Karena Lam Kar-Yan
Also Known As: Karena Lam, Kar Yan Lam, Karena Lam Ka-Yan, 林嘉欣, 임가흔
Biography: Karena was working at her Vancouver family restaurant when she was discovered by a talent scout from Taiwan in 1993, at age fifteen. The scout persuaded her to fly to Taiwan that Christmas, alone, for a singing audition in the hope of securing a professional contract. The audition was a success and she released two albums, her debut album in 1995 and her second album later in 1999. However both were met with modest success. Her film debut in 2002 changed all this and propelled her to real stardom. Karena starred in three successful Hong Kong films in the same year, winning the awards of Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer for her role in July Rhapsody directed by Ann Hui (at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards) and for Inner Senses by Lo Chi Leung (at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards), gaining her recognition as a talented young actress and marking the start of her film career. In recent months she has been taking on much more challenging roles, as witnessed in the 2005 horror film Home Sweet Home, where she plays an insane and horribly deformed "phantom" monster who kidnaps a boy from his genetic mother to claim as its own, and was nominated for major awards again.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birthday: August 17, 1978
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Gender: Female
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Red Line
Overview: In the underground racing scene, emerging racer Xiao Le spirals into despair after an accident during a race with his brother, A Chieh. His life changes when he meets doctor Hui-Hui and becomes an ambulance driver, vowing to save people with speed. However, fate complicates things as San Pao and underground racing leader Brother Ben investigate, uncovering the unexpected truth about A Chieh.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-04-27
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American Girl
Overview: When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Bad Acting
Overview: Stuffing the face with unimaginable expressions, tears streaming down the cheeks like a waterfall, hysterical cries as if coming from a neurotic….. These “phenomena” are literally the “bad acting” that are overwhelming our movies today – loud, over the top, crude, vulgar, full of ridiculed cliches that suffocate the audience….the list goes on. The illustrious Stage Opera Director and Lecturer, Olivia Yan Wing Pui, with years of distinct teaching expertise and experience, transforms her classroom into the theater. She documents her students comprising celebrated artists and newbies, award-winning actresses or laypersons, who, in Bad Acting, forthrightly share their struggles and pains, persistence and devotion, on their objective of becoming top notch artists in their acting careers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Silk
Overview: A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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Beyond the Sin
Overview: Le Yiyan, a Macau Judicial Police inspector, is devastated when his daughter, Le Jiaqi, is found murdered. Suspect Qiu Junwen, is arrested and convicted, but when another girl is killed months later, Le Yiyan begins to doubt that the real killer is behind bars. Determined to uncover the truth, he reopens the case, uncovering dark secrets and suspicions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2025-01-11
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Koma
Overview: A horrid crime was committed at a wedding reception and bridesmaid Chi Ching was the lone eyewitness. At the police station, she recognised the suspect, Suen Ling, in a line up. She also discovered the affair between this stranger and her lover. All of a sudden the emotional turmoil surrounding her chronic illness resurfaced and quickly grew beyond control.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2004-04-27
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Tiramisu
Overview: Is the story of a man, Fung, in his early twenties living his life as a mail-man during the day and a janitor at night. One day, through fate and destiny, he manages to meet a beautiful girl, Jane, on a subway train while delivering a package. From this moment on his life will change forever.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-03-28
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Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul
Overview: Rapunzel: While attending the birthday celebration of the scion of some record company, an ex-hair model who aspires to make a comeback in the entertainment business gets her tresses burnt by a spoiled brat. She walks into a hair salon to salvage her sole pride and joy, only to meet her most macabre end. Cheshire Cat: A woman whose cat was gruesomely disemboweled in the street has since opened a feline rescue center. When a man who poses as an animal lover alerts her to a potential case of cat torture, she accompanies him to the scene, only to realize that he is the real perpetrator and his next target could be human. Tooth Fairy: A dental nurse befriends a chef in the street. When he visits her clinic to check on his teeth, he is tortured by the dentist who fancies her. The morning after, the dentist is found murdered in the clinic. All fingers point to the chef who happens to be mentally unstable. Little do the police know that the real culprit is still at large.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-05-25
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Anna & Anna
Overview: Anna & Anna is a movie about a Singaporean arts saleswoman / alpha female and her subdued doppelganger. Anna One (the arts saleswoman) is very successful in her job, and gets posted to Shanghai, where she used to live before. There, by a coincidence, she finds another woman who not only like her but IS her - Anna Two. This Anna has finished her studies, become a painter, and stayed with Oulang, a depressed musician - the life as Anna One's could have been, had she made another decision at one point of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Fit Lover
Overview: This film centers on Nie Bing, a high-profile TV hostess, who is obsessed with trying to find her "ideal man" before her 30th birthday. Nie Bing is given a magic car by a mischievous angel, and a different handsome man -one of the 12 featured A-list actors from China, Taiwan and Japan- appears each time she drives it. Lam's character soon collects a dozen admirers, portrayed by A-list actors from China, Taiwan, and Japan, each with a different profession, personality, and ideas of what constitutes romance
