Veronica Yip Yuk-hing

Acting

Veronica Yip Yuk-hing

Born

1966-02-12 (60)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

After finishing 2nd runner-up in the Miss Asia beauty pageant, Veronica Yip became a popular singer in Hong Kong, and then followed the career path of many Cantopop singers by going into movies. Although more acclaimed as a vocalist than an actress, Yip gave several fine performances in successful films, such as her role as the frigid and neglected wife in Hong meigui, bai meigui (1994). While appearing in concert in Atlantic City in December, 1995, she was introduced to a New York supermarket magnate. They were married the following autumn, whereupon she retired to raise a family.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 27 titles

Hidden Desire poster
5.3

David is sitting in a bar, musing over why he has bedded and left five or six of Asia's loveliest women in such a short time.

Hidden Desire

1991

The Eagle Shooting Heroes poster
7.1

A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics.

The Eagle Shooting Heroes

1993

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time poster
5.1

Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness.

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time

1993

Cash on Delivery poster
4.4

Retired gigolo Simon is engaged in antique trading and brokerage. His cousin Mike is a new gigolo who got into trouble and was caught in a lawsuit. Simon encountered Assistant Prosecutor Sandy in court. Eventually they fall in love with each other. Mrs. Liu and her husband Peter, a wealthy businessman, have no children, which makes the family very dissatisfied. They hire Simon to impregnate her. but she fell in love with Simon and pestered him obsessively. Simon accidentally killed Peter by mistake. Mrs. Liu accused Simon of murdering her husband. Sandy acted as Simon's defense lawyer and used her resourcefulness to get Simon acquitted.

Cash on Delivery

1992

Pretty Woman poster
4.3

While working alone late at the office one night, Veronica is raped by a returning male colleague, who accidentally kills her in the process (she falls back and hits her head on a sharp object). Later that same evening, he comes across a bar hostess who looks identical to the woman that he has just murdered. He eventually talks her into showing up for work in Veronica's place on the very next day, and handing in her resignation. Unfortunately for him, she is persuaded to stay, and decides to continue impersonating the deceased secretary.

Pretty Woman

1991

1941 Hong Kong on Fire poster
4.2

A family suffers at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong. On December 25, 1941, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong. The pawnshop owner, Luo Kai has three daughters, the eldest daughter Wangdi, the second daughter Xindi, and the youngest daughter Aidi. When the Japanese army captured Kowloon, Aidi was violently tortured by the Japanese army and suffered a mental disorder. Xindi followed his lover Shen Fang to rescue the wounded in the temporary hospital. In order to curry favor with the Japanese army, Luo Kai did not hesitate to sacrifice his eldest daughter Wangdi. However, not long after he became a traitor, his second daughter Xindi was attracted by a Japanese military officer. Luo Kai finally couldn't bear to fight against Wangdi to stop him. In the chaos...

1941 Hong Kong on Fire

1994

3 Days of a Blind Girl poster
5.6

Mrs. Ng, who is left temporarily blind after an eye operation. Second day, her husband takes off to Macau for a business trip. Soon afterwards, Sam, a former patient of Dr. Ng, shows up to Mrs. Ng with sinister motives.

3 Days of a Blind Girl

1993

Take Me poster
4.5

Milk's husband dies on their wedding night while having sex. He returns as a ghost as she attempts to get her life back on track whilst choosing between two new men in her life.

Take Me

1991

Scarred Memory poster
6.2

Ivy Yip is a young doctor who’s suffering psychological trauma after being raped. She has an understanding boyfriend and best friend, but the pressure of her sexual frigidity gets to them and she finds them in extra-curricular activity. Due to her shame and alienation, she neglects a bloodied patient, Lung, who arrives at the ER. She’s punished by her superiors whereupon she quits to rest in Macau. Then guess who shows up: Lung, who’s become “special” thanks to his head trauma.

Scarred Memory

1996

Rose poster
8.2

Sullen insurance agent Rose reluctantly rescues a triad goon, Roy, suffering from hatchet wounds, and thus begins their slow-burn romance.

Rose

1992

Summer Lover poster
5.3

Romantic comedy from Hong Kong.

