Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Acting

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Born

1954-12-15 (71)

Place of birth

Taipei, Taiwan

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling, also known as Elaine Kam, is a Hong Kong–Taiwanese actress. She began her career in Taiwan in 1973 before moving to Hong Kong in 1981. She has been nominated seven times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won four for her supporting roles in Love Unto Waste, People's Hero , Port of Call and Mad World.

Known for

Off Pedder poster
10.0

The sitcom is about office politics in a magazine company, as well as family and romantic relationships amongst the characters, with the majority of the cast from Best Selling Secrets.

Off Pedder

2008

Best Selling Secrets poster
8.0

Wong Ka-Nam disappeared to the United States, leaving behind her son and husband in Hong Kong. When her husband dies in an airplane accident looking for her, Wong Ka-Nam's son, Luk Chit is taken into the custody of her mother-in-law, Ng Hang. After eighteen long years, Wong Ka-Nam wishes to see her son again and returns to Hong Kong. However, she is met with adamant resistance from her mother-in-law, who views Ka-Nam as bad luck, blaming her for the death of her son. Highly protective of her grandson and fearing that Wong Ka-Nam will attempt to take him away, Ka Nam's mother-in-law does everything in her power to keep mother and son apart. However, Wong Ka-Nam is ironically assisted by her own son, who befriends her and secures her office job in his advertising agency.

Best Selling Secrets

2007

Lost in Beijing poster
6.5

A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.

Lost in Beijing

2007

Yi Yi poster
8.0

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

Yi Yi

2000

Sandwiches poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sandwiches

1983

When Heaven Burns poster
9.2

When Yip Chi-Yan, Lau Chun-Hung, Sung Yee-Long, and Cheng Chun-Hin are brought together again by an accident, their lives change irreversibly. Chi-Yan is a radio host. She and the other three were members of the same band eighteen years ago. The memory of them playing music together comes back vividly to them, and so does the pain they have all tried so hard to bury. Eighteen years ago her boyfriend, Ka-Ming, was killed in a hiking accident. Time flies, but she can never forgive Chun-Hung, Yee-Long, and Chun-Hin for failing to save Ka-Ming. As they reconnect, the four good friends and the people around them are drawn into a vortex of love they have no control over.

When Heaven Burns

2011

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Where the Wind Blows poster
5.6

The decades spanning story of two very different policemen who rise to power in Hong Kong during British rule, and end up at odds with both organised crime groups and the anti-corruption unit vowing to bring them down.

Where the Wind Blows

2023

The Last Dance poster
7.8

Despite the pandemic sending most industries into recession, debt-ridden wedding planner Dominic (Dayo WONG) gets a miraculous chance to turn things around when a funeral planner retires and passes the baton to him. His creative gimmicks for funerals help his business find unexpected success, but Dominic’s biggest obstacle is winning the approval of respected and sternly traditional Taoist priest, Master Man (Michael HUI). After some unordinary funerals, Dominic gradually understands Master Man’s code of ethics and the meaning behind each farewell.

The Last Dance

2024

Super Me poster
7.4

Sang Yu is so exhausted from trying to stay awake. Every time he closes his eyes, a demon chases and kills him in his dreams. One night Sang realizes he has a special power: he can bring treasures from his dreams into reality. Almost overnight, he becomes a rich man. But his wealth also attracts the attention of a ruthless gangster.

Super Me

2021

The Snowball on a Sunny Day poster
6.0

Kam Muiday (Elaine JIN) has long been asking her granddaughter Sunnie Lam (CHUNG Suet Ying) to buy the same set of lucky numbers in each Mark Six lottery ticket for years. However, fate played a cruel trick. During the Lunar New Year’s "Snowball Draws", Sunnie was unable to place the bet, and that set of lucky numbers won a jackpot of HK$ 88.88 million. Not wanting to shatter grandmother's dream, Sunnie borrowed a villa from her filming colleague Jay Lai (Edan LUI), claiming that it was purchased with the winnings. Sunnie's father, Ken Lam (Jiro LEE), mother Charlotte Tong (Harriet YEUNG), and younger brother Harry Lam (LI Hoi Lam Marek), moved into the villa with her grandmother. Living together under one roof gradually healed their once-distant relationships and brought them closer. However, an unexpected incident ultimately revealed this well-intentioned "villa lie"...

