Tam Yat Ching

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Name Tam Yat Ching

Nationality Hong Konger

Gender Male

Born 1930

Died May 15, 2006

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Type Hong Konger

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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...

In the early 70s, when Hong Kong was under British colonial rule, corruption was as rampant as ever. The majority of the Hong Kong Police Force collaborated with the triads. As king of the corruption empire, Chinese detective sergeant Lak Chui colluded with Cripple Ho, lord of the underworld, and ma...

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.

The prince of the Emperor must fight for his life, accused of treason against the throne. Bai Ying won a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor. (Source: IMDB)

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Lee Shin is a university student majoring in modern music. He is the vocalist of the band "The Stupid" and also plays the guitar. He is known for his good looks and his strong passion for music but is in reality a cold person who is uninterested in non-music related things and has no dreams nor plan...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Adapted from Jin Yong's novel, it is a continuation of Legend of Condor Heroes and a kind of prequel to Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre. The story concerns the adventures of Yeung Guo, an orphan boy in a mid-13th-century China. Since its modest origins, Yeung Guo, the wise man of the street, has mov...

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...

In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events. He meets a doctor named Pak So and she becomes his love interest, but they encounter several trials and tribulations to test their love before they finally get to...

The story promises to be an epic melodrama fraught with the onslaught of war in the 1930's, painstaking love triangles and a complicated romance that is met with opposition at every turn.

Luo Xiang buys a winning Hong Kong Jockey Club sweepstakes ticket, and because of it is murdered, as is his family. His murderers are his neighbours who include Chen Tao who uses his share of the prize money to become a tycoon. Luo Xiang and his wife plus his niece Luo Xiao Wei become hungry ghosts,...

A group of vigilantes hidden behind animal masks prosecutes and punishes those guilty of wrong actions.

With compassionate heart and careful investigation, Justice Bao clears the wrongly accused and punishes the evil doers. (Source: Dramawiki)

In a world of injustice and corruption, who will bring justice to the victims and hand out punishments to those who deserve them? During the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty, only one man was revered for being an impartial judge who did not use his status as a government official for exploitation....

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

Contains five units: 1. "Beating the Dragon Robe" (打龍袍) 2. "The 'White Dragon' Horse" (白龍駒) 3. "Robbing the Investigator" (白龍駒) 4. "Dream of Gold" (黃金夢) 5. "The Case of Executing Chen Shimei" (鍘美案)

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 Sequel of Justice Sung.

The story is on 2 friends – one of them an ex-cop and another still a cop. They often join forces to solve cases. Both end up loving the same woman one after another? Who emerges as the winner at the end? What choice will Sai make between the men? (Source: DramaWiki)

Master Cheung was wounded after fighting with the Suen Ci sect leader. He fled and met his future apprentice Szeto Man Mo and the daughter of the civil servant Lam Chor Yin. Mo is engaged to Yin but he is not devoted at all. Even if Yin loves her with all his heart, Mo abandons her on their weddin...

This drama is about a very smart and blabbering mouthed "ancient-time" lawyer who takes on cases for money.

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 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...

This is a series 1985 produced by TVB and starring Andy Lau in the title role of Kin-lung Emperor, the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The series focuses on the power struggle in the Imperial Qing Palace, telling the story of righteous folks while also presenting a hesitant love story.

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 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 drama tells of a story regarding the struggles of a poor chef and his best friend earning an opportunity to serve the Qianlong Emperor, also befriending the emperor along the way. The drama also places an emphasis on Chinese cuisine with documentations concerning the Manchu Han Imperial Feast. (...

Legend of the Condor Heroes is set in the late Song Dynasty (12th century), where the failing Song government is slowly falling prey to the northern tribes.

A series about the friendship between Fong Sai Yuk and the Qianlong Emperor.

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...

Sit Yan Gwai is a fictitious legendary general who helped the Tang dynasty defeat invaders from the East during the reign of emperor Lee Sai Man. The story begins with the emperor having a dream that a general in white armor will rescue him one day. His adviser deciphers this dream and claims that t...

A Hong Kong television series adapted from Gu Long's novel Yuanyue Wandao.

Koo Fung's twin brother Koo Yim Yeung (Ng Man Tat) had turned evil after practising a martial art called "Yuk Liu Sun Gong" that will make a man turn woman-like. All the good clans conspire to destroy this major evil sect which is headed by Koo Yim Yeung. Koo Fung's teacher (Kwan Hoi San) has decid...

Dark Tales is a series of Hong Kong television period supernatural dramas which are based on Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling's series of supernatural tales called Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. **Part I (Episodes 1–5)("Stealing Love Through Time") is adapted from the tale Mr. Lu's Daughter...

