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Soccer Killer

2017 film by Jeffrey Lau

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ16321604 ↗
Source-derived summary

Soccer Killer is a 2017 comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau, and starring He Jiong, Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi, Joey Yung, and Patrick Tam.

Cast

He Jiong as Maocilang

Gillian Chung as Princess Changping

Charlene Choi

Joey Yung

Patrick Tam

Stephy Tang

Wang Xuebing

Lam Chi-chung

Jeffrey Lau

Production

Principal photography started on April 8, 2014 in Hengdian World Studios and wrapped in May 2014.

Editorial summary

“Soccer Killer” enters the record as 2017 film by Jeffrey Lau. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Soccer, Killer and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-02-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Soccer, Killer and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Soccer Killer” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Soccer, Killer and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16321604. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2014.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Soccer Killer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.