Lau Hak-Suen

Acting

Lau Hak-Suen

Born — Died

1904-10-02 — 1983-01-24

Place of birth

China

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 16 titles

Project A poster
7.3

In late 19th century Hong Kong, the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Coast Guard officer Dragon Ma is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.

Project A

1983

Carry On Pickpocket poster
6.4

Hung Tai-Kong aka Rice Pot and Chan Yin-Tung aka Chimney are two friends who work with their master Kam Ming and his daughter Ann as a team of pickpockets.

Carry On Pickpocket

1982

Security Unlimited poster
6.7

This is a story about a security guard agency and its three agents-Michael, Sam and Ricky. Sam and Ricky are delivering a large sum of money to a bank when a robbery takes place under their nose. after a series of hair-raising about hilarious chases, the agents get their men. With Michael and Sam giving their reward money to Ricky. They live haphazardly ever after.

Security Unlimited

1981

Plain Jane to the Rescue poster
6.3

Jane, with plain looks but a heart of gold, is always in between jobs. Once she gets a job, her knack for creating awkward situations immediately loses it for her. Ricky is her suitor, but he gets nowhere as the girl has no time for love. So Ricky goes along with her in job hunting. Somehow, Jane lands on a job as governess. Not to a child, but to an uncouth very old, very rich man who still wants to lead the life of his poor, uncivilized youth. His son is now running the old man's millions. He wants to bring up the father the civilized way. And he wants to take over the whole city through take-over deals. He is ruthless and has thrown thousands into the streets.

Plain Jane to the Rescue

1982

The Perfect Match poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

The Perfect Match

1982

Mahjong Heroes poster
6.2

When gambling champ Yau retires, his heir is forced to enlist the help of legendary gambler Patrick Tse to protect his inheritance.

Mahjong Heroes

1981

Give Me Back poster
10.0

In 2000, Hong Kong, the feminist movement surged upward unceasingly. In order suppress the power of woman, "Husband Association" are developed to protect the men. Kent always be persecuted by his wife, he even loses his personal freedom, then, he goes to "Husband Association" to seek help. However, Since his fear of his wife is so deep and finally considered humanity deconstruction voluntarily. Actually Kent has not died, he observes his wife in secret, he knows that his wife still loves him so much, therefore he accepts the suggestion of the chairman Lam of "Husband Association" to negotiate with his wife with grenade. When Kent is very happy to see his wife, Lam is accidentally be killed by explosion. Then, the struggling between men and women is over.

Give Me Back

1983

The 82 Tenants poster
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In “82 Tenants” the widow Zhang and Bing, her new young consort, want to sell an apartment house to a property developer but old man Zhang's will provided that the current tenants can stay there as long as they want or the building survives. So it is clear who the villains are—joining the greedy couple is Chao who has purchased all the land around the building but needs this final piece so he can know everything down and build a money spinning edifice. One the other side are the tenants, a disparate group whose grudgingly and occasionally antagonistically shared communal life, while not ideal, is certainly better than not having a place to live.

The 82 Tenants

1982

The Fung-shui Master poster
5.5

Hong Kong fantasy comedy film.

The Fung-shui Master

1983

The Spooky Bunch poster
6.2

A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company's actresses and a young man.

The Spooky Bunch

1980

Food For The Sharks poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Food For The Sharks

1982

Avengers from Hell poster
7.7

Three macabre short stories about gambling, vengeance and homicide.

Avengers from Hell

1981

Record of Blood poster
NR

hong kong film

Record of Blood

1982

Toothless Vampires poster
8.0

The story is about a family of vampires that due to genetic imbalance doesn't have fangs.

Toothless Vampires

1987

The Gang of Five poster
NR

A Lau Brothers Film Company production from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The Gang of Five

1982

Wedding Bells, Wedding Belles poster
8.0

A romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.

Wedding Bells, Wedding Belles

1981

1960s · 7 titles

The Monkey Soldiers Come to the Rescue poster
NR

The Monkey Soldiers Come to the Rescue is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role

The Monkey Soldiers Come to the Rescue

1963

The 7 Tyrants of Jiangnan poster
6.6

A child learns martial arts in order to become a Kung Fu warrior. Features the Seven Little Fortunes, and is the debut film of Jackie Chan.

The 7 Tyrants of Jiangnan

1962

Scarlet Boy poster
NR

He is sent by the gods to do battle with the monkey King who is up to more magical mischief than is good for him.

