
Acting
James Yi Lui
Born — Died
1939-12-13 — 1999-02-16
Place of birth
Guangdong, China
Known for
Acting
Credits
53 titles
James Yi Lui was born in 1943, the son of famed comic actor Yi Chau-shui. At age 17, he joined Shaw Brothers as a bit part actor, starting with Sweet Girl in Terror in 1958. A breakout role in Teddy Girls (1969) moved him up to lead and major supporting roles until he achieved stardom with his comedic turn in Adventure in Denmark (1973). He continued to appear in films (nearly 100 total) until 1989 and also formed his own production company, Daai Sing, which enabled him to direct and produced several films. He retired after directing and starring in the ghost comedy Excuse Me, Please! in 1989 and passed away ten years later from heart disease.
Known for
5.5Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.
The Haunted Cop Shop II
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Friends & Enemies
1988
6.4Two blood brothers, who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
Flaming Brothers
1987
10.0A story of female sex workers across all social strata.
The Call Girls
1973
5.1A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
Hex vs. Witchcraft
1980
5.7A second-rate private eye sees a woman's UFO abduction claim as his ticket to fame and fortune.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
1983
Film credits
1980s · 17 titles
5.5Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.
The Haunted Cop Shop II
1988
6.4Two blood brothers, who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
Flaming Brothers
1987
5.1A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
Hex vs. Witchcraft
1980
5.7A second-rate private eye sees a woman's UFO abduction claim as his ticket to fame and fortune.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
1983
9.5Mistaken Identity is a Hong Kong Crime-Comedy directed by Tsui Siu-Ming and starring Richard Ng.
Mistaken Identity
1988
7.3Simon Yam plays a cop that has just been released from jail after serving some years there. He claims he is innocent of all charges, and was in fact "framed".
Framed
1989
6.0Out of the Shaw Brothers vaults comes My Darling Genie, an amiable early-eighties comedy starring the enchanting Cherie Chung. Derek Yee is Cheng, a brusque construction worker who discovers a magical umbrella on a routine dig. When the umbrella is opened and sprinkled with water, a 200 year-old genie arrives to grant the owner's wishes. As if that weren't enough, this genie happens to look like Cherie Chung! Cheng has been given a virtual ticket to Heaven, but he's more annoyed than grateful, and uses the Genie to perform mostly menial tasks.
My Darling Genie
1984
NRA movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.
Money Is Lovely
1981
4.6The Pink Squad is comprised of four strong, tough women (Sandra Ng, Ann Bridgewater, Suki Kwan in her film debut, and Elsie Chan) who do their police work efficiently and successfully. As a result, their chauvinistic superiors in the police department are always scheming to try and get them fired.
Operation Pink Squad
1988
7.0A group of flim-flam friends are chased by the mob and then by ghosts in this horror comedy.
Excuse Me, Please!
1989
3.7The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
The Lost Generation
1983
6.5A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop inadvertantly eats. Eventually the hero cop finds himself tied to an operating table with the killer preparing to deal with his "posterior ulcers"!
The Red Panther
1983
4.0Hong Kong comedy film.
Carry On Police
1982
8.0A romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.
Wedding Bells, Wedding Belles
1981
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Food For The Sharks
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
十三号地区
1984
6.2In the pressure-cooker environment of Hong Kong’s education system, students grapple with a relentless barrage of exams and mind-numbing lectures. The strain becomes so overwhelming that it leads many students down the path of rebellion. Mr. Tai (Lui Wai-hung) is a dedicated, albeit nerdy, high school biology teacher who finds himself with his hands full, contending with a group of troublesome teenagers. These unruly students go to great lengths to make Mr. Tai’s life a living nightmare, often with comically disastrous consequences. Amidst this chaos, Ye Feng plays the role of the father of the protagonist. He inadvertently gets caught up in the raucous antics and pandemonium that unfold within the school. This film marked Ye Feng’s final appearance in cinema.
To Sir with Troubles
1981
1970s · 26 titles
10.0A story of female sex workers across all social strata.
The Call Girls
1973
5.7In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Foxbat
1977
4.2A bumbling martial arts teacher has the skills but lacks the confidence to use them. Run out of town by some ne'er-do-wells, he sets out on some comic adventures as he travels the countryside. Taking up some companions that are as bumbling as he is, the group seems to stumble into one misadventure after another. Will our hearty band eventually prove their worth with their skills and bring their enemies to justice?
The Crazy Instructor
1974
4.8Poor Betty gets drugged and kidnapped at a teen beach party and finds herself in clutches of a sleazy prostitution ring. After trying to escape, her head is shaved as punishment. Soon enough, she's the star of the stable for all the local bald freaks.
