Kai-Chi Yuen

Películas

Mohist Mechanism
Script Consultant
La película está adaptada de la novela del mismo nombre escrita por Yan Zhiyang. Cuenta la historia de Shen Tuo (Liu Lincheng), un descendiente de la técnica oficial de Mohist, que ingresa solo en la Prisión Promesa para rescatar a su amada esposa, Jiang Ren (Liu Jingyi).
The Enchanting Phantom
Writer
A timeless love story of a scholar who falls in love with a female ghost and tries to free her from eternal servitude to a demon. Scholar Ning Cai Chen heads to the capital to take the state examinations. Along the way, he spends the night at Lan Ruo temple where he meets and falls in love with Nie Xiao Qian a ghost who seduces men to absorb their life essence as offering to Lao Lao. After much struggle, Ning Cai Chen and Nie Xiao Qian become a couple, however, Lao Lao plans to marry Nie Xiao Qian off to the Heishan Demon. In his desperation, Ning Cai Chen commissions the help of demon hunter Yan Chi Xia.
Time 4 Hope
Screenplay
Based on the life of screenwriter Yuen Kai-Chi, the movie tells the story of an acclaimed film writer who's got the World on a string. Tragically, his life changes when he gets in a car accident and loses a leg. However, every cloud has a silver lining and he ends up falling in love with his nurse Cindy. Using love as the binding tie, the two face life's obstacles as if it were a three-legged race: two people working together with three legs.
Dragon Killer
Screenplay
A boat load of illegal Chinese immigrants make it to the California coast. But many of those on board are in a sad state. One of them (Tony Liu) makes a run for it and jumps overboard. He knows what lies ahead for the unlucky few who have manged to survive. The illegal heads for the city to look for a certain individual. Simon Yam stars (in a low key role) as a former triad who's trying to go legit (for some shady ulterior motives. The illegal knows what Simon is all about and wants him in a big way.
Candlelight's Woman
Screenplay
Lam Hung is a loudmouth street hooker with a useless crippled gambling-addicted husband Ching and son Man. Hung's friend Fei is an nightclub hostess, and Fei's lesbian sister Mei/Mooi seems bent on total self destruction after her girlfriend May dumps her for a boy. Mei becomes mixed up with tabloid journalist Wah, who convinces her to allow him to photograph her as she jumps off a building. Hung receives a marriage proposal from regular client Wai, a police officer. Causing trouble for all of them is Saur, the local loan shark and crime boss. Ching is in debt to Saur, he runs the club where Fei works, and he brings in Mainland girls who undercut the local streetgirl's prices. Wah and Mei become sort-of lovers, and Wah does a story on the streetwalkers, in order to influence public opinion against Saur and his mainlanders.
The Chinese Feast
Writer
Former member of a triad, Sun seeks to emigrate to Canada. He decides to become a great chef of chinese cooking and follows the teaching master Au.
Bomb Lover
Story
A loner can't get over his first love and goes to the extreme to win her back.
La leyenda del luchador borracho
Writer
Cuando el gobierno británico es descubierto traficando con obras de arte chinas fuera del país, el héroe Wong Fei Hung (Chan) utiliza sus extravagantes artes marciales para luchar contra los conspiradores y salvar las obras, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Cuanto más bebe Hung, más ágil se vuelve, siendo capaz de defenderse de numerosos ataques, con increíbles movimientos. Hung consigue, de esta manera, afrontar todo tipo de desafíos.
Lucky Encounter
Screenplay
Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncle who was responsible for his untimely death. However, the inventors are warned by a spiritual master that humans and ghosts cannot co-exist in the same room at the same time. Doing so would cause a drainage of humans' life force.
