Carrie Ng Ka-Lai

Acting

Carrie Ng Ka-Lai

Born 1963-11-30 · Kowloon, Hong Kong

Carrie Ng Ka-Lai (Chinese: 吳家麗, born November 30th, 1963) is a Hong Kong actress well known for both Category-III cult and mainstream films. She won Best Actress at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival awards for her performance in Remains of a Woman and Best Supporting Actress at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Awards for The Kid. Other notable film credits include Edward Yang's Mahjong (1996) and cult classics Naked Killer (1992) and Sex and Zen (1991). Ng made her directorial debut with the revenge-thriller Angel Whispers (2015), which she co-directed, produced and scripted with film executive Shirley Yung.

Acting credits

Naked Killer poster
6.0

A young woman is trained by a professional assassin to become her partner in crime.

Naked Killer

1992

City on Fire poster
6.9

Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or she will leave Hong Kong with another lover; and he is being pursued by other cops who are unaware that he is a colleague. Chow would rather quit the force, feeling guilty about betraying gang members who have become his friends.

City on Fire

1987

Justice, My Foot! poster
6.7

An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.

Justice, My Foot!

1992

The Magic Touch poster
6.8

Hui Wai Tak tells people's fortunes by feeling their bones. In reality though, he is a scam artist who gathers information on his clients in advance and uses it to milk them for money. When the wife of Commissioner David Ho of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) comes to see him, he reveals that her husband is cheating on her. After facing the wrath of his wife, Ho decides to get revenge and sends junior assessor Yau Ho Kay to investigate Hui's income. During the investigation, Hui sustains a brain injury and slips into a coma. After he wakes up, he suddenly discovers that he has gained the real ability to see people's futures.

The Magic Touch

1992

Undercover Punch and Gun poster
6.0

An undercover cop is forced to team up with a group of unlikely allies to take down a drug smuggling ring.

Undercover Punch and Gun

2019

Thrilling Story poster
7.0

Thrilling Story is a Hong Kong made-for-TV Thriller directed by and starring Stanley Fung.

Thrilling Story

1993

Let It Be poster
NR

Let It Be is a Hong Kong Drama starring Anthony Wong

Let It Be

2000

Sex and Curse poster
4.8

Women keep throwing themselves at Charlie, but he falls for charming masseur Si Wai, who is beholden to a cute little idol who once saved her from being raped by a gangster. Unfortunately, the ghost of the gangster goes after Charlie, making him have sex with the women he is obliged to show around for work purposes.

Sex and Curse

1992

Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon poster
6.6

Fatty and Baldy, a pair of undercover detectives, infiltrate a Triad drug syndicate but are put on a leave of absence after apprehending the kingpin, Tak, in the middle of the police commander's wedding. They return to find that Tak has been bailed out and has hired a team of assassins to exact revenge.

Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon

1990

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

The Silent War poster
6.0

An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.

The Silent War

2012

The Ultimate Vampire poster
5.5

On July 15, the Ghost Gate opens and spirits wander the world. Taoist master Uncle Chiu prepares rituals, but his disciple Wanchai sneaks off to a ghost play and is charmed by the wandering spirit Li. Charleston goes to save him, but also falls for her, and together they unleash the ghosts. To set things right, Uncle Chiu calls on his colleague, Master Kin, but trouble grows when Wanchai and Charleston accidentally kill Kin’s corrupt disciple, who turns out to be his secret son. Kin resurrects him as a bloodsucking vampire to seek revenge.

The Ultimate Vampire

1991

Evil Instinct poster
4.8

Penny and Wendy originally are co-workers and best friends until Wendy is promoted. Penny feels that she is getting old and can't compete with Wendy, she leaves Hong Kong, takes snake blood to cleanse herself, and then returns to Hong Kong for revenge.

Evil Instinct

1996

Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight poster
4.7

A pair of slackers are forced to put aside their childish ways when a zombie outbreak makes its way to their small town.

Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight

2017

Gun n' Rose poster
5.7

Mr Lung, the boss of a criminal family, decides that his adopted son Alan should be his successor. However, this decision doesn’t suit Mr Lung’s biological sons Simon and Bowie, so they intend to get rid of their adopted brother. Alan manages to escape death and flee; he is determined to start new peaceful life. But will he be able to escape his past?

Gun n' Rose

1992

Gunmen poster
5.3

This story follows a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. His department is overrun with corruption, while gangsters rule the city via the opium trade.

