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March 29, 2024

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Ventura Raymond (b. 1908-04-16 / d. 1979-03-29) alias Ray Ventura

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Suzuki
Seijun. 2017-02-13

93

Born 1923-05-24. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

He was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991). His films remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid-1980s, home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 1990s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery. Suzuki continued making films, albeit sporadically. In Japan, he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television. He died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Hill
Stephen Clancy. 2010-06-05

34

Born 1976-05-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

He was an African American pornographic actor who performed under the screen name "Steve Driver". He died while being apprehended by police for the alleged murder of fellow actor Herbert Hin Wong as well as assault on two other individuals. On June 1, 2010, Hill was accused of attacking the three with a sword.
Stephen Hill had been told he was terminated from Ultima DVD and was being evicted from the premises. The incident escalated, resulting in Hill attacking a man in the back of the building. Two others, including Herbert Wong, rushed to the victim’s aid and were cut with repeated swings of a movie prop Samurai-style machete. All three victims were rushed to Northridge Hospital Medical Center where Wong was pronounced dead.
Four days later on June 5th, Hill was surrounded by a SWAT team in a residence located around Azul Drive in West Hills. Hill climbed a nearby hill area and was brandishing a sword which he threatened to use to kill himself. Video recording shows that Hill was first shot near the right shoulder by a policeman, most likely with a non lethal gun. Hill, cornered, went closer to the edge of the cliff. A second shot was fired by another policeman. Then Hill got even closer to the edge, and only then attempted a jump that eventually killed him.

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Wong
Donald Tobias. 2010-05-30

35

Born 1974-06-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Suicide

Tobi Wong was a Canadian born designer. He was known for his appropriation of work by other designers.
One of his most elaborate productions was the Wrong Store, a hoax-like exhibition he organized in 2007 with Gregory Krum, the director of retail at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

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Lung Fong
Jimmy. 2008-11-14

54

Born 1954-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

Being remembered as always playing the most hated Hong Kong on-screen bad guys, Lung Fong, died from lung cancerat a hospital in Xi'an of northern China. Lung Fong, birth name Li Chien-Min, started his career by playing small roles in kung fu movies in the 1970s and unsuccessfully portrayed a baddie in a gang movie in 1979. Then in 1981 he disappeared from the big screen.
In 1989, producer/director Wong Jing need someone to play a baddie in Casino Raiders and someone recommended Lung Fong, a restaurant manager at that time. Playing the role turned out to be his biggest career break through and baddies he played in Wong Jing's Crocodile Hunter (1989) and God of Gamblers (1989) made him more famous. He quitted his restaurant job and played dozens of bad guys in the following decade. In 1994, Lung Fong invited no less than half dozen well-known Hong Kong actors who are playing bad guys to star in a comedy called Hong Kong Adam's Family, in which they portrayed members of a baddie family, who in the end all turned good except Lung Fong's character. The movie failed miserably at the box-office.

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Wong
Yee Keung Victor. 2001-09-12

74

Born 1927-07-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

Yee Keung Victor Wong (traditional Chinese: 黃自強) was an American actor, artist, and journalist. A fourth-generation Chinese-American, he appeared in supporting roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He portrayed Chinese sorcerer Egg Shen in John Carpenter's 1986 cult film Big Trouble in Little China, royal adviser Chen Bao Shen in the Best Picture–winning The Last Emperor, rural storekeeper Walter Chang in the comedy horror film Tremors, and Grandpa Mori Tanaka in the 3 Ninjas tetralogy.

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