Lawrence Lau Sek-Yin

Acting

Lawrence Lau Sek-Yin

Born

1961-09-25 (65)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Known for

Acting

Credits

80 titles

Lawrence Lau Sek-Yin (Chinese: 劉錫賢) is a Hong Kong actor.

Known for

My Date with a Vampire poster
8.7

My Date with a Vampire is a 1998 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV. The story is based on the future events of the plot of Vampire Expert, a similar two-season television drama aired on ATV in 1995 and 1996. It blends aspects of the jiangshi with those of western vampires, while injecting elements of Chinese mythology and modern horror legends. The series is a tribute to Lam Ching-ying, the lead actor of Vampire Expert and a prominent cast member in the Mr. Vampire franchise, who died of liver cancer in 1997. It was followed by My Date with a Vampire II (2000) and My Date with a Vampire III (2004).

My Date with a Vampire

1998

Battlefield Network poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Battlefield Network

2001

Flaming Brothers poster
5.0

Lai Siu Tin is the spoilt son of a very rich woman who is not his real mother. Ming Chi Git is the son of Ming Sing, a poor, uneducated woman who came from China. Both of this men would never have known each other if not for the fact that they both share the same mother and father. Set in modern Hong Kong, it is a tale of rivalry, jealousy, bitter hatred of two brothers and their mother who is caught between her love for two sons.

Flaming Brothers

1999

The Year of Chameleon poster
NR

'The year of chameleon' is a powerful modern drama, played out against the last few months of British rule prior to the 1997 change of sovereignty. The piece focuses on one man's ruthless ambition, a 'gat rich quick' obsession that causes heartache to all round him. It also exposes how cruel a man can be to achieve the goals, even at the expense of friendship and family. Chameleonic behavior is no longer extraordinary anymore in this society.

The Year of Chameleon

1997

Bullet in the Head poster
7.5

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

Bullet in the Head

1990

The Pride of Chaozhou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Pride of Chaozhou

1997

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

The Sparring Partner poster
7.1

Adapted from a sensational real-life case in 2013, the intricate story begins when a young man partners with his friend to murder and dismember his parents. Pleading not guilty, the defense attorneys soon turn on each other, as the defendants play the devil and idiot game. Meanwhile, heated debates emerge inside the jury room, where nine jurors grapple with the truth.

The Sparring Partner

2022

Man on the Edge poster
4.9

As Hong Kong teeters on the brink of change, an undercover cop risks everything to expose corruption and take down a powerful triad gang before the 1997 handover.

Man on the Edge

2022

The Sunny Side of the Street poster
7.1

A confrontation between two Hong Kong immigrants – one a cab driver from Mainland China, the other a lawyer and refugee from Pakistan – spells disaster for their families, especially the lawyer's young son.

The Sunny Side of the Street

2023

Beyond the Sin poster
5.2

Allen Lok, a Macau Judicial Police inspector, is devastated when his daughter is found murdered. Suspect Manny Yau is arrested and convicted, but when another girl is killed months later, Lok begins to doubt that the real killer is behind bars. Determined to uncover the truth, he reopens the case, uncovering dark secrets and suspicions.

Beyond the Sin

2025

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

Hybrid Storm poster
4.0

ICAC investigator Ching probes cigarette smuggling, catching an ex-boxer, only to be suspended and investigated himself after mysterious bribery funds appear in his father's account.

Hybrid Storm

2025

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 10 titles

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

Sex and the Beauties poster
6.0

We have Carina Lau has Selina the lead actress who is a psychoanalyst, who hang out with her friends (Athena Chu has a erotic story for woman, Yoyo Mung has a multi-restaurant owner who like the danger side, and Pinky Cheung whose dad is a triad boss goes retirement and know how to fight). The story begin when Selina ex came to her and ask her to take care of her wild daughter (Cecilia Cheung in another bizarre look) and tried to cure her wild behaviour. Well the rest of the storyline consist of the 4 woman and there relationship with the guys, we have Tony Leung Ka Fai going after Carina Lau, Athena Chu going after Edisen Chen, Pinky Cheung going after Andy Hui, and Lu Yi going after Yoyo Mung.

Sex and the Beauties

2004

Chinese Midnight Express II poster
6.5

Chan Siu Hong is a lawyer who goes into jail after hitting a vicious policeman. He's welcomed by the inmates because he convinces fellow inmates not to use violence to settle every dispute.

Chinese Midnight Express II

2000

Kung Fu Cooker poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kung Fu Cooker

2002

The Marvellous Cook poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Marvellous Cook

2000

Time 4 Hope poster
5.0

Based on the life of screenwriter Yuen Kai-Chi, the movie tells the story of an acclaimed film writer who's got the World on a string. Tragically, his life changes when he gets in a car accident and loses a leg. However, every cloud has a silver lining and he ends up falling in love with his nurse Cindy. Using love as the binding tie, the two face life's obstacles as if it were a three-legged race: two people working together with three legs.

Time 4 Hope

2002

Resort Massacre poster
4.1

Mentally disabled Joey is now over thirty and running the Sunshine Resorts inn with his elderly mother, Mrs Lim. He had his eyesight damaged as a child staring at an eclipse in Cheung Chau; but he likes to listen, recording his violent Uncle Hoi having sex. Women have been going missing after renting room thirteen at the inn, presumed suicides. But Joey knows better. Mayse, a journalist out of place at a trashy magazine, is ordered to investigate but sends Julie in her place. When Julie cant be reached for two days, Mayse heads to Cheung Chau herself to solve the mystery…

Resort Massacre

2000

Fing's Raver poster
3.0

A parking attendant uncovers greed and corruption as he works to clear his brother of false charges.

Fing's Raver

2001

Troublesome Night 16 poster
6.7

The 16th film in the Troublesome Night series brings back regulars Simon Lui, Helena Law Lan, Tong Ka-Fai and Ronnie Cheung Ho-Lung in a story that takes place in the Sung Dynasty. There, they encounter the characters of the famous Chinese Story "The Water Margin," a story that takes place about a thousand years ago in ancient China involving a cruel government, con artists, a beautiful but crafty village girl and a sword-wielding martial artist trying to overcome all the adversaries.

Troublesome Night 16

2002

Embrace Your Shadow poster
6.0

Ran (Fiona Sit) is a 23 year old girl that is burden with caring for her older brother Feng (Cheung Kwok Keung) who has a fatal hereditary disease called Arteritis that paralyzes the entire body. She also has to raise and care for his 6-year old daughter Shiayou (Cheung Ching-yu). Feng's wife had taken the entire family savings and left them when she found out he was diagnose with his illness. Ran must take in work as a seamstress at home to make a living and make ends meet. She cares for her brother and niece by day and works throughout the night to rush her work deadline. She doesn't have an easy life so she always has a depressive and sad expression on her face. To make matters worst Ran is afraid one day she or Shiayou will end up like her brother since his illness is hereditary.

Embrace Your Shadow

2005

1990s · 28 titles

Bullet in the Head poster
7.5

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

Bullet in the Head

1990

Flirting Scholar poster
7.5

A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.

Flirting Scholar

1993

The Chinese Feast poster
6.6

Within a few years, petty crook Chiu rises to gang leader. But his professional ambitions are actually quite different: he wants to leave illegality behind and make a career for himself and his lover in Canada... as a chef. However, this craft must first be learned and Chiu's talent in the field of cooking leaves much to be desired.

The Chinese Feast

1995

Century of the Dragon poster
6.7

Rookie policeman Shing gets assigned to go undercover, he is so successful in playing the part of a gang member that he becomes right-hand man to gang leader Lung. Shing comes to respect Lung and question his original motives, but the troubled cop must make a crucial decision before rival gangs and impatient cops move in for the kill.

Century of the Dragon

1999

She Starts the Fire poster
6.9

A fish-out-of-water comedy where the fish can set people on fire! Wendy (Chingmy Yau) arrives in Hong Kong to stay with her aunt Big Beer (Deannie Ip), who shares a space with her landlord Charles (Lawrence Cheng). There’s just one problem: Wendy can set things on fire with her mind. Her pyrokinetic powers are accompanied with some bad luck, so the victim usually gets a double whammy of charred flesh and misfortune.

She Starts the Fire

1992

Operation Scorpio poster
6.4

After an aspiring comic book artist rescues a young girl from a prostitution ring, he submits to the teachings of an aging kung fu master in order to take on the local mob boss' son: a deadly assassin who's a master of the scorpion kung fu technique.

