Born in Hong Kong to veteran director Wong Tin-Lam and later earning a Chinese-literature degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he entered the industry as a TVB scriptwriter in the mid-1970s before moving to Shaw Brothers, where his first directorial effort, Challenge of the Gamesters (1981), appeared. A hallmark of his career is the 1989 blockbuster God of Gamblers, which shattered loc…
