Cheung Ying Choi

Cheung Ying Choi was one of the biggest Cantonese movie superstars of Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s. He was at the peak of his popularity from 1962 till 1965. He was born in 1934 and appeared in his first movie in 1953. He made a total of over 300 Cantonese black & white feature films - many were box-office classics. Only a handful of his movies are in color.

Then due to the huge popularity of Mandarin films - he made only a handful of films in 1967 to 1969--after that Cantonese films died and he went on to TVB to work as a dubbing actor and later on starred in some Cantonese serials (The Semi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Cheng Sing Gong, Glittering Fortune). Today, he can still be seen in acting bits in various TV serials. In recent years, he also made some guest appearances in some cinema movies – Lost and Found, Love Undercover 2.

Sadly, today he is a forgotten and neglected actor-- the Hong Kong Cinema Industries has NEVER honored him. But his popularity with the older folks can still be seen in his old movies still being available and selling well on VCDs & DVDs. Many of the old classics are still being shown on re-runs of late-night TV programs.

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Name Cheung Ying Choi

Nationality Hong Konger

Gender Male

Born September 15, 1934

Age 88

Type Hong Konger

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The heir Mui Suet Suet is courted by Dr. Pak Ying, and the playboy Paul Lee. Against the advice of her friends and family, she marries Lee and gives birth to a Siu Suet girl. The prodigal Lee dilapidates Mui's fortune in two years. He lets Mui live with a dancing girl. Mui is left to herself and bec...

One UFO sighting after another proves false. He has to beg for money to keep his space-exploration magazine afloat. There are no messages in the TV static. Nevertheless, Tang Zhijun continues to believe in alien life forms and heads to the mountainous southwest of China, to investigate after watchin...

Liu Yung is the brother whose destiny is to become a top mobster. Danny Lee is the brother fated to become a cop. (Source: IMDb)

The film follows the Tang Monk and his three disciples on their westbound pilgrimage, beating monsters and villains along the way. (Letterboxd)

An upcoming 3D Chinese-American action fantasy film based on the classic novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. The film will be directed by Zhang Jinlai and produced by Mark Johnson. ~~ A co-production with U.S.A.

As a child, Man Cho was rendered mute as a result of the cruel actions of his mother and was adopted by the kind-hearted Chu Sa Kiu. Man Cho grew up with Sa Kiu's daughter Kwan Ho, and the two eventually develop romantic feelings for one another. Man Cho is extremely self-sacrificing, has an inferio...

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The story is set in the Song dynasty and at the beginning of the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty's invasion of northern China. The first part revolves around the friendship of two men, Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian, who became heroes in their own right as they fought the Jin invaders. The bond between the...

Taking place under the reign of Emperor Zhe Zong of Song, the story revolves around the experiences of Qiao Feng, leader of the beggars clan, Duan Yu, Prince of Dali and Xu Zhu, monk Shaolin. The three protagonists become sworn brothers during their journey in the pugilistic world. Qiao Feng is the...

Adapted from the famous Chinese classic novel of the same title by Wu Cheng'en, a writer of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), "Voyage en Occident" in its television version is directed by director Yang Jie. In 1986, the series took the lead in television hearings. Based on the real pilgrimage of the mon...

Journey to the West is a television series from Hong Kong produced by TVB in 1996, based on the classic Chinese novel of the same name. The series was very popular during its original broadcast on TVB Jade, mainly due to Dicky Cheung's performance in the role of King Monkey Sun Wukong. In 1998, the...

Legend of the Condor Heroes takes place at the end of the Song Dynasty (12th century), where the failing Song government slowly became prey to the northern tribes.

The story is centred around an uneducated street urchin Wei Xiao Bao, who was born and raised in a brothel by his mother. Through a series of misadventures, he managed to make his way from the southern playground of Yangzhou to Beijing, the seat of Manchurian imperial power and bumbling accidentally...

Since time immemorial, the history of China has experienced many belligerent and licentious tyrants. King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty was one of the most notorious tyrants. His tyranny triggered an epic legend: King Wu of the Zhou dynasty overturning King Zhou of the Shang dynasty. In this fierce batt...

Yau Nim Chi is the matriarch of the new rich Kam House and a single mother of the 24-year-old Kam triplets. The Kam family owns a restaurant in town, famous for its noodles, which are notoriously cooked by Nim Chi's arrogant younger brother, Yau Nim Fu. The bubbly Princess Sam Tin, the emperor's fav...

