# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-ah-mon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:14:52.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-ah-mon"
name: "Lawrence Ah Mon"
slug: "lawrence-ah-mon"
description: "Lawrence Ah Mon or Lawrence Lau Kwok Cheong (劉國昌) is a Hong Kong film director. His films are notable for their exploration of people on the fringes of society, such as Gangs (1988), Spacked Out (2000), Gimme Gimme (2001) and City Without Baseball (2008). He has also made several films about colonial and postcolonial subaltern history in Hong Kong, such as the Lee Rock series and Queen of Temple Street (1990)."
tagline: "Hong Kong film director (born 1949)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tz66iTJyva30OSt5BeUV0g98YHF.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.630708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013828/"
    handle:    "nm0013828"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%9C%8B%E6%98%8C"
    title: "劉國昌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "لورانس ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ah_Mon"
    title: "Lawrence Ah Mon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ah_Mon"
    title: "Lawrence Ah Mon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ah_Mon"
    title: "Lawrence Ah Mon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ah_Mon"
    title: "Lawrence Ah Mon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%9C%8B%E6%98%8C"
    title: "劉國昌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6503795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123195"
    title: "Lawrence Ah Mon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump