Raymond Lee Wai-Man

Directing

Raymond Lee Wai-Man

Born

1949-08-10 (77)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Raymond Lee Wai Man (Chinese: 李惠民; born 10 August 1949) is a Hong Kong director and television producer. Lee entered the Hong Kong film industry in 1972, initially working as a camera operator. After the closure of Commercial Television in 1978, Lee joined Asia Television working as screenwriter for martial arts films. In 1981, he left Asia Television to work as a producer at TVB.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

Behind the camera

New Dragon Gate Inn poster
7.4

During the Ming Dynasty, power-crazed eunuch Tso Siu Yan rules his desert region of China as if he were Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

New Dragon Gate Inn

1992

Swordsman poster
7.0

A kung-fu manual known as the Sacred Scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.

Swordsman

1990

Swordsman III: The East Is Red poster
6.1

A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself.

Swordsman III: The East Is Red

1993

Wicked City poster
5.8

A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure another treaty. A radical group of demons from the Black World are out to assassinate the diplomat and prevent the treaty; only the bond that forms between the two cops can save the Earth from destruction.

Wicked City

1992

To Be No. 1 poster
7.0

Fai Chuen is a young man who wants to rise in the triad of Hong Kong. He's tough; he's respected by his friends; he loves Apple, daughter of his boss in the small-time Hung Lok gang in Wanchai; and, he encourages the studies of Chun, the son of his mother's closest relative. When Chuen comes to the attention of Piu, a top triad boss, the Hung Lok gang is assigned a hit; Chuen commits the murder and then is frustrated when Apple's father takes the fall. Chuen's cockiness gets him in trouble again when he disobeys Piu to revenge a friend's death. Chuen, who's reached the police bulletin board's most wanted, is now expendable. Can he and Apple escape to the Mainland?

To Be No. 1

1996

Those Were the Days... poster
7.5

A gangster gets mixed up with drugs after witnessing a friend killed during a gang fight.

Those Were the Days...

1995

Blue Lightning poster
8.0

Danny Lee is a retired cop investigating the murder of his wife, witnessed only by his son.

Blue Lightning

1991

The Last Conflict poster
7.1

Interpol officer Dickson Kwan is sent to Hong Kong to investigate in a fake passport forgery case and collaborates with officer Pau Sei and Lau Ting Kin. Due to different approaches on investigating, Dickson and Sei often get into conflicts. Later during an arrest operation, Dickson saves Sei's life and they forget about their bygones. Sei has a daughter Eva, who opposes his father to be a cop. Dickson falls in love with Eva and pursues her, however she does not like Dickson's dangerous profession and although she has feelings for him, she still rejects him.

The Last Conflict

1988

Fatal Obsession poster
6.5

Cheung was the leading dancer in a dance team. She was too devoted to her dancing practices and frequently left her boy-friend Franky alone. This made happen a love affair between Franky and another female dancer Clara, who was also Cheung's room-mate. Franky decided to break-up with Cheung, but knowing that this will affect her public performance, Franky promised Clara to tell Cheung the truth after the performance. The complicated relationship of the three was discovered by the stage director of the dance team. Tat Ming always told Cheung to spare more time for Franky but Cheung just ignored his words. On the birthday of Cheung, the four went out for fun and accidentally ran into a corpse home after a car crash. This haunted place gave Cheung the chance to discover the relationship between Franky and Clara. However, Cheung pretended as usual at the very beginning and soon she figured out a plan for revenge. ..

Fatal Obsession

1994

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

Police Confidential poster
7.0

A Hong Kong policeman (Simon Yam) seeks honesty and loyalty amid corruption, crime and violence.

Police Confidential

1995

The Other Side of the Sea poster
10.0

Shau has started hating the life as a killer. She requests retiring from the organisation. However, in return, the organisation assigned her boyfriend to kill her. Shau killed him out of self defense. During the confrontation, she is also injured but can escape. Tea house owner To saved her from death. Shau recovers and starts enjoying the village life. However, the killers suddenly appear and a bloody confrontation begins.

The Other Side of the Sea

1994

A Killer's Blues poster
10.0

Fourteen years ago, Wai Yat Ming (Ti Lung) went to the US to settle affairs for triad boss Sun (Bao Fang), but ended up in prison. Finally free again, Wai wants to start over with his girlfriend (Olivia Cheng) and adopted daughter (Fennie Yuen), but he finds it hard with Sun's feuding son and nephew, Kit (Mark Cheng) and Chong (Roy Cheung), constantly raising trouble in the gang. Seeing his own misguided past in them, Wai fruitlessly tries to guide them in the right direction. He eventually decides to make a clean break and leave Hong Kong, but Sun's sudden death pulls him back into the violence of the underworld.

A Killer's Blues

1989

The Young and the Reckless poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Young and the Reckless

1992

Tour of Revenge poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tour of Revenge

1989

Running on Empty poster
5.0

Based on a true story, and recreated from the personal account of one of the robbers, the film follows an immigrant from mainland China in 1975 as he works with a team to plan to rob an armored car carrying seven million dollars from the Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong.

Running on Empty

1991

I Want to Go on Living poster
7.5

A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.

I Want to Go on Living

1995

Rebel from China poster
10.0

Prolific action director Woo proves his thespian mettle on screen as a destitute, desperate Chinese defector who, with his brother in tow, tries to find a foothold in the Hong Kong underworld.

Rebel from China

1990

Once a Killer poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Once a Killer

1991

风云2 poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

风云2

2004

The Storm Riders poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Storm Riders

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