Tin Lik is the daughter of a bandit and she married into the Ling family by coincidence. When she was escaping from guards, she fled to the vehicle that was going to transport the bride. But the real bride had already eloped with another man. Therefore, in order to escape from the guards, Tin Lik ha...

This series is about a man, Hong Siu Long who is from 21st century-Hong Kong travels back into the past during the Warring States Period in China. Unfortunately, the time machine comes into an error when he is being transferred into the past. As a result, Hong Siu Long comes to the period which is t...

Ko Chung Ching (Michael Miu), an ex-policeman, quit his job to set up a private investigation company two years ago, right after his son Tsun Sing went missing because of a slap while Miu was searching for the "Rose Killer". His subordinates include Man Kai Ching Super (Power Chan), Man Tai Po (Bern...

The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre take place during 14th Century China during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, roughly 100 years after the events of Return of the Condor Heroes. After decades of struggles, famine, and bitterness which the Chinese citizens blamed on the Yuan Dynasty's misgovernment, the...

This drama consists of ten different thrilling urban stories. (Source: So-Dramaddict at MyDramaList)

Flora learns from her aunt that a pair of special jade can bring harmony to the possessor. However, her aunt has lost one of the two jades and her biggest wish is to find the missing one before she dies. Flora manages to locate the missing jade and the stones are brought together. Since then, Flora...

The story goes on where Siu Tong and a lawyer Wong Ying Kit get married. However, when they return from their honeymoon, the nightmare begins. First, Kit's brother suspects that Siu Tong is having an affair with Ka Yuen. Then when Siu Tong had a miscarriage, her own husband suspects her because she...

This '70s ghost drama began with Wang Jian, a policeman, discovering neighbor Huang Yinggu's ghost who has been trapped in a braid inside the police station for over ten years. Yinggu slowly reveals her story to Jian. She was wrongly sentenced to death for a crime she never committed. Yinggu's nephe...

The second installment of the Detective Investigation series.

For 30 years, the night watchman Sung Chee was despised in the village of To Yuen because of his posthumous birth in a coffin, having as friends only the evil scholar Sit Dan and the coolie Cha Siu Chaan. After arguing with the head of the village about his family's land, Chee, as well as a homeless...

The story follows Senior Inspector Kong Tze San and Sergeant Tsui Fei and the cases they solve. The story also delves into Tsui Fei's past and his relationship with Mo Chiu Kwan. Kong Tze San is also in a love triangle with Man Yuen Lan and Tong Sum Yu.

This series is a political story about who would gain control of the Tang throne. Kong Fung is a man who is obsessed with learning Kung Fu and becoming the best in martial arts is his only goal in life. The 2nd prince, Lee Sai Mun, of the Tang dynasty wants to become the emperor of the Tang dynasty....

Sze Sai Lun, along with his family, comes into town to be its new judge. He soon ends up having to sentence the town fool. When the fool ends up hanged at his house, Wong Tin Pak is blamed for his suicide by all the town's people. Everything seems like it is getting worse and worse until Sai Lun fin...

Chor Lau Heung brings his three girlfriends with him to attend Tso Hing Hau's birthday party. On the way, they meet Song Siu Ching, a spoilt and arrogant girl. After arriving at Tso's house, strange things start happening. Tso's daughter, Ming Lai, is in love with Sit Ban, a youth from a rival famil...

The third part to the Condor series. Set in the late Yuan Dynasty, the story revolves around a pair of priceless and extremely powerful weapons, known as the Heaven Reliant Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre, which many martial artists in the jianghu covet. Either or both of them are thought to allow t...

The story deals with several distinct but intertwined intrigues, turning around the protagonists Kiu Fung, Duen Yu and Hui Juk. Duen Yu is a young naïve prince of the Dali kingdom. Despite the long tradition of martial arts practice in the royal family, he refused to learn martial arts because of B...

The story's initial development revolves around a coveted martial arts manual known as the Bixie Swordplay Manual. The manual has been passed down as an heirloom in the Lin family, who runs the Fuwei Escort Agency based in Fuzhou. Yu Cang Hai, the leader of the Qingcheng Sect, leads his followers to...