The Snowball on a Sunny Day

2026

Pace poster
NR

After serving a prison sentence, 40-year old Malcolm is intent on rebuilding his life. He looks for purpose in his late brother’s passion for running and trains to run a full marathon. Confronted with unresolved family expectations, a judgemental society and destructive self-loathing, can Malcolm keep pace, or will he succumb to the unrelenting tempo of society?

Pace

2026

Bird of Paradise poster
NR

Eagerly wanting to have a last bloom of her youth, Mama Yeung conceals her stubborn husband and rebellious son, and steps into the new splendid world of pole dance. Yet, this secret has been accidentally revealed, putting her into a dilemma between fulfilling her family’s needs and pursuing her dream…

Bird of Paradise

2026

破·地獄:感恩特别版 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

破·地獄:感恩特别版

2025

Ready O/R Rot poster
6.4

The story revolves around three couples dealing with accidental pregnancy, unfaithfulness, and planning a wedding with a meddling Mother-In-Law. Will they call it quits or remember why they fell in love in the first place?

Ready O/R Rot

2023

2010s · 16 titles

Monster Hunt poster
6.5

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

Monster Hunt

2015

The Viral Factor poster
5.8

Agent Jon contemplates leaving the force until he learns his brother is working as a mercenary for a former colleague who betrayed their team.

The Viral Factor

2012

Port of Call poster
6.5

Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16-year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.

Port of Call

2015

Finding Mr. Right poster
6.5

When Jiajia, a young woman in Beijing who lives a luxurious life provided by her wealthy boyfriend, gets pregnant, she goes to the United States, hoping that the baby will be born an American citizen. There she meets Frank who offers help and makes her think twice about who her Mr. Right really is.

Finding Mr. Right

2013

House of the Rising Sons poster
NR

The musical biography of the 1970s Hong Kong rock band The Wynners. Starting with their humble beginnings as band causing noise in the neighborhood, through to their career of massive stars throughout Asia.

House of the Rising Sons

2018

Midnight Diner poster
5.3

When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Patrons enjoy home cooking and delicious stories at a master chef's small, overnight, counter-only restaurant.

Midnight Diner

2019

A Tale of Three Cities poster
6.7

A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.

A Tale of Three Cities

2015

Guilt by Design poster
6.3

The film centers around a juror on a high-profile case who is blackmailed into fixing the verdict after his daughter is kidnapped.

Guilt by Design

2019

33 Postcards poster
5.5

Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are changed forever.

33 Postcards

2011

29+1 poster
7.0

A story of two women, Christy Lam and Wong Tin-lok, who are both turning 30.

29+1

2017

Beijing Love Story poster
6.8

A cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.

Beijing Love Story

2014

My Egg Boy poster
5.5

Even in modern-day Taipei, women feel the societal pressure to get married and have children before the clock runs out. Thankfully, there is a solution: freeze your eggs and prolong your fertility until the right one comes along! Starring Ariel Lin, the film is a glimpse of what millions of working women struggle with: finding the balance between pursuing a career and marriage.

My Egg Boy

2016

L for Love, L for Lies Too poster
6.0

On the night that Bo finds his boyfriend Sun cheating on her, she befriends Louis, a professional swindler who ends up recruiting her to join his entourage.

L for Love, L for Lies Too

2016

The House That Never Dies poster
4.6

Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. The film follows Xu Ruoqing a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.

The House That Never Dies

2014

Mad World poster
7.0

An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not their only source of grief, as they find the outside world is a cruel and unjust place.

