Susan Shaw Yam-Yam

Acting

Susan Shaw Yam-Yam

Born 1950-08-17 · Hong Kong, China

Born in Hong Kong, Susan Shaw Yam-Yam moved to Taiwan with her father at an early age, studying nursing for five years after graduation, and then working as a nurse on a ship. After travelling through 23 countries, she decided to go ashore in Hong Kong to find another job, first singing in a nightclub and then became an actress. She has been active in the Hong Kong film industry since 1970. She has won four Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress (2008, 2011, 2013, 2018).

Acting credits

Mr Vampire 1992 poster
6.2

Master Lam and his two disciples must battle a horde of Chinese vampires in order to get the teeth dust needed to cure an ailing general. Meanwhile, the general's wife is pregnant, and the evil spirit of an aborted baby wants to possess the unborn child's body for its resurrection.

Mr Vampire 1992

1992

Thirty Years of Adonis poster
4.7

Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.

Thirty Years of Adonis

2017

Love Chaser poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Love Chaser

1993

Liu Jai - Home for the Intimate Ghosts poster
6.8

Very seldom shown erotic story of a cuckolded husband who departs his home and unwittingly becomes included with not one, but two, alluring ghosts. [Rim movies Catalog] Mandy and his spouse (that's right, Mandy is a man) will be an uncommon few under any conditions. Mandy fools around with young women while his spouse is within the home, nevertheless the wife isn't bothered a lot. She is just considering in the job she's offered Mandy, which is .... to frequently check with the neighborhood brothelkeeper, and find away if she's found guys with incredibly difficult manhoods. How hard ? Complicated enough to punch an opening in a sack of grain (ouch !). And one more thing. Mandy and his wife are ghosts. Of course, this means you will find people who are seeking to exorcise them. In between residential disputes and pursued exorcisms, there's acres of nudity and lots of sex.

Liu Jai - Home for the Intimate Ghosts

1991

Wonder Mama poster
NR

About to turn 50, a librarian's world is shattered when she learns that her 70-year-old father may have gotten their maid pregnant.

Wonder Mama

2015

Undercover Punch and Gun poster
6.0

An undercover cop is forced to team up with a group of unlikely allies to take down a drug smuggling ring.

Undercover Punch and Gun

2019

You Shoot, I Shoot poster
7.0

A hired killer pairs up with an amateur filmmaker to provide clients with satisfying footage of enemies getting whacked.

You Shoot, I Shoot

2001

Vampire Cleanup Department poster
6.1

Attacked by vampire, Spring, a born loser is saved by three street cleaners. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a government secret facilities hidden in a garbage collection station. Spring then discovers that he has a special immunity to vampire attack, making him a perfect candidate as agent of the secret organisation, the Vampire Cleanup Department.

Vampire Cleanup Department

2017

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

Happiness poster
6.9

After his mother's death, Chan Kai-yuk feels so alone that he leaves Guangzhou for Hong Kong to look up the father who abandoned him and his mom. But Yuk's hopes are dashed on finding his dad has a new family and considers him a burden. Alone and homeless, Yuk is taken in by Auntie Fen, a middle-aged recluse who leads a solitary existence. At first, their different habits and personalities lead to numerous squabbles, intensified by Yuk's self-centeredness and Fen's odd temperament. As time goes on, Yuk learns Fen is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The discovery unexpectedly serves as a catalyst for the young man's growth as a caring friend. For the first time in her life, Fen feels truly blessed. But it is a situation rife with irony due to the nature of her disease and the accelerating elusiveness of feelings and memories.

Happiness

2016

Gambling Ghost Are Ready poster
9.0

The ghost of a gambling master (Wu Ma) returns to earth to help his granddaughter (Yuraki Oshima) to win the annual competition organized by the gambling master of the current year who is the killer of her parents and grandfather.

Gambling Ghost Are Ready

1991

Frozen poster
4.5

Wing, a naive girl accidentally revives her cryogenically frozen mother, who is now the same age as her. The pair set out to find the mother’s former boyfriend - Wing’s biological father.

Frozen

2010

Gallants poster
6.4

Master Law awakes from a 30-year coma without memories, but his martial arts skills are intact. His renowned kung fu academy is now a teahouse, and greedy developers are trying to steamroll it to make way for condos

Gallants

2010

Girls for Sale poster
NR

1976 fengyue movie

Girls for Sale

1976

Buddha's Palm poster
7.8

An old blind martial master living in a cave teaches a young swordsman the secret of the Buddha's Palm, a legendary martial arts technique, which propels him into a whole new world of evil knights, hidden temples, dragon dogs, and magical objects.

Buddha's Palm

1982

Moods of Love poster
4.7

Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second, the daughter of a woman who died in a brothel discovers that her mother died an unnatural death and seeks revenge.

Moods of Love

1977

The Vengeful Beauty poster
6.7

Despite its stand-alone title, this mixture of martial arts and exploitation is a semi-sequel to Shaw Brothers's Flying Guillotine series. This time, the focus is Rong Qui-yan, a kung fu student turned dutiful wife whose life falls apart when her husband is murdered by a squad of government operatives led by the duplicitous Jin Gang-Feng. Qui-yan is forced to go into hiding as she plots her revenge and finds allies in fellow fugitive Ma Seng and ex-lover Wang-jun.

The Vengeful Beauty

1978

Vulgaria poster
6.3

Struggling movie producer To Wai-chen needs money for child support, so he reluctantly agrees to film a softcore remake of a Chinese classic.

Vulgaria

2012

Human Lanterns poster
6.1

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.

Human Lanterns

1982

Lazy Hazy Crazy poster
4.6

Childhood friends Tracy, Chloe and Alice share an apartment over the summer. They live close together, meet guys and sell their company as well as sex. With a romantic imagery and sometimes provocative theme the female debutant director Luk Yee-sum give the audience a playful story about sexuality, desire and friendship.

Lazy Hazy Crazy

2015

I Love Hong Kong 2011 poster
6.0

After his business goes bust, Ng Shun and his family move back to his old apartment to stay with his father. He has not returned for 10 years because the apartment is too small for his family. Furthermore, the environment is unfamiliar to Shun's family. Coincidentally Shun's old childhood friend, Lung returns too. Due to an old misunderstanding, Shun is distrustful of Lung. Will Lung regain Shun's trust again?

I Love Hong Kong 2011

2011

Just Love poster
8.0

A woman is transported from the past into modern Hong Kong. She is being pursued by a long haired old man with magic powers

Just Love

1992

The Romance of the Vampires poster
3.8

Love & passion is the name of the game in this romatic vampire thriller. Instead of "I want your blood...", the heart-broken vampire in this story punishes himself by refusing to suck the blood out of his victims.

The Romance of the Vampires

1994

I Love Hong Kong 2013 poster
5.7

Eric 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

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