The FAKE information about Tomas Tang is still " alive" in many sites in Internet

Looong time ago, I published the fake Godfrey Ho Interview GaraiJan many years ago. That interview mixed some true information with many false pieces of information, lies & fake tips about Ho, IFD & the movies Joseph Lai produced since he started his company. I put here that false interview to let people know the truth & everything was cleared when Mike Leeder allowed me to publish his real interview to Joseph Lai.

Tomas Tang's most famous logo

The thing is that false interview to Godfrey Ho was not "alone" in the world wide web. To add insult to injury a lot of bullshit & crap about Tomas Tang & his Filmark International was included like a "double" feature. The most surprising of this case is that bullshit is still believed & rtcommented in many internet sites as true information. Even if there were links between IFD & Filmark, they were different companies, Tomas Tang was a real person, Godfrey Ho never ever directed a movie for Filmark in a direct way & of course Tomas Tang was not an alyas for Ho nor he was an asian Alan Smithee...

I have been searching some information about Filmark & Tomas Tang & I found the fake document GaraiJan spreaded so I would like to publish it here as it was done originally to let all the people / friends / visitors who visit this humble blog know that GaraiJan was only a joker who damaged IFD & Filmark public image with his lies ( it is a shame how he even mentioned korean star Dragon Lee died of overdose, as he also said about actor Bruce Baron).

THE FAKE TOMAS TANG INFORMATION

Tomas Tang
DOB and whereabouts: Never existed.
Real name: Godfrey Ho, Ratno Timoer, etc.

The name Tomas Tang and the production company "FILMARK INTERNATIONAL" is one with an unknown beginning and a mysterious ending. Actually, Tomas Tang never existed; it was another pseudonymn for Godfrey Ho, who created it in the hopes of creating another production company without anybody(aside from his production crew) knowing it was Ho behind it. Ho started using the name "Tomas Tang" as a co-producer along side Betty Chan, since "JOSEPH LAI'S IFD ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT" was on the scene in 1979.

ToLo Pore???? May HK director To Lo Po be behind this sad pseudonym?

In 1986, Ho broke the "Tomas Tang" name away to create "FILMARK INTERNATIONAL," and released "his" first movie, "CLASH OF THE NINJA," which starred Americans Paulo Tocha(credited as Paul Torcha)" and Eric Neff. "FILMARK" was one of the first cut-and-paste movies to edit unfinished Asian movies and hire the lead actors that played on it for few scenes, while the new scenes are Anglo Ninjas. "FILMARK INTERNATIONAL" moved to Malaysia after the release of "CLASH OF THE NINJA," when "IFD FILMS" began to distance themselves from Ho, and the IRS was investigating the validity of "FILMARK" as a registered production company, which it wasn't. While in Malaysia, Ho began using the pseudonyms Richard Philips, Mark Coston, Daniel Wells, Mick Stuard, Bob Poe, Ken Ashley, Carmen Heller, Bert Brooks, Edgar Jere, Victor Sears, Bruce Lambert, Ted King and Burt Petersen, as he disowned himself from these productions, loaning "FILMARK" to a producer from Malaysia, to sign the right for the company under another name, but the films being released in Hong Kong under "FILMARK INTERNATIONAL," but it went through many production companies along the way("NINJA HUNTER").

Filmark, like IFD did, also distributed some Taiwan black movies internationally like this one

With the fluctuations in its ownership, a number of genres were touched upon, including science fiction, war movies, the ninja, and the vampire; all done in the shoddier qualities of Malaysian movies. In 1990, the Malaysian Ratno Timoer producer, saw that Wu Kuo Jen also owned "FILMARK" with the same title design and had a wise idea, said "FILMARK" went bankrupt, and sold the company rights back to Ho. However Timoer kept on making movies under the "FILMARK" label without Ho knowing it," keeping his crew, and became successful, with a flurry of movies. Since Ho aquired "FILMARK," nothing was made out of, so he dropped it while in a contract with "BO HO/WIN" films. By 1993, Ho sold it to other producers, but "FILMARK" finally ended when its new producer died in an apartment fire in Hong Kong, and was labeled as the actual "Tomas Tang," therefore ending the "FILMARK" and its "owner" Ho was on the spot for suspicion in Dragon Lee's 1983 overdose murder, so the end of "FILMARK" saved Ho from more trouble. Questions have surfaced if the fire was actually and accident or a set up, since Ho was investigated at that time. Although denies ever falsifying a production company secretly, or disguising himself as "Tomas Tang." A false rumor had Wu Kuo Jen "Tomas Tang," as he created theri best films under the "FILMARK," but that's not true, as there are hundreds of "Tomas Tangs" with different directing styles, so that defeats that purpose of one director.