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]

Soon Yi is the daughter of a saltimbank. After her mother left her, Soon Yi is raised by Do Ri's mother and is engaged to Do Ri. But Do Ri's friend, Chil Sung, also has a crush on her. One day, Do Ri wins the fight game on the market square and earns money as a reward. With that money, he buys Soon...

~~ There are 2 versions: 30 episodes/30 min (TV) | 18 episodes/45 min (online)

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"A Taste of Love" begins at a very fancy and famous restaurant with the talented Ma Yau as their chief chef. A middle-aged man, Joyce's dad, walked into the restaurant and requested some dishes which causes Ma Yau to know who the person is. Ma Yau cooked those special dishes and brought them out him...

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...

~~ 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)

A drama about a man who worked in the advertising industry that is forced into becoming a substitute teacher. (Source: MyDramaList)

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When Lok Yin (Alex Man) continued his studies in the United States, he was imprisoned for 7 years for manslaughter. His girlfriend, Ching Jan (Idy Chan) then married his best friend, Ling Fung (Wilson Lam). After returning to Hong Kong, Yin is determined to modernize his family's department store bu...

Set in the late Qing to the early Republican era, "Fatherland" is an epic story of small rural life and sweeping historical changes. Hailing from a small Guangdong village, the humble Yeung family and the trials and tribulations they face paint a realistic portrait of the times, from the major histo...

A medical drama series that focuses on the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at Yan Oi Hospital in Hong Kong. Lawrence Ng plays the life and soul of Healing Hands as a neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Ching Chi Mei. The other main role is played by Bowie Lam, who plays Dr. Henry Lai Kwok Chu as an acc...

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 Gu Long's novel Yuanyue Wandao.

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

The drama documents the rise and fall of three entrepreneurs, who founded Lik Tien Century Construction (力天世紀) together to achieve the ultimate goal of developing a pollution-free city in Hong Kong. Vendetta and love serves as strong subplots throughout the series, with the vendetta between two...

Choi Fung (Jessica Hsuan) was a determined and smart young girl. One day she meets Ah Wong (Roger Kwok), known as the "simple-minded" grown man due to a mental brain damage; he causes her a lot of trouble when he starts calling her his wife after she saves him once. Even so, whenever kids picked on...

The plot surrounds successful tycoon Ivan Ting Sin Bun, the adopted son of the founder of Ting Fung, a large gold merchant. Ivan discovers that his rival who is seeking a female lawyer's affection turns out to be his long lost brother. But fate plays around with them since the very beginning as Rich...

Wong Tin (Adam Cheng) is an all-powerful tycoon in town. While he is the one who stirs things up, he is also the only one who can settle them. Bao Man Lung (Ekin Cheng) sees Tin as his mentor as well as his friend. He is truthful with and loyal to Tin, yet he is bruised all over in the end! Poon Lo...

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Continuation of 'At the Threshold of an Era'. The drama documents the rise and fall of three entrepreneurs, who founded Lik Tien Century Construction (力天世紀) together to achieve the ultimate goal of developing a pollution-free city in Hong Kong. Vendetta and love serves as strong subplots through...

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...

The story follows a team of investigators from the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB) unit of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tang Yan Wai is a poultry shop owner and seller. He's a widow with two grown sons. He falls in love with his customer Lee Siu Kiu and marries her; however, his sons Tang Ka Fat and Tang Yuk Hin feel uneasy having a new member in their family. Things get more complicated when Yan Wai's older half br...

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 story follows a team of investigators from the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB) unit of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Assassins are regarded with fear by their intended targets, but what about the back stories of the assassins themselves. Would there be valid reasons or sacrifice for what they would do? The Hitman Chronicles feature the stories of seven different cases that took place during Dynastic China.

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Is part of an exciting story with complicated relationships. The story focuses on how the four brothers and sisters of the Lam family struggle to find happiness in their marriages. The elder brother has an extramarital affair with a pretty woman, who sees him only as part of her revenge plan against...

The show centres on a family who operates a barbecue pork (char siu) restaurant in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, and their life.

After the huge success of Reincarnated, the station followed up in 1979 with another popular period piece Dragon Strikes, again written by novelist Huang Yi and screenwriter Kong Lung. Set in the Ming Dynasty, Dragon Strikes follows swordsman Xiao Yiu Hau and the dangerous power struggle and tangle...

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

Suen Siu Yut and Lau Fuk Wing were a married couple with a child, but due to a car accident caused by Leung Dak Wa, an arrogant man disliked by those around him, Fuk Wing passed away and left Siu Yut in grief. Fuk Wing's soul refuses to reincarnate due to the feeling of injustice of how he died. So...

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