Lau Yat-Fan

Acting

Lau Yat-Fan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Duel to the Death poster
6.8

In 16th century, during the Ming dynasty era, every ten years the greatest swordsman from Japan faces the greatest swordsman from China in a duel to the death for their nation's honor. As a duel approaches, Chinese champion Bo Ching-Wan and Japanese champion Miyamoto uncover a plot to rig the fight.

Duel to the Death

1983

Hong Kong Playboys poster
10.0

Fu Sheng plays Sheng, a playboy who has all the latest cars and technology along with all the tricks for courting the ladies. Sheng’s mom (Lee Heung Kam) along with her personal nurse, Mei (Cherie Chung), arrive in Hong Kong with the intentions of getting Sheng to marry a woman of her liking. While searching for Ms. Right, Sheng is challenged by a couple of lady killers, Lolento (Natalis Chan) and Valentine (Hsieh Hsien) in his quest to get girls. Eventually, little does Sheng know that the girl he happens to love is near him everyday at home.

Hong Kong Playboys

1983

The Sword poster
7.1

Swordsman Li Mak-Jan is on a quest to duel the powerful and reclusive Hua Qian Shu. But will a cursed sword and the intrigues of the martial world bring him fame or tragedy?

The Sword

1980

The Dead and the Deadly poster
6.1

Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral services. When the body Ma Lun Chio is brought back to the village by a new wife and her "brother", Wai Li is suspicious. He sets out to find out how his friend died, but things are not what they seem.

The Dead and the Deadly

1982

Happy Ghost III poster
6.9

A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.

Happy Ghost III

1986

All in the Family poster
6.4

A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.

All in the Family

1975

Film credits

1980s · 34 titles

Duel to the Death poster
6.8

In 16th century, during the Ming dynasty era, every ten years the greatest swordsman from Japan faces the greatest swordsman from China in a duel to the death for their nation's honor. As a duel approaches, Chinese champion Bo Ching-Wan and Japanese champion Miyamoto uncover a plot to rig the fight.

Duel to the Death

1983

Hong Kong Playboys poster
10.0

Fu Sheng plays Sheng, a playboy who has all the latest cars and technology along with all the tricks for courting the ladies. Sheng’s mom (Lee Heung Kam) along with her personal nurse, Mei (Cherie Chung), arrive in Hong Kong with the intentions of getting Sheng to marry a woman of her liking. While searching for Ms. Right, Sheng is challenged by a couple of lady killers, Lolento (Natalis Chan) and Valentine (Hsieh Hsien) in his quest to get girls. Eventually, little does Sheng know that the girl he happens to love is near him everyday at home.

Hong Kong Playboys

1983

The Sword poster
7.1

Swordsman Li Mak-Jan is on a quest to duel the powerful and reclusive Hua Qian Shu. But will a cursed sword and the intrigues of the martial world bring him fame or tragedy?

The Sword

1980

The Dead and the Deadly poster
6.1

Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral services. When the body Ma Lun Chio is brought back to the village by a new wife and her "brother", Wai Li is suspicious. He sets out to find out how his friend died, but things are not what they seem.

The Dead and the Deadly

1982

Happy Ghost III poster
6.9

A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.

Happy Ghost III

1986

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star poster
5.7

A second-rate private eye sees a woman's UFO abduction claim as his ticket to fame and fortune.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

1983

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

Till Death Do We Scare poster
6.0

After a young woman loses three husbands in quick succession via freak accidents, their ghosts band together to try and make her fall in love with a radio personality.

Till Death Do We Scare

1982

Hex vs. Witchcraft poster
5.1

A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.

Hex vs. Witchcraft

1980

Twins of Kung Fu poster
8.0

A humble village finds itself at the center of an ongoing blood feud. Innocent lives are sacrificed as the two warring factions duel to the death. Twins are taught the styles of Dragon and Phoenix to enable them to avenge their mother's murder.