Korean action movies were also world wided distributed & released by Tomas Tang's who was always a step back to Joseph Lai's IFD.

Some compare Tomas Tang to an Asian Alan Sithee, but I say otherwise, since it is a mistake for one, an opportunity for the other, and a living for the latter; an organization. Although, pseudonyms are not uncommon in Hong Kong, as a director will save his name the standards of one production are not up to expectations.

Tomas Tang's Joseph Lai Co-Productions Filmography:
"CRAZY KUNG FU MASTER(1979)"
"THE DEMON FIGHTER(1979)"
"RED DRAGONS OF SHAOLIN"
"RIVALS OF THE DRAGON"
"SLEEPING FIST"
"THUNDERING MANTIS"
"THOUSAND MILE ESCORT"
"JUDOMAN'S SHADOW VS DR. WONG:" Jess Franco(with alternate story edited by Ho)
"TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN"
"RAIDERS OF BUDDHIST KUNG FU"
"VENGEANCE OF THE SNOW MAID"
"NINJA THUNDERBOLT": as co-producer
"NINJA THE PROTECTOR": as co producer
"NINJA CHAMPION(1986)"

* Note that Tang's HK and Southestern Asian "Americanized pseudonymns" as director appear as actors once in every while, which are inconsistent. The Anglo names used in the Tang movies are just pseudonymns, as there is either not one Anglo in a movie, while the cast of names are, or there is one Anglo, which doesn't account for the whole Asian cast, who are Asian, with of Anglo names in the credits! Either way, don't look for the name of an actor for research in Tangs, Ho's, or any low budget HK/SE Asian hack productions. The lead actor is the only real or distinctive name in the credits, which sometimes never happens either.

Tomas Tang's HK filmography:
"CLASH OF THE NINJA(1986):" credited as director Stanley Chan
"MISSION TERMINATE(1986):" Stanley Chan(this rowdy one stars Bruce Le, Richard Norton, Hwang Jang Lee)

* NOTE: that Ho, profitably thinking(it was not his publically), also sold "FILMARK" to the Taiwanese Wu Kuo Jen in 1986. Wu's "FILMARK" lasted 2 years, with a nominal amount of well made ninja movies befor the production comapny, and the "FILMARK" associated with Wu, dissolved in 1988.

Tomas Tang's Taiwanese filmography:
"NINJA HUNTERS(1984/86)" Directed by Robert Tai; completed by Wu Kuo Jen
"NINJA DEATH(1986):" Directed by Robert Tai; completed by Wu Kuo Jen
"SHAOLIN AGAINST LAMA(1986)"
"NINJA USA:" directed by Wu Kuo Jen, no pseudonyms. Produced under the pseudonymn of Randol Ye in California
"NINJA CONDORS(1986)"
"SUPER NINJA(1987):" produced under the George King pseudonymn
"NINJA THE BATTALION(1988)"

* NOTE: Although Tang's Thailand/Filipino movies are credited to that name, Thai director Ratno Timoer directed and produced "FILMARK" movies of Thailand/Filipino origin, hiring uncredited Thai actor Sorapong Chatri to star in everyone of his movies, who eventually directed or completed the direction of most of these films uncredited, while Timoer left production for Chatri to complete for reasons or when the other uncredited directors left production.
* NOTE: that there were an endless amount of Thailand/Filipino war movies being made under the "FILMARK" label from 1986-91; most of which never made it to the US video market, although there are some exceptions in the European market, and that these war movies do exist in the US markets, but on labels that are unknown or out of business. Therefore, it is impossible to track everyone of these "Tang" war movies.

* NOTE: that even though "FILMARK" was sold back to Ho in 1988, "FILMARK" productions in Thailand and the Phillipines have continued past Godfrey Ho's consent, and still continue today.

* NOTE: Some of these movies are so badly good or out of this world, I have to say something about them, so I may have a sentence or two about who's in it or what the plot.

