Austin Wai Tin-Chi

Acting

Austin Wai Tin-Chi

Born — Died

1957-08-13 — 2012-10-04

Place of birth

Weihai, Shandong Province, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

78 titles

Austin Wai Tin-chi (13 August 1957 – 4 October 2012) was a Hong Kong actor and choreographer. He was the elder brother of actress Kara Wai. He had notable roles in the martial arts films like The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, 5 Superfighters, The Avenging Eagle and Flash Point.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

SPL: Kill Zone poster
7.0

Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit, replacing Chan who wants an early retirement.

SPL: Kill Zone

2005

Flash Point poster
7.0

Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland China's takeover of Hong Kong. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. A showdown is inevitable!

Flash Point

2007

I Corrupt All Cops poster
5.5

In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was established, whose operation branch was headed by Yim. Bong and Unicorn also joined the ICAC. Despite threats of violence and intimidation, they managed to bring about the downfall of the empire of graft.

I Corrupt All Cops

2009

One Nite in Mongkok poster
6.8

A gangster's son is accidentally killed during a drunken dispute with a rival gang, and Officer Milo's task force is assigned to the case. He soon learns that a hitman has been hired to take out the rival gang leader. While Milo and his crew desperately try to find and stop the hired gun, fearing all-out war in the streets, Lai Fu, a smart but inexperienced killer from a small town in the mainland, arrives in Hong Kong to do his job.

One Nite in Mongkok

2004

Fist Power poster
6.1

Cheuk is a mainland security officer who's thrown into a race against the clock when he discovers a man is holding an entire school hostage in exchange for his adopted son, so it's up to Cheuk to use his formidable martial arts skills to retrieve the boy and bring him back before the man decides to kill everyone.

Fist Power

2000

Insuperable Kid Huoyuanjia poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Insuperable Kid Huoyuanjia

2005

Rebellion poster
6.1

After a top gangster is murdered, his second-in-command must prevent an uprising by rival gangs.

Rebellion

2009

1990s · 13 titles

The Blade poster
7.1

Adopted by a renowned swordsmith, a young man discovers that his biological father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs afoul of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront Lung.

The Blade

1995

The Banquet poster
5.8

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

The Banquet

1991

All Men Are Brothers - Blood of the Leopard poster
7.2

Based on parts of the classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (aka Outlaws of the Marsh).

All Men Are Brothers - Blood of the Leopard

1993

The Fortune Code poster
6.5

Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.

The Fortune Code

1990

Moonlight Express poster
6.7

Hitomi still mourns her fiance who died in a car crash. One day, during a visit to Hong Kong, she bumps into Karbo who looks uncannily like him. Karbo, however, is a fugitive from the police.

Moonlight Express

1999

Master of Zen poster
8.0

Set in the first century in India, a prince is troubled by visions and a desire to master the ways of Buddha. After his father dies, he forsakes the throne to become a monk and, after studying Buddhism for sixty years, travels to China to preach Zen and teaches the Shaolin monks the exercises that become the foundation of

Master of Zen

1994

The Unpublicizable File poster
3.8

Hoping to run a restaurant, a father and daughter must contend with the restaurant's chef, who owes many debts.

The Unpublicizable File

1993

The True Hero poster
8.0

An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?

The True Hero

1994

The Twilight of the Forbidden City poster
8.0

Hong Kong action star Max Mok stars in this period drama as Lau, a eunuch living at the end of the Ching Dynasty. Lau finds himself absorbed in the past along with another eunuch named Siu, and the two fall in love as they share their passion for Peking Opera. Unfortunately, they're unaware that their relationship serves as the catalyst for a series of events that end in disaster. Twilight indeed!

The Twilight of the Forbidden City

1992

Pom Pom and Hot Hot poster
5.0

Shin (Jacky Cheung) and Chiang (Stephen Tung Wai) are happy-go-lucky partners investigating a particularly notorious crime syndicate. Unfortunately, Shin's Mainland relatives -- Cha Chiang (Alfred Cheung Kin-ting) and his beautiful sibling Cha Shi (Loletta Lee Lai-chun) -- decide to drop by. While Chiang insists on accompanying his cousin on the job, Shin starts to make eyes with Shi. Meanwhile, Chiang runs into his ex-girlfriend Nancy (Bonnie Fu Yuk-ching). When Nancy witnesses a gangland hit, she and everyone around her are threatened by the mob.

