The best Lau Ching-wan’s comedy movies

Lau Ching-wan

Lau Ching-wan

16/02/1964 (60 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Lau Ching-wan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Lau Ching-wan.
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Viva Erotica

Viva Erotica
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/11/1996
  • Character: Derek Yee
Sing's last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won't do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.

Tri-Star

Tri-Star
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1996
  • Character: Lau Ching Faat
A new Year's comedy about a romance between priest Leslie Cheung and prostitute Anita Yeun.

Crazy Hong Kong

Crazy Hong Kong
4.3/10
In the early 1990s, Nǃxau was cast in three low-budget unofficial sequels that continued the fish-out-of-water aspects of the first two films.

Fat Choi Spirit

Fat Choi Spirit
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/02/2002
  • Character: Mahjong Master
Follows the adventures of a compulsive Mahjong player named Andy and his aging mother, estranged brother, loyal ex-girlfriend, and a local gang.

La Brassiere

La Brassiere
6/10
A Hong Kong bra company breaks tradition by hiring two men, Johnny and Wayne, to design an "ultimate bra" in 3 months...

Over the Rainbow, Under the Skirt

Over the Rainbow, Under the Skirt
7.3/10
In this sequel to Yesterday You, Yesterday Me, Bobby looks back on his youthful dreams -- the joys of love and the pain of separation. He also remembers the summer of 1985 when he was smitten with a woman named Sharon.

Executioners

Executioners
5.8/10
Set some time after the The Heroic Trio (1993) the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both a popular leader and a militarist colonel. The trio of Chat the Thief catcher, Ching and Wonder Woman (along with her young daughter) have to avert a military takeover and find clean headwaters to save the city.

Fantasia

Fantasia
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/01/2004
  • Character: Director Man
In Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit and the Hong Kong Columbia Radio Night School graduate Pufferfish, he follows the target Lascar Row. The trio stumbles into an antique shop and breaks many antiques in the store. The cheap Man force Kit and Pufferfish to take responsibility. Kit wisely makes Pufferfish take sole responsibility. The dumb Pufferfish helpless buys the pile of shattered antiques with his own money. In the pieces he finds a broken magic lamp...

The Shopaholics

The Shopaholics
5.3/10
Compulsive disorders plague Hong Kong: Fong Fong Fong, a foundling who's now a nurse, is a shopaholic who seeks psychiatric help from Kan Yan (Choosey) Lee, who's frozen by an inability to choose. Into the mix come Kung Fu (Richie) Ho, a wealthy man who is stingy but also will buy anything someone else wants, and Ding Dong Ding, Lee's binge-eating bargain-shopping ex-girlfriend who reappears in hopes Lee will now choose her. Both men propose to both women who say yes to both. Family and friends are inept at helping to sort it out, and even if the four get the wedding vows straight, will anyone be cured? Does Hong Kong need more than a Prozac?

Doctor Mack

Doctor Mack
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1995
  • Character: Chiu
Since dropping out from the medical school, Lau Mack has been living a humble but contented life, running a small clinic in a shabby area, treating local inhabitants and poor prostitutes working there. One night, he escorts an injured gun robber to the government hospital, where he unexpectedly meets his old friend from college time, Dr. Jaw, now a reputed surgeon with an aspiration for senior management. To Jaw's bitter surprise, he finds himself outshone by Lau's medical talent and kindness to patients. Jaw is however determined to speed up his career ascent at the expense of Lau. His plots work perfectly, until an accident delivers his life to the mercy of Lau.

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
6.7/10
A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1
7.4/10
A small-time triad must make a fateful decision to discover who he is. With that decision, his life can diverge in two paths, each leading to an ultimate fate.

Poker King

Poker King
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/11/2009
  • Character: Uno Cheuk
Although Randy's family is involved in the casino business, he has never shared an interest in gaming until he played Texas Hold 'Em on the Internet. Rival Uno is the manager at Randy's casion. These two bitter enemies will now face off in the Asian Poker King Championships.

Romantic Dream

Romantic Dream
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/06/1995
  • Character: Hung Chi Lung
A spiritualist can put you into a dreamworld where you can have your greatest desire

My Name Is Fame

My Name Is Fame
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/09/2006
  • Character: Fai
Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/02/1994
  • Character: Hou Chung
This 1994 Chinese New Year offering takes place over a period of time between one Christmas and Chinese New Year's eve. As It's a Wonderful Life's Chinese title specifies, its focus is on a "Big Rich Family". We are introduced to thirteen people, learn of their particular dispositions and dilemmas, are witness to the former either getting changed or developed and see the latter (re)solved. Teresa Mo as the daughter just returned from studying in France; Leslie Cheung as the friend who came in tow; Tony Leung Kar Fai as the cartoonist son who can only speak normally when he is anxious; Anita Yuen as the woman who Tony Leung's character falls in love with; Carol "Do Do" Cheng as her flat-chested, disciplinary-cum-art teacher sister; Raymond Wong as the eldest son who cannot handle alcohol well; Petrina Fung Bo Bo as his estranged wife; Sean Lau as the marriage-minded cousin; and Kwan Tak Hing as the eccentric-but-definitely-not-senile grandfather.

Step Into the Dark

Step Into the Dark
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 23/12/1998
  • Character: Dr. Care Kwan
A doctor falls in love with a mysterious young woman, unknowing that he has stepped in a paranormal world of a sinister past and the loss of innocent lives. He must find the true intentions about the young woman and bring those that did her and her family harm to justice.

Itchy Heart

Itchy Heart
5.9/10
Truly reflecting Hong Kong people's attitudes of love and marriage, "Itchy Heart" tells a story of a married man who wants to look for excitement out of marriage by meeting someone new. As his wife going out for a trip, Chi-man's (Lau Ching-Wan) desires to new excitement have overwhelmed him as he meets beautiful and young Cherry (Cherry In) and his former girlfriend Bing (Carina Lau). After knowing his wife's affair, he decides to get divorced, without knowing whether he should give himself a second chance to be in love again. This is a comedy reflecting a so-real reality on marriage nowadays. With the detailed portraits of the characters' emotions, the story itself has successfully created echoes among the audience with its bitter-sweet scenario.

Thou Shalt Not Swear

Thou Shalt Not Swear
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 03/09/1993
  • Character: Chow's sidekick
Two undercover cops are forced to be a team to find a serial killer. Chow is straight-laced and Lau has ESP. The victims were all childhood friends. The killer is a ghost!

Good Times, Bed Times

Good Times, Bed Times
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/2003
  • Character: Magistrate Raymond
This is the story of Carrie (Sammi Cheng), who plays a tabloid reporter who is doing a story on pin up police officer Paul Ko (Louis Koo). The word around is that he is impotent and Carrie is looking for the truth. Of course, from there you are looking to see if they will hook up. Also here are Raymond (Lau Ching Wan) as Carrie's ex, a judge and a very young looking Charlene Choi, who plays Tabbie, who wants to live with Raymond. In a small but fun interlude, the always great Sandra Ng plays Bobo.

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