Mad World

2016

Buddy Cops poster
4.9

After the hot-tempered police detective Fei messes up yet another operation, he is transferred to a fictional department that houses all the useless staff the force couldn’t sack. There he finds a new enemy in the mild-mannered desk officer Johnny, who loathes Fei’s disregard for discipline. But when Fei’s father and Johnny’s mother coincidentally become an item, the new brothers must somehow learn to cohabit under the same roof.

Buddy Cops

2016

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 11 titles

A Brighter Summer Day poster
8.2

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

A Brighter Summer Day

1991

Gorgeous poster
6.5

When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah Bu meets the dashing Chi Wu. Meanwhile, Ah Bu's boyfriend from Taiwan comes looking for her, as the action and romance follow Ah Bu back to Taiwan.

Gorgeous

1999

A Confucian Confusion poster
7.5

Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei intersect, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.

A Confucian Confusion

1994

Mahjong poster
7.6

Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.

Mahjong

1996

Tempting Heart poster
6.0

A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.

Tempting Heart

1999

The Soong Sisters poster
6.6

Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.

The Soong Sisters

1997

Heart Against Hearts poster
7.0

George Lam and Carol Cheng play a couple who finally settle down after a long-running love marathon. Their troubles begin when George loses his job and becomes a house-husband, while Carol and daughter (Vivian Chow) become the breadwinners of the family.

Heart Against Hearts

1992

Metade Fumaça poster
7.3

Former Hong Kong gangster Roy returns home after three decades of exile in Brazil, hoping to settle some unfinished business before he dies. Affected by Alzheimer's disease, he hires young thug Smokey to act as his guide and helper as he searches for the man who put a bullet in him and stole the love of his life. Traveling through the Hong Kong underworld together, the two men form a close bond as they discuss their idealized loves and missed opportunities.

Metade Fumaça

1999

Best Friend of the Cops poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Best Friend of the Cops

1990

Love & Let Love! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love & Let Love!

1998

City of Glass poster
5.8

The story of man and ex-girlfriend found dead after a car crash and how their children come together to retell the story.

City of Glass

1998

1980s · 22 titles

He Lives by Night poster
7.4

A killer wears women's clothing and stalks women that wear white fish-net stockings

He Lives by Night

1982

Heart to Hearts poster
10.0

The first of the three titles in the screwball Hong Kong "Hearts" series. Alex, a creative director, temporarily fills in as conductor for a choir. Two playful kids give him a big headache. One of them is Wei Man. Her mother is a neurotic single parent. She believes that Alex has an illicit desire towards Man and nearly takes him to task for it. She eventually discovers that Alex is a gentleman and mutual attraction blossoms into a love affair. Soon after, Alex's ex-girlfriend comes back to him, wanting to patch up their relationship. He is torn and must decide between the two.

Heart to Hearts

1988

Her Vengeance poster
6.1

Fong Kit Ying is an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who inadvertently angers a gang of drunken patrons. They follow her home after her shift and mount a viscous gang assault. After her traumatic ordeal, she vows to hunt them down one by one.

Her Vengeance

1988

Wild Search poster
6.8

While conducting a raid of an illegal arms deal, detective Mew Mew discovers the body of a dead woman and her daughter who witnessed the murder. Believing that the girl may be in danger, Mew Mew seeks out her aunt Cher, and the three develop a bond, but Cher's ex-husband and a vengeful gunrunner soon show up to disrupt their short-lived peace.

Wild Search

1989

Maybe It's Love poster
6.7

Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface for residents of a small village when the young coquettish Mrs. Wang disappears.

Maybe It's Love

1984

Love in a Fallen City poster
6.4

Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.

Love in a Fallen City

1984

Women poster
7.0

Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her sisters put on, beneath it all, each of them secretly yearns for a man in her life.

Women

1985

Ninja Strike poster
5.8

During World War II, a valuable pendant is taken into hiding to protect it from those who would use it for evil. Years later, men are still trying to retrieve the pendant, now separated into two parts for safekeeping, and will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. A young tournament fighter who is traveling to a big event unwittingly becomes involved in the recovery of the mysterious pendant.