Pom Pom and Hot Hot

1992

Woman in Lust poster
5.0

Anna love her boyfriend Steven, when at the expense of the dancers, and the earned money is given to Steven to do business, hope one day to live a normal life, but Stephen is a liar .....

Woman in Lust

1993

The King of Debt Collecting Agent poster
5.8

A debt collector leaves the loan shark company to start his own debt collection business, but his success is threatened when his old boss seeks revenge and competes with him in the same trade.

The King of Debt Collecting Agent

1999

Once a Black Sheep poster
6.5

Dee is a disheveled, hot-headed HK cop; Apple Yu is an urbane, designer-dressed inspector from the ICAC. Now, they're partners trying to bring down (still another) triad crime ring. To intimidate Apple, Dee dresses like a model, but finds that her partner has taken on a street-punk guise to intimidate her. They locate a priest who's a triad defector; and while Dee takes a nun's guise, her partner tries to pull off being a junkie in withdrawal.

Once a Black Sheep

1992

1980s · 15 titles

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars poster
6.5

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

1985

Fearless Hyena 2 poster
5.8

A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood.

Fearless Hyena 2

1983

Heroes Shed No Tears poster
5.7

Kao is given a mission by his elderly master to take a cursed sword and solve petty squabbles between skilled martial masters.

Heroes Shed No Tears

1980

Ghostly Love poster
4.2

"Chinese Ghost Story" clone, with "Erotic Ghost Story" treatment. Scholar Tsin Fai arrives in a strange village where the beautiful Siu Chui mysteriously arrives in his room and into his bed. Next day, in the street, she treats him as a stranger...

Ghostly Love

1989

The Final Test poster
4.7

Austin Wai plays Sum, a secret agent posing as the security chief of a remote mining colony where several employees have disappeared without a trace. At first Sum is impressed by the almost superhuman efficiency of the mine's workers, but soon becomes suspicious of the zombie-like manner in which the miners perform their duty. His worst fears are finally confirmed by the colony's resident physician (Deborah Sims), who has been forced to mix a powerful drug into the miners' meals that increases their strength while making them mental slaves of the company. Sum and the doctor prepare to expose the deadly secret, but with every other member of the colony out to get them, they may not live long enough to tell it.

The Final Test

1987

The Supreme Swordsman poster
6.3

A rampaging swordsman slices and dices his way across China on a bloody mission to cut down every warrior in his way, and claim the blade of the legendary Supreme Swordsman in this Shaw Brothers classic starring Derek Yee and Jason Pai Piao, and directed by Keith Li Baak Ling. But when the son of a slain sword maker emerges as an unexpected challenger, the ruthless killer realizes that he may have finally met his match.

The Supreme Swordsman

1984

Burning Ambition poster
6.9

This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.

Burning Ambition

1989

Vampire Buster poster
6.8

In ancient China, a demon was defeated in a fierce battle with a priest, who sealed it's evil spirit in a vase. Centuries later, during the cultural revolution, rebels attempted to gain possession of the vessel from the priest's descendant; however, he threw it into the ocean to keep it from being tampered. The vase was recovered years later in Hong Kong and was auctioned off to a councilman. The demon, unfortunately, escaped and took control of the councilman's body, beginning a spree of terror in the city.

Vampire Buster

1989

The Convict Killer poster
5.8

Teng Piao went to jail for fifteen years on a frame up for drug smuggling. Now that he's out, along with his iron chain, Teng Piao is hungry for revenge. The man he wants to beat with his chain is Black Leopard Lam Fei. The problem for Teng Piao is that he doesn't know who he is, only that he has a picture of a black leopard tattooed on his chest.

The Convict Killer

1980

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils poster
10.0

A rather standard costume action/drama set in medieval China with a few fantasy overtones.

