The best Lydia Shum Tin-Ha’s comedy movies

Lydia Shum Tin-Ha

Lydia Shum Tin-Ha

21/07/1945- 19/02/2008
We present our ranking of the best Lydia Shum Tin-Ha’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Lydia Shum Tin-Ha.
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The Millionaires' Express

The Millionaires' Express
6.9/10
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Drunken Tai Chi

Drunken Tai Chi
6.4/10
A spoiled young man - on the run from a ruthless killer - hooks up with a puppeteer and his wife who are masters of the art of tai chi; the only style that can defeat the killer.

The Banquet

The Banquet
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1991
  • Character: Aunt Bill
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi (Eric Tsang) and his agent (Jacky Cheung) have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung (Sammo Hung) has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

Faithfully Yours

Faithfully Yours
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1988
  • Character: Ying's mother
Playboy Hong Kong Barber Happy Chan opens a fashionable new salon, right next to an old-fashioned Shanhainese barber shop. Its owner, Chuk, is furious at this development and starts a quarrel with Chan and his colleagues during the opening ceremony of his new venture Chuk's pretty daughter, Ying, is forced to keep the peace. Chan and his friends all attempt to woo Ying, but end up getting drunk and falling asleep in her bedroom. Later, Ying discovers that she is pregnant but no one can remember which of the trio did the deed. Chan and his friends endeavor to do the right thing, banding together during her pregnancy until the true identity of the father can be determined. When the baby is born its discovered all the prospective fathers have the same blood type and confusion reigns anew.

Tiger on the Beat

Tiger on the Beat
6.9/10
A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.

Lost Souls

Lost Souls
5.6/10
Like many Hong Kong people, the Ling family are hoping to immigrate to Canada - but then they all die in a gas poisoning accident. Something wimpy like dying isn't going to stop them from their Canadian dreams, but it turns out migrating in the next life takes money, too. In order to raise funds to head west, the Lings return to the mortal world and get to work making money through various jobs, raising plenty of hilarious havoc and misunderstandings along the way.

Double Fattiness

Double Fattiness
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/05/1988
  • Character: Lu Hsiao-Feng/Chu Hsiao Hsia
Siu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her spirit was unable to cross over to the other side, thus, she resurrects into the body of a young woman (Maggie Cheung). Afterward, she reunites with her family and tries to convince them that she is alive. Yet, the plot thickens when a woman, unrelated to the family and is physically identical to Siu-Fung, appears, and Siu-Fung's husband (Bill Tung) thinks that that woman is his wife.

Mother Vs Mother

Mother Vs Mother
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/06/1988
  • Character: Bi Shi Zhu
"Romeo and Juliet" in Hong Kong, except the widow Capulet is father Montague's childhood sweetheart. The young lovers try to reconcile their mothers with the help of the father, who is left with a bad taste in his mouth.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World II

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World II
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/02/1988
  • Character: Aunt Lydia
After losing their lottery winnings during the bank's closure, the Biu family's luck changes again as Bill's job promotion and daughters' education and work careers sent them and the entire family to lead their new lives in Canada, where new misadventures await.

The House of 72 Tenants

The House of 72 Tenants
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/1973
  • Character: Shanghai Po
Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
6.6/10
Bill, a TV news reporter, tries to make ends meet to support himself, his wife and three daughters in urban Hong Kong. In the mist of the misadventures of Bill and his family, their luck and lives ultimately change when Bill's wife suddenly wins the lottery.

King of Stanley Market

King of Stanley Market
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1988
  • Character: Fu's mom
Self-styled ladies man Richard Ng gets depressed when all those around him are finding love while he remains single.

Adventure in Denmark

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.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World III

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World III
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1989
  • Character: Aunt Lydia
The Biu Family collects their lottery winnings in Canada and returns to Hong Kong to start a new life together, minus the second daughter due to a family quarrel of her involvement with her boyfriend. After Mrs. Biu shows off her money to her old friends at her bank, she loses it all in a robbery. Now, void of their new found wealth, the Biu Family must start over from scratch again.

The Perfect Match

The Perfect Match
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/02/1991
  • Character: Madonna
George Lam is a famous conductor, Maggie Cheung an auto-mechanic; he rides a portable bicycle, she a motorcycle. Somehow, together, they find time to deal with some troublesome teens (Jacky Cheung, Vivian Chow) and fall in love.

Cheat to Cheat

Cheat to Cheat
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1973
Hong Kong comedy directed by Li Han-Hsiang.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World Too

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World Too
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1992
  • Character: Mrs. Lui
A large family decide that they must find a bigger place because their current flat is too cramped and triads are threatening to burn them down to pass a message on to somebody down the corridor. So after being mucked around by an agent selling a house in the country, they move into a dilapidated house. They then discover that it is going to be torn down and a huge shopping centre erected.

Return of the Phoenix

Return of the Phoenix
6.2/10
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quandary. He's getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh-yeh (Elizabeth Chuang) is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh-wu (Li Hsiang-chun) is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng decides to marry Shueh-wu off.

Laughter Of Water Margins

Laughter Of Water Margins
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/06/1993
  • Character: Ms. Wong
Tiger fighter Wu Sung was originally a coward. But when he was drunk, he was extremely courageous. One time at Jingyang Gang, Wu Sung got drunk and killed a tiger. His fearless fight impressed Sung Jiang and Lao Zhishen. Wu Sang's brother Wu Dalang seemed to be an enmity with Pan Jinlian, but in fact they were a pair of swindler. Pan used her beauty to seduce men into bed and then Wu Dalangn would come in and blackmail the victim, asking for huge sum of money. They were very successful.......

Perfect Couples

Perfect Couples
5.4/10
A group of people all looking for their perfect match.

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