Tomas Tang's Thailand/Filipino filmography:
"NINJA THE VIOLENT SORCERER(1986)" credited as director Bruce Lambert(Badd)
"NINJA FANTASY(1986)" Bruce Lambert
"NINJA DEMON'S MASSACRE(1986)" Bruce Lambert
"RAGING QUEEN(1986)" Stewart Cheung(uneven but Brutal Fonda Lynn ambush)
"NINJA MASTERS OF DEATH(1986)" Bruce Lambert
"THE DEVIL AND THE DYNAMITE(1986)" Bruce Lambert
"NINJA FORCE OF ASSASSANS(1986)" Victor Sears
"NINJA'S EXTREME WEAPONS(1986)" Tomas Tang
"NINJA THE WONDER BOY(1986)" Bruce Lambert
"NINJA CONNECTION(1986)" Tomas Tang
"NINJA IN ACTION(1986)" Tomas Tang
"FIRE SOLDIERS(1986)" (Bloody stuff)
"NINJA ENFORCER(1986)" Efren Pinon
"KRIS COMMANDO(1986)" Wilfredo Milan
"RAIDERS OF THE PARADISE(1986)" Romy Suzara(belic movie)
"EAGLE OF THE JUNGLE(1987)" Henry S.(More than EVERYTHING is in this one!)
"WARRIOR'S OF FIRE(1987)" Bruce Lambert
"NINJA PHANTOM HEROES(1987)" Tommy Cheng
"THE TREASURE OF KAMPUCHEA(1987)" Toranong Srichua
"NINJA IN THE KILLING FIELDS(1987)" York Lam
"NINJA: AMERICAN WARRIOR(1987)" Tommy Cheng
"NINJA CONNECTION(1986)" Dickson Poon
"MOB BUSTERS(1986)" Joe Chan(wild; vampires, ghosts)
"TWINKLE NINJA FANTASY(1987)" Tomas Tang
"COUNTER DESTROYER(1987)" Tomas Tang(a must see! You can't miss this one, whatever you do)
"JAGUAR PROJECT(1987)" K. Cha Long
"MAD MOVES(1987)" Tomas Tang
"SWARM OF THE NINJAS(1988)" Dickson Poon
"WILD FORCE(1988)" Francis Jun(like a Chambara)
"EMPIRE OF THE SPIRITUAL NINJA(1988)" Bruce Lambert
"ROBOVAMP(1988)" Tomas Tang
"VAMPIRE RAIDERS NINJA QUEEN(1989)" Bruce Lambert
"PROJECT NINJA DAREDEVILS(1987)" Tomas Tang(everything is in this one)
"SUPER PLATOON(1987)" Tomas Tang
"WARKILL(1988)" Ferde Grofe
"SMALL TERRIBLE KICKBOXER(1988)" Chorapong Folongo(a baaaaad ass movie)
"SEARCH FOR THE TREASURE(1988)" Tomas Tang(Kent Cheng zombie?)
"ANGELS OF DEATH(1988)" Peter Tung
"ROBOCOP VS THE VAMPIRES" Rick Ching(If you loved "COUNTER DESTROYER," this is for you)
"ROBOVAMPIRE" Tomas Tang
"RAGE BETRAYED(1988)" Tomas Tang
"RAGING ANGER(1988)"
"REDFORD WHITE'S UNTOUCHABLES(1988)" Angel Labra
"SPY INFERNO(1988)" Tomas Tang
"TERMINAL ANGELS(1988)" Tomas Tang(better than "ANGEL;" MORE guns and fights. Must see.)
"LAW OF THE GANGSTERS(1989)" Edgar Jere
"NINJA PROJECT OF HELL(1989)" Rick Ching
"UNDERCOVERS(1989)" Tomas Tang
"DEMENTIAL EXPLOSION(1990)" Richard Tang
"SOLDIER WARRIORS(1991)" Toranong Srichua(like a Chambara; buckets of blood)
"COUNTERESPIONAGE IN THE FORREST(1991)" Richard Chan
"BOOMERANG ACTION(1991)" Sisworo Tangit
"POWER CONNECTION(1993)" Francis Jun
"REVENGE OF SCARFACE" SI
"RAGE(1993)" Anthony Maharaj
"REVENGE OF SCARFACE" SI
"RAIDERS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE(1994)" Sorapong Chatri
"RED WOLF(1994)" SI
"RETURN OF DARNA(1994)" Edu Manzano(Filipina magician)
"TATLONG PURI 3(1994)"(banned; rapings and vengeance. Reportedly, it is available in the Japanese market under a different title, and possibly edited into a Japanese hardcore series)
"HARDBOILED 3: FIRE LEGACY(1996)" Wilfredo Milan
"URBAN RANGERS(1998)" Monsour Del Rosario(Heroic trio+fetish+tons of gore= you be the judge)
"ULTIMATE DEFENSE(1998)"


This is what GaraiJan offered us, such amount of filth & nonsenses have no place & no reason to be believed anymore. Most of this information plus the titles he marked as Filmark productions have been found to be mere lies, that's why I think is stupid to use the above words as true information whenever, wherever someone writes or talks about Filmark International or its late founder Tomas Tang.