Summer Lover

1992

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

Gigolo and Whore II poster
7.9

Humiliated by Charlene, a rich girl who has acquired the company that Johnson works in, Johnson decides to take revenge on her. To their surprise, Charlene turn to woman again. When Jack nearly succeeds, he finds himself in love with Charlene...

Gigolo and Whore II

1992

A Roof with a View poster
7.5

Hiu-tung (Veronica Yip) is a naïve young wife who is forced to raise her child alone after her gangster husband skips town for Taiwan. Her next-door neighbor is Ching-man (Tony Leung Kar-fai), a cop still coming to terms with his partner's sudden, inexplicable suicide. Inevitably, the two begin to find solace in each other's company -- Ching-man even acting as a sort of surrogate father for her son -- and soon in each other's arms. Just as true love seems about to bloom, Hiu-tung's thuggish husband returns.

A Roof with a View

1993

Love Among the Triad poster
8.0

Simon Yam Tat-wah and Rosamund Kwan Chi-lam star in this gauzy melodrama about the life and loves of the gangster elite, directed by Andy Chin Wing-keung. The film centers around Ching Kit, a mob boss who instead of using typical tools of underworld shakedowns -- mob hits, blackmail, and the like -- employs the dinner party to negotiate deals, to forge partnerships, and craft revenge. When Ching works out a deal with the Portuguese mob that would give him partial control of Macau's casinos, he quickly learns that treachery lurks around every corner. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing, Cecila Yip Tung, and Pauline Wong Siu-fung also appear.

Love Among the Triad

1993

Run poster
7.5

A lonely and broken hearted Hall (Leon Lai) settles down in a rustic cats town in Mexico hope to start a new life. Unfortunately his striking resemblance to the town's notorious killer known as Guitar Killer will change his plans. A continuous action-packed bloody attack by the Guitar Killer's enemies will ensue. This is the Hong Kong remake of the classic El Mariachi.

Run

1994

Hong Kong Show Girls poster
5.0

A struggling acting troupe uses an old abandoned porno theater to rehearse. As one strange occurrence follows the next, it becomes clear that the hall is haunted by a dancer who died in a mysterious theater fire years ago.

Hong Kong Show Girls

1996

Man of the Times poster
5.0

A look at the life and times of Chan Chi Chiu--an ambitious cop's journey to become the highest ranking officer in Hong Kong.

Man of the Times

1993

01:00 A.M. poster
5.7

A film that foretells three modern-day ghost stories, set in the City of Hong Kong. The first segment deals with a popular singer that mysteriously falls into a deep coma, and the public is unaware that his spirit is detained by the ghost of an obsessed fan of his. His plea for help is only recognized by his nurse. In the second segment, four college girls are assigned an unusual project, and their selected-topic is to "interview" the ghost of the "Braided Woman." When they encounter the streets where the ghost was claimed to roam, they find themselves in a mist of terror. In the third segment, two night-duty police officers stumble upon a mysterious crisis when their speed-tracking camera detects a image of an old woman. After the woman's first sighting, the officers encounter her in every place they go, and their only solution is to find out what she wants.

01:00 A.M.

1995

Red Rose White Rose poster
6.3

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background. Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

Red Rose White Rose

1994

Treasure Island poster
6.2

A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss.

Treasure Island

1993

Rose Rose I Love You poster
6.8

Bumbling Hong Kong detectives Lui (Kenny Bee) and Leung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) go undercover in an apartment complex to keep watch over Pearl Chan (Carina Lau), a high school teacher who is suspected to be connected to a rare diamond theft involving a notorious thief named Mr. Mickey (Simon Yam). Meanwhile, the legendary Black Rose (Veronica Yip) appears and is also in pursuance of Mr. Mickey, wanting him to surrender himself and the diamond in order to clear her name.

Rose Rose I Love You

1993

Mother of a Different Kind poster
7.5

Referred to as Hong Kong's answer to "Misery", innocent-looking Bo-Bo Fung is an overprotective mother/nurse who is bent on revenge at all costs after the death of her son at the hands of policeman Lau Ching-Wan. Veronica Yip stars as a gambling addict who enlists Lau to protect her from loan sharks, and eventually returns the favor in order for him to survive Nurse Lam's relentless assault.

