Anita Mui Yim-Fong

Acting

Anita Mui Yim-Fong

Born — Died

1963-10-10 — 2003-12-30

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Anita Mui Yim-Fong (Chinese: 梅艷芳, 10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a popular Hong Kong singer and actress. During her prime years she made major contributions to the cantopop music scene, while receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a cantopop diva. Mui once held a sell-out concert at Hammersmith, London, England, where she was dubbed the "Madonna of Asia". That title has stayed with her throughout her career, and has been used as a comparison for both Eastern and Western media. In the 1980s the gangtai style of music was revolutionised by her wild dancing and femininity on stage. She was famous for hav…

Known for

Golden Horse Awards poster
9.0

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

Golden Horse Awards

1962

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

Rumble in the Bronx poster
6.9

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Rumble in the Bronx

1995

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

The Legend of Drunken Master poster
7.5

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

The Legend of Drunken Master

1994

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

Film credits

2000s · 10 titles

Wu Yen poster
6.4

Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi stumbles across local chief Wu Yen, his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her first.

Wu Yen

2001

Ultimate Fights from the Movies poster
5.0

In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

2002

Dance of a Dream poster
6.8

Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.

Dance of a Dream

2001

From Ashes to Ashes poster
7.0

A dad and a mom, who both devote themselves to working, turn to smoking as the only way to release the emotional pressure. Their kid gets surrounded by second-hand smoke every day and eventually gets cancer.

From Ashes to Ashes

2000

Let's Sing Along poster
5.6

Chu Wai Tak (Anita Mui), a timid and shy office lady, is embarrassed by her ex-boyfriend by enrolling her in a singing contest. Tak is in trouble as she can't sing when someone else is round. She asks King (Dayo Wong) a Karaoke fanatic, to train her and make her confident in performing in front of others. The time is coming, King decides to give Tak the final "confidence boost" session... Anita Mui must overcome stage fright by learning from the “King of Karaoke” in this musically-inclined comedy.

Let's Sing Along

2001

July Rhapsody poster
6.5

Secondary school teacher Lam Yiu-kwok is suffering from a mid-life crisis—his peers have all become more successful than him; his relationship with his wife, Chan Man-ching, is in trouble when her old flame returns, and he finds himself tempted by a 17-year-old student who has a crush on him.

July Rhapsody

2002

Anita Classic Moment Live poster
8.0

Compilation of Anita Mui's last eight performances, weeks before she passed away. Recorded on 6-11, 14-15 November 2003 at Hong Kong Coliseum.

Anita Classic Moment Live

2004

梅艳芳红馆绝唱经典演唱会 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艳芳红馆绝唱经典演唱会

2003

Anita Mui Fantasy Gig poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anita Mui Fantasy Gig

2002

梅艷芳 Mui Music Show poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

梅艷芳 Mui Music Show

2001

1990s · 25 titles

Rumble in the Bronx poster
6.9

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Rumble in the Bronx

1995

The Legend of Drunken Master poster
7.5

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

The Legend of Drunken Master

1994

The Enforcer poster
6.7

An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.

The Enforcer

1995

Moon Warriors poster
6.5

A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.

Moon Warriors

1992

The Heroic Trio poster
6.7

While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.

The Heroic Trio

1993

Justice, My Foot! poster
6.7

An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.

Justice, My Foot!

1992

The Banquet poster
5.8

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

The Banquet

1991

Fight Back to School 3 poster
6.5

Chow Sing Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.

Fight Back to School 3

1993

Saviour of the Soul poster
6.8

A woman blinds a martial arts master and his pupil vows revenge on her. She is forced to abandon her loved ones without explanation in order to protect them from her ill-intentioned pursuer.

Saviour of the Soul

1991

Au Revoir, Mon Amour poster
6.1

A tragic love story set against the always volatile and oftenviolent backdrop of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and at the opening of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. A nightclub singer becomes involved with both a member of the Chinese resistance and an officer of the Japanese army.

Au Revoir, Mon Amour

1991

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners poster
5.9

In a post-nuclear world, three superpowered women fight an evil genius controlling the government and the water supply.

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

1993

The Mad Monk poster
5.9

The gods in heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan.

The Mad Monk

1993

The Top Bet poster
6.0

Sing and Mei are two siblings with special powers which the former uses to gamble. When both are unavailable, a gangster hires Fanny, a con artist, to compete in a gambling competition.

The Top Bet

1991

Who's the Woman, Who's the Man? poster
5.8

Music producer Sam and his cross-dressing protege Wing have finally professed their love for another, but now what?

Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?

1996

Kawashima Yoshiko poster
7.2

A fictionalized account of the life and death of Kawashima Yoshiko, the last princess of Manchuria and a spy for the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Kawashima Yoshiko

1990

The Magic Crane poster
6.2

On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.

The Magic Crane

1993

The Fortune Code poster
6.5

Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.

