
Acting
Veronica Yip Yuk-hing
Born 1966-02-12 · Hong Kong, China
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.
Acting credits
5.3David 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
4.5Milk'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
7.1A 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
4.3While 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
4.4Retired 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
6.3Ivy 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
5.6Mrs. 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
5.1Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness.
Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time
1993
4.2A 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
7.9Humiliated 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
5.7Eric Tsang and stars are back with another entry into the "I Love Hong Kong" franchise: this Chinese New Year with a story that is set in the 1970s, a decade of economic growth and prosperity for Hong Kong and the citizens.
I Love Hong Kong 2013
2013
8.0When 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
5.7A 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
6.3Chronicles 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
8.0Simon 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
6.8Bumbling 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
7.5Hiu-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
5.3Romantic comedy from Hong Kong.
Summer Lover
1992
8.3Sullen insurance agent Maggie Cheung reluctantly rescues a triad goon suffering from hatchet wounds (Roy Cheung), and thus begins their slow-burn romance.
Rose
1992
7.5Referred 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
5.0A 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
8.0Three 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
6.2A 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
5.0A 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