Ben Yuen

Ben Yuen

Historia

Ben Yuen is known for Twilight's Kiss (2019), Tracey (2018) and The Eye (2002).

Perfil

Ben Yuen

Películas

The Moon Thieves
Loi Bo Watch Company, Hong Kong's esteemed watch boutique, conceals a thrilling secret—it serves as the epicentre for stolen timepieces. Under the icy command of Uncle, a fearless crew assembles: an audacious thief, explosive specialist, lock-picking prodigy, and watch connoisseur. Their target? Tokyo, where they plan to heist three ultra-luxury watches.
El cerdo, la serpiente y la paloma
Hsu Wei-chiang (Hongkie)
Cuando descubre que solo es el tercer fugitivo más buscado de Taiwán, un ambicioso criminal decide eliminar del podio a los dos primeros.
The Brotherhood of Rebel
Mr. Yin
Seventeen years ago, an assassin ambushes triad boss Yu. Yu’s wife, Shing-nam, sends Chai, Kam and others to find the assassin. Chai catches the assassin and discovers that he is Meow, Chai and Kam’s childhood best friend. To save his friend, Chai helps Meow flee Hong Kong. Though Yu survives the attack, the injuries leave him crippled for the rest of his life.
The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell
Doctor
El agente de policía de Hong Kong Cheung (por Aaron Kwok) trabaja encubierto en el cartel de la droga de Kang (por Sean Lau), mientras que otro policía encubierto Au (por Louis Koo) se gana con éxito su confianza en un incidente, se construye un vínculo fraternal entre los tres. Después de que la policía desmantela el sindicato en Hong Kong, Kang posteriormente se esconde en el Triángulo Dorado, y por casualidad recibe un aviso sobre la traición dentro de su círculo de confianza...
Shadows
With the mystical power to delve into people’s subconscious, Ching, a psychiatrist, discovers that a social worker is compelled by an inner voice to kill his family and commit suicide. Suspecting his former psychiatrist, Ching collaborates with a cop to investigate, which leads to a revelation from her own traumatized past, and casts a doubt over her motivation. In his first bigscreen adventure, Glenn Chan delivers an exceptional psychological crime thriller that explores the dichotomy of good and evil lurking in our shadows.
Look Up
Jointly presented by Hong Kong’s four renowned film companies - Sil-Metropole Organization, Emperor Motion Pictures, Media Asia Film and One Cool Film Production - Look Up is a Sil-Metropole Organization production produced by John Chong and co-directed by young filmmakers Daniel Chan, Tim Poon, Elvis Hau and Sunny Yip. The film runs through four Hong Kong Stories from 1997 to the present, to detail the days we have passed through these years.
The Parents League
What is the best for children? A stress-free environment or a live-happily-ever-after life? A well-planned head-start or an all-rounded ability? Life is a race, and the kindergarten is the first battlefield!
Breakout Brothers 2
Doctor Chan
Ho Chun, a young entrepreneur, is sent to jail. By implementing his philosophy in the business world that money can solve any problems, Ho Chun offers Big Roller, Kin-Tin, Scar and Ho-Ching a considerable amount of money for assisting him to breakout from jail.
Cara a Cara (Raging Fire)
Shan es un policía honrado que es admirado por todo el cuerpo por haber resuelto muchos casos. Un día, su pasado regresa para atormentarle; en plena operación es atacado por un misterioso grupo de criminales liderado por Ngo, que fue su discípulo.
Hand Rolled Cigarette
Big Mouth Tai
A retired British Chinese soldier, a young South Asian man, an encounter at Chungking Mansions. Coincidentally, they both offended the same gang boss. What has given them a new lease of life and how do they rediscover themselves through each other’s company…
Más allá de la onda expansiva
Chin Ka-on
Poon Shing-Fung (Andy Lau) es un especialista en desactivar bombas que pierde las dos piernas en un desafortunado incidente. Tres años después, la policía sospecha que el propio Poon está vinculado a serie de ataques terroristas con bombas. Sin embargo, él es incapaz de recordar nada de lo sucedido. Por eso, decide escapar de la vigilancia policial para tratar de descubrir la verdad del asunto.
The Calling of A Bus Driver
Philip
Just when a middle-aged aspiring bus driver thinks she and her 7-year boyfriend are headed to the altar, she learns that he is involved with another woman. A year later, she receives invitation to their wedding banquet, where she accidentally foils the plan of that woman’s ex-boyfriend to reveal her as a cheater and a swindler. These two jilted lovers decide to join forces and come up with a plan to take revenge on the alleged con woman.
One Second Champion
Master Cheung