The Fortune Code

1990

The Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Stars poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Stars

1991

Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star poster
5.2

Angel of Nine Heavens is found to have fallen in love, and is banished to Earth. Windfall God is secretly in love with her, and begs the Jade Emperor to be given a chance with her. He is sent to Earth in human form, only able to use his godly powers three times per day. He has seven days to find the reincarnation of Angel of Nine Heavens and make her fall in love with him.

Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star

1996

Shanghai Shanghai poster
6.2

Little Tiger ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger, an honest cop working in a corrupt system. Surmising that life in the police force was not his cup of tea, Little Tiger joins the Swallow Acrobatic Troop, which he excels in because of his kung-fu prowess. When a band of thugs from Chin Hung-yun's group attacks the troop, Little Tiger not only handily fights them back but also infiltrates their organization to destroy them from the inside. Meanwhile, Big Tiger's old flame Mary returns from America to join the revolutionaries. Big Tiger soon finds himself torn between his love of this girl and his orders to arrest all revolutionaries.

Shanghai Shanghai

1990

Eighteen Springs poster
7.3

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.

Eighteen Springs

1997

Left Right Love Destiny poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Left Right Love Destiny

1999

顧嘉煇黃霑真友情演唱會 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

顧嘉煇黃霑真友情演唱會

1998

百變梅艷芳告別舞台演唱會 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

百變梅艷芳告別舞台演唱會

1991

梅艳芳一个美丽的回响演唱会 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艳芳一个美丽的回响演唱会

1995

1980s · 23 titles

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

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon poster
6.4

Before the events of A Better Tomorrow (1986), Mark 'Gor' Lee heads to Saigon during the Vietnam War to bring home his uncle and cousin, but his task becomes complicated when a well-known criminal tries to help him.

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

1989

Rouge poster
7.4

Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.

Rouge

1987

Scared Stiff poster
7.3

Alan and Halley are partners in a pest control company. Handsome Alan gets the girls and puffy Halley gets nothing. One night the two are injured in a car crash. Halley suffers slight injuries but Alan is dead for all purposes except his brain wave which still works actively.

Scared Stiff

1987

Happy Bigamist poster
6.7

Ah Sun of the drama society leads a dramatic private life off-stage as well as on. His ex-wife Kong loses her last cent in business; and after going bankrupt is left without a place to stay. As she is entitled to own half of Ah Sun's house, she moves back. Ching, Sun's girlfriend, is determined to show who's the mistress. Her exaggerated actions embarrass Kong, and Kong soon has a chance to hit back. Ah Sun's rich aunt returns for a visit and has not been told about their divorce...

Happy Bigamist

1987

100 Ways to Murder Your Wife poster
5.5

Two men, Fat and Roberto, are both married and unhappy. Together they make diverse plans to murder their wives.

100 Ways to Murder Your Wife

1986

The Greatest Lover poster
5.4

A delightful comedy about three illegal immigrants from China, one of whom (Chow) gets roped into a gentleman-training course - taught by Mui - in order to take revenge on some bitchy beauties who jilted a nasty fellow. Kinda like a gender-reversed My Fair Lady.

The Greatest Lover

1988

Mad, Mad 83 poster
NR

This is a star-studded comedy film, with the funny point being that Chan Ji is muddled into the feud between two major gangs. In addition, Barbara Yung made a guest appearance in "Crazy 83", in which she played the role of a detective.

Mad, Mad 83

1983

Trouble Couples poster
7.0

Mui Da Hsien (Anita Mui), the eldest sister, is the only breadwinner in the family. She spends all her time in raising up and discipline her three sisters, Yee Hsien (Ann Bridgewater), Sarm Hsien (Charine Chan), and Sai Hsien (Fennie Yuen). They are aware of Da Hsien is becoming a spinster and they are not allowed to get married if Da Hsien remains single. So they decide to find her a husband. So all their boyfriends very anxious to give a helping hand. They find Tsang To Choy (Eric Tsang) who just has broken heart is the right man, but Tsang is scared away by Da Hsien's shrew temper...

Trouble Couples

1987

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

One Husband Too Many poster
8.0

Theater enthusiast Sun (Anthony Chan) is so passionate about drama that he sells his home to stage Romeo and Juliet. The plays turns out to be a complete failure however - and is the last straw for his wife (Anita Mui), who quietly leaves him. Marriage isn't working out too well for his friend Wa (Kenny Bee) either: Fed up with a husband who spends too much time at work and not enough at home, Wa's wife (Pat Ha) suddenly leaves. Things finally look up for Sun when he produces a popular play starring rich girl Hung (Cherie Chung) and the two begin dating. But it turns out Wa also has his eyes on Hung...

One Husband Too Many

1988

Lucky Diamond poster
7.7

Lucky Diamond is a Hong Kong Comedy directed by Yuen Cheung-Yan and starring Alex Man and Anita Mui.

