Patrick Lung Kong

Biography

Patrick Lung Kong was born in Hong Kong in 1934, originally named Lung Kon Yiu. His father was a Cantonese opera male female impersonator known as Siu Shan Shan. After graduating from secondary school, he worked at a stockbroker firm, where he met director Chow Si Lok by chance, who introduced him to the Shaw Brothers training program in the late 1950s to learn filmmaking. He followed Chow Si Lok and studied film directing under him, eventually becoming a director himself. He achieved major recognition in the 1970s with the film "The Call Girls," which addressed the issue of prostitution, winning the Best Director award at the 19th Asia Pacific Film Festival. His other notable works included "The Deadly Breaking Up" and "The Teddy Girls." In 2014, shortly before his death, he received the "Star of Asia" Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Asian Film Festival. He passed away in September 2014, leaving behind an important cinematic legacy in Hong Kong film history.