Scarlet Boy

1962

Shadow of a Doubt poster
NR

Sit Muk-fu covets the beauty of the maidservant Ku Kar-lin. Ku concocts a scheme with her husband Wong Hoi to swindle money out of the lascivious man and has to flee into hiding with Sit being stabbed to death during their secret liaison. Detector Lui Hak investigates into the murder at Ku's house and arrests the husband who has a sharp knife in his possession. Bearing witness to the murder, their daughter Bo-bo fights to prove her father's innocence. Upon receiving a score of mysterious phone calls revealing Ku's whereabouts, Lui lures the woman out with Bo-bo as bait, subduing and detaining the suspect. The detective fathoms the mystery of the murder case which leads him to another suspect, But Kei. But has been extorting money from Sit and forces his daughter, the sole heir to his inheritance, into marriage in return for concealing his murder-for-money scheme. But submits to arrest without resistance while Ku and husband walk free, acquitted of the charges.

Shadow of a Doubt

1961

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NR

Lee Kap-lan, whose parents are slaughtered by the underling of the Qing court, Yan Sheung-kong, is rescued from the carnage by Leopard-faced Magic Nun. Nun imparts martial artistry to Lee, who will kill the old enmity when she grows into womanhood. Yan and his half-brother Luk Sun are assigned to capture the survivor. Fong-ping comes under the attack of an assassin dispatched by Sun when Butterfly comes to his help. Recruited to the Yan den, Ying Tin-lung summons the knights-errant of the martial world to the court. Lee infiltrates the congregation and has her eyes fixed upon Sun and strikes him with the Soul-snatching Tai Chi Dart which has mistakenly wounded Fong-ping. Butterfly puts Lee into a drug-induced coma to obtain the antidote to treat Fong-ping. Ying seizes the chance to capture the women. Fong-ping sustains another injury to rescue the hostages. Nun arrives in time and seizes the Lee family heirloom. Lee avenges her parents' death.

A Sword and Nine Rings, Part Two

1961

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NR

The Magic Crane (Part 3)

Secret Book (Part 3)

1962

The Golden Cat poster
NR

Scholar Yuen Man-lung leads a double life as Vigilante Golden Cat. Yuen is separated from his lover Tso Oi-lan by her snobbish father who promises her to Tsui Tai-fei, son of the magistrate and incriminates him as the wanted burglar. Yuen sneaks out of prison and wreaks havoc in Golden Cat's name; the exasperated magistrate has to release him. Before leaving for the imperial exams with the runaway Oi-lan, Yuen stages one final heist for his friend's sake. The officials trail Golden Cat to his house where his nocturnal costume is retrieved. His father is arrested as the criminal. Drawing a plan up her sleeves, Oi-lan's sister Oi-ling whisks the elder out of the execution ground. Despite failing at the exams presided over by corrupt examiners, Yuen saves the emperor on his homecoming journey, and returns triumphant as a duke.

The Golden Cat

1961

1950s · 16 titles

An Orphan's Tragedy poster
7.2

Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.

An Orphan's Tragedy

1955

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NR

Ah Hing is made pregnant by her master Fan Chun-kit. Fan soon leaves for his studies overseas while Ah Hing suffers gross prosecution and is reduced to becoming a prostitute. In a momentary slip of a struggle, Ah Hing commits manslaughter. Now a qualified lawyer, Fan acquits Ah Hing of the charge, and intends to marry her to redeem his negligence in the past. Ah Hing, however, is determined to pursue an independent life.

Resurrection

1955

The Dunce Bumps into a Ghost poster
7.0

Hong Kong horror comedy from 1957.

The Dunce Bumps into a Ghost

1957

月夜痴魂 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

月夜痴魂

1952

No artwork available
8.0

Third Sister Tai marries Dunce Lau and her life has since been between laughter and tears. At the birthday party of Tai's father one year later, Lau's wit suddenly comes back to him. Lau turns the occasion into a stage for displaying his talents and makes fun of his two brothers-in-law who used to despise him.

The Dunce Attends a Birthday Party

1956

Red Maid, the Matchmaker poster
9.0

Production company Taoyuan chose for its inaugural film a comedy and Fong Yim-fun gets to take a break from playing long-suffering roles and showcase her talents in making us laugh! She plays the spritely titled character, brandishing a fresh image. The film is an adaptation of the literary classic Romance of the Western Chamber, in which the Prime Minister's daughter (Law Yim-hing), under siege from rebel soldiers, is rescued by a plan formulated by a poor scholar (Law Kim-long), with whom she is in love. But her mother (Poon Yat On) reneges afterwards on her promise to let the rescuer marry the daughter, and the clever Red Maid steps up as go-between, devising a series of sharp-witted tactics to help the lovers.

Red Maid, the Matchmaker

1958

Midnight Bells poster
NR

HK historical drama

Midnight Bells

1950

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NR

HK historical drama.

The Misguided Spirit in the Well

1950

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NR

Drama from Hong Kong directed by Chu Kei.

The Encounter Between the Prince of Thieves and the Lovelorn Monk

1952

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NR

Hong Kong horror movie from 1950.

