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Brian T Burrell

HONG KONG · FAITH · LANGUAGE · IDENTITY

Brian T
Burrell

​阿一 。一哥

WRITER  · EDUCATOR  · SPEAKER  · CREATOR 

25 years of building a life in a language and culture that wasn't mine taught me more about faith, identity, and what it means to be a man than anything I could have studied. I'm still learning. And I'm writing it all down.

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20+

Years in HK Entertainment Industry

50+

Film & TV Credits

5

Languages

100+

MC Events

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"Most people who go to a foreign country to find themselves come back with photos. I came back with a career — and questions I'm still working out."

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Brian arrived in Hong Kong in 1995 with a basic grasp of the language and no clear plan. What he found there changed the direction of his life in ways he didn't fully understand until much later.

He went home to Utah, finished his degrees in Chinese Literature and Asian Studies, and came back to Hong Kong for good in 1999. What followed was 25 years of doing something most people told him wasn't possible — building a real career inside the Cantonese-language entertainment industry, not as a novelty act, but as a working actor and MC that audiences recognised and clients called back.

Over 90 film and television credits. Hundreds of corporate events. Three languages. One city that became home.

But the longer he stayed, the more he realised that the real education wasn't happening on set or behind a microphone. It was happening in the gaps — in the moments of being the only foreigner in the room and having to figure out how to belong anyway. In raising a faith in a culture that didn't share it. In learning, slowly, what kind of man he actually wanted to be.

That's what this site is about now. Not the credits — though they're here if you want them. But what 25 years of choosing the harder, less obvious path actually taught him about faith, about language, about manhood, and about what it means to start over. Again.

He is currently preparing to launch Drama & Dice Education in Fukuoka, Japan. The next chapter starts there.

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PORTFOLIO

Selected Work

2007 - 2008

同事三份親

Best Selling Secrets

韋一

2010

葉問2

Ip Man 2

MC​/Translator

2019

葉問外傳:張天志

Master Z

Senior Police Officer

2023

金手指

The Goldfinger

Banker

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