Twins of Kung Fu

1981

Plain Jane to the Rescue poster
6.3

Jane, with plain looks but a heart of gold, is always in between jobs. Once she gets a job, her knack for creating awkward situations immediately loses it for her. Ricky is her suitor, but he gets nowhere as the girl has no time for love. So Ricky goes along with her in job hunting. Somehow, Jane lands on a job as governess. Not to a child, but to an uncouth very old, very rich man who still wants to lead the life of his poor, uncivilized youth. His son is now running the old man's millions. He wants to bring up the father the civilized way. And he wants to take over the whole city through take-over deals. He is ruthless and has thrown thousands into the streets.

Plain Jane to the Rescue

1982

Maybe It's Love poster
6.7

Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface for residents of a small village when the young coquettish Mrs. Wang disappears.

Maybe It's Love

1984

The Trail poster
6.3

A gang of opium smugglers, disguised as Taoist Priests transporting hopping corpses, are hired to transport a real dead body to it's final resting place.

The Trail

1983

The Super Gang poster
5.5

Arsenals of round kicks and backfist strikes explode in this stunning tale of intrigue between two gangs. Each opposing group is hopelessly divided on the issue of refugees filtering into their territories. Each gang, crisscrossing through the light and shadows on both sides of the law, succeed in having each other's clubs raided. Finally, devastating fists and razor-edged weaponry collide in spectacular warfare between the two gangs. Starring the incomparable Bruce Lee [sic], in one of the most violent and vengeful roles of his career.

The Super Gang

1984

Hex poster
6.1

Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Kei-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.

Hex

1980

Money Is Lovely poster
NR

A movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.

Money Is Lovely

1981

Challenge of the Gamesters poster
6.3

A forerunner to the new wave gambling films, this is one of Wong Jing's first hits--before he would go on to dominate Hong Kong cinema for the next two decades. Although rife with Japanese spies, Shanghai tycoons, beautiful starlets, and enough intrigue to keep 007 happy, Bond himself would be no match for the heroes' skill at mahjong and other games Hong Kong gamblers play--proving that the cube is often mightier than the baccarat card.

Challenge of the Gamesters

1981

Fast Fingers poster
7.5

Two young pickpockets follow around after their uncle, the King of Pickpockets, just released from jail. Can the King keep on the straight and narrow this time ?

Fast Fingers

1983

Ghost Festival poster
5.4

A psychopath solicits ghostly help to find out who killed his wife, and then concocts a bizarre plan to get vengeance.

Ghost Festival

1985

Dress Off for Life poster
8.0

Chen Yuen, a professional boxer, goes into hiding when his career takes a nose dive. His loneliness has bred impotency and, ultimately insanity. Now he stalks the city streets, attacking and slaughtering unsuspecting females.

Dress Off for Life

1984

Energetic-21 poster
9.0

Chan Chuen directed this story about the many problems besetting Hong Kong youth when they reach that "energetic" age of 21.

Energetic-21

1982

Devil Sorcery poster
4.7

The student of a good wizard decides to get it on with his master's wife and all hell breaks loose after the tragic death of his master.

Devil Sorcery

1987

Salt and Pepper poster
NR

A humorous contemporary comedy about Chen, a miserly and scheming restaurant owner and his employee Zhong who compete to win a girl's attention.

Salt and Pepper

1983

Cadets on the Beat poster
6.0

A group of male cadets tangle with a gang of robbers before they even enter the Hong Kong Police Academy, where they are trained by a fierce police chief. They must deal with the robbers successfully if the want to prove to their superiors their worthiness in the police force. Things get complicated when one of the cadets falls in love with the chief's daughter.

Cadets on the Beat

1986

Bruce Vs. Bill poster
4.5

The two fighters of the title clash due to a gang boss playing them off against each other. The boss is hoping to steal a million dollars of the country's money, and when the two fighters realise this they combine forces to defeat the gangster, and his accomplice, a man whom they had both formerly respected.

