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Ivy Ho is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer born on 15 august 1958

Ivy Ho

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Birth 15 august 1958 (65 years)

Ivy Ho Sai-Hong (Chinese: 岸西) is a Hong Kong screenwriter and film director.

Ho's work has received high critical acclaim in Hong Kong. Perry Lam of Muse Magazine wrote, 'As a writer, Ho excels as a miniaturist. Whether they are the mainlanders trying to survive and prosper in Hong Kong in 甜蜜蜜 (Comrades: Almost a Love Story) or the middle-aged school teacher trying to do the right thing in 男人四十 (July Rhapsody), the characters she creates are keenly observed, psychologically acute portraits. Her tone is intimate and confessional. The many piquant details her stories contain give her characters and the movies in which they appear a solid foothold in reality.'

Usually with

William Kong
William Kong
(6 films)
Eric Tsang
Eric Tsang
(5 films)
Aaron Kwok
Aaron Kwok
(5 films)
Ekin Cheng
Ekin Cheng
(3 films)
Andy On
Andy On
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ivy Ho (15 films)

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Director

Crossing Hennessy
Directed by Ivy Ho
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Jacky Cheung, Tang Wei, Danny Lee, Paw Hee-ching, Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Andy On
Rating62% 3.1483753.1483753.1483753.1483753.148375
Loy (Jacky Cheung) is a 41-year-old bachelor who lives with his widowed mother (Paw Hee-Ching) and aunt (Chu Mi-Mi) in Wan Chai. Loy's mother, disappointed by his bachelorhood, often sets up match-making lunches for him with various girls. On the other side of Hennessy, orphaned Oi Lin (Tang Wei) lives with and works for her uncle and aunt in a bathroom appliances store on Lockhart Road. She is in a relationship with Xu (Andy On), who is in prison. Her uncle, who disapproves of Xu, sets up a match-making lunch for her and Loy. Neither Loy or Oi Lin are attracted to one another, but the families continue to set up meetings for the two. After a few meetings and dates, the two eventually strike up a friendship after discovering a mutual interest in detective stories.
Claustrophobia, 1h40
Directed by Ivy Ho
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Karena Lam, Ekin Cheng, Eric Tsang, Derek Tsang, Ben Wong
Rating61% 3.092573.092573.092573.092573.09257
Pearl (Karena Lam) has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom (Ekin Cheng), who’s married with a family. Without warning, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wounded, Pearl demands that Tom terminate her. The gauntlet has been thrown down. In a space as small, crowded and claustrophobic as the office, love doesn’t grow - it incubates and breeds, like a virus.

Scriptwriter

Crossing Hennessy
Directed by Ivy Ho
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Jacky Cheung, Tang Wei, Danny Lee, Paw Hee-ching, Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Andy On
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.1483753.1483753.1483753.1483753.148375
Loy (Jacky Cheung) is a 41-year-old bachelor who lives with his widowed mother (Paw Hee-Ching) and aunt (Chu Mi-Mi) in Wan Chai. Loy's mother, disappointed by his bachelorhood, often sets up match-making lunches for him with various girls. On the other side of Hennessy, orphaned Oi Lin (Tang Wei) lives with and works for her uncle and aunt in a bathroom appliances store on Lockhart Road. She is in a relationship with Xu (Andy On), who is in prison. Her uncle, who disapproves of Xu, sets up a match-making lunch for her and Loy. Neither Loy or Oi Lin are attracted to one another, but the families continue to set up meetings for the two. After a few meetings and dates, the two eventually strike up a friendship after discovering a mutual interest in detective stories.
Linger
Linger (2008)
, 1h28
Directed by Johnnie To
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Li Bingbing (李冰冰), Maggie Shiu, Lam Suet, Roy Cheung, Wong You-nam
Roles Writer
Rating48% 2.4265852.4265852.4265852.4265852.426585
Dong (Vic Chou) was dating Fan, but was infatuated with Yan (Li Bing Bing). Dong suddenly dies in a fatal car accident, and Yan is badly affected. She relies on medication to escape from the reality and her true feelings toward Dong. Three years pass, and Yan takes advice from Dr. Yuen (Roy Cheung) to finally relinquish the medication. She starts seeing Dong repeatedly in her dreams and begins to suspect that her encounter with Dong is real. At the same time, she realizes that she is slowly falling in love with Dong. At last, Yan frees her true self to Dong and he fades away gradually as they both defeat the affliction within their hearts.
Claustrophobia, 1h40
Directed by Ivy Ho
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Karena Lam, Ekin Cheng, Eric Tsang, Derek Tsang, Ben Wong
Rating61% 3.092573.092573.092573.092573.09257
Pearl (Karena Lam) has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom (Ekin Cheng), who’s married with a family. Without warning, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wounded, Pearl demands that Tom terminate her. The gauntlet has been thrown down. In a space as small, crowded and claustrophobic as the office, love doesn’t grow - it incubates and breeds, like a virus.
2 Become 1
2 Become 1 (2006)

Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Miriam Yeung (杨千嬅), Richie Ren, Maggie Shiu, Guo Tao, Hui Shiu-hung, Lam Suet
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.049223.049223.049223.049223.04922
Bingo Leung, an advertising executive, lives a carefree life with her friends until she bumps into a doctor, V, who becomes infatuated with her after she rejects him. His interference leads to her discovery of a malignant lump on her breast and a medical scam targeting her orchestrated by her long-lost boyfriend. Everything begins to fall apart as she tries to cope with the loss of femininity in a series of bittersweet events. With the help of V and a shy but talented teenage singer Sing, Bingo is able to cope with her cancer, revive her career and strengthen her bonds with her family. The epilogue shows Bingo years later at a shop buying a bra for her daughter.
Divergence
Divergence (2005)
, 1h41
Directed by Benny Chan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Daniel Wu, Gallen Lo, Angelica Lee, Yu Rongguang
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.9578052.9578052.9578052.9578052.957805
It is about three people (a cop, a lawyer and a killer) who cross paths after the murder of a federal witness and a kidnapping of a pop star.
Goddess of Mercy, 1h50
Directed by Ann Hui
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Zhao Wei, Nicholas Tse, Chen Jianbin, Sun Haiying
Rating61% 3.0993353.0993353.0993353.0993353.099335
Yang Rui is a handsome Beijing executive who is bored with his easy life and numerous female conquests. He is having an affair with his female boss, and in general seems to despise women and relationships. He hears about a woman named He Yanhong who is from out of town, beautiful but mysterious and quite reclusive. He soon falls in love with her, despite the fact that she rejects his advances and appears to have few friends. When she kicks him in the head after coming on too strongly, she shows some regret and compassion, nursing him back to health and they develop a friendship. He Yanhong tells him her nickname is An Xin ("peace" in English). Unfortunately, Yang Rui's scorned female boss becomes jealous, reveals she has been spying on the young couple, arranges for He Yanhong to lose her job, reveals that she has a child, and then frames him for accepting an illegal kickback that briefly sends Yang Rui to prison.
July Rhapsody, 1h43
Directed by Ann Hui
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Karena Lam, Race Wong
Roles Writer
Rating70% 3.53653.53653.53653.53653.5365
Jacky Cheung plays Lam Yiu-Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher who is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After all these years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching (Anita Mui) and two teenage sons.
The Accidental Spy, 1h48
Origin Hong kong
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Spy films, Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang, Wu Hsing-kuo, Vivian Hsu, Cheung Tat-ming, Alfred Cheung
Rating58% 2.902312.902312.902312.902312.90231
A news reporter covers a story in a village within Turkey where many people have mysteriously died, seemingly from pneumonia while a scientific team tries to find a cure. Unbeknownst to them, a terrorist group disguising as farmers in the area fire at the scientists and the news crew, killing them all. Shortly after the attack, members of the South Korean embassy in Istanbul discuss the attack before one of their longtime missing agents return.
Anna Magdalena, 1h38
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Aaron Kwok, Kelly Chen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jacky Cheung, Anita Yuen, Leslie Cheung
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.196423.196423.196423.196423.19642
The film structure loosely follows that of the minuet: four "movements", which are announced by titles: two themes, a duet, and a set of variations. 1- Chan Kar-fu's (Takeshi Kaneshiro) introduction 2- Yau Muk-yan's (Aaron Kwok) effect on his life 3- Mok Man-Yee's (Kelly Chen) effect on their lives 4- Chan Kar-fu's literary vision of love. This fourth "movement" (Variations) is a wild fantasy on the previous material, based on the novel written by Kaneshiro's character: The XO Pair.
Comrades, Almost a Love Story, 1h58
Directed by Peter Ho-sun Chan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Christopher Doyle, Irene Tsu, Joe Cheung
Roles Writer
Rating80% 4.045044.045044.045044.045044.04504
The film, spanning years, centers on two Chinese mainlanders who migrate to Hong Kong to make a living, but end up falling in love. Leon Lai plays a naive Northerner, Li Xiao-Jun (T: 黎小軍, S: 黎小军), and Maggie Cheung plays an opportunist/entrepreneur and Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou, Li Qiao (T: 李 翹, S: 李 翘), who takes advantage of mainlanders like herself for financial gains. The loneliness of living in the big city inevitably brings the two into a passionate love affair. But their different ambitions (Li Xiao-Jun wants to bring his fiance to Hong Kong; Li Qiao wants to get rich) mean that they are unable to be together. Eventually, Li Xiao-Jun marries his fiancée, Fang Xiaoting (方小婷) (Yang) in Hong Kong and Li Qiao winds up in a relationship with a mob boss named Ouyang Pao (T: 歐陽豹, S: 欧阳豹, P: Ōuyáng Bào) (Tsang). Li Qiao also becomes a successful entrepreneur, achieving her Hong Kong dream. Despite their seemingly separate lives, however, they are still in love and they have one final tryst in the room they used to share before they are separated again.

Production

Cold War II, 1h50
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Chow Yun-fat, Charlie Yeung, Frankie Lam, Kenny Wong
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2455753.2455753.2455753.2455753.245575
La police de Hong Kong assiste aux obsèques des deux surintendants tués lors du film précédent. Peu de temps après, le commissaire Sean Lau (Aaron Kwok) reçoit un appel de l'un des responsables du vol du fourgon de police qui lui dit que sa femme a été enlevée et qu'elle sera échangée contre Joe Lee (Eddie Peng). Lau outrepasse la procédure habituelle pour transférer Joe hors de prison et le ravisseur lui ordonne de l'amener à une station de métro. Sur place, Joe réussit à s’échapper grâce à ses complices, dont l’un déclenche une bombe. Les criminels libèrent dans le même temps la femme de Lau dans la station.
Rise of the Legend, 2h11
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Sammo Hung, Jing Boran, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Angelababy, Byron Mann
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.1960953.1960953.1960953.1960953.196095
Dans la Chine misérable de la dynastie des Qing, le contrôle du grand port de Canton se dispute entre le gang des Tigres noirs et celui de la mer du Nord. En 1868, un jeune justicier, Wong Fei Hung, va s’infiltrer chez les mafieux pour tenter de libérer les dockers de cette corruption.