Damian Lau Chung-Yan
Also Known As: Damian Lau
Biography: Damian Lau Chung-yan (Chinese: 劉松仁, born 14 October 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Birthday: October 14, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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14 Blades
Overview: Commander Qinglong is the loyal leader of the assassin group that serves the emperor. But when his allies plan a rebellion against the ruler, he finds himself in danger.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Last Hurrah for Chivalry
Overview: Kao has purchased a new wife, but an enemy has paid her more money to kill him. Kao must recruit a pair of swordsmen to help defend himself and his family from his ruthless enemy. But Kao has his dark side as well.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Overview: In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he gets entangled in a great battle against the Blood Demon, a supernatural entity seeking to wreak havoc upon the world.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Legend of the Red Dragon
Overview: A young father and his infant son are beset by forces of evil and corruption. They wander China, upholding their sense of honor and protecting the weak. When they are forced into combat, spectacular and hilarious fast-motion kung fu sequences follow. In the end, they must call on all of their abilities in a battle royale, to attempt to vanquish a supernatural man-monster or die trying.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-02-05
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The Enforcer
Overview: An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-03-02
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What Price Survival
Overview: A duel between two master swordsmen for the hand of a beautiful young maiden leads to a 20-year-old grudge that proves deadly. One of the swordsmen’s, Pai Fukuo’s, son is kidnapped and raised by the rival swordsman, who tell him his real parents were murdered by Pai Fukuo. The child grows up and seeks revenge on Pai Fukuo, whom he believes has murdered his “real” parents, not knowing that Pai Fukuo is his true father. A modern swordplay reinterpretation of the Wang Yu classic One-Armed Swordsman.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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Royal Tramp 2
Overview: After discovering that the Empress is actually Lung Erh, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned the real empress. Lung Erh, is bent on eliminating the person who disclosed her true identity, Wai Siu Bo. But more complications ensues when Lung Erh is assigned to protect the Prince, whose servant is none other than Wai Siu Bo.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-09-24
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The Magic Crane
Overview: On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-08-18
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Duel to the Death
Overview: In 16th century, during the Ming dynasty era, every ten years the greatest swordsman from Japan faces the greatest swordsman from China in a duel to the death for their nation's honor. As a duel approaches, Chinese champion Ching Wan and Japanese champion Hashimoto uncover a plot to rig the fight.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-01-13
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Till Death Do Us Part
Overview: The once happily married couple turned adversaries when husband Alex comes home and informs his wife Bo Bo that he is leaving her for another woman. Furthermore, he gained custody of their only daughter. The series of incidents drives Bo Bo into a deep depression and she arrives at Alex's house-warming party uninvited. Doom draws near as the story comes to a startling conclusion.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Overview: The city has been devastated by a nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over a popular leader and a militarist colonel.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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The Thief of Time
Overview: A dimwitted thief, mistakes for a spy, in order to free himself he holds the honest driver, as a hostage. They end up in a tunnel and traveled back in time. Throughout their travels, they meet figures in the martial arts world including the "God of Sabre" and "Sword Saint."
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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New Born
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Lu Hsiao Fury
Overview: plot is unknown
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Sea Eagle
Overview: plot is unknown
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
Overview: The aging Zhao embarks on his final and greatest campaign, a road to adventure that will crown his name in glory for all time.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2008-04-03
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First Option
Overview: Despite negative psychological evaluations, Mike Wong is assigned as the captain of the SDU, a special task force linked to the Customs Department. Their mission: apprehend nasty drug dealers, led by the “Ice Queen.” To do this, Mike has to team up with customs cop Minnie. Despite their clashes, the two learn to understand each other, but not before things get bad.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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The Enigmatic Case
Overview: An imprisoned swordsman is accused of killing three men. He probably would have already been executed for his crimes but is kept alive because he knows the whereabouts of hidden gold.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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Social Worker: Ah Sze
Overview: Ah Sze (Cecilia Wong Hang-sau) abandons the country for city life, but fails to find refuge from her relatives in Macau and Hong Kong. Writer Joyce Chan realistically portrays a teenaged girl whose choices are finite if she wants to survive. We see Ah Sze in one scene, an innocent girl still in pigtails, in stark contrast with the next scene after she has lost her virginity. It creates an emotional impact that is more than heart-wrecking.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-11-02
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ICAC: A Man
Overview: In “A Man”, Police Inspector Shek reports his corrupt colleagues, but it is his own integrity which comes under investigation, Joyce's implication that being honest to oneself can extract a high price. Also characteristic of her ICAC scripts is that they're non-judgmental and the protagonists have distinct personalities. Unfortunately, it was banned by the authorities until its initial release at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1999.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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ICAC: Two Stories "Water"
Overview: Two Stories “Water” kicked off with the Cantonese tune of Raindrops Beating on the Banana Leaves, a symbolic hint on the tragic outcome of the drama – a demonstration of Joyce's astute use of music. When a kind, gullible mother-in-law and her rude, strong-willed daughter-in-law separately encounter the same con-artist, the result is high drama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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ICAC: Homeward Bound
Overview: In “Homeward Bound”, the corrupt Health Inspector is not your usual villain; he spouts poetry and has a loving, dutiful wife. He's also a sybarite who balances his life around a shrewd, money worshipping concubine and a mistress that is romantic, if impractical. His increasing desolation as all three women leave him is palpable and sagaciously reflects the ephemeral nature of life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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ICAC: Steak Fee
Overview: The second episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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ICAC: Black and White
Overview: The fifth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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ICAC: Section Nine
Overview: The fourth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978), with three short stories combined
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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ICAC: Investigation
Overview: The last episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978), unfortunately, was banned by the authorities until its initial release at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1999
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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Social Worker: "Boy"
Overview: The second episode of the Hong Kong reclaimed “Social Worker” series (1976)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-11-02
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Social Worker (#3)
Overview: The third episode of the Hong Kong reclaimed “Social Worker” series (1976), which showed the ecology of marginalized teenagers and their interaction with social workers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-11-02
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The Heroic Trio
Overview: While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.
