Lung Kong was a Hong Kong actor and director born in Hong Kong. His father was a Cantonese Opera actor, whose mentor was the famous star Sit Kok Sin. In the 40s during the Japanese invasion of China, his family joined Sit Kok Sin's opera troupe. In childhood, he first started as an extra. After the war, during the day he worked at a stock trading company and went to school at night. During that period he was baptized as a Catholic.

In 1957, he met veteran actor Ma Siu Ying at church, was introduced to and signed with Shaw as an actor. He came up with his stage name, Lung Kong. His first film was "Crime of Passion in the Hotel" (1958). Soon, he worked as director Chow See Luk's assistant director. He participated in a dozen or so films as assistant director, screenwriter, producer and other posts. As Shaw reduced production, later he joined Kong Ngee and caught the eyes of director Chun Kim.

In 1966, he directed his first film "Prince of Broadcasters", which made a splash. His later work, like "The Call Girls" and "Hiroshima 28" even won many Asia Film Festival awards as he was known as Hong Kong film's Odd Bloom Director.

In 1981, Lung Kong met his wife, Wu Chi Ting, in the U.S. The next year, he immigrated to the U.S. and studied film at New York University.

The last appearance of Lung Kong was on August 15, 2014. A Lung Kong film retrospective organized by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office took place in New York as Tsui Hark presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to him. He was moved to tears.

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