Lam Ching-YingFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Fights Choreographer

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Martial Arts Master Wong Fai Hung

Actors: Chin Kar-lok, Lam Ching-Ying, Jacqueline Ng Suet-man

Synopsis: Following in the wake of Tsui Hark's kung-fu classic Once Upon a Time in China, this low budget Taiwanese production --directed by Lee Chiu -- concerns Wang Fei-hung (Chin Kar-lok), the undisciplined slacker of son to martial arts master Wong Kei-ying. Not long after the elderly Wong dies Read More

1992
China Dolls

Synopsis: Primarily intended as a showcase for the prodigious pulchritude of popular Hong Kong pin-up queen Amy Yip, this softcore exploitation thriller from director Yeung Chi-kin stars Yip as May So, who comes to Hong Kong from the Chinese mainland with her husband and baby after she kills a man who Read More

1992
The Ultimate Vampire

Synopsis: Andrew Lau Wai-keung spins this low-budget horror-comedy set during the one day of the year in the Chinese lunar calendar when the gates of the underworld are opened up and ghosts are given a day's furlough to wander about the world of the living. The film centers around a Taoist master named Lin Read More

1991
Magic Cop

Synopsis: Lam Ching-ying stars in this wild and woolly supernatural crime spectacular as Fung Zee, a hard-bitten cop and talented Taoist master. When a mysterious drug dealer refuses to surrender to the cops, refuses to die after being shot by the cops and generally lurches around like a member of the Read More

1989
Vampire vs. Vampire

Crew: Director

Actors: Lam Ching-Ying

Synopsis: The star of numerous horror-comedies such as Mr. Vampire, Lam Ching-Ying steps behind the camera to direct and star in one of the better films in the genre. The famed One Eyebrow Priest and his disciples must save a group of villagers from the clutches of the undead when a swarm of bats descends Read More

1989
Painted Faces

Actors: Sammo Hung, Ham-bo, Cheng Pei-Pei, Lam Ching-Ying, John Sham

Synopsis: This drama focuses on life at the Peking Opera School and is a loose biography of Hong Kong film stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Sammo Hung portrays Master Yu, the academy's brutal schoolmaster, who takes the youths through the rigorous acrobatic training. The film offers an Read More

1988
Eastern Condors

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Joyce Godenzi, Lam Ching-Ying

Synopsis: Actor/director Sammo Hung gathered an international cast including the late Oscar winner Dr. Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) and some of the most recognizable faces in Hong Kong cinema for this action-packed martial arts adventure. Set in 1976, the film focuses on a ragtag group of Chinese and Read More

1986
Mr. Vampire 2

Synopsis: Ricky Lau follows up on his smash horror-comedy yarn with this sequel set in the present day. The film opens with a swashbuckling professor (Chung Fat), who, during an exposition, stumbles upon a whole family of vampires. His scheme of selling the preserved corpses hits a snag when the child Read More

1986
Mr. Vampire

Crew: Fights Choreographer

Actors: Ricky Hui, Moon Lee, Chin Suit Ho, Pauline Wong

Synopsis: Ricky Lau directs this fantastically successful horror yarn that successfully fused high-flying slapstick with creepy genre atmospherics. The film opens with Taoist priest Kau (Lam Ching-ying) along with his two hapless assistants, Chou (Chin Siu-ho) and Man Choi (Ricky Hui Koon-ying), set out to Read More

1986
Heart of the Dragon

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Emily Chu, Melvin Wong

Synopsis: This Jackie Chan martial arts actioner is a bit different than most of his films (although it does have the requisite spectacular stunts and kung fu fights). In it, he plays a police officer who is a member of a SWAT team but leaves it to join the C.I.D. division. His reason for leaving isn't to Read More

1985
Hocus Pocus

Synopsis: A traveling opera troupe has a spooky encounter in this supernatural chiller from Hong Kong director Chien Yu-Sang. The morning after a successful performance in a small remote village, the troupe awakens to find that their receptive hosts were in fact ghosts. As the members of the troupe attempt Read More

1984
The Return of Pom Pom

Actors: Richard Ng, John Sham, Deanie Ip, Philip Chan

Synopsis: As a sequel to Pom Pom I, this attempt at slapstick comedy is glued together by a story about a detective and his bride, also a policewoman, who are trying to save their former boss in the precinct from a frame-up. Thwarting their every move is a new, antagonistic boss, some gangsters, and the Read More

1984
The Prodigal Son

Actors: Yuen Biao, Frankie Chan, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: In this classic martial arts film from Hong Kong, Yuen Biao plays the effete son of a wealthy man who is halfheartedly studying kung fu, though his father has to pay ringers to fight him (and, of course, lose). When he finds out that his father has been deceiving him, Biao decides he must learn Read More

1982
The Dead and the Deadly

Synopsis: One of the more noteworthy Hong Kong horror-comedies of its time, this period thriller from Golden Harvest and actor/director Wu Ma (who co-stars as Ma Lucho) is filled with both fascinating mythology and outrageous setpieces. Co-screenwriter Sammo Hung stars as Fatboy, who becomes suspicious when Read More

1982
Encounter of the Spooky Kind

Actors: Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung, Lam Ching-Ying

Synopsis: Courageous Cheung (Sammo Hung) has a reputation for taking on any dare, no matter how foolish it may be, in order to prove his unabashed bravery. Though his friends often take advantage of his misguided machismo by luring him into dubious dares in which they attempt to scare him and laughingly Read More

1981
Enter the Fat Dragon

Actors: Sammo Hung

Synopsis: Sammo Hung stars in this parody of Return of the Dragon, the 1973 kung fu classic that paired Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. Sammo plays Lung, an apprentice pig farmer sent to the big city to help his family, only to find himself confronted by a gang of thugs trashing the grocery stand where he Read More

1978
Fists of Fury

Actors: Chin Shan, Li Hua Sze, Miao Ke Hsiu, Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, Nora Miao, James Tien, Mao Ker Hsiu, Han Ying Chieh

Synopsis: Martial arts master Bruce Lee solidifies his standing as one of the great action stars in Fists of Fury, the story of a Chinese country boy (Lee) sent to live in Thailand with his uncle and cousins. Around his neck is a charm representing his promise to his mother not to fight, a promise which is Read More

1971