Yip Ha-Lei

Acting

Yip Ha-Lei

Born 1916-08-28 · Hong Kong, China

Acting credits

Miracles: The Canton Godfather poster
7.1

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

Miracles: The Canton Godfather

1989

Year of the Dragon poster
6.8

In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.

Year of the Dragon

1985

Cherie poster
6.0

The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.

Cherie

1984

Nomad poster
6.9

Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.

Nomad

1982

Mismatched Couples poster
6.7

A young breakdancer finds himself in complicated situations with a poor opera performer, his older sister and jealous cousin, a female student, two rivals and a lunatic.

Mismatched Couples

1985

Behind the Yellow Line poster
6.3

Married boss Paul falls for his employee named Monica after running into her in a subway station and it makes all things uneasy for her.

Behind the Yellow Line

1984

Let's Make Laugh poster
9.0

The cheating husband goes bankrupt, and his house is soon to be taken by the government. A security guard is assigned to guard it while the husband goes missing. However, only the mistress stays alone in the house. Will the lonely, handsome guard and the sexy, heartbroken mistress hook up?

Let's Make Laugh

1983

The Wickedness in Poverty poster
NR

Two people in debt to loan sharks cooperate with each other to clear their debt and cheat other people out of their money.

The Wickedness in Poverty

1979

The Cheeky Chap poster
7.0

Ma is a grinning and arrogant young man who believes himself invincible, and with fairly good reason. He intervenes to save Captain Kao from robbery, then aids and abets the robbery of an old man, whose daughter Chin he falls instantly in love with. The stolen money was to pay a debt and, because he hasn't the money, the old man is mortally wounded by Sha, the debt collector's assistant. Ma spends the remainder of the film wooing Chin and baiting and fighting the villains, who seem to keep changing allegiances.

The Cheeky Chap

1980

All the Wrong Spies poster
7.0

In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese occupation. They aim to steal back the formula to the atomic bomb from a war traitor and transfer it to an American before the formula ends up in the Japanese emperor's hands.

All the Wrong Spies

1983

In the Blood poster
9.0

About an accident prone policeman.

In the Blood

1988

Let's Have a Baby poster
9.0

A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.

Let's Have a Baby

1985

The Money Trip poster
4.0

Money Trip is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Kent Cheng.

The Money Trip

1979

From Riches to Rags poster
4.9

Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...

From Riches to Rags

1980

Girl with the Diamond Slipper poster
5.7

Two hopeless housebreaker brothers, Ah Chi and Fatty, steal a diamond that had already been earmarked by a criminal gang. Through a series of unfortunate and - frankly - unlikely events, the diamond ends up in the shoe of a rising star TV actress Cheung Man Ju. They pursue her all over Hong Kong until finally tracking her down at a charity ball where she must leave by midnight, and accidentally loses a shoe in the process.

Girl with the Diamond Slipper

1985

Body for Sale poster
NR

One day, due to carelessness. Ah Chung is fired from his job as a toilet attendant. Out of sympathy, Ah Lien, a waitress who he secretly admires, gives him financial help. When the much indebted Ah Chung found another job, he went to return the money to Ah Lien but was disappointed to learn that she had left and married. Years later, their paths cross again in a strip-tease joint.

Body for Sale

1976

No artwork available
NR

Hong Kong's Ironman stepped up to the plate when Dr. No (1962) took the world by storm in the 1960s. Tso Tat-wah, the quintessential tough guy of Cantonese cinema who had appeared in dozens of popular action films, was licensed to spy in several 007 imitations. Here, he is Agent 303, the lucky number "3" a vivid sign of East-West integration. Presented in glorious widescreen, the film is garnished with secret weapons and ominous hideouts, mind games and technological intrigues, violence and sex, the latter in the form of a silhouette striptease!

The Secret Agent 303

1966

Money Is Lovely poster
NR

A movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.

Money Is Lovely

1981

Illustrious Energy poster
8.0

Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.

Illustrious Energy

1988