Genres: Action Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Making Family
Overview: An independent career woman who wants a family without a husband and a man who has no interest in a family of his own, one day go through something unexpected and become a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Heaven and Earth
Overview: Cheung Ye Pang (Andy Lau) is a Cantonese detective out to combat opium sellers. Encountering high-level corruption along with close friends being murdered, Pang sets out to stop the dealers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-07-21
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Inspector Pink Dragon
Overview: A blundering Hong Kong police inspector, Ma Yu Long, goes under cover to investigate a high-class businessman, Teng Kuo Chiao, who was bribing city planning officer Ma Yu Yu to build roads to suit his needs and is suspected to be liable in Yu's death. In the meantime, Long courts Yu's high school sweetheart, Julia, who wants the inspector to cheat Chiao out of some money as part of the revenge deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-07
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Profile in Anger
Overview: Leung Cheng-Yee is a successful architect who is mistakenly involved in a complex and vicious murder plot. After his wife is murdered and his life turned completely upside down, Leung decides to seek a bloody vengeance himself.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-05-03
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The Tokyo Trial
Overview: This film was directed by Gao Qunshu and is about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after Japan's surrender in World War II. The movie presents the trial from the point of view of the Chinese judge Mei Ju-ao. The director and his crew spent more than a year doing research to finish the script, which is based on historical data. It cost 18 million yuan (2.25 million U.S. dollars). This film hired actors from 11 countries, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and other places, including actors such as Kenneth Tsang and Damian Lau. They recreated court scenes from the trial in Chinese, English and Japanese. It was shown in cinemas and around 100 universities across mainland China to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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The Story of My Son
Overview: Li Tzu-Liang is returning to Hong Kong with the ashes of his wife. He now has to bring up his two sons on his own. Though he is quite well-off, he his plagued by debts and when he loses a large sum of money betting on horses, he has to turn to dangerous loan-sharks. Here starts a spiral which gets him and his two sons deeper and deeper into trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Royal Tramp
Overview: The story of Wai Siu Bo, a pimp who after saving Chan Kan Nam, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a botched first assignment for the group, he is made a servant to the Prince, the very person the Heaven and Earth society want to overthrow. What follows is plenty of mayhem and laughter.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-07-30
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Best of the Best
Overview: Tung Tung just graduated from the police academy, encountering a Vietnamnese assassin on his first day on work. Tung in order to break through obstacle in his mind decides to join SDU. Among the teammates, Coolman feels resentment toward Tung, which he doesn't understand. Later he discovers Coolman is actually his step brother. Tung actively tries to get close to Coolman, but is rejected. When training reaches its last stage, Coolman and Tung's team reencounters the Vietnamnese assassin on a deserted island.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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She Starts the Fire
Overview: A fish-out-of-water comedy where the fish can set people on fire! Wendy (Chingmy Yau) arrives in Hong Kong to stay with her aunt Big Beer (Deannie Ip), who shares a space with her landlord Charles (Lawrence Cheng). There’s just one problem: Wendy can set things on fire with her mind. Her pyrokinetic powers are accompanied with some bad luck, so the victim usually gets a double whammy of charred flesh and misfortune.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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Holy Weapon
Overview: During the Ming dynasty, Mo Kake takes an invincibility drink to defeat the best Japanese warrior, Super Sword. Three years later, the samurai returns, determined to take the power of 7 Maidens to defeat Mo Kake.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-06-03
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Murder
Overview: Lawyer Jessica Yau finds out about her husband's money laundering scheme and gets shot in the head. She survives, but loses her memory. She is cared for by Mei Mei Chen, a nurse she screwed over in a lawsuit before being shot.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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Lifeline
Overview: A heroic but cocky firefighter pays no regard to the dangers of the job but lacks the courage to face his personal demons. When faced with a giant and volatile inferno, he must put aside personal differences with his boss if they are both to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-01-03
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School on Fire
Overview: A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart, Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escalate.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-20
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The Stunt Woman
Overview: After moving to Hong Kong from China, a young martial artist starts a promising career as a stuntwoman. She begins to feel accepted in the business, but a passionate affair with a playboy ends up breaking her heart and unleashing her wild side.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Shanghai Heroic Story
Overview: Through much blood, sweat and tears, a young man rises to the top of Shanghai's secret society, but his moment of glory is brief compared to what he has endured.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-12-03
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20:16
Overview: A young journalist befriends a businessman and learns that after his dream of becoming a Ping-Pong player was cut short, he escaped to Hong Kong in search of a better life. Inspired by his story, the journalist decides to pursue her dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-05-18
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