How much difference does one second make? Can it be the difference between life and death? A loser single father learns that lesson the hard way when he becomes gifted with the power of seeing one second into the future. When his ability is exposed, a boxing buff persuades him to use his power in the boxing ring. After reviving Hong Kong’s vampire genre as the co-director of Vampire Cleanup Department, Chiu Sin-hang (also the lead vocalist of local band ToNick) combines the boxing genre with a refreshing dash of fantasia in his thrilling solo directorial effort.
Hell Bank Presents: Running Ghost
Singapore actor-turned-director Mark Lee’s Hell Bank Presents: Running Ghost, a Hong Kong-set Cantonese-language comedic thriller featuring Hong Kong actors Wong You Nam and Cecilia So
Suk Suk
Hoi
Un día, un taxista que se niega a retirarse llamado Pak, de 70 años, se encuentra en un parque con Hoi, de 65, un padre soltero jubilado. Pak vive con su mujer y su hija, embarazada y a punto de casarse. Hoi, después de su divorcio, vive con su devoto hijo cristiano. Aunque ambos han ocultado su sexualidad, están orgullosos de las familias que han creado a través del duro trabajo y la determinación. Sin embargo, en ese breve encuentro inicial, se desata algo en ellos que había quedado reprimido durante muchos años. Mientras ambos recuerdan sus historias personales, contemplan un posible futuro juntos.
Apart
Fagara
Brother Yung
After her father died, a Hong Kong girl discovers she has two hitherto unknown sisters, one in Taiwan and one in China. To settle her father's debt, she must reunite with them to run the family's hot pot restaurant.
Tracey
Brother Darling (Fa Yim-hung)
Tai-hung, in his 50s, lives happily with his wife. Informed of the death of his high school friend, Tai-hung’s secret past resurfaces. The feature debut from promising new Hong Kong talent Jun Li.
29+1
Christy's Uncle
A story of two women, Christy Lam and Wong Tin-lok, who are both turning 30.
Onda expansiva: Shock Wave
President Chen
Cuando un terrorista especializado en explosivos se apodera de un túnel subterráneo, amenaza con matar rehenes si no se cumplen sus demandas.
Heartfall Arises
Sherman Ko
Dos maestros de ajedrez están enredados en varios casos de asesinato relacionados con trasplantes de órganos. Un policía y psicólogo criminal Calvin Che tienen que trabajar juntos para encontrar el eslabón perdido, mientras enfrentan varios peligros.
Line Walker
Uncle Heen
Debido a la destrucción de un archivo informático, las identidades de un numeroso grupo de policías infiltrados desaparece de las bases de datos policiales. Uno de ellos puede estar infiltrado en una peligrosa organización mafiosa.
Trivisa
Chief Chen
Hong Kong's three notorious thieves who have never met one another before appear in the same restaurant. This leads to a rumour that they are joining forces to pull off something big before the Handover, though this is not something that any of them.
Ten Years
Bruce Ngai (segment "Self-immolator")
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Doomsday Party
Manager Leung Sai-kwong
Hong Kong, Oct 2013. Following a long period of social unrest over bank failures, property speculation and government mismanagement, crowds gather to demonstrate in front of the Legislative Council building. Panic ensues as a bomb is reported inside the LegCo building, planted by someone calling himself "Skywalker". Meanwhile, a branch of Hong Kong & China Banking Corporation is held up by two young people in masks - chemistry student Lang (Kelvin Kwan) and social drop-out Fish (Fish Liew). Among the people in the bank are disillusioned former teacher Yue Chung-tak (Teddy Robin), councilman Ho Chung-lai (K.K. Cheung), his mistress Rebecca (Maggie Chan), the bank's investment saleswoman Luk Wan-yee (Kay Tse), her philandering boyfriend Victor Lo (Wilfred Lau), and Wan-yee's onetime boyfriend, police detective Kin-ho (Paul Wong). All have their own reasons for being in the bank that day.
Tales From The Dark 1
Police (segment "Stolen Goods")
In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong horror writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this horror anthology.
FOUL
Yan is a basket ball fanatic who barely makes it to Form 6, not by studying hard but by his skill on the court.
Motorway
To
Producida por Johnny To. Sean es un novato en una curiosa unidad secreta de la policia; los Stealth Riders son los mejores conductores en la policia, preparados para neutralizar el mundo de las carreras ilegales, o para atrapar a criminales fugados. Un dia Sean cruza su camino con el de Jensen, una leyenda en el mundo criminal como conductor de huídas, que nunca ha llegado a ser arrestado, con lo que el policia inicia una dura persecución que acaba con Jensen, por primera vez, entre rejas. Poco después el criminal protagoniza una fuga con otro de los reclusos, con lo que la verdad sale a la luz: Jensen se dejó atrapar para poder sacar al otro preso. El humillado Sean encuentra consuelo en el detective Lo, un antiguo miembro del cuerpo de conductores que tuvo que dejar los coches después de un incidente con Jensen, y le anima a ayudarle a buscar al criminal.