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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It Had To Be You
Overview: Restaurant supervisor Jill (Karena Lam) has a handsome boyfriend Chi On (Wu Bing), but she is just his backup girlfriend. She knows she is the other girl, but her hope for being his one and only has never ceased until he changes his formal girlfriend once again. All her anger goes to her co-worker Jack (Ekin Cheng), who appears to be a womanizer but indeed shares a similar unfortunate romantic situation of being the backup boyfriend of an airhostess. Knowing that both are victims in romantic relationships, Jack and Jill no longer spar with each other and a liking between them start to develop
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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Lover's Discourse
Overview: In a crowded city like Hong Kong, former lovers often cross each other's path. One night, a former couple reunites for one night as they talk about their past, their present, and the possibility of a future. Elsewhere in the city, a laundry shop girl has a crush on a customer, carrying on her days fantasizing about adventures with an inanimate version of him. Meanwhile, Po runs into a childhood friend and reminisces about the days of him as a teenager and his own infatuation with his best friend's mother. Back in the present, Po is contacted by a stranger with a secret about two people they know very well…
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2010-11-25
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Heroic Duo
Overview: Tough cop Ken Li (Cheng) is at the top of his game, but he's going to need some help to solve a grisly crime that the offender, a respected police officer, doesn't even remember committing. He seeks out Jack Lai (Lai), a former psychologist now in disgrace and behind bars, who has an uncanny ability to bend people to his will. Making an uneasy truce, this unconventional pair set out on a mission to find the man responsible, a master of hypnotism who will stop at nothing to get his revenge!
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2003-07-31
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Don Quixote
Overview: Don Quixote is a 2010 Chinese and Hong Kong film directed by Ah Gan based on Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century novel.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Dragon Blade
Overview: Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.
Genres: Adventure History Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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July Rhapsody
Overview: High school teacher Lam Yiu-Kwok is in the midst of a midlife crisis. His wife, Man-Ching, has been unfaithful; his friends are reaping the rewards of successful business careers while he earns a comparatively meager salary at an unglamorous job; and one of his young students, Choy-Lam, has fallen for him. When Man-Ching leaves for a month to help her former lover, a jealous Yiu-Kwok is tempted to retaliate by pursuing an affair with Choy-Lam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-03-14
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Inner Senses
Overview: This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when Jim begins seeing the same things she does and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror Thriller Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-03-28
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Worth the Wait
Overview: An interwoven story about life, love and modern romance
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Original Language: en
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Man on the Edge
Overview: On the eve of the 1997 handover, violence is rampant as the British Hong Kong government has joined forces with the triads to cause chaos in Hong Kong. The gang leader, Lam Yiu-Cheong assigns his crony Ah Lok to take an important role in the destruction. But Lok harbours a secret – he’s an undercover policeman and he’s about to discover a political conspiracy that will shock the country to its core.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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Kidnap
Overview: Three years ago, drama teacher Lam Hiu Yeung (Karena Lam) lost her younger brother in a kidnapping case, headed by female inspector Ho Yuen Chun (Rene Liu). Three years later, she is now on the verge of another great loss: her husband is in the late stages of cancer, and options are running out. To take him overseas for medical treatment, she needs money, and a lot of it. Using what she learned from her brother's tragic incident, she calmly masterminds the kidnapping of a tycoon's son, a case that again falls into the laps of workaholic detective and divorced mother Yuen Chun. These two strong-minded women square off in a high-stakes battle of wits, but plans and composure melt away on both sides when they realize that Hiu Yeung has nabbed the wrong kid - Yuen Chun's son.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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Mob Sister
Overview: In the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is there for a defenseless girl? The only exception to the rule is if you earn your respect as 'Ah Sou' - the big boss' wife. Ah Sou tells the extraordinary story of an innocent girl who becomes appointed successor to Hong Kong's ruling triad. This role becomes a double-edged sword for our young heroine, who is sucked into a maelstrom of vicious gang wars, hair-raising assassination attempts and ruthless power struggles and betrayals. Through numerous violent episodes and unexpected reversals, she discovers her own inner strength and re-writes the laws of the triad kingdom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2005-08-04
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Super Model
Overview: Super model Mandom (Ronald Cheng) is very famous in the field. One day, he is threatened by someone, asking him not to attend a model competition. Mandom calls for police and Madam Cheung (Karena Lam) is sent to bodyguard him 24 hours a day. However they have hostile feeling to each other. At the same time, Mandom also faces a challenger Fantasy (Sammy). How can Mandom fight against Fantasy in the model competition?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2004-06-17
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Tales of Taipei