Operation Scorpio

1992

Forced Nightmare poster
5.5

A female psychic leaves her mainland home to visit Hong Kong. Along the way her bus crashes killing everyone on board except her as her powers protected her but it also causes the dead passengers to re-aminate. So, she seeks the help of a famous Tao Priest to put the dead back to rest.

Forced Nightmare

1992

The Cat poster
6.6

A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people.

The Cat

1992

Dances with Dragon poster
6.1

Aaron, a young, successful Chinese businessman, drifts on to a rural island after a scuba accident. Mistaken for an illegal immigrant, he is forced to take refuge in a small, family-run grocery store. Enjoying the riches to rags transition, he tells nobody his true identity, and falls in love with the grocery store owner's daughter, Yvonne. But while Aaron enjoys his life of anonymity, Yvonne covets the chance to escape her poverty. Meanwhile, in Aaron's absense, a plot has been hatched to take over his company. Are Aaron's and Yvonne's lives too different to find happiness together?

Dances with Dragon

1991

Sunshine Friends poster
7.0

The war of ratings is over when Mars TV, with its two popular shows bears down Earth TV. Mak, the boss of Mars TV, plan to takeover Earth TV while Lee, the boss of Earth TV wants to jump from a skyscraper to make publicity for his station.

Sunshine Friends

1990

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

Jail House Eros poster
6.1

In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad ghost, in contrast to the good ghost who dies in a previous escape attempt. Finally, the chief warden, the interior decorators, Blackie and the good ghost come to an agreement. They would get the chief warden's girl friend, the exorcist, to banish the bad ghost. To leave quietly too are Blackie and the good ghost...

Jail House Eros

1990

Inspector Pink Dragon poster
7.5

A blundering Hong Kong police inspector, Ma Yu Long, goes under cover to investigate a high-class businessman, Teng Kuo Chiao, who was bribing city planning officer Ma Yu Yu to build roads to suit his needs and is suspected to be liable in Yu's death. In the meantime, Long courts Yu's high school sweetheart, Julia, who wants the inspector to cheat Chiao out of some money as part of the revenge deal.

Inspector Pink Dragon

1991

Ghostly Vixen poster
5.0

Amy plays Evil Girl, who must suck the sperm of 100 virgin boys born at 10 o'clock in order to become immortal. When we first see her, she is stalking victim number 98, whilst being stalked herself by a wizard who seeks to destroy her.

Ghostly Vixen

1990

Doctor Vampire poster
7.0

Chinese doctor has his car break down in England. he wanders into a castle where vampires congregate. After having sex with a Chinese vampire he leaves, however his blood is so sweet the Chinese vampire is sent to Hong Kong bring him back. While in Hong Kong he begins to show signs of vampirism and his friends have to try to save him.

Doctor Vampire

1990

God.com poster
3.8

During an investigation into a mass murder with links to a doomsday cult, Officer Chan reluctantly enlists police occult expert Officer Chiu to help him solve the case. But during their investigation of the cult and its charismatic leader The Pope, they realize the killings may be related to a previous serial murder case, their own pasts, and the psychotic hypnotists in charge of it all may be preaching some truth...

God.com

1998

It's Now or Never poster
10.0

Rose (Sharla Cheung Man) heads up a gang of be-bopping teddy girls who are constantly getting into trouble with the law. A nice cop (Alfred Cheung) falls for her and tries to save her life.

It's Now or Never

1992

Hong Kong Criminal Archives - Eight Drug Dealers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hong Kong Criminal Archives - Eight Drug Dealers

1991

Front Page poster
7.0

Hui, an owner of a Hong Kong tabloid magazine company hires martial artist Bill Lee to help him get a good headliner for a magazine story to, hopefully, save his failing business.

Front Page

1990

From the Same Family poster
7.5

The rise and fall of a triad boss in Tsimshatsui.

From the Same Family

1995

Mary from Beijing poster
6.2

Ma Lei which sounds like "Mary" is a Chinese citizen, living in Hong Kong as the kept woman of a jeweler. She wishes for two things: to get her Hong Kong Identity Card, which will enable her to get work as a legal immigrant; and to marry her boyfriend.

