John Ching

John Ching Cheuk-Kiu (Cantonese: 程卓翹) is a British-born Hong Kong animator, film director, screenwriter and actor. He is the adoptive father of actress and voice actress Leslie Ching.

Ching was born in Birmingham on 1 August 1942, but spent his high school and college years in London. He started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist when he came back to Hong Kong on 11 April 1965. He became a feature film director in the 1970s. Most of his films explore the theme of imagination and its importance to life, express his opposition to bureaucracy and authoritarianism, and feature characters facing dark or paranoid situations. His own scripts feature black comedy and tragicomedic elements, as well as surprise endings.