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Golden Harvest (嘉禾) is a film production, distribution and exhibition company based in Hong Kong.

Notable names in the company include its founders, the veteran film producers Raymond Chow (born 1 January 1929) (鄒文懐) and Leonard Ho or Ho Koon Cheung (何冠昌). Chow and Ho were executives with Hong Kong's top studio, Shaw Brothers, but left in 1970 to form their own studio. They succeeded by taking a different approach from the highly centralized Shaws model. Golden Harvest contracted with independent producers and gave talent more generous pay and greater creative freedom. Some filmmakers and actors from Shaws defected. But the making of the company was a 1971 deal with soon-to-be martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, after he had turned down the low-paying, standard contract offered him by Shaws.

In 1973, Golden Harvest entered into a pioneering co-production with Hollywood for the English-language Lee film Enter the Dragon
(龍爭虎鬥), a worldwide hit made with the Warner Brothers studio.

Golden Harvest supplanted Shaw Brothers as Hong Kong's dominant studio by the end of the '70s and retained that position into the '90s. Its greatest asset for years was that from the 1980s until very recently, it produced almost all of the films of Jackie Chan, Asia's top box office star.

The company has passed its heyday, and now produces fewer than five films a year. Cinema management in Hong Kong and in Mainland China is now its main business activity.

Cinemas

It has cinemas not only in Hong Kong, but in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, most are joint ventures. Golden Village is a joint venture with Village Roadshow and there is a Gold Class cinema and Asia's first multiplex. In Malaysia, the group has two brands, one Golden Screen a joint venture with Malaysia's PPB group. And another TGV Cinemas, formerly Tanjong Golden Village, a joint venture between Tanjong plc and GEMS of Malaysia. It had recently acquired Warner Village in Taiwan.

The group operates 6 cinemas in Hong Kong.

Golden Harvest Cinemas in Hong Kong

Grand Ocean (in Ocean Centre, Harbour City)
Golden Gateway (in The Gateway, Harbour City)
New York (in Causeway Bay)
GH Mongkok
GH Hollywood (in Plaza Hollywood, Diamond Hill)
GH Tsing Yi

Films Produced

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Shaolin Temple
Once Upon A Time in China
Once Upon A Time in China 2
Once Upon A Time in China 3
Police Story (film)
Police Story 2
Police Story 3
Police Story 4
Crime Story
Dragons Forever
Project A
Project A Part 2
The Big Boss
Fist of Fury
Way of the Dragon
Game Of Death
Tower Of Death
Stormy Sun
The Boys in Company C
The Cannonball Run
Cannonball Run 2
High Road to China
Lassiter
Speed Zone
Better Late Than Never
One Armed Boxer
Hapkido
A Man Called Tiger
When Taekwondo Strikes
Stoner
The Skyhawk
All in the Family (not the American television show)
Last Hurrah For Chivalry
Duel to the Death
The Amsterdam Kill
Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind
The Storm Riders
Till Death Do Us Part
You Shoot, I Shoot
Heart Of Dragon
Rumble in the Bronx
Dragon Lord
Summer Snow
The Blade
Ah Kam
Viva Erotica
Hu-Du-Men

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Golden Harvest Cinemas in Hong Kong

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