The Condor Heroes Return is a Hong Kong television series loosely based on the stories of two characters in Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. [Wikipedia]

The Sunflower Manual was said to contain secrets to a skill so powerful that its practitioner could rule over Wulin and even China. Over the years, great wrongs and atrocities have been committed by those trying to possess it. Many were willing to sacrifice their bodies and their souls to gain such...

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on CTV in Hong Kong in 1976. (Source: Wikipedia)

The story is an unofficial prequel to Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. It tells the story of Huang Yaoshi (Wong Yeuk-see)'s early life.

The series is freely based on the novel Ode at Jin Yong's galantry. Shek Chung Yuk twins are crafty, intelligent and fast thinking, while Shek Po Tin is more sentimental, naive and innocent. The twins were separated at birth. Their parents were known as "Black and White Swords" in the world of mo la...

"The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain" tells a story of a swordsman name Wu Fei who grows up and goes in search of his father's murderer to avenge him. Along the way he faces trials and turbulence, and finds out there is more to his father's death than what he was told. (Source: TMDb) ~~ Adapted from...

Hong Kong miniseries based on a series of novels and plays titled Generals of the Yang Clan. The series is a grand production, starring the all of the Top Actors and Actresses of TVB at the time.

The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. (Source: Wikipedia)

The 50 episodes long series is divided into two parts, with their Chinese titles as 天龍八部之六脈神劍 (Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: Six Meridians Divine Sword) and 天龍八部之虛竹傳奇 (Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: The Legend of Hui Juk) respectively. The series deals with several separate yet intertwin...

Xiao Shiyi Lang is a happy-go-lucky thief who robs the rich and gives to the poor. On one of his missions, he gets involved in a messy fight for a legendary saber, the Deer Carver, and makes the acquaintance of Shen Bi Jun, the fairest woman in the martial world. By the will of fate, he rescues Shen...

"Incurable Traits" is a historical adaptation of a legendary healer named Wah To, who supposedly can cure any ailments and revive the dead. The time period is during the Three Kingdoms Era and also the end of the Han dynasty. Wah To is played by Lam Man Lung who accidentally gets acquainted with Cao...

This is a fictional historical drama about the "account life" of Miu Chui Fa, the mother of the legendary martial artist Fong Sai-Yuk. Miu Chui Fa has always enjoyed having fun with little restraint and consideration with his righteousness. It was because of her righteous actions that she wounded th...

The Black and White groups hate each other. They continually fight, but the Golden Seal Tournament determines which side gets control. As the Golden Seal Tournament nears, a mysterious being assassinates the 5 representatives of the white group. Lee Boh Yee, a Taoist fortune teller, is drawn towards...

Chu Liuxiang is the famous "Chief of Bandits" in the jianghu. His qinggong is unmatched and he leaves behind a trail of fragrance everywhere he goes. Once, Chu enters the palace to steal a treasure called the "Amber Guanyin", which contains a wooden figurine carved by "Little Li Flying Dagger" Li Xu...

Ling Wan is a beautiful young girl who pretends to have an ugly face to prevent marrying. Her friend Chor Chor is not pretty looking either, therefore they became best friends. One day, Ling Wan accidentally saves the Emperor in disguise. He sees Ling Wan's real face and immediately falls in love wi...

In the Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor finds out that a demon was causing trouble and the Dragon Ball, given to the Tong to control demons, had been covered with dust. He sends the fairy Bik Yiu down to the mortal world to clean the Dragon Ball. Unexpectedly, Bik Yiu gets sucked into the Dragon Bal...

Sword Stained with Royal Blood is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title.

To escape from an unwanted marriage, Princess Sing Ping flees from the Palace and wanders into the squalid "Cheung Lok Fong" where she meets Kwok Oi. Kwok Oi is humourous and knowledgeable. Princess Sing Ping and Kwok Oi go through a lot of difficulties and eventually fall for each other. They get m...

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a two-part Taiwanese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on CTV in Taiwan in 1988. [Wikipedia]

Emperor Yung Ching elects his fourth son, Prince Wang Lik, to succeed his throne. However, Wang Sin and Chow King On are against his decision.

The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Taiwanese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Taiwanese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on TTV in Taiwan from 1993 to 1994.(Taken from Wikipedia.com)

Rage and Passion is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novels The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. The story is an unofficial prequel to Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. It tells the story behind the birth of Wong Chung-yeung and...