Ninja Strike

1985

They Came to Rob Hong Kong poster
6.4

A bungling gang of criminal mercenaries arrives from the Chinese mainland on a mission for a mysterious evil mastermind, only to discover that their shady new employer has set them all up for a fall.

They Came to Rob Hong Kong

1989

Love Unto Wastes poster
6.7

Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary. The survivors come under the scrutiny of an eccentric cop, and their underlying fears and regrets slowly but surely emerge.

Love Unto Wastes

1986

Silent Romance poster
4.0

Dummy, a deaf mute, is a brilliant and undiscovered cartoonist whose current publication has been gradually ignored by his readers. Consequently, the drop of the sale has promptly provoked his superior urging him to adopt a new style. During the midst of a mental struggle for new subjects, Cactus, a night club hostess, walks into his life, as he silently and secretly falls in love with her. However, nurturing with an instinctive inferiority complex that had been fostered by his shortcomings all his life. Dummy had not been able to gather his courage to reveal his love to Cactus.....

Silent Romance

1984

Cop Busters poster
5.0

Big Bear and Big Mouth were raised in the same orphanage. They worked in the traffic division of the police department for years. They were assigned to tow cars by their division commander; but on the first day of their assignment they mistakenly picked up a little girl named Bun. They were delighted to discover that Bun had an attractive aunt named Mary. In typical fashion, Big Mouth mistook Mary's show of affection as a show of love, and was devastated when she rejected him.

Cop Busters

1985

Diary of a Big Man poster
6.6

A two-timing bigamist finds himself concocting scheme after scheme with his best friend, Chi Hung, to prevent either of his wives from discovering his bigamy. The unwanted intervention of a police officer as well as a series of unfortunate events lead to the wives discovery of the whole plot. They team up with Chi Hung's exasperated fiancée, Ka Lai, to exact revenge upon the two men.

Diary of a Big Man

1988

Those Merry Souls poster
8.0

Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two movie stunt actors in Hong Kong and are suspicious of Lung's father Chiu's mysterious behavior. Unbeknownst to them, Chiu was commissioned as a "messenger" by the Spirit World to take newly-departed souls to the other side. When Tak suffers a major accident on the movie set, Chiu keeps Tak's soul from being taken away, thereby, reviving him.

Those Merry Souls

1985

I Love Lolanto poster
6.3

Nat chan finds a mentally retarded Pat Ha, who has run away from home. Her father is a millionare and wants her to have brain surgery which has a 50% chance of death. Pat runs away because her father girlfriends secret lover threatens her.

I Love Lolanto

1984

People's Hero poster
7.2

Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The robbery goes awry, but before order can be restored, Sonny assumes control. He proceeds to turn the hostage situation to his advantage, and uses the bank's customers and personnel as leverage to free his girlfriend from prison. On the outside, sympathetic cop Captain Chan debates with his captain over how to handle the situation.

People's Hero

1987

Dream Lovers poster
6.9

Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.

Dream Lovers

1986

The Seven Angels poster
10.0

A female version of the US "Police Academy" series. Seven badly-behaved policewomen are instructed to go undercover in a nightclub called Vovo, to catch a deviant named See GaPao.

The Seven Angels

1985

Seven Warriors poster
6.7

In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong remake of Seven Samurai.

Seven Warriors

1989

Set Me Free! poster
8.0

Alex Man leads a cast of Mainland Chinese characters having survived political turmoil but still gets on the criminal path in Hong Kong in order to make a living.

Set Me Free!

1988

I Am Sorry poster
6.2

Carole and Mandy have just become neighbors in a luxury apartment complex. Mandy is a successful career woman, educated and independent. Carole is a kept woman, dreaming of the day when her businessman lover will divorce his wife to marry her. Through Mandy, Carole meets Edgar, a neurotic headwaiter. She breaks off her affair with the businessman, but Edgar is still masochistically involved with his old girlfriend Alice. Carole realizes that she still has a lot to learn about life. And nothing is going to stop her from learning it.

