James Yi Lui Movies

In the pressure-cooker environment of Hong Kong’s education system, students grapple with a relentless barrage of exams and mind-numbing lectures. The...

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

A 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 comi...

A romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.

A gangster thriller.

Poor 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 h...

This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions...

Out of the Shaw Brothers vaults comes My Darling Genie, an amiable early-eighties comedy starring the enchanting Cherie Chung. Derek Yee is Cheng, a b...

Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.

Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.

Hong Kong comedy film.

A 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 pie...

A story of female sex workers across all social strata.

Romantic tragedy based on John Lo Mar's story "Love Under the Cross".

Hakky 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 a...

Hong Kong comedy film.

Hong Kong comedy film.

Two 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 wit...

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.