Shanghai Noon was the directorial debut of a man born in what year?
Shanghai Noon Shanghai Noon is a 2000 American-Hong Kong martial arts western comedy film starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu. The first in the "Shanghai (film series)". The film, marking the directorial debut of Tom Dey, was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.
Lai Man-Wai Lai Man-Wai (; 1893–1953), considered the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", was the director of the first Hong Kong film "Zhuangzi Tests His Wife" in 1913. In the film, Lai played the role of the wife, partly due to the reluctance of women to participate in show business at the time.