Siu Sup Yut Long (Felix Wong) is a thief who robs the rich and gives to the poor, therefore making him a scapegoat where all crimes and bad deeds are placed on his head. He is burdened with the secret of location of Chor Lau Heung's hidden treasure since a child. In order to test whether Siu Sup Yu...

The Good triumphs over evil. This is the story of the two sides, battling for supremacy. Under the fighting, there is romance, and angst (Source: Dramawiki by Animemiz)

Will the feeling of encountering an angel falling from the sky be surprise, happiness, or trouble? Ng Fuk Gei/Gary is clever and smart, and often dreams of prosperity. One day, Gary met an angel who was hit by an artificial satellite. He thought that the god of wealth would come from the sky, but f...

A monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat, and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself as the Qítiān Dàshèng or “Great Sage Equal to Heaven”. His powers grow to match the force...

To fulfill his dream as a great computer game designer, Chung refused to inherit his father's antique business. Chung, along with his younger half brother, Chi, work for a Japanese game company. To enter an internal design contest, Chung created a storyboard and programmed parts of a computer game....

~~ Adapted from the classical novel "Journey to the West" (西游记) by 吴承恩 (Wu Cheng En). ~~ Three versions available: 45 episodes (HK version) || 60 episodes (Satellite TV) || 66 episodes (Terrestrial TV)

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Due to office politics Ga Jai Choi, a successful business executive, is assigned to become the headmaster of a school. The school (the Samshui Fisherman and Agricultural Workers Union Yin Liang Can Yǐn Endowment Yin Ding Bao Memorial School-WDPS for short), is a failing one having become a sink scho...

Wai Siu Bo is the son of a prostitute who works in a brothel in Yangzhou. After joining the Heaven and Earth society he heads to the Capital and gets enrolled into the service of the Grand Eunuchs. There he becomes friends with the young emperor Hong Hei (Wai mistakes the emperor as another young eu...

~~ Adapted from the novel “Sword Stained with Royal Blood” by Louis Cha.

Fong Yau Wai (Gordon Lam) and Chung Hon Ngau (Evergreen Mak) are very close friends. Under different circumstances, both of them end up working on a tea farm owned by the Sung family, but through various misunderstandings caused by Shek Chun (Lee Ka Shing) and their fight for the love of Pun Mui Nga...

Adapted from the novel "Duoqing Jianke Wuqing Jian" of the Xiaoli Feidao Series written by Gu Long.

This story revolves around a father (Chung Bong) and son (Chi Leung) small business real estate agency. Chung Bong, now 60 years old, officially retired from the Sing Sat Real Estate Agency and has handed over the family business to his son, Chi Leung. Regrettably, he sees his son shadowing his foot...

This series revolves around Dai Siu Leung (Bobby Au Yeung) and the people of Apliu Street, famous in Hong Kong for possessing Hidden Treasures, that is, secondhand goods of great value. Dai Siu Leung sells electronic goods and is the head of a town. His position is taken when another man persuades...

"With the smile when you are in trouble, With his strong helping hand, Father says, “I‘ll be here, my son." Top-ranked market research manager Man Tin Chi (Bobby Au Yeung) is an expert at price comparison. His motto is “always be price-conscious.” Chi, who relishes his yuppie lifestyle, has been lon...

The second series of The Virtues of Harmony follows on from the happy ending of the first series. The family makes a wish on a wishing tree to live together into eternity, for ever and ever. Their wish come true, and they live on from the Ming Dynasty, pass the Qing dynasty, past the World Wars, pas...

The drama revolves around Lam Lok Yi, a blind music teacher, and Cheung Ka Faat, a substitute teacher, who meets at an elementary school in Ping Chau and becomes good friends.

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~~ Adapted from the novel series "Magnolia, the Lady in Black" (女黑俠木蘭花系列) by Ni Kuang (倪匡).

Never torn apart in sorrow Never give up in hope

The drama consists of four famous ancient folk tales in recognition of filial piety. (Source: So-Dramaddict at MyDramaList)

This is a comedy series which is based on a family of very interesting characters. King Sir, Chung King Fai, will be head of the household, with Lawrence Cheng, Raymond Cho, and Shermon Tang as his sons and daughter. Christine Ng will act as Lawrence Cheng's wife, with a 16 year-old daughter.

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