The Cruel Murder of Concubine

1950

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NR

The Head of Southern Stone Village, Lee Ba-hung bullies others with his power. Yet he has no knowledge that his niece Lee Chun-hong is actually the Black Heroine who confronts him. It turns out that Chun-hong's father is fearful that Ba-hung would bully the mother and daughter of Chun-hong, hence he has disguised Chun-hong with woman attires. Chun-hong's identity is unveiled when she devotes herself to helping the refugees of a disaster by distributing food and emergency supplies. Ba-hung would like to murder Chung-hong by hanging, yet it ends in him being killed by his followers.

Heroine in Black

1955

Haunted Bridge poster
NR

HK horror film.

Haunted Bridge

1957

No artwork available
NR

It is a simple story with a deep meaning. When the beautiful chanteuse Hung (Law Yim-hing) is forced to marry Commander Lau (Lau Hark-suen), her brother (Cheng Wai-sum) interferes but is brutally beaten to death. Hung also falls to her death when she tries to escape. The siblings are only hastily buried in a coffin home, which is haunted soon afterwards. Hung's lover Wong (Wong Chiu-mo) later sneaks into the haunted house hoping to see her for one last time; Lau, meanwhile, insists on inspecting the coffin home and the corpses to prove that ghosts do not exist…The film creates an eerie and uncanny atmosphere with its well-designed camera angles, sound and editing. The haunting looks of the two ghost characters are a nod to Hong Kong's typically told horror stories.

Stealing the Beauty's Corpse at Night

1955

The Singing Girl's Spirit poster
8.0

Hong Kong horror movie from 1951.

The Singing Girl's Spirit

1951

Fong Tong Kan & Yin Ji Ma poster
6.0

Jing meets Hu Yanjuan, a woman who sells medicine, and gets mocked by her. Seeking revenge, he tricks her father and switches their medicine with rocks, causing them to be stopped from selling it. Yanjuan investigates and discovers Jing's deception. Jing pretends to ask her to teach him martial arts, and she uses this opportunity to teach him a lesson.

Fong Tong Kan & Yin Ji Ma

1956

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NR

A murder mystery from Hong-Kong.

Shim Sze Kwan

1952

1940s · 7 titles

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NR

A swordswoman joins hands with fellow warriors to save her son from the evil monk.

The Vagabond Master, Part 2

1948

The Spoiled Princess poster
NR

Ma Si-tsang is memorable in his comedic roles for being lively and down to earth, making a stark contrast with the tough and feisty Hung Sin Nui, and they strike gold as a team in screwball comedies. Ma is psychologist Doctor Tsui while Hung is Pearl, the feisty third daughter who is hard to get along with. The undaunted Tsui sees the virtues in Pearl and teases her to teach lessons on marital harmony. With multiple schemes, Tsui teases, coaxes and has Pearl taste her own medicine. The battle of wits and the sexes becomes a joy to watch with Ma's complacent and roguish portrayal as a refined witty scholar clashing with the energetic and bickering Hung.

The Spoiled Princess

1948

The Judge Goes to Pieces poster
NR

The rapier wit is not only for playful bantering between a couple but also for fighting justice. Famed attorney Sung Sai-kit (Ma Si-tsang) is best known for his sharp pen and silver tongue. His wife Madam Tong (Hung Sin Nui), sympathetic with a wronged widow, tries every trick up her sleeve to get her husband to help. Ma is funny and lovable who morphs from the henpecked husband to the brilliant and shrewd attorney at court, he displays perseverance behind his devil-may-care and nonchalant attitude, even Stephen Chow reincarnated his persona in the 1992 version.

The Judge Goes to Pieces

1948

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NR

Hotelier Pak Kam-lung meets Cheung Yuk-neong on a ship travelling to Hong Kong. In Hong kong, Kam-lung searches for Yuk-neong's whereabouts and throws a costume party to lure Yuk-neong. He finally meets Yuk-neong again but she is cool towards Kam-lung. In order to get close to Yuk-neong, Kam-lung disguises himself as a hotel attendant. Meanwhile, the gentleman-thief Yu Yat-chi is attracted by Yuk-neong's diamond brooch. Yat-chi poses as a banker to get close to Yuk-neong. He lures Yuk-neung to his hideout by falsely claiming that her father is hurt in hospital. Yuk-neung is kept prisoner in an attempt to force her father to hand over the diamond brooch. Kam-lung puts on a female disguise to penetrate the hideout to save Yuk-neong. His disguise is seen through by Yat-chi, but fortunately, the police is alerted in time. The bandits are arrested. Finally, Kam-lung and Yuk-neong are married.

New White Golden Dragon

1947

Return of the Lascivious Woman's Soul poster
NR

A pair of twin sisters, very different in character , with the younger sister being involved with multiple men, but the older sister being a virtuous character. When the sister dies violently, her husband sees the younger sister returning to the house on the night of her return, but eventually realizes that it was just a false alarm.