Mary from Beijing

1992

The Lord of Amusement poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Lord of Amusement

1999

Temptation of an Angel poster
3.7

TV commercial director Fei (Michael Chow Man-kin) is mourning the death of girlfriend Angel Chen (Yuk), and through flashbacks induced by his reading of her diary, we see how their relationship developed and, eventually, faltered when she met handsome gym instructor Roy (Ngai). Angel loves both men and her inability to break off with one or both of them leads to tragedy.

Temptation of an Angel

1999

The Big Deal poster
6.0

The "Saint" is a secret group comprised of a martial arts master and his two oddball daughters. They were brought to this earth to uphold justice by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

The Big Deal

1992

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

Switch-Over poster
8.0

A boy is run over by a bus when trying to get his sister a rosette for her concert, he becomes paralyzed. He does not know he is paralyzed, but instead drifts into a subconscious realm where he meets an old man (a cartoon eric tsang), occasionally he enters the real world, which he believes to be a dream, where he mistakes his sister's daughter for his sister, and soon realises he is paralyzed.

Switch-Over

1994

Cop Image poster
7.0

Anthony Wong plays a traffic cop who is obsessed with action films. He wants to be a real life hero and gets his chance when he becomes involved in a botched bank robbery case.

Cop Image

1994

The Boss Up There poster
7.0

The new generation is rebellious and lacking in love. A group of youngsters is hanging out together aimlessly. They spend their life in a haze of dope violence and scrapes with the law. Eventually the girl gets pregnant, the guy is locked up in jail and ends up paralyzed due to drug abuse, and the rest get hooked to their blasted lives.

The Boss Up There

1999

1980s · 11 titles

On the Run poster
6.8

When Hsiang Ming's wife is murdered, he takes up the hunt for her killer. The killer turns out to not be at all like he imagined, and suddenly he has unsuspected enemies who are after him.

On the Run

1988

The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus poster
5.7

An exceptionally beautiful Chinese woman falls prey to violence and social control. After remembering how her previous reincarnation followed a similar path, she tries to break free of the mould.

The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus

1989

Saga of the Phoenix poster
5.8

Hell Virgin is granted permission to live on earth for 7 days, if she promises not to cause armageddon whilst she's there. She accepts and tries to enjoy her remaining time. but Hell Concubine has other plans.

Saga of the Phoenix

1989

Little Cop poster
7.6

Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals. As an adult, he joins the police force, where he is first placed with the Narcotics Bureau. During a drug raid operation, he catches a drug dealer. He is later transferred, first to the Anti-Porno Bureau where he falls in love with a call girl, then to the Regional Crime Unit where he works under Inspector Chu. During a drug raid operation, Lee kills drug lord Ng Cheung. Ng's father hires a killer, Thousand Faces Man to take revenge on Lee. After several confrontations, Lee finally brings Thousand Faces Man to justice. The corrupt director of a mental hospital places Lee in the mental hospital for a year, during which time he develops mental disorders. After being discharged from the hospital, he becomes a restaurant waiter.

Little Cop

1989

In Between Loves poster
4.4

Taxi driver Lung is obsessed with TV news reporter Jenny Tung. He attempts to gain her affection by providing minor news stories, but her arrogant lawyer boyfriend, John Liu gets in the way. He tells Lung that she is only interested in major events. When a series of murders begins to plaque the city, Lung begins to feed Tung info on the killings but is he more connected than he lets on?

In Between Loves

1989

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 Yuppie Fantasia poster
6.5

Marital ups and downs and extramarital flings provide the background to this uproarious tale of life in an advertising agency. Yuppie ad-man Leung Foon separates from his similarly career-focused wife Ann, tries to get back together with his former girlfriend, and flirts with his woman boss, before questioning whether he was better off where he started.

The Yuppie Fantasia

1989

The Bachelor's Swan Song poster
6.7

Kenny and Maggie, lovers of long standing, have been scrimping and saving for their marriage. One day Maggie suspects that she is pregnant, and suggests an early wedding. Kenny is thunder struck as he has just lost his every cent in the stock market.

