The Data
HKMDB contains credits for cast and crew members, image and portrait galleries as well as user-contributed reviews. Additional information about individual films such as production company, release date, box office gross and languages spoken is included where known. Information about cast and crew members may include gender, birth dates and brief biographies.
There are over 13,000 reviews on the site, and more than 250,000 images. Images can be associated with a movie and with one or more people, and largely serve as an aid in identifying cast members.
Reviews can be submitted by any registered member, but cast and crew information can only be entered by an authorised editor. The database has a forum in which proposed additions or modifications can be raised by any member for consideration by the editorial team.
Since the on-screen credits in many older Hong Kong movies are often sparse and frequently contain errors themselves, and cast/crew members often worked (and sometimes still work) under different names, with a variety of different spellings, it can take some detective work to establish accurate credits for a particular film. Restricting the addition of data to an editorial team who specialise in Hong Kong cinema means that the database typically contains more accurate information with respect to the films and people it covers than the Internet Movie Database.
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