The best James Yi Lui’s movies
Today we present the best James Yi Lui’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best James Yi Lui’s movies.
Flaming Brothers
6.2/10
Two blood brothers (Chow Yun Fat and Alan Tang), who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
Hex vs. Witchcraft
5.5/10
A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
5.1/10
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!
The Clumsy Gambler
Hong Kong comedy
Foxbat
5.1/10
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Adventure in Denmark
6/10
Two Chinese men go to Copenhagen for some reason. While one of them philanders around with various Danish and Asian women, the other falls in love with his Chinese tour guide, but takes time to have various drawn-out kung fu battles with a seemingly endless amount of thugs sent by his partner's overweight and very jealous girlfriend back home.
The Crazy Instructor
3.8/10
A bumbling martial arts teacher has the skills but lacks the confidence to use them. Run out of town by some ne'er-do-wells, he sets out on some comic adventures as he travels the countryside. Taking up some companions that are as bumbling as he is, the group seems to stumble into one misadventure after another. Will our hearty band eventually prove their worth with their skills and bring their enemies to justice?
The Discharged
Hong Kong action / crime / drama.
The Lost Generation
4.1/10
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
My Darling Genie
5.4/10
Out of the Shaw Brothers vaults comes My Darling Genie, an amiable early-eighties comedy starring the enchanting Cherie Chung. Derek Yee is Cheng, a brusque construction worker who discovers a magical umbrella on a routine dig. When the umbrella is opened and sprinkled with water, a 200 year-old genie arrives to grant the owner's wishes. As if that weren't enough, this genie happens to look like Cherie Chung! Cheng has been given a virtual ticket to Heaven, but he's more annoyed than grateful, and uses the Genie to perform mostly menial tasks.
Black List
5.7/10
Two brothers, one wrongly accused of a crime, go on a mission of vengeance to find the men who framed him.
The Haunted Cop Shop II
5.4/10
Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.
The Extras
6.1/10
A comedy film directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.
Excuse Me, Please!
5.5/10
A group of flim-flam friends are chased by the mob and then by ghosts in this horror comedy.
The Ghosts and I
Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
Tiger
5.6/10
Hapkido Master Kim Jin Pal takes on a mass of Japanese bushido experts in occupied China Bolo plays Zatoichi hired by the Japanese as a last resort to take on the might of Kim's boot.
Operation Pink Squad
5.3/10
The Pink Squad is comprised of four strong, tough women (Sandra Ng, Ann Bridgewater, Suki Kwan in her film debut, and Elsie Chan) who do their police work efficiently and successfully. As a result, their chauvinistic superiors in the police department are always scheming to try and get them fired.
Sweet Girl in Terror
Early Shaw Brothers thriller.
Love and Blood
Hong Kong 1972. Shiu Pang is a poorly paid photographer with a very jealous fiancee. One day he meet an innocent girl and he falls in love with her. His fiancee decides to give a lesson to the young girl by sending a bunch of youngsters beating her and things goes worse and worse, the photographer's best friend dies in fighting the gangsters and the girl loses his mind, ending up in an asylum.
To Sir with Troubles
Hong Kong comedy film.
