Derek YeeFilmography

Protégé

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Wu, Andy Lau, Zhang Jingchu, Louis Koo, Derek Yee

Synopsis: One Night in Mongkok director Derek Yee takes a trip into the underworld with this crime drama starring Andy Lau, Lewis Koo, Daniel Wu, and Anita Yuen. An undercover cop infiltrates a major heroin ring, skillfully ascending the ranks from low-level dealer to middle management. After falling for a Read More

Electric Shadows

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jiang Yihong, Xia Yu, Li Haibin, Guan Xiaotong, Zhang Yijing

Synopsis: The beauty and tragedies of China's history are reflected in the lives of a handful of film fans in this historical drama. Mao Dabing (Xia Yu) is a delivery man working in a small village in rural China during the latter days of the Cultural Revolution. Mao is a movie fan who lives for the Read More

Drink Drank Drunk

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Wu, Miriam Yeung, Alex Fong, Vincent Kok, Hu Jingfan

Synopsis: A cheeky beer promotion girl (Miriam Yeung) falls for a hard-drinking, hard-luck French-Chinese fusion cuisine chef (Daniel Wu) in a dazzling romantic comedy from One Night in Mongkok director Derek Yee. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jo Sok

Crew: Director

Two Young

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jaycee Fong, Fiona Sit, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo

Synopsis: Jackie Chan's son,Jaycee Chan, makes his second big screen appearance, this one opposite neophyte Asian starlet Fiona Sit, in the cross-class romance 2 Young (Cho Suk), authored by Derek Yee. The film -- Yee's sophomore effort -- is a light melodrama charting the emotional textures and Read More

One Night in Mongkok

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung, Alex Fong, Chin Ka-lok, Ken Wong

Synopsis: A deadly car accident threatens to cause a violent gang war on the crowded streets on Hong Kong's Mongkok district in writer/director Derek Yee's thriller One Night in Mongkok. Officer Milo (Alex Fong)'s task force is assigned to the case when a gangster's son is accidentally killed during a Read More

Lost in Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Cecilia Cheung, Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo

Synopsis: Derek Yee's romantic drama Lost in Time stars Cecilia Cheung as a young widow who, in order to provide for herself and her young son, begins working her late husband's job as a bus driver. Lau Ching-Wan plays a co-worker who falls in love with her, but worries that his feelings are not as selfless Read More

July Rhapsody

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Karena Lam, Tou Chung Hua, Eric Kot

Synopsis: A subtle study in the deterioration of relationships and the strains of a broken marriage, director Ann Hui's character driven drama draws on Chinese poetry to tell a tale of infidelity and pensive yearning. Tempted by the advances of an amorous student, Chinese Literature professor Lam (Jackie Read More

Inner Senses

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Valerie Chow, Waise Lee, Tsui Siu Keung

Synopsis: Visions of the dead haunt a young woman and the psychologist who falls for her in this romantic supernatural thriller from director Lo Chi-Leung. Though psychologist Jim believes that Yan's otherworldly visions have been brought upon by traumatic events in her past, he attempts to cure her and is Read More

Double Tap

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Alex Fong Chung-sun, Ruby Wong, Monica Chan, Vincent Kok

Synopsis: Leslie Cheung stars as a psycho killer in this Hong Kong bullet fest. Nick (Cheung), a former shooting range champion who has been forced to drop his career due to injury, is persuaded to compete again by his girlfriend Colleen (Ruby Wong). Nick's comeback competition is interrupted by a suicidal Read More

Viva Erotica

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Shu Qi

Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed work Full Throttle, Derek Yee Tung-sing made the unusual move of not only collaborating with movie industry unknown Law Chi-leung, but also to make category III sex comedy. After a string of commercial flops, art house director Sing (Leslie Cheung) resorts to making a Read More

