Ringo Lam

Ringo Lam is one of those Hong Kong New Wave directors I think deserves more credit outside cinephile circles. City on Fire alone earned him a kind of cult immortality once people connected its undercover-cop tension to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, and the heroic bloodshed films he made stand up to anyone working that genre in the late '80s. What strikes me is how grounded and gritty his crime stories feel compared to flashier contemporaries. He died in 2018, and I get the sense his influence still hasn't been fully measured. A filmmaker worth revisiting if you only know the genre by reputation.

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Name (English)

Ringo Lam

Name (Japanese)

リンゴ・ラム

Reading

りんご・らむ

Born

December 8, 1955 – December 29, 2018

Origin

British Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film producer / director / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

University

York University

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo%20Lam
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285908

Tags

• film director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.