Jeffrey Lau
Also Known As: Key On, Gee An, Lau Yue-Ming, Jeff Lau Chun-Wai, Jeff Lau, 刘镇伟, 유진위, 劉鎮偉, Lau Chun-wai, Jeffrey Lau
Biography: Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai (Chinese: 劉鎮偉) is a Hong Kong actor, screenwriter, producer and director. He had studied graphic design in the U.K., then returned to Hong Kong and worked in advertising. He co-founded the film companies Century Films and Wu Zhou Century Films with director Dennis Yu in 1980, and the duo produced various classics during the New Wave Cinema era. With the support of actor-producer Alan Tang, Lau made his directorial debut with The Haunted Cop Shop, which showcased his distinctive style in supernatural comedies. The genre, along with its vampire and horror counterparts, soon became prominent in Hong Kong Cinema. Lau partnered with Corey Yuen again in 1997 and founded Cinemagic. He was also the producer of Stephen Chow’s blockbuster Kung Fu Hustle in 2004.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Adult: No
Birthday: August 01, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
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A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
Overview: This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-02-04
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A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
Overview: When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-01-21
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Operation Pink Squad II
Overview: A police sting takes place in a haunted apartment building. The sting goes bad when a wicked female ghost crashes the party.
Genres: Horror Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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Carry on Hotel
Overview: Mr. Lau (Kent Cheng) is a seedy detective who sets up cameras to record an illicit affair. Things go awry however when a hideously glam rock band checks into Lau’s room, and gets a free show via his hook-up. Meanwhile, silly thief Donald Ng (Richard Ng) uses ninjitsu to fool the locals while a womanizing tour guide (Eric Tsang) gets stalked by not one, but two pretty women (Cherie Chung and Pat Ha). And Buddy Cheung (Jacky Cheung) is a lowly mechanic at the hotel who lusts after gorgeous executive Sunflower (Joey Wong). But his tomboy co-worker Boy George (Cecilia Yip) secretly pines for him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-07-02
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The Top Bet
Overview: Sing and Mei are two siblings with special powers which the former uses to gamble. When both are unavailable, a gangster hires Fanny, a con artist, to compete in a gambling competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-03-07
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All for the Winner
Overview: Sing, a dumb, lovable mainlander with supernatural powers comes to China to visit his uncle Tat. When it's revealed that Sing can see through objects, Tat employs him as "The Saint of Gamblers," and proceeds to set him loose in the gambling world.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-08-18
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Treasure Hunt
Overview: A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China.
Genres: Romance Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-01-29
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Chinese Odyssey 2002
Overview: Two pairs of siblings are destined for each other, but fate throws countless obstacles in the path. When the young Emperor and his sister contrive to leave the palace, they meet the loves of their lives in the town of Meilong.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Gameboy Kids
Overview: Andy act a successor to a criminal society. While knowing their boss is coming down from an airplane. They got the wrong guy. A taller but absolutely low IQ level guy. He went to the criminal society and give candy bars to people who done 'nice jobs'. He made the criminal society like a utopia. Aaron just happen to be Andy's bodyguard.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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The Haunted Cop Shop II
Overview: Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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The Haunted Cop Shop
Overview: The police station used to be the army club during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Many Japanese officers committed hara kiri there on V-J Day. The old building thus became a ghost house. Petty thief Ming is detained in the basement. It is the Ghost Festival when ghosts are allowed one night's leave. The Colonel shows up and bites Ming, who becomes a vampire.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-11-19
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Soccer Killer
Overview: In the Song Dynasty, a group of patriots play soccer against the traitor with a team of foreign enemies, royal pro-nobles, bandits, martial arts masters and embrace the country hatred to compete for the first time in the history of China International soccer match.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-06-30
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Thunder Cops II
Overview: A clumsy policewoman trains hard to avenge her father's death.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-11-18
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The Fantastic Water Babes
Overview: Gil (Gillian Chung) is a girl who tries to take her own life after being dumped by her boyfriend for another girl, Brenda (Chrissie Chow). Gil gets rescued by a water deity, and believes she has received special powers. Even though she doesn't even know how to swim she enters the Fantastic Water Babes swimming competition, in an vengeful effort to compete against her romantic rival and her friends, and to get back her boyfriend. To master swimming she kidnaps swimming champion Kwok Chi Yuan (Alex Fong Lik Sun) to the island of Cheung Chau, to make him teach her and her friends how to swim.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2010-07-06
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Combination Platter
Overview: An employee at a Chinese Restaurant in New York City tries desperately to obtain a green card by marrying an American woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Just Another Pandora's Box
Overview: Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three Kingdoms era. Mistaken as a general, Qing is thrown right into the middle of the Battle of Red Cliff. Meanwhile, Rose continues to devise new ways to earn Qing's affection, even if it means having to be someone else.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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