Return of the Lascivious Woman's Soul

1948

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NR

The Kunlun swordsmen carries out a rescue mission to save the little boy who has been abducted by the evil monk. Eager to take revenge on the Kunlun Sect and carry on with his plot to cause chaos, the evil monk seeks help from his fellow brother who uses sorcery to shrink people.

The Vagabond Master, Part 3

1948

Ruckus at Kwong Cheong Lung poster
NR

Liao Xiao Qiao, a prostitute, is forced to commit suicide after being cheated by Zhao Huai An and turned into a ghost. To avenge her death, Xiao Qiao begs Liu Jun Xian, a hawker, to take her under an umbrella to the Kwong Cheong Lung grocery store owned by Huai An, so that she can be transformed into a beautiful woman and kill Huai An with her own hands.

Ruckus at Kwong Cheong Lung

1949

1930s · 12 titles

Fortress of Flesh and Blood poster
NR

Professor Lo Yeung-guo (Hou Yao) and his students escape death from the Japanese army, and call on villagers in the countryside to form a guerrillas group. His son Lo Yung (Lau Hark-suen), however, indulges in debauchery. Entrapped by the Japanese, chicken-hearted Yung leaks information about the guerrilla that leads to deaths and injuries in the group. Yeung-guo reprimands his son for being an invisible traitor, inflicting even more harm than an outright traitor. Placing righteousness before family, he decides to execute his own son. As a writer-director-actor in the film, Hou Yao proclaimed his unwavering stance on resistance on the screen, and delivered a scathing attack on the cowardly ‘invisible traitors‘ at that time. Not long after, Hou was sadly arrested and executed by the Japanese army in Singapore.

Fortress of Flesh and Blood

1938

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NR

Hong Kong drama.

A Woman of Guangzhou

1936

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NR

A film by the Nanyang Film Company

Women's Bible

1938

No artwork available
NR

Hong Kong drama.

The Profligate Son

1938

No artwork available
NR

Based on the Chinese legend.

The Butterfly Lovers (Part 2)

1935

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NR

Cantonese opera.

Nocturnal Mourning

1935

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NR

Hong Kong drama.

Madam Lai

1936

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NR

Hong Kong drama.

A Fisherman's Girl

1936

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NR

Based on the Chinese legend.

The Butterfly Lovers (Part 1)

1935

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NR

Hong Kong romance.

Love and Morality

1936

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NR

Hong Kong drama.

A Patriotic Woman

1936

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NR

A rich man's house is the scene of three consecutive nights of murder, resulting in the murder of two people and the disappearance of one, and all the people in the house have become suspects. In the end, after much investigation, the murderer is found to be a “secret room monster”, which leads to a four-cornered love affair between three men and one woman.

Monster of the Secret Chamber

1936

Series credits

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils poster
7.5

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is a 1982 Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. The 50 episodes long series is divided into two parts, with their Chinese titles as 天龍八部之六脈神劍 and 天龍八部之虛竹傳奇 respectively.

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

1982

無雙譜 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

無雙譜

1981

Blowing in the Wind poster
NR

Brothers Bo and Wei are forced to join the triad in Hong Kong after arriving from China. They become successful drug dealers but sacrifice their family happiness for money and power. Once the ICAC is established, they become its targets and struggle to escape its grip.

Blowing in the Wind

1980

Chameleon (II) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chameleon (II)

1979

Don't Look Now poster
NR

is a minstery and comedy production of TVB

Don't Look Now

1980

Summer Of '61 poster
NR

Xing Feng is a top model with a passionate and carefree personality. She is only interested in Man Shi Hua, a man who matches her well and is a social celebrity. However, after a fight, Xing Feng meets Ye Jia Cheng, a design student and amateur photographer. They fall in love but their relationship is destroyed by Xing Feng's mother. Later, Man Shi Hua misunderstands Xing Feng's relationship with Ye Jia Cheng and seeks revenge. He distances himself from Xing Feng, leaving her heartbroken. Xing Feng moves in with Ye Jia Cheng and they become a couple. However, when the police investigate a case involving Man Shi Hua, he frames Ye Jia Cheng for it. Xing Feng confronts Man Shi Hua and agrees to spend the night with him in exchange for him dropping the charges against her boyfriend.

Summer Of '61

1981

Sweet Love Encore poster
NR

Three friends, Cai Shouyi, Ke Zhaowen, and Chen Jilian, meet a beautiful girl named Yu Huizhi while camping. They all fall in love with her and decide to compete fairly for her affection. Shouyi wins her over, but Zhaowen creates a love triangle, causing pain for all involved. Despite this, the friends share a love of music and successfully enter the entertainment industry. Huizhi becomes a popular singer, but her success makes Zhaowen feel insecure and unhappy, leading to intense competition between their two managers.

Sweet Love Encore

1982