Cheung Po-kin (Chinese: 楚原, 9/16/1934 - 2/21/2022), better known by his stage name Chor Yuen, was a Hong Kong-Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor.
A generation of ghost-hunting master Zhang Ke came to Hong Kong from Beijing with two apprentices Zhang Beiping and Zhang Nanjing because of avoiding the war ....
Lin (Ben Wong), a humble and low-ranking official, accidentally killed the evil monk’s foster son when he tried to arrest fiddler Tin (Cheung Ka Fai). Lin then discovered that he was destined to fight against the spirits and demons. But what he really wants is to marry the girl of his dreams…Ching Ching (Joyce Tang). The evil monk then sent his apprentice Chi (Jan Lau) to befriend Lin. Lin was in constant danger but fortunately he was protected Yuen (Tsui Ho Ying). In the end, Lin decided to ...
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Sammi Shum (Kenix Kwok) quits her studies and marries a tycoon's son, Raymond Lam (Lee Wai-kei), despite her father's (Chor Yuen) objection. At first, she feels like a princess living in a fairy tale, until she discovers her husband is having an affair. She wakes up from her dream and finds that the reality is that she is suffering from post-natal depression She loses the custody of her son, QQ, after divorcing her husband. Luckily, her friend Yip Heung-fai (Stephen Au) finds her an assistant jo...
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The story takes place in Yeung Lo Wai, a remote village in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Yu Meijun (Su Xingxuan), who lived in the same house for four generations, lived a peaceful and peaceful life with her husband, daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law. How could they expect that in an operation to catch a gangster, all the men in the family who served in the police field were killed together, and the widow The next class is alone and widowed, and suddenly loses support. The women are forced...
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The Huang family has served in the police force for generations. The patriarch, Huang Jiajing, is modest and talkative, but lacking in confidence and self-esteem. After making mistakes in his job as a police officer, he was transferred and then resigned. His wife, Liao Zhonghao, is a contented housewife devoted to her children. Their eldest daughter, Huang Di, is a senior police inspector who is authoritative and diligent. Their second daughter, Huang Fei is impulsive, lazy, and gluttonous, but ...
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Fan (Bobby Au Yeung) heads a team of detectives in the “Special Duty Squad” responsible for investigating various prostitution practices. Fan and his subordinate Sergeant Tit (Wan Yeung Ming) have solved many cases and are well-experienced, they have dealt with cases under cover of an exclusive association; model agencies seducing innocent girls to work as prostitutes; loan sharks forcing women to pay debts by working as prostitutes. Although Fan has excellent performance at work, his family lif...
A heartwarming drama about two chefs competing for the coveted title of “Master of All Chefs”, “A Recipe for the Heart” is a delightful combination of gracefully concocted food and great comedy. Shek (Chun Pui) was the chef as well as the owner of the restaurant Delicious Garden. He disappeared after defeating by his good friend Shan (Bobby Au-Yeung) in a cooking contest, leaving behind his wife Yuen (Lydia Shum) and his daughter So So (Esther Kwan). Shan then disguised as Kut to help the two...
The Criminal Investigator is a 1995 Hong Kong police procedural television drama. Produced by Jonathan Chik and edited by Chow Yuk-ming, the drama is a TVB production. The story follows a team of investigators from the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau unit of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force....
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Spanning 20 years, from 1990 to 2010, the series tells of three entrepreneurs who founded a company together to achieve the ultimate goal of developing a pollution-free town in Hong Kong. Through the years, they face many struggles, but most particularly, the family vendetta between two of the company founders....
Journey to the West is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. Starring Dicky Cheung, Kwong Wah, Wayne Lai and Evergreen Mak, the series was produced by TVB and was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in November 1996. A sequel, Journey to the West II, was broadcast in 1998, but the role of the Monkey King was played by Benny Chan instead, due to contract problems between Dicky Cheung and TVB. Cheung later reprised the role in another television ser...
The celebrated Tung Sing Cinema has a full house at all times; but who would have thought that a spot as busy as it has been haunted for a period? It is early 60’s, definitely a trying time for Hong Kong. Unemployed YING has just been given a job as a ticket-seller by the Tung Sing Cinema on her friend SUK’s recommendation. YING works very diligently and responsibly and is therefore highly regarded by her boss, YIN. However when YING keeps stating that there is an apparition around the cinema, Y...
Armed Reaction is a 1998 Hong Kong modern cop drama produced by TVB. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung and Esther Kwan as the main leads with Joyce Tang, Marco Ngai, Mimi Chu and Joe Ma in main supporting roles. The drama takes place before 1997 Handover of Hong Kong and Royal Hong Kong Police revolves around the lives of two police woman, one who works leisurely behind desk duty but has to take her job more seriously once her husband leaves her and a new rookie cop who is deemed too ambitious and...
Four scholarly people who find love. There is the smart and dashing Tang Bo Hu played by Nick Cheung. Greedy Chu Tse San (Bobby), noble and honest Wen Jing Ming (Gordon), and the guy who goes a long Chow Wen Bing (Macro)....
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge....
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court....
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....
This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32....
Poor teacher Chan Chi-hong, his wife Lee Yuk-mei and their five children survive on his meagre pay. When he is laid off by two schools in a row, the family runs into difficulties. The children resort to begging on the streets to pay the mother's medical bills. Turning to writing, Chan's novel fails to find a publisher and, worse still, he comes down with tuberculosis. Dealt a further blow by the death of the youngest daughter and the pressures from the loan sharks, Chan contemplates killing hims...