Bruce Vs. Bill

1981

Every Man for Himself poster
NR

Sha Yung (Wang Sha) and Shuang La (Lin Hui-huang), a sly duo with some kung fu skills, make their living through clever schemes. After accumulating a sum of money through less-than-honest means, they venture into the “consultancy” business, which proves to be a thriving enterprise. Their path crosses with Ah Ying (Yang Tsing-tsing), who disguises herself as a man. Upon learning that she is being pursued by her widowed stepmother, Hua (Lo Wan-yin), and Hua’s lover, who conspired to harm Ying’s father, Sha Yung and Shuang La extend their sympathy. Hua employs a professional assassin to attack Ying’s hideout . The two resourceful con-artists assist Yang to resist the assault. Eventually, they capture Hua and her partner in crime, setting the stage for a reckoning with justice.

Every Man for Himself

1980

Rolls, Rolls, I Love You poster
NR

A teenager and a tycoon gets into an early morning road altercation that eventually lead to a bet: if the teenager can steal his beloved Rolls Royce car from him, the youngster will get to keep it. However, if the teenager fails to do that in the alloted time given, he will need to pay the tycoon HK$40,000.

Rolls, Rolls, I Love You

1982

Wild Cherry poster
3.5

Hong Kong drama film.

Wild Cherry

1982

Obsessed poster
7.0

Hong Kong horror film.

Obsessed

1983

The Prohibited Area poster
NR

A couple with baby try to re-unite after illegally seeking refuge in Hong Kong.

The Prohibited Area

1981

36 Secrets of Courtship poster
4.5

Three lotharios vie to become principal of the Macho Man Training School, an extremely non-monastic institution dedicated to extremely non Shaolin-types of physical exertion, in this strange and erotic farce of the classic 36th Chamber Of Shaolin.

36 Secrets of Courtship

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

One Heart One Spirit

1981

Toothless Vampires poster
8.0

The story is about a family of vampires that due to genetic imbalance doesn't have fangs.

Toothless Vampires

1987

The Mortal Storm poster
4.0

A woman is forced into prostitution.

The Mortal Storm

1980

1970s · 26 titles

All in the Family poster
6.4

A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.

All in the Family

1975

Sensual Pleasures poster
4.8

Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.

Sensual Pleasures

1978

The Dragon Lives Again poster
5.5

Everyone's favorite martial artist ""Bruce"" winds up fighting for his life and soul in hell against an evil Warlord intent on making him mincemeat - and he has recruited some of the 1970s most iconic B-movie characters to help dispatch the great one. But when that won't do the trick, he uses monsters, mummies and beautiful women to get the little dragon at any cost.

The Dragon Lives Again

1977

The House of 72 Tenants poster
6.8

Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.

The House of 72 Tenants

1973

The Last Message poster
6.7

Li (Sam Hui) works at a sanitarium as a male nurse, and Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man. One day, a bearded old man is sent into the sanitarium with a large bag. Ah Tim manages to steal the bag, and finds antique fragments inside. When the old man dies, the pair learn from his daughter that there is a sunken vessel that is loaded with much more than they already have, so they decide to go after the sunken treasure.

The Last Message

1975

10 Magnificent Killers poster
6.5

When a man's son is kidnapped by his enemy he must hit the vengeance trail.

10 Magnificent Killers

1977

Frigidity poster
NR

Frigidity is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Stanley Fung.

Frigidity

1975

Caning poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Caning

1979

The Four Shaolin Challengers poster
4.7

Lin Che Jong, A student of Wong Fei Hung stands up to gangsters from the local crime family,and opens a Kung Fu school in town. The gangsters take revenge by killing students and destroying the school.The town is run by a local crime lord named Shao Pei Lee, a notorious fugitive. Shao Pei Lee in turn enlists the help of a group of villainous fighters known as "The Yangtze Four" to battle Lin Che Jong and his brothers as they try to expose the corrupt officials and rid the town of Shap Pei Lee

The Four Shaolin Challengers

1977

Mad Mad Kung Fu poster
8.2

This old school martial arts comedy involves the search for the elusive “Bamboo Stick,” an aged kung fu master played by Simon Yuen, who kills a local crime boss’s son after taking the place of the son’s forced bride on the wedding night.

