Michael HuiFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

  • Robin-B-Hood

    Actors: Louis Koo, Michael Hui, Gao Yuanyuan, Chen Baoguo

    Synopsis: The Jackie Chan-headlined action farce Rob-B-Hood concerns Slipper (Chan), a character caught up in a hornet's nest of problems. Raised by poor parents and expelled from school at an early age, Slipper became notorious for his lightning-fast footwork and quick-fingered hijinks, but managed to Read More

    2006

  • Chinese Box

    Actors: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades

    Synopsis: Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in "the Pearl of the Orient" as the British government prepared to hand over the city to China in 1997. John (Jeremy Irons) is an English journalist who has lived in the Read More

    1997

  • Cheung Chin Fuchai

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Michael Hui, John Tang

    Synopsis: Following up on his award-winning look at blue-collar life in Hong Kong in Cageman, Jacob Cheung directs this well-crafted comedy-drama featuring comedian Michael Hui. With his eccentric wife growing ever more lonely and his kids growing ever more resentful, workaholic television newscaster Chang Read More

    1993

  • San Bungan Batleung

    Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui

    Synopsis: In this antic comedy, Michael Hui stars as the editor of a struggling Hong Kong tabloid, the "Truth Weekly." In his never-ending quest to ensure readership, he sometimes has to contrive facts to fit his stories. In this movie, he has assigned one of his reporters (Samuel Hui, Michael's brother in Read More

    1990

  • Ji Tong Ya Jiang

    Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Sylvia Chang, Lowell Lo

    Synopsis: A Hui (Michael Hui) is a petty, stingy man who owns a restaurant specializing in a certain kind of duck dish. Although the restaurant is filthy, thanks in part to the unspeakable habits of its chef, and the service is awful, the food is good, and he has a loyal clientele. That is, until an Read More

    1989

  • Chocolate Inspector

    Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Anita Miu, Ricky Hui, Michael Chow

    Synopsis: Inspector Chu (Michael Hui) has long been known by the name of Chocolate Inspector because of his addiction to a popular chocolate confection. He is also a bumbling idiot of the most incredible kind, who can't see a thief stealing something right in front of him. In fact, he failed to notice a Read More

    1987

  • Happy Din Don

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Cherie Chung, Michael Lai, Tin Ching

    Synopsis: Michael Hui both directed and stars in this entertaining comedy as an inventive, plucky musician. He overhears some gangsters plotting a murder in an alleyway and when he is caught, he tries to fake blindness to escape with his life (and limbs) intact. Ultimately, the hapless musician is rescued Read More

    1986

  • Teppanyaki

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Michael Hui, Sally Yeh, Lo Hoi-Pang

    Synopsis: Comedian Michael Hui Koon-man stars and directs this wacky comedy about Johnny Huang, a nebbish chef who endures the presence of his obese overbearing wife and his sadistic father-in-law who relishes little more that shaving the eyebrows off of his victims. His life a constant familial nightmare Read More

    1984

  • The Trail

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Ricky Hui

    Synopsis: Ronny Yu Yan-tai, who would be later known for his 1993 classic Bride With White Hair, spins this atmospheric horror flick set in 1922 Xiang Xi. When an iterate musician runs afoul of the local warlord, the potentate has him killed and hires a band of opium runners to dispatch with the body. While Read More

    1983

  • The Cannonball Run

    Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

    Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

    1981

  • Security Unlimited

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Sam Hui

    Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong comedy trio Michael, Sam and Ricky Hui star in this box-office smash hit. Chou Sai-cheng (Michael Hui Koon-man) runs Wong's security company with an iron fist. Called "The Crab" by his haggard employees because he walks like Charles Bronson, Chou is in charge of training the Read More

    1981

  • The Contract

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Sam Hui, Ricky Hui

    Synopsis: The owners of a Hong Kong television station play a legalistic trick on new employees. They are forced to sign a piece of paper which legally binds them to work for the station for eight years, no matter what. In this comedy, Chi-Man (Michael Hui) gets together with an inventor and a magician to Read More

    1978

  • The Private Eyes

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Shek Kin, Richard Ng

    Synopsis: Respect for people with connections in high places is so great in Chinese society that a simple newspaper photo of the head of the Manix Detective Agency shaking hands with an important government official is enough to win him scores of clients, though his track record is somewhat spotty. Despite Read More

    1976

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