文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

林嶺東

Ringo Lam Ling-tung

1955–2018

領域:藝術家 · 作家與觀點論述者

繁體中文

林嶺東(Ringo Lam Ling-tung,1955年10月23日—2018年12月29日),香港電影導演及演員,祖籍廣東潮州,是導演王天林的門生。他早年在香港仔田灣邨長大,母親經營麵檔,1968年畢業於香港仔聖伯多祿學校英文部;1973年在聖伯多祿中學中五畢業後,投考無綫電視第三期藝員訓練班,曾在《民間傳奇》演出,1974年任助理製片,1976年升任編導,參與《家變》等劇集,1978年加入佳藝電視製作警匪劇《急先鋒》,其後移民加拿大,在約克大學修讀電影課程。1982年回港後,他首部執導作品為譚詠麟主演的《陰陽錯》(1983)。他以擅拍動作片見稱,風格被稱為「暴力寫實派」,作品以「風雲」三部曲最為聞名:1987年的《龍虎風雲》由周潤發主演,為周潤發贏得第七屆香港電影金像獎最佳男主角,林嶺東本人亦憑該片奪得同屆最佳導演;同年的《監獄風雲》票房逾三千一百萬元,並促成其胞兄林嶺南以「南燕」之名走上職業編劇之路,《學校風雲》亦成績不俗。他其後赴荷里活執導尚格雲頓主演的《硬闖100%危險》(1996),返港後憑《高度戒備》(1997)再創高峰,該片獲香港電影評論學會最佳電影。2007年他與徐克、杜琪峯合導《鐵三角》,2015年拍成《迷城》,2016年的《沖天火》是他生前最後一部上映作品,遺作《七人樂隊》之《迷路》其後公映。2018年12月29日,他在馬鞍山家中離世,終年六十三歲;2019年第38屆香港電影金像獎向他致敬。

English

Ringo Lam Ling-tung (23 October 1955 – 29 December 2018), whose family came from Chaozhou in Guangdong, was a Hong Kong film director and actor and a protégé of director Wong Tin-lam. He grew up in Tin Wan Estate in Aberdeen, where his mother ran a noodle stall, and graduated from St Peter's School in Aberdeen in 1968. After finishing secondary school at St Peter's in 1973 he joined the third acting class of Television Broadcasts Limited, appeared in the anthology series Ancient Tales of the Common People, became an assistant producer in 1974 and a director in 1976, working on series such as A House Is Not a Home; in 1978 he joined Commercial Television to make the crime serial The Avenger, then emigrated to Canada to study film at York University. Returning to Hong Kong in 1982, he made his directing debut with Esprit d'Amour (1983), starring Alan Tam. Known for action films and a style described as violent realism, he is best remembered for his On Fire trilogy. His 1987 City on Fire, starring Chow Yun-fat, won Chow the Best Actor prize at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards and earned Lam Best Director at the same ceremony; Prison on Fire that year took more than HK$31 million and led his elder brother Lam Ling-nam to become the professional screenwriter known as Nam Yin, while School on Fire also fared well. He went to Hollywood to direct Jean-Claude Van Damme in Maximum Risk (1996) and returned to new heights with Full Alert (1997), which won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society award for best film. In 2007 he co-directed Triangle with Tsui Hark and Johnnie To, made Wild City in 2015 and released Sky on Fire in 2016, his last film in his lifetime; his segment in Septet: The Story of Hong Kong appeared afterwards. He died at his home in Ma On Shan on 29 December 2018, aged 63, and was remembered at the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2019.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

導演、編劇、監製

年期Active period

1955–2018

代表作Notable works

《龍虎風雲》《監獄風雲》《學校風雲》《高度戒備》

獎項及榮譽Awards & honours

第七屆香港電影金像獎最佳導演(《龍虎風雲》,1988)

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-09-12

主要成就 Key Achievements

1983

首次執導電影《陰陽錯》

Made his directorial debut with Esprit d'Amour

1987

執導《龍虎風雲》及《監獄風雲》,翌年憑《龍虎風雲》獲第七屆香港電影金像獎最佳導演

Directed City on Fire and Prison on Fire, winning Best Director at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards for City on Fire the following year

2016

執導《沖天火》,為其生前最後一部上映作品

Directed Sky on Fire, the last of his films to be released during his lifetime

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

《龍虎風雲》的臥底結構被昆頓·塔倫天奴借用到《落水狗》,令香港警匪片在國際影壇受注視;林嶺東的「風雲」三部曲以寫實暴力寫出1980年代的社會情緒,並影響後來一批香港犯罪片導演。

English

The undercover set-up of City on Fire was borrowed by Quentin Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs, drawing international attention to Hong Kong crime cinema. His 'On Fire' trilogy used unsparing violence to capture 1980s social unease, influencing a generation of local crime directors.

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