Mad Mad Kung Fu

1979

The Reckless Cricket poster
5.5

Cricket (Hon Kwok-Choi) wants to be a kung fu master so he can marry Ah Zhu (Yau Chui-Ling) because her father thinks he is weak. So she gives him gold bars to get proper training. Cricket encounters various teachers that are really con men that take his gold yet Cricket still manages to learn kung fu to face those standing in his way.

The Reckless Cricket

1979

Killer of Snake, Fox of Shaolin poster
5.2

Carter Wong stars in this Hong Kong classic as a powerful martial artist who must protect an old man and his daughter from a snake god who possesses deadly kung fu skills.

Killer of Snake, Fox of Shaolin

1978

The Running Mob poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

The Running Mob

1975

Bolo poster
7.5

The super human Beast from the East takes on all comers!

Bolo

1979

Hello Sexy Late Homecomers poster
NR

A sex comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio.

Hello Sexy Late Homecomers

1978

The Money Trip poster
4.0

Money Trip is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Kent Cheng.

The Money Trip

1979

Let's Do It poster
NR

1976 film

Let's Do It

1976

Fortune Hunter's Plot poster
NR

When Fu suffers a heart attack, his relatives hover around him hoping to get a slice of his great wealth. But despite his illness, the old man clings stubbornly to life. So greedy family members plan to murder him, intending to make nurse Daisy a scapegoat.

Fortune Hunter's Plot

1977

Laugh in the Sleeve poster
8.0

TONG Pak-Fu, CHUK Chi-Sang, MAN Ching-Ming and CHOW Man-Bun were the four famous learned-men in classical Mid-China. They were on good terms. Once, they picniced and visited the monkish home in Fu-Yau Mounts. While there they encounter the Lady of WAH Prime Minister in a sedan followed by a train of servants and maids. One of the maids named CHAU Heung was very attractive. Pak-Fu was attracted by CHAU Heung and tried every opportunity to get near her, and caused a lot of laughter. HE even followed CHAU Heung to Han-Chow. The Prime Minister needs a library mate urgently. Pak-Fu takes this opportunity to apply for it and was accepted. He tried to date CHAU Heung when she brings snacks to the library one day. She rebuked him for giving up his future prospects. The three friends of Pak-Fu discover that Pak-Fu had disappeared. They soon find out his whereabout. With the help of the 2nd daughter-in-law of the Prime Minister, a cousin of Pak-Fu...... the two lovers eventually get married.

Laugh in the Sleeve

1975

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

Bed for Day, Bed for Night poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bed for Day, Bed for Night

1977

Crazy Imposters poster
7.0

A Shaw Brothers production directed by Kuei Chih-hung.

Crazy Imposters

1978

My Kung Fu Master poster
7.0

My Kung Fu Master is a Hong Kong Martial Arts Comedy

My Kung Fu Master

1978

Funny Kung Fu poster
NR

Two vile Kung Fu masters terrorize a small town and extort money out of the inhabitants. A local kid who's obsessed by martial arts learns all kinds of Kung Fu including homemade Kung Fu in the hopes that he will be good enough to see the nasty masters off.

Funny Kung Fu

1978

Laugh In poster
10.0

A female extra-terrestrial (Chen Chen) appears on earth - in Hong Kong - to warn humankind of an impending catastrophe, but is arrested and institutionalised. She becomes trapped in a media circus, paraded as a freak. Exhausted and exasperated, the girl vanishes; a UFO is seen disappearing into the night sky.

Laugh In

1976

The Chase poster
7.0

1977 film

The Chase

1977