A full journey from the beginning of "Swordplay" movies in Shanghai, growth in Hong Kong cinemas in the 60's and 70's and Ang Lee's epic "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000. The series also features interviews with such luminaries including John Woo, Chu Yuen, Lau Ka Leung, Gordon Lau Ka Fai, Sammo Hung, David Chiang and Cheng Pei Pei....
A police detective (Aaron Kwok) must pose as the son of a millionaire to catch a kidnapping ring. Trouble starts when the policeman's girlfriend starts working for the businessman....
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In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer....
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven deadly "blood curses" and must return there to find a permanent cure....
Yuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel gimmick, Yuen meets his parents during their joyous courtship. Yuen comes to understand and admire his dad, and reflect on his own moral defects....
Alex is the smart one who claims first place in every human endeavor. To be true, he really excels in all forms of gambling. Alex likes to help people. Thus, when his old friend Fung is jilted by a rich girl, he immediately takes Fung to a slave auction in the Philippines. There, Fung buys a woman of beauty and femininity. Alex himself falls in love with Mina, who is deadly against gambling. She would break ties with anyone found to be gambling......
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This film is a Hong Kong version of the British Carry On films, this one specifically set in a hospital. The hospital is full of inept people, so Miss Kuk (Meg Lam) vows to the board that she will reform it. This involves the recruitment of student nurses, keeping in check some silly interns and dealing with Dr. Chen, whose wife just left him....
The Sniping is a Hong Kong Crime movie starring Eric Tsang and Alex Man...
Traditional values and modern ideals clash when an old-fashioned father and his playboy son cannot see eye to eye in this honest look at the sometimes fragile father, son relationship...
A dimwitted thief, mistakes for a spy, in order to free himself he holds the honest driver, as a hostage. They end up in a tunnel and traveled back in time. Throughout their travels, they meet figures in the martial arts world including the "God of Sabre" and "Sword Saint."...
Fong (Miriam Yeung) is already at odds with Wu (Edison Chen), one of her bosses at an ad agency, when she makes a major mistake at work that puts her job on the line. To save herself, she feigns pregnancy, which, under Hong Kong law, means she cannot be fired for 10 months. However, while there may be some perks that accompany her "pregnancy," she is eventually forced to concoct increasingly elaborate lies and involve everyone around her in the charade....
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....
A pregnant student marries a total stranger, leading to a string of bizarre incidents....
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other....
Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals. As an adult, he joins the police force, where he is first placed with the Narcotics Bureau. During a drug raid operation, he catches a drug dealer. He is later transferred, first to the Anti-Porno Bureau where he falls in love with a call girl, then to the Regional Crime Unit where he works under Inspector Chu. During a drug raid operation, Lee kills ...
This is an outrageous comedy about seven days in the life of two girls Leung and Ling, who want to skyrocket to the top by entering a beauty pageant. Both girls are ballyhooed as the hottest contestants, but at the end neither can make it to the top 5! What's more, Ling is dumped by her boyfriend, and gets fired at the same time. Being afraid of going home to get along with her father. Leung gives her a hand, inviting Ling to stay with her in her roof-top bungalow. Then they begin their days of ...
Filmmaker Ian Taylor examines the impressive legacy of Hong Kong cinema -- specifically, how martial arts crossed borders and become an international phenomenon -- with the help of footage and interviews with the stars who made the genre what it is today. Director Lau Ka Leung (who helmed The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) joins in, sharing his thoughts on how certain cinematic technologies have improved martial arts films and expanded their appeal, on the set of Drunken Monkey (2003)....
When the vampire comes back to life, hell breaks loose....
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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 properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels....
1391: The good Chiang Su-Su manages to defeat the evil spirit Elf Fox, but has her soul transferred to a jasper incense holder and remains dormant for hundreds of years. In 1991 the Elf Fox returns to lethal life to wreak havoc on modern Hong Kong. The Elf Fox needs to absorb the souls of 108 men in order to obtain her full power. It's up to Su-Su's sweet descendant Yi, grouchy monk shopkeeper Chiang Wu, dashing, handsome foster son Wang Hsa, sassy ghostbuster Yu, and several others to defeat th...
Tough female cops tussle with Hong Kong Triad societies and also a recently resurrected hopping vampire. Chaos reigns....
A soldier from Mainland China arrives at Hong Kong to look for his estranged sister and finds out that she has been forced into prostitution by a criminal organization....
The Sensational Pair is a Hong Kong Drama Comedy starring Kent Cheng and Anita Mui...
Teddy Robin Kwan’s 1960s retro musical. A melodrama about two childhood best friends who rise to the top of the Hong Kong pop scene under the influence of their mentor, Johnny K (Teddy Robin Kwan), who once ruled the pop scene himself....
During hard times in the Hong Kong film industry, an out-of-work actor talks a producer, writer, and an actor into making a movie together. They become gigolos to raise money for the production....
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....
Angry Girls get revenge on some bad guys....
Keung and Fai had been good friends since childhood. They both had keen interest in boxing-matches. Having parted with Keung for more than ten years, Fai had become a police officer. On the contrary, Keung had joined an illegal organization as a professional killer. Keung decided to resign from the organization...
"Those Were the days" speculates on what would happen if a hot international art house director were transported back in time to the 1960s Hong Kong film industry. Highlights include: WKW meets Wong Jing as a child and profoundly influences career; WKW attempts to make his kind of films with the resources, talent, and expectations of 1960s HK filmmakers, and a lot of other Hong Kong /Wong Jing style zaniness....
A look at the martial arts and kung fu cinema of Hong Kong...