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

1982

Whampoa Blues poster
5.8

Chung and Kin grow up together at Rennie Mill Area with quite different characters. They were admitted into the Whampoa Military Training School at Taiwan. On the way to School, Kin and Chung met with other schoolmates in a train - Cheng, Lin and Wu. The mischievous kin got into trouble with other schoolmates and was punished on the first day of their arrival. The Training Officer, Lam was so strike with his training programme that everyone suffered. Under the mutual care and help, everyone got promoted. However, Cheng was advised not to take part in the field practice for his feebleness. Cheng insisted on trying. At the field practice, Wu, Chung, Kin and Cheng incidentally discovered an ammunition smuggling, this led them to fatal attack.

Whampoa Blues

1989

Back To The Beyond poster
5.5

A healer, Lau Ching, falls in love with opera performer Fa Ying Hung, but their romance is shattered when a martial artist using dark magic seeks revenge.

Back To The Beyond

1987

Swift Sword poster
5.8

Starring a menagerie of established Shaw Brothers' talent like kung-fu comedienne, Wang Yu, female kung-fu fighter Hui Ying-hung (the lady Michelle Yeoh tries to emulate) and perennial bad guy Lo Lieh, it's a movie about cross people and crossed swords where our heroes discover that gold is not as precious as friendship.

Swift Sword

1980

Ambitious Kung Fu Girl poster
6.3

Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the naive daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her cosseted life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit. What she doesn't realise though is that her kung-fu skills are not what she thinks they are and that the outside world is far less chivalrous that she expected.

Ambitious Kung Fu Girl

1981

Gang Master poster
7.5

It has to do with a young clan member, Zhong Yuan, who is promoted to chief of the Dragon Gang after his adoptive father dies, only to be expelled when a letter arrives revealing him to be of Mongol birth, an awkward bit of news at a time when the Dragon Gang is actively fighting Mongol occupiers. In fact, Zhong soon learns that the Mongol general leading the anti-rebel campaign is actually his real father. Still, he persists in trying to get back into the good graces of the clan, eventually helping to ferret out a traitor in their midst.

Gang Master

1982

1970s · 24 titles

Game of Death poster
6.4

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Game of Death

1978

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin poster
7.5

During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

1978

The Kung Fu Instructor poster
6.7

Two rival clans have unsuccessfully tried to hire the master of the good clan to teach his clan. Not willing to take no for an answer, they frame the master for a dirty deed that he didn't commit, which forces him to kill a man in battle. The townspeople attempt to kill him and he is forced to flee to the evil clan.

The Kung Fu Instructor

1979

The Avenging Eagle poster
7.5

Eagle Chief Yoh Xi-hung raises orphans to be his personal killers. One such is Chik Ming-sing who now wants to put his killer life behind him. When the Eagle Clan come after him, a stranger called Cheuk comes to his assistance It turns out that Cheuk is the son of a family who were robbed and murdered by the Eagles. Now they will team up to destroy the evil clan.

The Avenging Eagle

1978

The Iron-Fisted Monk poster
5.9

Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was murdered by the Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson, and teams up with a martial artist monk who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus strike again, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it's time to even the score.

The Iron-Fisted Monk

1977

Bruce Lee The Invincible poster
3.9

After turning against friends of his Kung Fu teacher, Cheung Li Kung is banished to Malaysia, but instead of reforming, Cheung sets up a casino to steal wages back from the miners who work for him. When he also kidnaps the local store owner's daughter, and beats her after she refuses his advances, only those familiar with the invincible techniques of Bruce Lee can stop Cheung's evil use of Kung Fu. They must battle the menacing Malaysian bullwhip expert, and even berserk apes, in furious non-stop action that demonstrates the Shaolin Grand Master's deadly dragon fist, snake and tiger techniques.

Bruce Lee The Invincible

1978

The Deadly Breaking Sword poster
6.1

Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a somnambulistic killer. After Tuan Changqing teams up with Rabelaisian gambler Xiao Dao, the story proceeds as a comical kung fu buddy flick.

The Deadly Breaking Sword

1979

The Ghost Story poster
8.1

An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it's inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.

