Yip Ha-Lei

Nacimiento : 1916-08-28,

Muerte : 2016-01-01

Películas

Gángster por un pequeño milagro
Tailor
Kuo Chen llega a Hong Kong deseoso de comenzar una nueva vida. Para simbolizar esa idea, compra una rosa de la suerte a una vendedora callejera. Poco después, se introduce en un altercado de la mafia sin querer, y aunque no puede evitar que uno de los capos muera, se convierte en su sucesor de la noche a la mañana. Pero Kuo es un hombre de bien y no desea que sus hombres sean criminales, así que hace lo posible por dirigir un negocio legal en forma de local, el Ritz. La hija de un jefe rival que les debe dinero comienza a trabajar para ellos para pagar la deuda, pero Kuo le convalida lo que le debe a cambio de que cante en su local. Los líos no tardan en llegar. Kuo no se puede negar cuando la vieja vendedora de rosas le pide ayuda. Quiere impresionar al padre del novio de su hija. Kuo decide montar la boda más sonada de Hong Kong mientras huye del incansable inspector de la policía y del jefe de un clan rival, Tigre.
Illustrious Energy
Kim
Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.
Let's Have a Baby
Peter's father
A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.
Manhattan Sur
Old General
Stanley White (Rourke) es un veterano del Vietnam que, tras quince años en la policía, es destinado a Manhattan Sur, un distrito de Nueva York. Su cometido es acabar con las bandas juveniles que dominan la zona. Sus investigaciones lo conducen a la peligrosa mafia china, dirigida por Joey Tai (John Lone), y cuyos métodos para controlar el tráfico de drogas son extraordinariamente violentos. Acabar con el crimen organizado se convierte para White en una obsesión, pero su traumático pasado y su situación presente lo arrastran más allá de las órdenes recibidas.
Mismatched Couples
Old man at airport
Eddie (Donnie Yen) is a young man good at both fighting and breakdancing. His cousin Stella (May Lo) has a crush on him, but apparently he loves someone else. Eddie creates trouble when he tries to help out Mini (Yuen Woo-Ping), a hawker whose business is confiscated by the cops. Mini ends up moving in with Stella, Eddie, and his sister (Wong Wan-Si), leading to possible romance as the mismatched couples struggle to get by beneath the same roof. But a powerful fighter named Power (Dick Wei) admires Eddie's skills, and challenges him to a duel. Eddie refuses, so Power kidnaps Stella to get his way. With no choice remaining Eddie, decides to meet Power for a showdown.
Cherie
Cherie's Landlord
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.
Behind the Yellow Line
Paul's father
Leslie is Simon, a mild mannered guy starting a new job and taking care of his mom and dad. He catches a glimpse of a pretty girl named Monica at the MTR station--and it's love at first sight. But she's going through a tough breakup with a guy who's married. She does get over it and the two become a couple. But not only does her ex return, Simon is constantly interrupted by a perky rich girl Anita, who spends lots of money on him, is annoying, but is just looking for company. This strains Simon and Monica's quest for love, but finally she puts Simon to a test, once again at the MTR station.
Let's Make Laugh
Mrs Lei's father
Heralded as the funniest Hong Kong comedy of the early 1980s, this was Shaw Brothers' most popular film of 1983. Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting (who created and produced Jackie Chan's "Highbinders") won the Hong Kong Film Best Screenplay Award for this delightful comedy of modern manners. As director, he also guided co-star Ceclilia Yip Tung to a Best Actress award. Watch for teenage Anita Mui Yim Fong, just beginning her road to superstardom, in the supporting role of the philandering husband's mistress! shaw production
Nomad
Pong's Father
Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Money Is Lovely
Fan Wen-Tong
A movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.
From Riches to Rags
Doctor Mong
Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...
The Cheeky Chap
Doctor Pao
Ma is a grinning and arrogant young man who believes himself invincible, and with fairly good reason. He intervenes to save Captain Kao from robbery, then aids and abets the robbery of an old man, whose daughter Chin he falls instantly in love with. The stolen money was to pay a debt and, because he hasn't the money, the old man is mortally wounded by Sha, the debt collector's assistant. Ma spends the remainder of the film wooing Chin and baiting and fighting the villains, who seem to keep changing allegiances.
The Wickedness in Poverty
Stingy father in law
Two people in debt to loan sharks cooperate with each other to clear their debt and cheat other people out of their money.
Body for Sale
One 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.
The Secret Agent 303
detective
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!