Fight Back to School 2
Writer
Star Chow is an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). During a meeting with his senior officer, Inspector Yip, Star jokingly suggests he wishes to be reassigned to the traffic unit. Star immediately finds himself demoted to Constable engaging in traffic duty on the streets of Hong Kong. After being made the scapegoat for a failed high school terrorist investigation, Star hastily resigns from the police. He decides to enroll at the high school to launch his own private investigation. But Star realises the investigation won't be easy when he discovers that the bumbling, incompetent CID detective Tat is also undercover at the high school.
Érase una vez en China
Writer
La acción se desarrolla a finales del siglo XIX, cuando China comenzaba a recibir la influencia del mundo occidental. El orden tradicional, su cultura, religión e incluso moda, se veían amenazados y las armas de fuego cuestionaban la omnipotencia de las artes marciales. Los abusos del nuevo comandante de la región que, cegado por el poder y su lucrativa relación con los comerciantes extranjeros, permite que sus súbditos paguen precios exagerados con la falsa promesa de embarcar hacia los ricos campos de oro de América, obligan a Wong Fei Hung y a su pequeño grupo de seguidores a intervenir en defensa de su pueblo y, especialmente de la mujer de sus sueños, que ha sido capturada y embarcada a la fuerza en un barco para ser vendida como prostituta...
The Raid
Writer
In the 1930s, China was in a state of turmoil and flurry. The dethroned Emperor Pu-Yi had established the Puppet State of Manchukuo in Manchuria and was cooperating with the Japanese in the testing of poisonous gas. The revolutionary army headed by Lieutenant Mong is assigned to crush this vicious plot. During his mission, Mong comes across witty and valiant veteran Uncle Choy and his friends, who volunteer to help. Mong believes that Uncle Choy is too old to join them. How can Uncle Choy prove himself? And can they succeed in their mission?
Pretty Ghost
Screenplay
Building Inspector Tony (Tony Leung Ka Fai) investigates an old abandoned building in a deserted plant site and falls victim to a restless demon, who wants to resurrect into Tony's body. However, the spirit of a young woman (Rosamund Kwan) suddenly appears, saves Tony, and accidentally sucks some of his life force, thereby, sharing his feelings and emotions. The ghost falls in love with Tony, but he wants to use her to help him woo his gorgeous colleague (Ellen Chan).
She Shoots Straight
Writer
Hong Kong police officer Mina Kao marries Huang Tsung-Pao, who is a member of a law enforcement dynasty. His father and his many sisters are also officers, and the eldest sister Chia-Ling is one of the highest ranking women in the police department. When a Vietnamese gang begins a rampage through the city, the women must overcome their suspicion of one another to bring the criminals to justice.
She Shoots Straight
Script
Hong Kong police officer Mina Kao marries Huang Tsung-Pao, who is a member of a law enforcement dynasty. His father and his many sisters are also officers, and the eldest sister Chia-Ling is one of the highest ranking women in the police department. When a Vietnamese gang begins a rampage through the city, the women must overcome their suspicion of one another to bring the criminals to justice.
Shanghai Shanghai
Story
Little Tiger (Yuen Biao) se aventura desde los palos a la gran ciudad en busca de su hermano policía Big Tiger (Chi-cheung Lam), un policía honesto que trabaja en un sistema corrupto. Suponiendo que la vida en la fuerza policial no era su taza de té, Little Tiger se une a la Tropa Acrobática Swallow, en la que se destaca por su destreza en el kung-fu. Cuando una banda de matones del grupo de Chin Hung-yun (Sammo Hung) ataca a la tropa, Little Tiger no solo los defiende fácilmente sino que también se infiltra en su organización para destruirlos desde adentro. Mientras tanto, la vieja llama de Big Tiger, Mary (Anita Mui), regresa de América para unirse a los revolucionarios. Big Tiger pronto se encuentra dividido entre su amor por esta chica y sus órdenes de arrestar a todos los revolucionarios.