Lovers Tears

Actors: Derek Yee, Tou Chung Hua, Carman Lee Yeuk-tung

Synopsis: Lee Kwok-lap directs this melodrama about handsome young architect Kam Ming-sang (Derek Yee Tung-sing) who gets accidentally shot in the head by his cop friend Lam Long (Tou Chung-wah). Kam barely survives, but soon lapses into a deep coma. Though most of his friends and family believe that he Read More

Full Throttle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Derek Yee Tung-sing remakes Jacob Cheung's Goodbye Hero with this tale about an aging stuntman and motorcycle racer. Joe's (Andy Lau Tak-wah) formerly stellar career is languishing with a suspended license. Worse, he hates his father and is bored by his timid, dull girlfriend, Yee (Gigi Leung Read More

Master of Zen

Actors: Derek Yee, Chen Sung-Yung, Fan Siu-Wong, Austin Wei

Synopsis: Brandy Yeun directs this unusual look at Bodhidharma, the man credited for bringing Zen philosophy China and for creating kung fu. The film opens with young prince Puti Tara (Derek Yee Tung-sing), who following the death of his father, decides to become a monk and follow teachings of Prajna Tara. Read More

A Soul Haunted by Painting

Actors: Gong Li, Derek Yee, Zhang Qiongzi, Da Shichang

Synopsis: The rise of a Chinese painter Pan Yuliang (1899-1977) as she went from prostitute to famed artist in Paris is the focus of this Chinese biography. The film opens with then 12-year old Pan working in a brothel in a small rural town. She is soon hired to become a prostitute after the head hooker Read More

C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Lau, Carina Liu, Carrie Ng, Fong Bo-bo

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Yee's highly lauded and sentimental tearjerker swept the 1993 Hong Kong Film Awards and was warmly embraced by audiences due to its well-developed characters and exceptional performances. Anita Yuen stands out as Min, an ebullient young woman who came from a Read More

Kawachima Yoshiko

Actors: Anita Mui, Andy Lau, Derek Yee

Synopsis: The extremely eccentric Manchurian princess who is briefly seen in The Last Emperor in the scenes set in Manchukuo, receives a more comprehensive screen treatment here. Born a scion of the rapidly fading Ching (Manchu) dynasty of China, Yoshiko Kawashima (Anita Mui) was taken away by the Japanese Read More

Magnificent Warriors

Actors: Richard Ng, Michelle Khan, Derek Yee, Lowell Lo

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh (billed as Michelle Khan) stars as Ming Ming, a bullwhip-wielding pilot and adventurer inspired heavily by Indiana Jones. Ming Ming gets involved in a rebel plot against the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s. Her efforts are confounded then later aided by a con man whom Read More

People's Hero

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ti Lung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ronald Wong Ban, Elaine Jin

Synopsis: Derek Yee Tung-sing directs this critically praised crime thriller about two amateur thugs -- Sai (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Boney (Ronald Wong Pan) -- who bungle a bank heist, resulting in a hostage situation. Unbeknownst to them, one of their hostages is the notorious criminal Sunny Koo (Ti Lung) Read More

The Lunatics

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Deanie Yip, Chow Yun-Fat, John Sham, Chun Pui

Synopsis: An exceptional and at times disturbing drama, Lunatics is among the top-grossing films of all time in Hong Kong. The somewhat fact-based tale centers on a social worker's attempts to help the mentally ill people who furtively live and work on the teeming city streets. As the story opens, Fung the Read More

Shaolin Intruders

Synopsis: Their longtime friends suddenly taken from them in a senseless act of violence, a man and a woman set out in search of bittersweet revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bat Without Wings

Actors: Derek Yee, Ching Li, Ou Yang Pey Shan, Wang Jung

Synopsis: When a notorious fiend known as the "Bat Without Wings" returns to his small village after a five-year absence and snatches up a prominent young maiden, it's up to her family and a resourceful swordsmen to brave the horrors of the underworld to bring her back home alive. With ghosts, a bamboo Read More