I Am Sorry

1989

Couples, Couples, Couples poster
7.0

Couples, Couples, Couples is a largely broad comedy about the vagaries of romance and babymaking.

Couples, Couples, Couples

1988

Series credits

Off Pedder poster
10.0

The sitcom is about office politics in a magazine company, as well as family and romantic relationships amongst the characters, with the majority of the cast from Best Selling Secrets.

Off Pedder

2008

Best Selling Secrets poster
8.0

Wong Ka-Nam disappeared to the United States, leaving behind her son and husband in Hong Kong. When her husband dies in an airplane accident looking for her, Wong Ka-Nam's son, Luk Chit is taken into the custody of her mother-in-law, Ng Hang. After eighteen long years, Wong Ka-Nam wishes to see her son again and returns to Hong Kong. However, she is met with adamant resistance from her mother-in-law, who views Ka-Nam as bad luck, blaming her for the death of her son. Highly protective of her grandson and fearing that Wong Ka-Nam will attempt to take him away, Ka Nam's mother-in-law does everything in her power to keep mother and son apart. However, Wong Ka-Nam is ironically assisted by her own son, who befriends her and secures her office job in his advertising agency.

Best Selling Secrets

2007

Sandwiches poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sandwiches

1983

When Heaven Burns poster
9.2

When Yip Chi-Yan, Lau Chun-Hung, Sung Yee-Long, and Cheng Chun-Hin are brought together again by an accident, their lives change irreversibly. Chi-Yan is a radio host. She and the other three were members of the same band eighteen years ago. The memory of them playing music together comes back vividly to them, and so does the pain they have all tried so hard to bury. Eighteen years ago her boyfriend, Ka-Ming, was killed in a hiking accident. Time flies, but she can never forgive Chun-Hung, Yee-Long, and Chun-Hin for failing to save Ka-Ming. As they reconnect, the four good friends and the people around them are drawn into a vortex of love they have no control over.

When Heaven Burns

2011

香江歲月 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

香江歲月

1984

101 Citizen Arrest (II) poster
NR

This article contains no synopsis. You can help DramaWiki by writing one.

101 Citizen Arrest (II)

1984

I Bet Your Pardon poster
NR

Con artist Kent Cheng is imprisoned after being set up by Chinese detective Kent Tong and his senior Paul Chun. Kent T. even steals his girlfriend, Angie Cheong. Five years later, Kent C. has become a renowned film producer. He has two assistants (Babyjohn Choi and James Ng), as well as his daughter (Ada Wong), whom he recently reunited with. When his junior Parkman Wong is murdered, Kent C. suspects that his disciple (Edward Ma) did it. The two face off on the gambling table... Ada confesses to her dancing teacher Angie that she has a crush on rookie director Dominic Ho. It leads to an unexpected reunion between Angie and Kent C. Angie steals Kent T.'s books with his illegal transactions and prepares to elope. Outraged, Kent T. tries to destroy the pair. As Kent C. is escorted to prison, he is broken free by a mysterious person. They plan a trap and vow to lure the tyrannical Kent T. inside.

I Bet Your Pardon

2019

The Legend of the Purple Hairpin poster
NR

A love story entailing the heroic Nalan Dong who falls in love with the beautiful dancer Huo Xiao Yu. At the same time, Dong's best friend is deeply in love with Xiao Yu.

The Legend of the Purple Hairpin

2013

Love Storm poster
NR

Chia Le, a rich 'barbie girl', finally finds her hero, who suddenly appears and blocks a truck for her. However, he doesn't love her back. To get closer to him, Chia Le starts working in the same company as him, while her childhood friend, Bao Lung, is secretly in love with her.

Love Storm

2003

年少無知 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

年少無知

2012

潘多拉的秘密 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

潘多拉的秘密

2015

Fool's Paradise poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fool's Paradise

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

寻你到天涯

2013

阿蘇出駕 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

阿蘇出駕

2013

北京遇上西雅图 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

北京遇上西雅图

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