Raymond To

Raymond To Kwok-Wai
Raymond To at 2024 Hong Kong Book Fair
Born	(1946-08-13) 13 August 1946 China
Occupation(s)	Dramatist, screenwriter & film director
Awards	Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Screenplay 1994 I Have a Date with Spring 1997 The Mad Phoenix Golden Horse Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay 1997 The Mad Phoenix
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	杜國威
Simplified Chinese	杜国威
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dù guówēi (Mandarin) Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Dou6 gwok3 wai1 (Cantonese)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is To.

Raymond To Kwok-Wai (Chinese: 杜國威) (born 13 August 1946) is a Hong Kong contemporary dramatist, screenwriter and film director, with ancestry from Panyu, Guangzhou, China. Raymond's broadcast script was once broadcast in New York by Chung Wah Commercial Broadcast. He has created more than 60 stage plays, including "Born in Hong Kong", "Boundless Movement", "Dark Tales", "Fuso passing", "I Have a Date with Spring", "Mad Phoenix", "Walled City", "Love Avalokitesvara "," Miss Du ", " Forever"," Adventure, "," Broadcasting Lovers "and" Sentimental Journey "etc. Among those works, "I am a Hong Konger" was tour performed in Europe. In addition, Raymond has written "Under the Roof", "Below the Lion Rock" and other popular series for RTHK. Raymond is not only a prolific and exhaustive screenwriter. Besides, he is the composer and lyrics writer for the scripts, such as "Sentimental Journey", "In love with Sister Liu", etc.

Early life

Raymond To has a sister, Mei Zi (formerly Duyan Zhi), who is an announcer. During his childhood, Raymond had the reputation of being a "broadcasting prodigy" after he participated in Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and Rediffusion Television programmes. In his early years, he performed in movies including "The affairs of Miss Ping" and "The Fatherless Son".

In 1971 and 1982, Raymond graduated from the Department of Geography at University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Career

After graduation, he became a high school teacher at Ho Lap College and was responsible for the school drama club, one of the four kings - Andy Lau, being one of his students. At this time, he was already an amateur writer. He began his second career as a professional playwright when, in 1979, his short play "Ball" was selected by the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre for excellence in script writing. and for which he was invited to participate in the performance of "Rickshaw Boy/Camel Xiangzi".

On 3 June 1995, Raymond To, together with Ko Tin Lung and Clifton Ko founded the "Spring Stage Production Company". In addition to being the theatre company's playwright, he is also an artistic director. Although the majority of his original work is for the stage, some have been adapted for film, with To being responsible for many of these adaptions. Raymond To was elected as the president of the Hong Kong Film Writers' Guild. During 2000, Raymond directed his own work for the first time, "Forever and Ever", to much acclaim.

Filmography (1956–2005)

Year	Film	Credited as
1956	The Fatherless Son (Part 1)	Actor
1960	The Affairs of Miss Ping (Part 1)	Actor
1961	The Affairs of Miss Ping (Part 2)	Actor
1984	Shanghai Blues	Writer
1986	Goodbye Mammie, Peking Opera Blues	Writer
1988	Call Girl '88	Writer
1989	Mr. Sunshine	Writer
1990	When Fortune Smiles,To Spy with Love!!,Shanghai Shanghai	Writer
1991	Zodiac Killers	Writer
1992	Shogun and Little Kitchen, Taking Manhattan	Writer
1993	The Bride with White Hair 2	Writer
1994	One of the Lucky Ones	Presenter
	I Have a Date with Spring	Presenter & Producer
	The Returning,One of the Lucky Ones, Oh! My Three Guys, It's a Wonderful Life	Writer
1995	Sea Root	Director
	Paradise Hotel	Producer
	The Umbrella Story, "Remember M, Remember E"	Writer
1996	Stooge, My Love, Hu-Du-Men	Writer
1997	The Mad Phoenix, Hu-Du-Men, "Ah Fai, the Dumb",My Dad Is a Jerk!	Writer
1998	Ninth Happiness	Writer
1999	The Doctor in Spite of Himself	Writer
2000	What Is a Good Teacher	Writer
2001	Forever and Ever	Director & Writer
	Love au Zen, The Dark Tales	Writer
2002	May & August	Director & Writer
2003	Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective, Miss Du Shi Niang	Director & Writer
2004	Forever Yours	Presenter, Producer & Writer
2005	Perhaps Love	Writer

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work
	The 2nd Session of the Hong Kong Drama Awards Presentation Ceremony	Best Adapted Screenplay	"The Dark Tales" (2001)
	The 3nd Session of the Hong Kong Drama Awards Presentation Ceremony	Best Adapted Screenplay	"The Mad Phoenix" (1997)
	Hong Kong Film Awards & Hong Kong Screenwriters' Guild	Best Adapted Screenplay & Recommend Screenplay Award	"I Have a Date with Spring" (1994)
	Golden Horse Awards & The 17th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay	"The Mad Phoenix"(1994)
1989	Hong Kong Artist Awards	Best Playwright
1995	Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies Awards	People of the Year
1997		Louis Cartier Excellence Award
1999	The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China	Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS)
2005	The University of Hong Kong	Honorary University Fellow

References

• "Raymond To Kwok-Wai", Hong Kong Artists' Filmography, HKMDB, retrieved 31 March 2014
• "To, Raymond Kwok Wai", Honorary University Fellows, HKU, retrieved 1 April 2014
• "To Kwok-Wai(Sir Raymond To)", Raymond To's Bibliography, TokwokWai.com, retrieved 31 March 2014 (Chinese Web.)
• "Raymond To Kwok-Wai", Raymond To's Bibliography (in Chinese), Hong Kong Screenwriters' Guild, retrieved 31 March 2014

External links

• Raymond To at IMDb
• HK cinemagic entry