Director

Patrick Tam Kar-Ming

Directing

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Directed credits

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Strong directing catalog.

TMDB popularity

1.2

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Directed movies: 15Directed series: 2All crew credits: 28

TMDB ID: 71063

IMDb ID: nm0848376

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1948

Age: 78

Place of birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1969 - 2022

Years active: 54

Average TMDB rating: 6.69

Wikidata: Q3369886

Also known as

Tan Chia-Ming • Tam Ka-Ming • Patrick Tam Kar Ming • Tam Kar Ming • Ka-Ming Tam • Jiaming Tan • Patrick Tam • 譚家明 • 담가명 • Patrick Tam Kar-ming • +2 more

Frequent jobs

Director (16)Assistant Director (1)Editor (6)Writer (3)Thanks (2)

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Biography

Patrick Tam Kar-Ming is a Hong Kong film director and editor. Part of Hong Kong's New Wave of film directors in the late 1970s and 1980s, Tam's works have enjoyed great acclaim. He is also known as the mentor of Wong Kar-Wai, and worked as an editor on Days of Being Wild (including Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's appearance in the last scene) and Ashes of Time. Tam has worked as an academic since 1995, and now serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.