Newton Lai

Newton Lai

Born: April 28, 1951
Died: June 13, 2013
in Hong Kong, China

Movies for Newton Lai...

Tales From The Dark 2
Title: Tales From The Dark 2
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
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Title: Strike at Heart
Released: May 5, 2005
Type: TV
Strike at Heart is a Hong Kong period wuxia television series based on Wen Ruian's novel, A Spear of Alarm produced by TVB. The series stars Joe Ma, Sunny Chan, Stephen Au, Charmaine Sheh, Nnadia Chan and Annie Man. It was filmed in 2004 and released overseas in January 2005. Then it was aired in Hong Kong on TVB Pay Vision's TVB Drama channel from 27 May to 23 June 2009.
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Title: Ancient Heroes
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: State of Divinity
Character: 曲洋
Released: June 24, 1996
Type: TV
Ling-wu Chung, a senior student of the Wah Mount Sect, was not at all brilliant when he joined the Sect, but was soon taught to master the sword by a legendary swordsman Yeung. Chung’s master, Kwan, resented this and drove Chung away. In order to get hold of “Kwai Fa Bo Din”, the book on the most powerful martial art, Kwan diverts attention by secretly creating troubles everywhere. Chung, on the other hand, becomes the leader of the Hang Mount Sect by chance and falls in love with Kwan's daughter. When she betrays him, he turns to the daughter of the Devil Sect leader, and thus causes a love triangle between them.
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Title: Nothing to Declare
Released: June 6, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: The Fist Of Law
Released: November 9, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Stepping Stone
Released: August 7, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: The Condor Heroes 95
Character: 段智兴(一灯大师) Yat-dang
Released: July 31, 1995
Type: TV
The Condor Heroes 95 is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Return of the Condor Heroes. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1995. Many of the cast from The Legend of the Condor Heroes reprised their roles in this series, such as Lau Dan and Wayne Lai. In addition, Jason Pai reprised his breakthrough role as Kwok Ching, whom he previously portrayed in The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes.
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Title: Swordsman Lai Bo Yee
Released: June 14, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Detective Investigation Files
Character: 马成昌 Ma Shing Cheung
Released: March 13, 1995
Type: TV
Detectives of the Hong Kong Police unearth the truth behind each crime they encounter.
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Title: The Romance of the White Hair Maiden
Released: January 9, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: The Ching Emperor
Released: August 8, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: The Legend of the Condor Heroes
Character: 段智兴(一灯大师) Yat-dang
Released: August 1, 1994
Type: TV
The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in 1994.
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Title: The Conspiracy of The Eunuch
Character: 包拯
Released: July 7, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: The Emperor and I
Released: April 4, 1994
Type: TV
“The Emperor and I” tells the story of Emperor Lung (Eddie Cheung) and Yuk (Marco Ngai). The two men were of very different backgrounds and yet by chance, they became friends. At first, they were so close that they were willing to sacrifice for each other. However, their difference in belief and status quo inevitably led to their contradiction and they eventually were against each other.
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Title: The Last Conquest
Released: January 3, 1994
Type: TV
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Future Cops
Title: Future Cops
Character: Future Cops Commander
Released: July 15, 1993
Type: Movie
In the year 2043, an evil crime lord is trying to take over the world. Only one government official stands in his way, and plans to send him to prison, so The General and his minions Kent, Thai King, and Toyota travel to the year 1993 to kill the official before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung, Broom Man, Ti Man, and Ah-Sing hear of their evil plan and devise a plan of their own to travel back in time to protect the official.
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Title: Story of The Water Margin
Released: October 5, 1992
Type: TV
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Casino Tycoon II
Title: Casino Tycoon II
Character: Ti Yun's boyfriend
Released: August 20, 1992
Type: Movie
It is 20 years on and Ho Hsin is now the proud and powerful owner of a chain of casinos in Macau. Unfortunately, he is also the target of many enemies, some of whom are in dangerously close proximity to him. But Ho has faced adversity before and is not about to just roll over and die.
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Title: The Peak of Passion
Released: August 3, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Rage and Passion
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: TV
Rage and Passion is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novels The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1992.
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Endless Temptation
Title: Endless Temptation
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Today's Hero
Title: Today's Hero
Character: Senator Li
Released: November 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Siu, who spends goofing off, finds out that he has Parkinson's Disease, and only one month to live. He decides to do something special before his death. He tries to help other, and accept challenges.
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Fury in Red
Title: Fury in Red
Character: Officer Lai
Released: May 23, 1991
Type: Movie
A cop/gangster actioner involving seedy corporate dealings tied with ruthless Vietnamese gangs.
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Drugs Area
Title: Drugs Area
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Action flick about illegal drug dealing in Hong Kong and the undercover cops who risk their lives and their relationship to capture the bad guys.
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Queen's High
Title: Queen's High
Character: Master Lung
Released: September 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Under intense pressure from his gang rivals, Kwanny’s brother nevertheless encourages her to go ahead with wedding plans. As their family and bodyguards gather at the ceremony, the opposition strikes – leaving Khan in a wedding dress firing a submachine gun while her husband and brother are killed. After taking over the weakened gang Kwanny initiates negotiations, then leads a vengeance raid on the opposition. In the course of these proceedings she discovers the treachery of her other, adoptive brother. This ultimately leads to a confrontation with a Japanese gangster and his assistant, as well as the numerous men on their payroll at her company’s warehouse. Whoever prevails must then face the waiting police.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Simon Yam plays a cop that has just been released from jail after serving some years there. He claims he is innocent of all charges, and was in fact "framed".