Lucky Diamond

1985

Happy Din Don poster
7.3

Michael is a guitarist in a night club, but his indulgence in gambling costs him his job. He is kicked out of the band. Wandering in an alley, he accidentally overhears a gang of drug dealers plotting. He is caught as he tries to get away. Michael seeks the help of his roommate, Roger who is the manager of a girls band preparing to go on a performing tour to Thailand. Roger takes Michael as a band member so that he can get away. While in Thailand, Michael falls in love with the leading female singer of the band. He tries all sorts of ways to gain her attention and love, while keeping one jump ahead of pursuing gangsters...

Happy Din Don

1986

Why, Why, Tell Me Why!! poster
7.5

Why, Why, Tell Me Why!! is a Hong Kong Drama starring Anita Mui

Why, Why, Tell Me Why!!

1986

Three Wishes poster
7.0

Three Wishes is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Anita Mui

Three Wishes

1988

The Sensational Pair poster
NR

The Sensational Pair is a Hong Kong Drama Comedy starring Kent Cheng and Anita Mui

The Sensational Pair

1983

Inspector Chocolate poster
6.8

Inspector Chu is an idiot to rival Inspector Clouseau. After he fails to catch a car-park full of thieves he is demoted to the missing persons squad, only to be faced with the kidnapping of the son of the star of a TV cooking show. Inspector Chocolate bungles the case, fails to dance the tango and interferes with the Miss Hong Kong pageant in his attempts to solve the case

Inspector Chocolate

1986

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

Last Song in Paris poster
9.5

Louie (Leslie Cheung), a spoiled pop star, has a one-night stand with beautiful dancer, Anita (Anita Mui). When Anita tells Louie that she dreamed of becoming a singer, he brings her to the stage and becomes a star. Anita has fallen in love with Louie, but Louie loves Julia (Joey Wong). However, Louie later finds out that Julia is dating his father, Kent (Paul Chu). Louie then leaves Hong Kong and heads to Paris leaving his career behind. Then he meets, Yuan Yu-shih (Cecilia Yip), a Vietnamese refugee that suffers from a war wound. In Paris, Louie lives his new life happily as a dishwasher with his new lover. However, his past life starts to come back when Anita comes to pay a visit.

Last Song in Paris

1986

Young Cops poster
5.5

A typical Hong Kong comedy about young inexperienced cops that get into a lot of silly antics. The film is notable for featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Anita Mui in early roles.

Young Cops

1985

The Musical Singer poster
7.0

Entertainment manager James Wong loses his lead singer Jannie Fong when she breaks her contract. Angered, he turns his efforts to making a young dancer named Russell, who has no singing experience, into an even more successful singer than Miss Fong. During his climb to success, Russell's girlfriend, Dionne, feels alienated from him.

The Musical Singer

1985

百變梅艷芳再展光華87‐88演唱會 poster
NR

Anita Mui Live in Concert "87-88

百變梅艷芳再展光華87‐88演唱會

1988

ANITA MUI SPECIAL 1989 poster
NR

Brazil, a warm, cheerful, carefree, and peaceful South American country, is an alluring destination. Even pop diva Anita Mui chose this location to film a music special, and specially invited Elaine Kong, who often imitates her, to make a cameo appearance. The story follows Anita (Anita Mui) as she flies to Brazil to find her boyfriend Ricky. Before her mission even begins, her luggage is almost stolen. Fortunately, her kindred spirit, Xiao Yu (Elaine Kong), who immigrated to Brazil with her uncle when she was ten, comes to her aid. The two thus begin a friendship. However, along the way, Anita almost misunderstands Xiao Yu as a thief. Will the two be able to break the ice and reconcile? Will Anita be able to successfully find her boyfriend Ricky?

ANITA MUI SPECIAL 1989

1989

Series credits

Golden Horse Awards poster
9.0

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

Golden Horse Awards

1962

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

New Talent Singing Awards poster
NR

An annual singing competition organised by TVB that searches out new singers to enter the Asian music industry.

New Talent Singing Awards

1982

Summer Kisses Winter Tears poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Summer Kisses Winter Tears

1984

星光熠熠耀保良 poster
NR

The annual "Starlight Shines Over Po Leung Kuk" will be held at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong. Multiple singers from both Hong Kong and Taiwan will continue to perform in the program, calling on everyone to contribute to the charity and donate to support Po Leung Kuk community services.

星光熠熠耀保良

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梅艷芳飛越舞台十載情 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艷芳飛越舞台十載情

1991

香江花月夜(數碼修復版) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

香江花月夜(數碼修復版)

1984

情场妙女郎 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

情场妙女郎

1993

梅艳芳公益金友好演唱会 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艳芳公益金友好演唱会

1995

梅艷芳特輯之夢裡風情 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艷芳特輯之夢裡風情

1988

梅艷芳音樂電影巴西熱浪嘉年華 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艷芳音樂電影巴西熱浪嘉年華

1989

梅艳芳-飞跃舞台十载情 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艳芳-飞跃舞台十载情

1991

梅艷芳音樂特輯之情歸何處 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

梅艷芳音樂特輯之情歸何處

1994

永遠抱緊-梅艷芳 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

永遠抱緊-梅艷芳

2023

Behind the camera