The Ghost Story

1979

Shaolin Hand Lock poster
5.8

As an expert of the 'Cross fists' technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the 'Shaolin Handlock' while an old wolf-in-sheep's-clothing friend Fang Yun-piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Armed with the deadly Handlock maneuver, Cheng-ying & Kun Shih joins forces to exact revenge on the evil Ling Hao after the truth is unraveled.

Shaolin Hand Lock

1978

The Shaolin Plot poster
6.9

When a terrible kung fu master seeks various martial arts manuals from around China to make himself even more evil, he must come to blows with a Wu Tang student sent to stop him.

The Shaolin Plot

1977

The Incredible Kung Fu Master poster
6.8

Tung Wei is a lad who wants to learn kung fu. He trains in two different styles: Hung Gar and Wing Chun. Everything is fine until a jealous master creates a rift between Tung's two teachers, and he has to choose sides. But a bigger problem looms ahead. The Tiger Master wants to fight both men to the death. They're no match for him, so Tung goes to the one man who can train him properly: Sammo Hung

The Incredible Kung Fu Master

1979

The Thunderbolt Fist poster
6.1

A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping the wrath of the Japanese, the son of the master flees into the hills, where he trains with a group of rebels led by Gam Kei-Chu. Fast-forward ten years, and Chuen returns to the village armed with his father's secret technique of the Thunderbolt Fist with the hopes of killing the leader of the Japanese.

The Thunderbolt Fist

1972

Five Superfighters poster
6.8

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu." Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.

Five Superfighters

1979

The Voyage of Emperor Chien Lung poster
7.1

In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung makes a journey into Southern China.

The Voyage of Emperor Chien Lung

1978

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II poster
5.8

The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned director Chu Yuan and ingenious novelist Chin Yung. Only the union of the title weapons can save the six remaining martial arts sects who are vying for mastery. So just sit back and enjoy the movie event which spawned a legacy that continues even today with a long-running, internationally loved television series, a role-playing game, and even collectible replicas of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre themselves!

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II

1978

Full Moon Scimitar poster
6.9

A talented young swordsman has beaten many veterans before his inherited martial arts manual gets stolen. After encountering his first defeat in life, in despair, he comes across a gorgeous girl, daughter of the head of a mysterious sect.

Full Moon Scimitar

1979

The Four Shaolin Challengers poster
4.7

Lin Che Jong, A student of Wong Fei Hung stands up to gangsters from the local crime family,and opens a Kung Fu school in town. The gangsters take revenge by killing students and destroying the school.The town is run by a local crime lord named Shao Pei Lee, a notorious fugitive. Shao Pei Lee in turn enlists the help of a group of villainous fighters known as "The Yangtze Four" to battle Lin Che Jong and his brothers as they try to expose the corrupt officials and rid the town of Shap Pei Lee

The Four Shaolin Challengers

1977

The Fatal Flying Guillotines poster
6.0

Those rascally Shaolin monks are at it again, and this time they're tracking down some vitriolic villains who have heisted a sacred book. Throw in an evil prince, a flying guillotine, and manic martial hijinks, and you've got a potent mix for action.

The Fatal Flying Guillotines

1977

No End of Surprises poster
8.0

The film consists of three stories: "All about Mahjong", "The Women Killer", and "The White Lie".

No End of Surprises

1975

He Has Nothing But Kung Fu poster
7.3

He's lost his memory, but not his skill: After a fierce battle with a local tong, Hoi is thrown over an embankment and left for dead. He survives the ordeal but has lost all of his memory, but not his kung-fu. His fateful meeting with a beggar leads to their teaming up for cleaning up that tong.

He Has Nothing But Kung Fu

1977

Kung Fu vs. Yoga poster
8.0

Two mischievous kung fu students enter a kung fu tournament not realizing how much trouble winning the competition will bring them. When one emerges victorious, he must accomplish three robberies to prove his worth and claim his prize! Featuring yoga master Dunpar Singh from planet 90.