Overheard 2
Ma
Manson Law, a celebrated stockbroker in Hong Kong, is injured in a car accident. The police, led by Inspector Jack Ho, discovers a military surveillance device in the car wreck. Meanwhile, the wiretapper Joe Szema is unveiling his extensive plan that targets the mysterious financial conglomerate, the Landlord Club. The fate of these three men soon intertwines in the cat-and-mouse game that may bring down the entire stock market.
Fog
Principal Tam
Set during the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's reunification with China, FOG tells the story of Wai, who suffers from a rare amnesia that wipes his memory entirely clean, as he attempts to restart his life and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and redemption.
Once a Gangster
Uncle Kin
Roast Pork joins the triad as a young man and ends up becoming a trusted lieutenant of boss Kerosene. However, his true passion is in his successful chain of restaurants, his loving wife, and his two children. So when Kerosene wants to promote his trusted right hand man to the top of the organization as a way to take on his financial debts, it's understandable why Roast Pork would want to refuse. Roast Pork comes up with an intricate scheme with his men that would take himself out of the running, but Kerosene's intervention causes it to fail. When all hopes appears to be lost, lifelong gangster Sparrow is released from jail after serving a 20-year sentence for committing a gang-related murder that earned him a guarantee for the leader spot. However, Sparrow has made his own plans to stay out of the gang, setting off a battle of wits between the two men.
Overheard
Raymend Tsui
Dos policías de la unidad de vigilancia descubren un plan de estafa financiera, destapando así todo un entramado de negocios sucios. Los policías no son inmunes a la tentación del dinero fácil, y no tardan en hacerse con las acciones gracias a la información privilegiada de que disponen.
Rule Number One
Chan Fook-Lai
El novato sargento Li es asignado al Departamento de Asuntos Extraños (MAD). Allí, es emparejado con el Inspector Huang, un alcohólico y veterano que explica que el papel de MAD es para responder a las llamadas sobrenaturales. Le enseñará que la regla número uno es que los fantasmas no existen. Por cada fenómeno aparentemente inexplicable, hay una correspondiente explicación racional y científica. MAD empieza la investigación de una serie de extraños suicidios de adolescentes. Li y Huang comienzan a seguir unas pistas, y se dan cuenta en seguida de que algo siniestro se ha cruzado en sus caminos.
Ciudad herida (Confession of Pain)
Wong Ming
La trilogía Infernal Affairs (readaptada por Martin Scorsese en "The Departed") volvió a demostrar que la ex-colonia británica, cuando quiere, sabe mover ficha y volver a convertirse en foco de atención mundial. Tras diversificar sus propuestas, Lau y Mak han vuelto a Hong Kong para rodar este elegante thriller urbano que retoma en buena parte las coordenadas de su éxito. Su título original, cuya traducción sería "Ciudad herida", se adapta como un guante a esta historia de personajes, amarga como el whisky con el que un detective intenta olvidar el suicidio de su novia, y triste como el pasado de un policía cuyo suegro ha sido brutalmente asesinado (información de cinemasitges.com). (FILMAFFINITY)
2046
Wan's Party Friend
Él era escritor. Creía escribir sobre el futuro, pero en realidad era el pasado. En su novela, un misterioso tren salía de cuando en cuando con dirección al año 2046. Todos los que subían a él lo hacían con el mismo propósito: recobrar los recuerdos perdidos. Se decía que en 2046 nada cambiaba. Nadie sabía a ciencia cierta si eso era verdad, porque ninguno de los que viajaron regresó jamás. Con una excepción. Él estuvo allí. Se marchó voluntariamente.
The Eye
Mr. Ching
Ciega desde los dos años, Mann se somete, catorce años después, a un nuevo y arriesgado transplante de córnea.
Love Undercover
A young policewoman is picked for an undercover job--getting close enough to a gangster's son so that she can plant a microphone at a table where the gangsters make their deals. Complications arise when she finds herself falling for him.
Fighting for Love
A traffic accident brings together Deborah, a high-strung businesswoman, and Veg, successful owner of a fast food shop that specializes in bull organ soup. Fiercely combative about the accident, they end up in bed after too much drinking one night. Deborah's thoughts of pursuing a relationship with Veg are dashed when she learns that he has a famous girlfriend, Mindy (she is television's "Eat Drink Warrior"). Nonetheless, Deborah and Veg become friends, and, after prompting from Veg's mother, Deborah decides to "fight for her love." Who will Veg choose?
The Umbrella Story
Determined to hold onto the past, the owner of a handmade-umbrella factory struggles to keep the business running.
The Shadow of Redemption