Lilian Lee
Nacimiento : , Guangdong, China
Historia
Hong Kong novelist and screenwriter.
Writer
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
Original Story
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
Writer
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.
Original Story
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.
Writer
Película de terror compuesta por tres episodios, cada uno de ellos dirigido por un conocido director asiático. Dumpling (Hong Kong). A la señora Lee le resulta tan duro envejecer que acaba sumida en un grave depresión. Su desesperación es tal que está dispuesta a recurrir a cualquier método con tal de recuperar la juventud perdida. La solución parece tenerla Mai y sus especiales "dumplings", que, al parecer, tienen efectos milagrosos. Box (Japón). La joven Kyoko mató a su hermana pequeña, pero con el paso del tiempo, su sentimiento de culpa es cada vez más angustioso e insoportable. Cut (Corea). El director de cine Ryo Ji-Ho, un hombre casi perfecto, es secuestrado en su propia casa por un extra. El criminal ata a la esposa de Ryo al piano y le va cortando poco a poco los dedos uno por uno. El secuestrador le propone a Rio que si quiere que deje de torturar a su mujer, él tendrá que matar a un niño que ha llevado consigo.
Screenplay
A rich woman is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband, who is having an affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of a local chef, who cooks some special dumplings which she are claimed to be effective for rejuvenation, but these dumplings hide a terrible secret.
Novel
Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked into leaving the crown prince unguarded. The crown prince is murdered by one of his brothers who then becomes emperor. Shi retreats to a monastery, perhaps to hide, perhaps to plan a coup. When his loyal troops as well as the princess he desires are slain, he seeks refuge in a remote, abandoned monastery where an aged abbot schools him with practical, earthy teachings. The emperor's forces pursue Shi: first a woman, then a general seek to overpower him with lust and might. Over the course of the film, the reds of battle give way to blues of meditation.
Screenplay
Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked into leaving the crown prince unguarded. The crown prince is murdered by one of his brothers who then becomes emperor. Shi retreats to a monastery, perhaps to hide, perhaps to plan a coup. When his loyal troops as well as the princess he desires are slain, he seeks refuge in a remote, abandoned monastery where an aged abbot schools him with practical, earthy teachings. The emperor's forces pursue Shi: first a woman, then a general seek to overpower him with lust and might. Over the course of the film, the reds of battle give way to blues of meditation.
Screenplay
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Novel
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Novel
China, 1925. Los militares gobiernan Pekín y, aunque en la ciudad la situación política es inestable, hay una constante en la vida cotidiana: la ópera, un espectáculo donde incluso los personajes femeninos deben ser representados por hombres. Entre los nuevos muchachos destinados a ser estrellas de la ópera de Pekín se encuentran el delicado Douzi y Shitou, que le toma bajo su protección. Ambos forjan una gran amistad, y Douzi se enamora profundamente del chico mayor. Como Douzi tiene la belleza de una mujer, le forman en papeles femeninos, mientras que al atlético Shitou le entrenan principalmente para papeles militares. Entre las óperas que estudian se encuentra "Adiós a mi concubina"...
Screenplay
China, 1925. Los militares gobiernan Pekín y, aunque en la ciudad la situación política es inestable, hay una constante en la vida cotidiana: la ópera, un espectáculo donde incluso los personajes femeninos deben ser representados por hombres. Entre los nuevos muchachos destinados a ser estrellas de la ópera de Pekín se encuentran el delicado Douzi y Shitou, que le toma bajo su protección. Ambos forjan una gran amistad, y Douzi se enamora profundamente del chico mayor. Como Douzi tiene la belleza de una mujer, le forman en papeles femeninos, mientras que al atlético Shitou le entrenan principalmente para papeles militares. Entre las óperas que estudian se encuentra "Adiós a mi concubina"...
Writer
In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later, after the Mao communist Revolution, he's inadvertently ressurected by his unsuspecting son and returns long enough to infect the people's leader.
Novel
This film is based on the life of Kawashima Yoshiko, originally Manchu princess who was the 14th daughter of Emperor Xu, later brought up as a Japanese and served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War.
Screenplay
This film is based on the life of Kawashima Yoshiko, originally Manchu princess who was the 14th daughter of Emperor Xu, later brought up as a Japanese and served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War.
Novel
China 3000 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned. This is the time Mong Tiang Fong and court lady Twon fall deeply in love. Such a thing is not tolerated at the court and when their relationship is discovered both are sentenced to death. In the meantime the alchemists have discovered the formula of immortality, but decide to destroy their work. However Twon gets possession of one immortality pill which she manages to give to Tiang Fong before he's made a terracotta warrior too. China 1930. While on location a film crew discovers parts of the grave of emperor Qin guarded by the terracotta warriors. Tiang Fong, being immortal, awakes...
Writer
China 3000 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned. This is the time Mong Tiang Fong and court lady Twon fall deeply in love. Such a thing is not tolerated at the court and when their relationship is discovered both are sentenced to death. In the meantime the alchemists have discovered the formula of immortality, but decide to destroy their work. However Twon gets possession of one immortality pill which she manages to give to Tiang Fong before he's made a terracotta warrior too. China 1930. While on location a film crew discovers parts of the grave of emperor Qin guarded by the terracotta warriors. Tiang Fong, being immortal, awakes...
Writer
A woman is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a wealthy banker. She finds herself drawn to sadomasochistic affairs and in flashbacks discovers she is the reincarnation of a famous courtesan of ancient China.
Novel
The ghost of a courtesan who died in 1934 returns to Hong Kong fifty-three years later, seeking to reunite with the man she loved.
Screenplay
The ghost of a courtesan who died in 1934 returns to Hong Kong fifty-three years later, seeking to reunite with the man she loved.
Writer
A thrilling “whodunit” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs. Wang disappears.
Screenplay
Story of five children growing up and learning about life in Hong Kong.
Screenplay
A romance between two mentally handicapped youngsters.
Writer
A young man dreamed of a career in comics and movies. But his father would rather gave up all he had in order to let him receive formal education.
Screenplay
The story of Farewell to My Concubine is itself very dramatic. Lillian Lee is rumoured to have written the original screenplay in the late 1970s, which was made into a two-part television series on RTHK by Alex Law under the name King Chau and Lady Yu. Lee then adapted the story into a novel in 1985, which later inspired a feature film, scripted again by Lee and directed by Fifth Generation mainstay Chen Kaige, going on to become an international sensation that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globe Awards among other accolades. What's more, the Peking opera of the same title featured prominently in the novel, the TV programme and the film was itself adapted from a Kun opera, which was in turn based on the historical chronicle Basic Annals of Xiang Yu, from Records of the Grand Historian.