Bald-Headed Betty
1975
7.5Hakky Ho (James Yi Lui) holds on to his love of acting and dreams of being a star despite the chaotic, brutal, low-paying, hilarious reality of life as an extra. He falls in love with fellow extra Siu-Fong (Idy Chan), but the star (Kenneth Tsang) wants her for his next extra-marital conquest.
The Extras
1978
5.0No synopsis available yet.
A Haunted House
1975
9.0Hong Kong 1972. Shiu Pang is a poorly paid photographer with a very jealous fiancee. One day he meet an innocent girl and he falls in love with her. His fiancee decides to give a lesson to the young girl by sending a bunch of youngsters beating her and things goes worse and worse, the photographer's best friend dies in fighting the gangsters and the girl loses his mind, ending up in an asylum.
Love and Blood
1972
NRComedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
The Ghosts and I
1979
NRRomantic tragedy based on John Lo Mar's story "Love Under the Cross".
Maria
1971
5.4Two brothers, one wrongly accused of a crime, go on a mission of vengeance to find the men who framed him.
Black List
1972
8.0A gangster thriller.
Bus Stop
1971
9.0Hapkido Master Kim Jin Pal takes on a mass of Japanese bushido experts in occupied China Bolo plays Zatoichi hired by the Japanese as a last resort to take on the might of Kim's boot.
Tiger
1973
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Death Comes in Three
1973
Hong Kong comedy film.
The Money-tree
1973
NROne 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
NRHong Kong action / crime / drama.
The Discharged
1977
Hong Kong comedy film.
My Darling Slave
1974
NRTwo rival street gangs from Kowloon go to war over turf and bar girls so as to dominate the area and maximize their takings; however things go from bad to worse as the girls start to get involved in the bloody feud.
Back Street
1973
3.5Hong Kong drama film.
3 Pussycats
1973
3.0Two Chinese men go to Copenhagen for some reason. While one of them philanders around with various Danish and Asian women, the other falls in love with his Chinese tour guide, but takes time to have various drawn-out kung fu battles with a seemingly endless amount of thugs sent by his partner's overweight and very jealous girlfriend back home.
Adventure in Denmark
1973
Sequel to the comedy movie Lam Ah Chun
Lam Ah Chun Blunders Again
1979
8.0Hong Kong comedy
The Clumsy Gambler
1977
Two fellows who make friends under the funniest circumstances cause a riot through a series of jobs that they take on and lose at an alarming rate.
Gee and Gor
1978
Hong Kong movie
The Simple-Minded Fellow
1976
10.0Looking for a job, Ah-chun is sent off into the countryside to a seemingly haunted mansion.
Lam Ah Chun
1978
NRDirected by Sum Cheung.
The Winner Takes All
1975
1960s · 4 titles
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
During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy number 13 Cheung Chi-ping. While Wu establishes a relationship with Sakei, the assistant general of the Japanese army, she also gets acquainted with Cheung. Cheung and Wu fall in love. Wu recommends Cheung to become Sakei's driver. Cheung pretends to court the Japanese spy Siu-kuen, but Siu-kuen arranges to kill the spies contacting with him. Cheung has seen through Kuen's identity for long. When Kuen is going to kill Wu, Cheung kills Kuen, Fan compels Wu to kill Cheung. Wu follows the instruction to murder Cheung. After the murder, Wu disappears. After the war, Fan discovers Wu ends up in asylum. When he visits Wu, he tells her of Cheung's innocence. This breaks Wu's heart. Cheung turns out to have seen through Wu's identity for a long time and pretended to have been killed to cover up his identity and facilitate his work. With the truth known and the war ended, Cheung and Wu married.
Spy No. 13
1964
The delinquent gang 'The Seven Brigands' consists of the unruly rich heir Peter Ko, sister Connie, classmates Lisa, B.B. Jane and sister Angel, Tommy and Tong Wong. The good-natured Peter and Lisa want to put the gang back on the right track, but with Lisa falling out with the group following a row, Peter reverts to his former self.
Social Characters
1969
NRHK horror film.
Horror by the Sea
1964
1950s · 1 titles
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.0A group of flim-flam friends are chased by the mob and then by ghosts in this horror comedy.
Excuse Me, Please!
1989
NROne 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Food For The Sharks
1982
Two fellows who make friends under the funniest circumstances cause a riot through a series of jobs that they take on and lose at an alarming rate.
Gee and Gor
1978

