Yip Ha-Lei
Also Known As: Ha-Lei Yip, 葉夏利, 叶夏利
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Adult: No
Birthday: August 28, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 2016
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Money Is Lovely
Overview: A movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-05-14
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Year of the Dragon
Overview: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Cherie
Overview: The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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Body for Sale
Overview: One day, due to carelessness. Ah Chung is fired from his job as a toilet attendant. Out of sympathy, Ah Lien, a waitress who he secretly admires, gives him financial help. When the much indebted Ah Chung found another job, he went to return the money to Ah Lien but was disappointed to learn that she had left and married. Years later, their paths cross again in a strip-tease joint.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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The Wickedness in Poverty
Overview: Two people in debt to loan sharks cooperate with each other to clear their debt and cheat other people out of their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-08-23
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The Cheeky Chap
Overview: Ma is a grinning and arrogant young man who believes himself invincible, and with fairly good reason. He intervenes to save Captain Kao from robbery, then aids and abets the robbery of an old man, whose daughter Chin he falls instantly in love with. The stolen money was to pay a debt and, because he hasn't the money, the old man is mortally wounded by Sha, the debt collector's assistant. Ma spends the remainder of the film wooing Chin and baiting and fighting the villains, who seem to keep changing allegiances.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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Let's Have a Baby
Overview: A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-11-21
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Miracles: The Canton Godfather
Overview: A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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From Riches to Rags
Overview: Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-07-10
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Nomad
Overview: Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-11-25
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Behind the Yellow Line
Overview: Married boss Paul falls for his employee named Monica after running into her in a subway station and it makes all things uneasy for her.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Mismatched Couples
Overview: Eddie (Donnie Yen) is a young man good at both fighting and breakdancing. His cousin Stella (May Lo) has a crush on him, but apparently he loves someone else. Eddie creates trouble when he tries to help out Mini (Yuen Woo-Ping), a hawker whose business is confiscated by the cops. Mini ends up moving in with Stella, Eddie, and his sister (Wong Wan-Si), leading to possible romance as the mismatched couples struggle to get by beneath the same roof. But a powerful fighter named Power (Dick Wei) admires Eddie's skills, and challenges him to a duel. Eddie refuses, so Power kidnaps Stella to get his way. With no choice remaining Eddie, decides to meet Power for a showdown.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Let's Make Laugh
Overview: The cheating husband goes bankrupt, and his house is soon to be taken by the government. A security guard is assigned to guard it while the husband goes missing. However, only the mistress stays alone in the house. Will the lonely, handsome guard and the sexy, heartbroken mistress hook up?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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Illustrious Energy
Overview: Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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The Secret Agent 303
Overview: Hong Kong's Ironman stepped up to the plate when Dr. No (1962) took the world by storm in the 1960s. Tso Tat-wah, the quintessential tough guy of Cantonese cinema who had appeared in dozens of popular action films, was licensed to spy in several 007 imitations. Here, he is Agent 303, the lucky number "3" a vivid sign of East-West integration. Presented in glorious widescreen, the film is garnished with secret weapons and ominous hideouts, mind games and technological intrigues, violence and sex, the latter in the form of a silhouette striptease!
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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Girl with the Diamond Slipper
Overview: Two hopeless housebreaker brothers, Ah Chi and Fatty, steal a diamond that had already been earmarked by a criminal gang. Through a series of unfortunate and - frankly - unlikely events, the diamond ends up in the shoe of a rising star TV actress Cheung Man Ju. They pursue her all over Hong Kong until finally tracking her down at a charity ball where she must leave by midnight, and accidentally loses a shoe in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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