Vampire Buster
Screenplay
In ancient China, a demon was defeated in a fierce battle with a priest, who sealed it's evil spirit in a vase. Centuries later, during the cultural revolution, rebels attempted to gain possession of the vessel from the priest's descendant; however, he threw it into the ocean to keep it from being tampered. The vase was recovered years later in Hong Kong and was auctioned off to a councilman. The demon, unfortunately, escaped and took control of the councilman's body, beginning a spree of terror in the city.
Burning Sensation
Screenplay
A firefighter salvages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building, which releases the gentle ghost of a Chinese opera singer, killed in a stage fire 30 years before. Grateful for saving her, the ghost falls for the firefighter and will stop at nothing to ensure his safety from the evils that lurk ahead. At the same time, the firefighter doesn't realize he is dating a ghost.
Pedicab Driver
Writer
El temible rey del kung-fu Sammo Hung emprende una desesperada lucha solitaria para vengar el abominable asesinato de su hermano, cometido por el depravado y sádico propietario de un burdel y sus secuaces, en este alocado drama clásico de venganza. Una mezcla virtuosa y absolutamente convincente de artes marciales de primer nivel, comedia y violencia extrema, "Pedicab Driver" muestra al maestro de acción de Hong Kong en su papel más impresionante y sanguinario.
Una historia china de fantasmas
Screenplay
Un inocente inspector de Hacienda llega a la ciudad donde tiene que recaudar impuestos, pero sólo tropieza con dificultades: la lluvia ha borrado los registros de su libro de cuentas y se ha quedado sin dinero. No tiene más remedio entonces que pasar la noche en una misteriosa casa situada en un bosque encantado. Allí conoce a una hermosa mujer, pero ignora que se trata de un fantasma que está obligado a capturar jóvenes para su cruel y perversa ama. El fantasma y el inspector se enamoran y, con la ayuda de un guerrero experto en el arte de la esgrima, lucharán contra el Señor de la Oscuridad para que el alma de la mujer pueda descansar en paz.
Night Girls
Writer
Hong Kong drama film.
The Seventh Curse
Screenplay
Action ensues as the cop and cohorts battle the evil sorcerer of the Worm Tribe, a hideous bloodthirsty baby like creature and "Old Ancestor," a skeleton with glowing blue eyes that transforms into a monster.
Merry Go Round
Assistant Director
Korea is famous for her charming ladies and tough men, such as top Taekwondo fighter, Big Mouth. When playboy Peter Pan comes to Seoul in the pretext of being with a band, he calls his old friend Big Mouth. Big Mouth's advice to Peter is any woman but not from his household. By accident Peter saves Big Mouth's sister, Moon, and becomes enamored by her. The young couple together on a trip. Peter shakes Moon off and goes to Big Mouth boasting about his loves. He is astonished to find Moon who happens to be Big Mouth's sister. All hell breaks out. Moon leaves home for a mountain retreat. Big Mouth and Peter then set out on a journey to win her back.
Merry Go Round
Screenplay
Korea is famous for her charming ladies and tough men, such as top Taekwondo fighter, Big Mouth. When playboy Peter Pan comes to Seoul in the pretext of being with a band, he calls his old friend Big Mouth. Big Mouth's advice to Peter is any woman but not from his household. By accident Peter saves Big Mouth's sister, Moon, and becomes enamored by her. The young couple together on a trip. Peter shakes Moon off and goes to Big Mouth boasting about his loves. He is astonished to find Moon who happens to be Big Mouth's sister. All hell breaks out. Moon leaves home for a mountain retreat. Big Mouth and Peter then set out on a journey to win her back.
Danger Has Two Faces
Screenplay
Martial art film standout Liang Chia-jen brings the same animalistic intensity from his early heroic bloodshed films to his Danger Has Two Faces tough, ex-cop character now relegated to becoming a pet store owner. The stern Police Superintendent Liu played by Chu Chiang sets the stage for his later role in John Woo's The Killer while new comer Fei Hsiang must do Serpico-like things to find out which cop is paid for by the mob.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Writer
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, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!