)

Nominations
  
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film

Movies
  
Happy Ghost, All's Well - Ends Well, It's a Mad - Mad - Mad World, Happy Ghost II, Happy Ghost IV

Similar People
  
Raymond Wong Pak‑ming, Fung Bo Bo, Michael Hui, Teresa Mo, Vincent Kok

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Clifton Ko (Chinese: 高志森; pinyin: Gāo Zhìsēn; born 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer and scriptwriter. He graduated from Kwun Tong Maryknoll College, and entered TV and film industry in late 1970s, firstly worked with director Clifford Choi. In this period he wrote Choi's No U-Turn (1981) and Teenage Dreamers (Chinese: 檸檬可樂; pinyin: Ningmeng Kele; Jyutping: Ling mung hoh lok; literally: "Lemon Cola"), and John Woo's comedy Once a Thief. In 1982 Ko entered Raymond Wong's the newly founded Cinema City & Films Co., and directed his first film The Happy Ghost in 1984. The film series, like all his major works, is a slapstick comedy with moral teaching, family value, and optimism. Ko, together the company, is prolific in making "Chinese New Year movies". Important titles include family comedy series It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (beginning in 1987); Chicken and Duck Talk, a collaboration with comedian/writer Michael Hui; and ensemble comedy series All's Well, Ends Well (beginning in 1992); and It's a Wonderful Life (1994) (Stokes).

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