The Bachelor's Swan Song

1989

Mr. Smart poster
10.0

Smart (Kent Cheng), a sailor, returns from sea to his family to help with the family business and raise money for repairs, also teach people about love

Mr. Smart

1989

Unfaithfully Yours poster
7.0

Ng Yu Hon, a henpecked husband, takes a moral holiday each year. This year he falls for his Chief Accountant. Maggie Shaw and decides to take her along to Hokkaido under the pretext of business. Ng's nalive petty clerk in the Hokkaido branch. Lau Szu-hin, a cousin to Ng's wife Tan Niu, is under pressure to arrange this for his boss. Subsequently, impressed by Maggie's serious working attitude, he decides to get her out of this clutches.

Unfaithfully Yours

1989

What A Small World poster
10.0

It all started with one of those small fights which happened so frequently between lovers. An angry Michelle walked out of the apartment where she lived with Franco in Hong Kong and threatened never to return. Franco knew Michelle must have gone to Paris, and it just took minutes for the Parisian romantic atmosphere to mellow her temper. Of course, he had to be there with flowers in his hands. But Franco was wrong this time.

What A Small World

1989

Series credits

My Date with a Vampire poster
8.7

My Date with a Vampire is a 1998 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV. The story is based on the future events of the plot of Vampire Expert, a similar two-season television drama aired on ATV in 1995 and 1996. It blends aspects of the jiangshi with those of western vampires, while injecting elements of Chinese mythology and modern horror legends. The series is a tribute to Lam Ching-ying, the lead actor of Vampire Expert and a prominent cast member in the Mr. Vampire franchise, who died of liver cancer in 1997. It was followed by My Date with a Vampire II (2000) and My Date with a Vampire III (2004).

My Date with a Vampire

1998

My Date with a Vampire poster
8.7

My Date with a Vampire is a 1998 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV. The story is based on the future events of the plot of Vampire Expert, a similar two-season television drama aired on ATV in 1995 and 1996. It blends aspects of the jiangshi with those of western vampires, while injecting elements of Chinese mythology and modern horror legends. The series is a tribute to Lam Ching-ying, the lead actor of Vampire Expert and a prominent cast member in the Mr. Vampire franchise, who died of liver cancer in 1997. It was followed by My Date with a Vampire II (2000) and My Date with a Vampire III (2004).

My Date with a Vampire

1998

Battlefield Network poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Battlefield Network

2001

Flaming Brothers poster
5.0

Lai Siu Tin is the spoilt son of a very rich woman who is not his real mother. Ming Chi Git is the son of Ming Sing, a poor, uneducated woman who came from China. Both of this men would never have known each other if not for the fact that they both share the same mother and father. Set in modern Hong Kong, it is a tale of rivalry, jealousy, bitter hatred of two brothers and their mother who is caught between her love for two sons.

Flaming Brothers

1999

The Year of Chameleon poster
NR

'The year of chameleon' is a powerful modern drama, played out against the last few months of British rule prior to the 1997 change of sovereignty. The piece focuses on one man's ruthless ambition, a 'gat rich quick' obsession that causes heartache to all round him. It also exposes how cruel a man can be to achieve the goals, even at the expense of friendship and family. Chameleonic behavior is no longer extraordinary anymore in this society.

The Year of Chameleon

1997

The Pride of Chaozhou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Pride of Chaozhou

1997

The Poet Su Dong Po poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Poet Su Dong Po

2001

Central Sandwichman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Central Sandwichman

1991

I Come from Guangzhou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Come from Guangzhou

1998

Thou Shalt Not Cheat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Thou Shalt Not Cheat

1998

Adventure For The Herbal Medicine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Adventure For The Herbal Medicine

2008

Through A Lens Darkly poster
NR

Everyone has their own secrets; Do you dare to reveal them? Leading a busy life, office worker Mo has been indifferent to things around him. But after getting tongue-lashing by the chairperson of the Owners' Corporation, Mo uses a drone to spy on the life of the chairperson and ends up finding out secrets of different households.

Through A Lens Darkly

2024

Mirror of Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mirror of Life

1996

Lost in Shell poster
NR

An English girl decides to follow her late mom's travel diary and find her roots in Hong Kong. She learns that it's different from what she thought it would be.

Lost in Shell

2018

Being An Actor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Being An Actor

2018

Recall of James Wong poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Recall of James Wong

2014

Behind the camera