Kung Fu vs. Yoga

1979

To Kill a Mastermind poster
7.0

The Chi Sha Clan is a vast network of deadly criminals proficient in martial arts. Growing in number at an alarming rate, the Imperial Court orders Yang Chen-yu and his followers to eliminate them. However, doing this proves difficult as no one knows the identity of the mastermind behind the Chi Sha, not even its own members. Spies infiltrate the organization in an effort to destroy from within. But then, no one knows who the spies are and after a few ambushes and security breaches, clan deputies begin suspecting one another of being traitors. With the Chi Sha dwindling in numbers, it's only a matter of time before the mastermind must reveal himself.

To Kill a Mastermind

1979

Kung Fu Means Fists, Strikes and Sword poster
NR

Crazy Sword, Blind Fist and Queer Strikes are three kung fu fanatics who team up with Mung, the debonair master in white. Together the four real friends smash a massive kung fu gang led by Moose Face, Tsai Hung. Once smashed the girls are freed from vice and valuables returned to their rightful owners. A kung fu rare classic from Goldig Films.

Kung Fu Means Fists, Strikes and Sword

1978

Crazy Partner poster
NR

Smart Boy and Big Eyes are happy foes, and idly cheat one another to make a living. One day, they meet and injured man who has a secret for them.

Crazy Partner

1979

Series credits

Reincarnated poster
5.7

Reincarnated is a 60 episode 1979 wuxia television series and was produced and aired by Rediffusion Television in Hong Kong and also a series of books, TV and films written by Wong Ying who co-wrote some of Gu Long stories, such as the Six Spine-Chilling Stories Series and other people.

Reincarnated

1979

The Return Of Luk Siu Fung poster
7.0

The Return of Luk Siu-fung is a 1986 Hong Kong television series adapted from Gu Long's Lu Xiaofeng novel series. The series was first aired on TVB in Hong Kong in 1986.

The Return Of Luk Siu Fung

1986

The SIB Files poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The SIB Files

1987

The New Adventures Of Chor Lau Heung poster
8.5

The New Adventures of Chor Lau-heung is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Chu Liuxiang Xinzhuan of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang novel series. Michael Miu starred as the titular protagonist, Chor Lau-heung. The series was first broadcast on TVB from 12 November 1984 to 4 January 1985. It was rerun in Hong Kong on TVB Jade from February 1 to March 30 in 2006.

The New Adventures Of Chor Lau Heung

1984

Reincarnated (II) poster
6.0

The story picks up right where the original left off. When he realizes there is no match for his supreme kung fu, the legendary swordsman Wan Fei Yeung decides to retire from the martial world for a quieter life. He meets two good kids, Luk Dan and Siu Chi, by chance, and later he gives his power to the fatally-wounded Siu Chi to save his life. Unfortunately, Luk Dan chooses a path of no return when he practices some powerful but evil kung fu so as to seek vengeance for his persecuted family. Luk Dan becomes a malicious madman. How can Siu Chi stop Luk Dan from terrorizing the martial world?

Reincarnated (II)

1993

Lu Siniang: Legend of Ching Lady poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lu Siniang: Legend of Ching Lady

1985

The Foundation poster
10.0

The Foundation is a TVB television series, premiered in 1984. Theme song "In Dream Several Sorrow" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Michelle Pau, and the sub theme song "I Cannot See My Tears Flow" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Michelle Pau.

The Foundation

1984

The Battlefield poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Battlefield

1985

Road To The Throne poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Road To The Throne

1988

陸小鳳之鳳舞九天 (數碼修復版) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

陸小鳳之鳳舞九天 (數碼修復版)

1986

The Wild Bunch poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Wild Bunch

1982

Water Margin poster
NR

This play begins with Lin Chong being forced to go to Liangshan, and describes the encounters between Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen, then writes about Chao Gai leading Ruan's Sanxiong, Liu Tang and others to rob the birthdays, and then...

Water Margin

1976

The Master of Shaolin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Master of Shaolin

1986

Two More Heroes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Two More Heroes

1983

楚留香之蝙蝠傳奇 (數碼修復版) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

楚留香之蝙蝠傳奇 (數碼修復版)

1984

The Sacred Commandment poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sacred Commandment

1984

The Bold Ones poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bold Ones

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

吕四娘(数码修复版)

1985