Highest rated movie: A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Lowest rated movie: The Treasure Hunter (2009)
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Movies starring Kenneth Tsang have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.
A Better Tomorrow II - released in 1987 - is Kenneth Tsang's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 162 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kenneth Tsang is The Treasure Hunter - released in 2009 - with a score of 27% based on 28 reviews.
Kenneth Tsang Kong (born 1938) is a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career has spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles.
Tsang was born in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong province. He attended high school in Texas, United States of america, and received a degree in architecture from the University of California, los angeles (lax). He returned to Hong Kong in the early 1960s, but was bored by the work. His older sister, Jeanette Lin Tsui was a film star at the time and provided Tsang with several connections in the industry which boosted his acting career. In the media, Lin Tsui was always presented as Tsang's younger sister instead as it was moreover uncommon for female stars to reveal their age.
Tsang's film debut was in the movie The Feud (1955), when he was just 16, which was followed by a role in Who Isn't Romantic? (1956). In the mid 1960s, Tsang starred in detective films and classic kung fu movies with (at the time) Hong Kong teen idols Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao. Tsang also appeared in a few Wong Fei Hung movies in the late 1960s. In the 1986, Tsang worked as taxi cab owner, Ken, in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. Subsequent collaborations with Woo included the role of Ken in A Better Tomorrow 2 in 1987, police officer Danny Lee's murdered partner in The Killer in 1989, and the strict adoptive father of Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung in Once a Thief in 1991.
Tsang also filmed several Singaporean Chinese dramas during the 1990s, one of his most notable works there was the 1995 epic The Teochew Family and The Unbeatables II
Up to this point, Tsang had played roles in mainly Hong Kong movies. His first Hollywood film was The Replacement Killers (1998), and also the Hollywood debut of co-star Chow Yun-fat. Tsang appeared alongside Chow once again in Anna and the King as well as Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 2. Tsang played General Moon in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and he continues to appear in films from his native Hong Kong.
Tsang is currently married to Jiao Jiao, a Chinese actress.
Kenneth Tsang has acted in films with Chow Yun-Fat, Ng Man-Tat, Daniel Wu and Michael Chan Wai-Man.
Kenneth Tsang has worked with these film directors: Felix Chong Man-Keung, Alan Mak Siu-Fai, Kevin Chu and Wong Jing.
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