Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola( born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, film composer, and vintner.
He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
After directing" The Rain People" in 1969, Coppola co-wrote" Patton"( 1970), earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. North.
Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of" The Godfather"( 1972).
The film revolutionized movie- making in the gangster genre, and was adored by the public and critics alike.
" The Godfather" won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay( shared with Mario Puzo).
" The Godfather Part II", which followed in 1974, became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Highly regarded by critics, the film brought Coppola three more Academy Awards:
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, and made him the second director( after Billy Wilder) to be so honored three times for the same film.
" The Conversation", which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
His next film," Apocalypse Now"( 1979), which notoriously had a lengthy and strenuous production, was widely acclaimed for its vivid depiction of the Vietnam War.
The film won the Palme d' Or, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to have won that award twice.
While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s.
His best- known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas" The Outsiders" and" Rumble Fish"( both 1983), the crime dramas" The Cotton Club"( 1984) and" The Godfather Part III"( 1990), and the horror film" Bram Stoker's Dracula"( 1992).
A number of Coppola's relatives and children have become famous actors and filmmakers in their own right: his sister is the actress Talia Shire; his daughter Sofia Coppola and granddaughter Gia Coppola are directors, and the actors Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are his nephews.
Kung Fu Hustle
Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 action comedy film directed, produced and written by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role.
The other producers were Chui Po-chu and Jeffrey Lau, and the screenplay was co-written with Huo Xin, Chan Man -keung, and Tsang Kan-cheung.
Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok- kwan and Bruce Leung Siu- lung co-starred in prominent roles.
After the commercial success of" Shaolin Soccer", its production company, Star Overseas, began to develop" Kung Fu Hustle" with Columbia Pictures Asia in 2002.
The film features a number of retired actors famous for 1970s Hong Kong action cinema and has been compared to contemporary and influential wuxia films such as" Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and" Hero."
The cartoon special effects in the film accompanied by traditional Chinese music, is often cited as its most striking feature.
The film was released on 23 December 2004 in China and on 25 January 2005 in the United States.
It received a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 78 out of 100 rating at Metacritic.
The film grossed$ 17 million USD in North America and$ 84 million USD in other regions.
The film was tenth on the list of all- time highest- grossing foreign- language films in the United States as well as the highest- grossing foreign- language film in the country in 2005.
" Kung Fu Hustle" won numerous awards, including six Hong Kong Film Awards and five Golden Horse Awards.
The film was re-released in 3D in October 2014 across Asia and America, marking the tenth anniversary of the film.
Monkey King: Hero Is Back
Monkey King:
Hero Is Back  is a 2015 Chinese computer-animated film directed by first time director Tian Xiaopeng.
The film was released on 10 July 2015.
The film was the highest-grossing animated film in China until it was surpassed by "Zootopia" and "Kung Fu Panda 3".
Jessica-Jane Clement
Jessica- Jane Stafford( née Clement; born 24 February 1985) is an English actress and TV presenter who is best known for starring in the BBC programme" The Real Hustle" from 2006 to 2012.
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
Kung Fu Panda:
Secrets of the Scroll is an animated short film in the" Kung Fu Panda" film series.
It was included on the 2015 Digital HD and 2016 Blu-ray, and DVD re-release of" Kung Fu Panda" and" Kung Fu Panda 2".
Jack Black, James Hong, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim and Lucy Liu reprise their roles from the movies, while Kari Wahlgren and James Sie replace Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan as Tigress and Monkey, respectively.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
King Kung Fu
King Kung Fu is a 1976 comedy film directed by Lance D. Hayes that is a low budget spoof of both "King Kong" and "Kung Fu" done in a slapstick style.
Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow Sing Chi( born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer, political adviser of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and martial artist.
Distant Vision
Distant Vision is an ongoing experimental film project by Francis Ford Coppola.
Different versions of this production have been broadcast to limited audiences from the stages of Oklahoma City Community College on June 5, 2015, and at UCLA School of Theater in July 2016.
Coppola led the project as a proof of concept piece for a richer, more in- depth future live broadcast that will recount the struggles and triumphs of three generations of an Italian- American family set against the birth and growth of the invention of television.
Chiu Chi-ling
Chiu Chi Ling( born 1943) is a martial artist and actor who appears mostly in Kung Fu style movies produced in Hong Kong.
He also teaches Hung Gar Kung Fu at Chiu Chi Ling Hung Gar Kung Fu Association, a San Francisco- based martial arts school he founded, and at the old Chiu Family Kwoon in Hong Kong.
Every year he visits his students and grand students around the world and organizes worldwide Kung Fu tournaments.
The Kung
Fu lineage he is part of was passed down directly from southern shaolin temple and carries names like Hung Hei Gung and Wong Fei Hung.
He has appeared in over 70 movies, both as an actor and stunt man.
His abilities as an actor and martial arts practitioner has allowed him to work with most of the top Hong Kong film makers including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun- fat and Stephen Chow.
He started practising Hung Gar Kung Fu when he was six years old under the tutelage of his father Chiu Kau( who won with the famous tiger- crane set over the whole of China in his sixties) and mother Shiu Ying, who were renowned for their solid Hung Gar.
They were also both well- known doctors and Chiu Chi Ling learned from his father, beside the art of Kung Fu, the art of bone setting( Dit- Da).
In the early 1970s, he opened a school which attracted many celebrities, athletes and performers.
This exposure to the entertainment industry gave him his start in acting.
He has appeared in such well- known Kung Fu style movies as" Snake in the Eagle's ShadowDuel of the Seven Tigers", the comic smash- hit" Kung Fu HustleAdventures of Power" and" The Mermaid".
Chiu Chu Ling has also appeared in “ Tiger and Crane Shaolin Kung Fu ” demonstrating the techniques from shaolin tiger and crane.
He currently resides in Alameda, California.

Question: Are both directors of films Distant Vision and Kung Fu Hustle from the same country?
Answer: no