Mother of a Different Kind

1995

Three Summers poster
8.0

Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of his youth. Against the backdrop of that locale, his young sister has recently befriended a group of adolescents who visit the isle perennially - every summer - and who share their individual stories with her. One tale at a time, she begins to experience life vicariously through the others' recollections.

Three Summers

1992

Law on the Brink poster
4.5

With Hong Kong on the brink of unification with the Mainland, can they get along? When the Beijing police want to arrest his brother for murder, Hong Kong lawyer Shen goes to Beijing to help. Time and again he butts heads with differences between Hong Kong and Mainland law and practice. Thanks to a persistent though traditional lawyer named Wu and an implacable but fair policewoman named Lan, Shen manages to keep out of jail and pursue his brother's innocence. The big problem is that the dead man, a pimp and a bully, is the son of a wealthy and influential man who'll stop at nothing to avenge his son's death.

Law on the Brink

1994

Bogus Cops poster
8.0

A take on the 1990 US film "Short Time", Karl Choi (Kar-yan) and Ching But-kam (Eric Tsang) are the laughingstocks of the Royal Hong Kong Police, and things get even worse when Choi's HIV test turns up as a false positive, leading him to believe he is dying of AIDS. Hoping to become a hero, Choi becomes bold and reckless, planning to be killed in the line of duty, thus receiving a ceremonial burial and a legendary reputation for bravery. In pursuit of this goal, Choi goes after a ruthless but bumbling group of terrorists hired by Saddam Hussein to bomb various strategic targets. While Choi is attempting to go out in a blaze of glory, Ching is falling in love with a beautiful prostitute (Veronica Yip) with a speech impediment and a surprising command of kung fu.

Bogus Cops

1993

Evening Liaison poster
7.0

In Shanghai in 1937, a journalist meets and falls for a woman who refuses to tell him her name, referring to herself only as "Ghost". She disappears, and his efforts to find her lead the journalist to clear up an old, unsolved murder case.

Evening Liaison

1995

Series credits

Look Back at TVB Anniversary Awards Over the Years poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Look Back at TVB Anniversary Awards Over the Years

1968

The Modern Love Story poster
10.0

A collection of different love stories starring the most famous singers and stars from Hong Kong of the 90's.

The Modern Love Story

1992

Screen Play poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Screen Play

1992

Five Heroes from Shaolin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Five Heroes from Shaolin

1986

Storm In Shanghai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Storm In Shanghai

1989

The Blood Sword poster
NR

The Blood Sword is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the wuxia manhua series Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by Ma Wing-shing. The series was produced by ATV and first aired in June 1990. It was followed by a 1991 sequel, The Blood Sword 2.

The Blood Sword

1990

最佳女主角 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

最佳女主角

2013

The Conspiracy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Conspiracy

1987

代代平安 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

代代平安

1990

兇靈大法師 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

兇靈大法師

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

肥趣电视台

1991

卿抚你的心 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

卿抚你的心

1993

八美顯芳華 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

八美顯芳華

1993

The Blood Sword 2 poster
NR

The Blood Sword 2 is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the wuxia manhua series Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by Ma Wing-shing. The series was produced by ATV and first aired in September 1991. The series is a sequel to The Blood Sword.

The Blood Sword 2

1991

The Solitary Swordsman poster
NR

Kiem Thap Tam - a great knight whose real name is unknown, his story attracts two young men who do not know the height of the world, one is the daughter of a wealthy merchant, Miss Mai, and the other has a chivalrous heart. The meaning of the name Bat Tu, they were all attracted by Sword Thirteen's generosity and freedom. This film is about the wandering adventures of this great warrior and his worshipers....

The Solitary Swordsman

1991

Lady C.I.D. poster
NR

The play tells the story of female police officer Cheng Meizhen who meets Lung Qiji, a member of the underworld, while performing a mission. The latter is influenced by him and tries to change his ways, and the two gradually fall in love

Lady C.I.D.

1986

The Devil Force poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Devil Force

1987

幽灵 poster
NR

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幽灵

1987

火烧红莲寺 poster
NR

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火烧红莲寺

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

黑夜

1988