Gunmen

1988

Mahjong poster
7.5

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

Sex Medusa poster
4.7

A team of scientists conducting a biological study in the underground sewage system discovers a group of alien-looking eggs that they subsequently destroy. However, unknown to them, one of the eggs had hatched and escaped. It is a snake-like creature that can adapt quickly to human society, and it soon adopts human form. As a beautiful woman, the snake creature seeks food, and a way to fertilize her eggs.

Sex Medusa

2001

Call Girl '92 poster
8.0

When a frumpy divorcee leaves her philandering spouse for the company of her best friend's classy stable of escorts, romantic misadventures begin.

Call Girl '92

1992

Red Nights poster
4.3

A woman acquires a box with a seal made of white jade, it is rumored that the box belonged to the first Chinese emperor. She journeys to Hong Kong in an attempt to sell the artifact.

Red Nights

2011

Call Girl '88 poster
4.8

A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.

Call Girl '88

1988

Remains of a Woman poster
5.7

A powerful and unpredictable suspense drama about three ordinary people thrown together on a collision course to tragedy. Based on a true story.

Remains of a Woman

1993

C'est La Vie Mon Cheri poster
7.2

Unable to make it as a commercial success because he staunchly refuses to sell out, a struggling Hong Kong musician rediscovers his love of music and regains an interest in his life's meaning through his relationship with a dying girl.

C'est La Vie Mon Cheri

1993

Prison Flowers poster
3.3

Female business owner Ding is put in prison for fraud conspiracy. To fight for survival, she recruits Bo to fight against Sister Po for leadership in prison. Out of nowhere, recidivist Waan joins the battle too to reclaim her status.

Prison Flowers

2023

Behind the camera

Knock Knock Who's There poster
4.6

Funeral home is the last stop of the deceased ones. This is also where `turn undead` take place, the ritual that purifies the soul. The soul hasn‘t gone through the ritual is usually a haunting one. They still have things undone in human world. In order to finish that, they usually do something disturbing which led to supernatural incidents. Three seemingly seperate stories happen at funeral home intertwine.

Knock Knock Who's There

2015

Angel Whispers poster
3.9

Sham Shui Po, there is the most famous red-light district in Hong Kong. Li (Carrie Ng) owns a few of the apartments in the building and she earns a living by renting them out to the prostitutes. To the prostitutes though, she is more a friend than just a landlord. She gets together a group of prostitutes and work as hard as they could, trying to attract business to turn the tide. Still, they do not know they are quietly approaching death. It begins with the missing of a prostitute Ping. Ping is one of the tenants who live with her young daughter. In the process of finding Ping, Li discovered there had been a lot of missing prostitutes in this building, yet none of them were found. The building was somehow isolated from the outside world and a massacre begins. Li and the prostitutes have to find Ping and to fight a battle of wits with the invisible murderer. As more evident of the murderer's identity revealed, a tragic truth hidden for over twenty years starts to unveil.

Angel Whispers

2015

Angel Whispers poster
3.9

Sham Shui Po, there is the most famous red-light district in Hong Kong. Li (Carrie Ng) owns a few of the apartments in the building and she earns a living by renting them out to the prostitutes. To the prostitutes though, she is more a friend than just a landlord. She gets together a group of prostitutes and work as hard as they could, trying to attract business to turn the tide. Still, they do not know they are quietly approaching death. It begins with the missing of a prostitute Ping. Ping is one of the tenants who live with her young daughter. In the process of finding Ping, Li discovered there had been a lot of missing prostitutes in this building, yet none of them were found. The building was somehow isolated from the outside world and a massacre begins. Li and the prostitutes have to find Ping and to fight a battle of wits with the invisible murderer. As more evident of the murderer's identity revealed, a tragic truth hidden for over twenty years starts to unveil.

Angel Whispers

2015

Angel Whispers poster
3.9

Sham Shui Po, there is the most famous red-light district in Hong Kong. Li (Carrie Ng) owns a few of the apartments in the building and she earns a living by renting them out to the prostitutes. To the prostitutes though, she is more a friend than just a landlord. She gets together a group of prostitutes and work as hard as they could, trying to attract business to turn the tide. Still, they do not know they are quietly approaching death. It begins with the missing of a prostitute Ping. Ping is one of the tenants who live with her young daughter. In the process of finding Ping, Li discovered there had been a lot of missing prostitutes in this building, yet none of them were found. The building was somehow isolated from the outside world and a massacre begins. Li and the prostitutes have to find Ping and to fight a battle of wits with the invisible murderer. As more evident of the murderer's identity revealed, a tragic truth hidden for over twenty years starts to unveil.

Angel Whispers

2015