Overview: A heartfelt piece that tells the stories of Taipei streets, people and communities. From ten directors across the globe, creating ten unique stories of Taipei, through various backgrounds, delivering the same heartfelt message.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: May's son has gone missing, and in order to win him back, the devoted mother is going to have to face her worst fears as she navigates a treacherous maze of incomprehensible evil. If she can make it out alive, she might just get a second chance at motherhood. If she falls prey to the darkness that surrounds her, however, she will suffer a fate worse than death as she is forced to confront every mother's worst nightmare.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Candy Rain
Overview: Four separate vignettes about lesbian relationships and dating, ending with a summation about relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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The Floating Landscape
Overview: Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful landscape from the days when he was still a boy living in Qingdao in China. Maan goes to Qingdao to find this landscape. There, she meets Lit (Liu Ye), a postman who will help her to find that place. A relationship grows between Maan and Lit but she can't forget the love she had for Sam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2003-10-16
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Claustrophobia
Overview: Pearl has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom, who’s married with a family. Without warning, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wounded, Pearl demands that Tom terminate her. The gauntlet has been thrown down. In a space as small, crowded and claustrophobic as the office, love doesn’t grow - it incubates and breeds, like a virus.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Customs Frontline
Overview: Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department officers Chow Ching-lai and Cheung Wan-nam share a close mentor-student relationship. On a case involving seized smuggled arms, Ching-lai is sent to take part in a joint operation with Interpol to capture a reclusive arms dealer. However, Wan-nam makes a drastic decision that further complicates the case.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Moon Wall
Overview: A musical film Commissioned by now.com.hk
Genres: Music
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Truth or Dare : 6th Floor Rear Flat
Overview: Six Hong Kong roommates vow to each accomplish something daring or wonderful within one year.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Zinnia Flower
Overview: On the same day, in the same accident, Wei loses his pregnant wife and Ming her fiancé. In Buddhism, one is given 100 days to mourn for the dead. Like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles while Ming calmly creeps down a determined path. But the pain and sorrow linger on. With the 100th day approaching, they wonder if they'll ever be able to say goodbye.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Daughter's Daughter
Overview: Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news that Zuer and Michelle have died in an accident, she heads for NY. There, she has another shock: she has inherited Zuer’s embryo and it’s for her to decide its fate. Meanwhile, going to NY also forces Jin to face Emma, the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was 17.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Happy Funeral
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2008-04-24
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Keeper of Darkness
Overview: Street-smart exorcist Fatt has an unique method of dealing with vengeful spirits: He negotiates with them and persuades them to let go of their grudges. After recordings of his exorcisms go viral, Fatt attracts the attentions of a murderous spirit who’s targeting mediums, as well as a troublesome reporter who takes great interest in Fatt and his close relationship with a female spirit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Heaven in the Dark
Overview: Michelle and Marco Tol, a former pastor, meet at a party. They discuss what happened five years ago, when a scandal involving the pair erupted and disgraced Tol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2016-03-24
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Let the Wind Carry Me
Overview: Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply observant and philosophical artist and the tolls that his profession takes on his family life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-11-23
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The Liquidator
Overview: A criminal psychologist and a forensic expert works together to track down a serial killer who targets people who have been acquitted of notable crimes and uses their guilt as his modus operandi.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
Overview: A financial tycoon, once a triad member, tries to eradicate the drug market while an old accomplice aims to be Hong Kong's first drug lord.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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Integrity
Overview: The chief investigator of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is banking on a key witness, the corporate accountant Jack, to testify in court against a high-level customs officer and a tobacco trading company CEO accused of bribery and smuggling. When neither Jack nor the CEO show up on the day of the hearing, King is given seven days to save the prosecution’s case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2019-02-05
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Legally Declared Dead
Overview: When insurance agent Yip Wing Shun is called to visit Tak and Ling’s home to follow up on a life insurance policy, he discovers their son’s corpse hanging in the bathroom. Principled and kind-hearted, Yip suspects that the child may have been murdered. As Yip digs for the truth, the real perpetrator turns the tables and forces Yip into a psychological battle of wills.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2019-11-12
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Six Strong Guys
Overview: Four men meet up on the rooftop of an office block for an unusual suicide plan. Driven to the edge by problems and stresses, are going to jump off the roof in a protest against the miserable lives of men. They are in for a big surprise when two more unexpected "guests" with the same suicidal intent join them and share a man-to-man talk.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2004-09-02
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