Lam Siu

Lam Siu was a production manager and prolific actor who worked from 1948-1976 on over three hundred films. He is known for such films as The Purple Hairpin (1959) and King Gambler (1976).

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Name Lam Siu

Nationality Hong Konger

Gender Male

Born 1906

Died August 6, 1989

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Type Hong Konger

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Sisters Ho Nga Na and Ho Nga Lai are dependent on each other for survival. Nga Na, forced by circumstances, becomes a lady of the night. Caught between the desire to find her real love and surviving in the materialistic world, she finally sees the light and withdraws from the world of frivolous men,...

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The film is another Chinese vs. Japanese movie and is set during the early years of the Republic of China. Ying is a patriotic young woman who goes undercover to try and find out where a student revolutionary leader called Choi is being imprisoned. Coming up against the invading Japanese and their p...

Written by the great librettist Tong Tik Sang, and featuring Lee Tit's elegant direction and superb performances from Yam Kim Fai and Pak Suet Sin, "Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom" brings Cantonese opera to cinematic life. The film features two lovers who have never met in person but whose poetry ov...

Three years ago, the drama tutor Lam Hiu-Yeung's brother was kidnapped and killed. The case was handled by Inspector Madem Ho Yuen Chun, who is known for her sharp wit and intelligence, but was unfortunately unable to save Lam Hiu-Yeung's brother in the end. Now Lam Hiu-Yeung faces the horror of los...

Assassin Ah Jong is accidentally damages the eyes of the singer Jennie during a shootout. He later discovers that if Jennie does not have an expensive operation soon, she will go blind. To get the money for Jennie, Ah Jong decides to perform one last hit. Meanwhile, the police detective Li who has b...

Kar Fei is given a letter to hold and told by his manager Chan to wait for his return later in the evening, thus spoiling his plans for a date with his girlfriend, Wei Yee. Instead, that evening, Chan’s wife shows up and demands that he escort her out to dinner and dancing. When Kar Fei finally ends...

A tough private detective is forced to fight for his life after a woman involved him in a crime story against a ruthless boss of Triade. (Source: IMDB)

Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood. (Source: Letterboxd)

This is the 12th film in the series "Wolfs of the City" which describes the adventures of the Capone biker gang under the direction of Kamisaka Hiroshi.

The future legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he directed this thriller of bandits who are battling each other. The public loved to watch three pairs of cunning crooks, men and women, who are trying to steal a million taels of gold from Fu Lai's Treasury home... I don...

The Yang family, men and women, had served their country (Song Dynasty) loyally for generations. During the war with Western Xia, General Yang Tsung-pao is ambushed and killed. His death leaves his only son, Yang Wen as the only male heir left to the Yang family. His widow, Mu Kuei-ying, the grand m...

18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draws the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Betty Tei Pei. Betty teaches Ainu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ainu becomes more and more s...

Chen Kuan Tai is Big Brother Cheng, a former refugee who runs a local teahouse in Hong Kong. Respected by his peers, Big Brother Cheng runs the teahouse – and unofficially the neighborhood – with a firm righteous hand. However, when the triads come calling, Big Brother Cheng finds out respect and co...

An exciting tale of a patriot committed to ending the corruption of the Ching rulers.

A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.

He steals from the rich and gives to the poor! Like Robin Hood, the title hero of The Lizard is a philanthropic thief, except the Lizard makes his rounds in 1930s Shanghai. Corrupt police chief Chen Can is assigned to bring down the Lizard to appease the sinister Japanese forces, but the Lizard cons...

Acclaimed action director Liu Chia Liang makes a mind-boggling directorial debut in The Spiritual Boxer, which not only quickly established Liu as a genius director but he was also credited with introducing comedy into the Kung Fu genre; the pre-cursor for Jackie Chan's Kung Fu comedies. Its Ghostbu...

A holy blade that always swings true, never missing its target. It is very effective at striking enemy weak spots. Hence, many fighters in the martial world want to get their hands on it, but there can be only one.... (Source: YouTube)

A love story between an alluring female fairy, who seeks love on the world of mortal men and finds it in a man who takes care of an orphanage.

A couple of special agents trying to prevent two scientists from falling into the hands of a nefarious gang led by Mang Lei and the mysterious X707. (Source: IMDb)

An advertiser working for her father's nylon stocking company becomes the secretary to her father's competitor. Things get even more challenging when they fall in love. (Source: IMDb)

Emperor Chien Lung, bored with imperial traditions, disguises himself as a commoner to experience a different side of life. (Source: Letterboxd)

Lin Xiao Hong is coming to stay with Fang’s family after the death of her parents, even though there has been much turmoil and strife between the two sides of the family. And little does she know, she’s stepping into a hotbed of Fang household drama, too, where Master Fang supports his delinquent, g...

Chiao Tzu Wei hires a killer under the premise that the local government (run by the local kung fu school) is corrupt and extorting the people of the town. The killer happens to be Hsieh Chun (aka Hsiao Hu) who left town ten years ago. (When Hsieh Chun opens up a suitcase full of knives, you know th...

An action crime film set in the 1970s in a small, peaceful village by the sea where two women get unexpectedly caught up in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. (Source: Soompi)

Two sisters, Ching-ping and Pai Hung struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history…. This film is a glitter-clad endorsement for women in the entertainment indust...

A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society which says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.

Zhuang Jingxian's father was a well read thief but finally ended up in prison. Alone because her mother was deceased the turned to the family business of stealing from the rich. If only she knew it would be her heart that would end up being stolen.

Nam Hung and Connie Chan star as the two sisters who spend their evenings stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. They are known only by the calling card they leave at the scene of their crime: a Black Rose. Clever and cool, they continually outwit the police until a meddlesome insurance clai...

Kung-fu and drama merge in this unusually poignant and popular action film from the golden age of martial arts. Lo Lieh is given one of his most memorable roles as a tough gas station attendant who plots to kidnap his boss's son, only to find himself and his girlfriend -- played by the incomparable...

Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelry store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group. (Sou...

Peng Tianshi becomes the “Card Tyrant” in response to the gambling world dominance of the Sha family. But Peng also has a Sha family member blinded in retaliation for an earlier loss, leaving the Sha family with a debt of vengeance that needs to be repaid! Sha Tong sets in motion an elaborate plan t...

A group of down-on-their-luck robbers pull off a spectacular job - only to find themselves hunted by cops and possible betrayers. (Source: IMDB)

A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful proprietress Miss Cui that he actually came there for her and reveals himself as her betrothed, Luo Tianguang. The couple wed, but their...

Shek Kin plays the head of a large crime family. His sons get into all sorts of trouble with the other triad bosses. They both escalate the situation with drugs and murder and create a bitter feud with a rival family. (Source: IMDB)

The discovery of oneself and the awakening of a young man, who was exposed and fallen for the lucrative powers of wealth.(Source:IMDb)

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It tells the love story of the cat's claw fortuneteller Wu Yan and the second generation of Gao Lengfu, Shen Zhou. By accident, Wu Yan meets Shen Zhou, the owner of Madara, and signs a seven-day contract with him. In the duration of seven days, Shen Zhou told Wu Yan a number of lies and fantasy love...

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