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City Kids 1989
Title: City Kids 1989
Character: Brother Fu
Released: August 5, 1989
Type: Movie
The pressures of the gang-ridden Hong Kong streets threaten to tear two teenage friends apart. A provocative look at misunderstood youth and juvenile delinquency on the urban streets of Hong Kong.
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Title: The Sect of Blood & Iron
Released: May 3, 1989
Type: TV
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Final Run
Title: Final Run
Released: April 10, 1989
Type: Movie
This is Midnight Angel without the female caped-crusaders. Once again, Yukari Oshima steals the show as she seeks revenge against the drug overlord who killed her fiancee.
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Title: The Shanghai Conspiracy
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: The Deadly Mystert
Released: January 2, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Twilight of a Nation
Released: November 28, 1988
Type: TV
Twilight of a Nation is a Hong Kong television series based on the events of the Taiping Rebellion and the rise and fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during the late Qing Dynasty. The 45 episodes long series was produced by Siu Sang and was first aired on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in November 1988. It was broadcast again on TVB in 1996. The theme songs and insert songs in the series were performed by Roman Tam.
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Title: Kwong Loong
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Tin Long Kip
Released: August 11, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Fate Takes A Hand
Released: July 20, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Dharma
Released: December 29, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
Character: 楊逍
Released: November 3, 1986
Type: TV
New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1986.
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Title: Superlative Affections
Released: August 25, 1986
Type: TV
The background of the story is Hong Kong and Macau in the 1930s and 1940s. The characters in the play include: the quackery who is eager for quick success and quick gains, and takes risks; greedy for vanity and unwilling to eat the poor; the shameless and ambitious but unwilling to endure hardship; the poor boy who works hard, hardworking and thrifty; the result is all Those who pursued the golden dream fell down on the path of fate, and only the poor boy who had endured hardships and struggled step by step could stand tall and enjoy the fruits of countless blood and sweat.
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Title: Blood-Stained Intrigue
Released: August 11, 1986
Type: TV
The series started off with the Bak family being hunted down by the people of the martial arts world. They are a well-known family and consist of 5 members: the father--Bak Fung Tin, the mother, and their 3 children: Jin Man, Yuk Ying, and Jin Mo. Fung Tin was said to have murdered the leaders of 4 powerful sects, so the head of the martial arts world ordered that his whole family be killed.
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Title: Brothers Under The Skin
Character: 凌啸天
Released: July 1, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: General Father , General Son
Character: 杨藩
Released: July 1, 1986
Type: TV
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Royal Warriors
Title: Royal Warriors
Released: June 26, 1986
Type: Movie
When a tough policewoman learns about a group of violent terrorists, she, along with her partner and a Japanese detective, does everything it takes to take them down.
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Title: The Feud of Two Brothers
Released: May 12, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Destined to Rebel
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: The Return Of Luk Siu Fung
Released: March 17, 1986
Type: TV
The Return of Luk Siu-fung is a 1986 Hong Kong television series adapted from Gu Long's Lu Xiaofeng novel series. The series was first aired on TVB in Hong Kong in 1986.
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Fury of the Heaven
Title: Fury of the Heaven
Character: Chiu Wai-On
Released: January 4, 1986
Type: Movie
One of the better possession movies filled with hexes, spells and exorcisms. It also contains crucifixion (well, sorta), lesbian sex, and flying skulls. The overall tone is dark and gelid.
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Title: The Battlefield
Released: August 5, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Under The Sun
Released: July 1, 1985
Type: TV
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Curse
Title: Curse
Released: April 26, 1985
Type: Movie
A young woman named Tu married to a repulsively disgusting, wheel chair confined, old man. There is also a repugnant cousin who takes advantage of the situation and rapes her. But she is really in love with the gardener. When lust-driven cousin murders the gardener, Tu kills herself to join her boyfriend in the afterlife.
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Title: By Royal Decree
Released: May 7, 1984
Type: TV
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the corruption of the imperial court was weak, coupled with the invasion of Jin soldiers in the south, and the people's livelihood was difficult. A generation of famous generals Yue Fei was fiercely loyal and led the Yue family army to bravely resist the enemy, breaking through the golden soldiers, and was deeply loved by the people. Qin Yun, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, betrayed the country for glory, colluded with Jin Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin State, and designed to deal with Yue Fei in order to remove the biggest obstacle to the Jin people's invasion of the Central Plains...
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Title: The Undercover Agents
Released: April 4, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: Endless Love
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: TV
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Brutal Sorcery
Title: Brutal Sorcery
Released: September 28, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of demonic possession by black magic where the loyal and faithful taxi driver and husband Alan Chang is dragged into a pit of adultery and despair in his vain attempt to overthrow the bestial influences of 'brutal sorcery' or should I say black magic. He picks up a pair of ghostly lovers separated and forced to travel from two cemeteries to meet up. The ghosts put a curse on the taxi driver. He has to get their remains to the female ghost's sister living in Thailand.After the brief affair with the woman she puts another curse on Alan
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Home at Hong Kong
Title: Home at Hong Kong
Released: August 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Alan Wong is a Hong Kong youth who is bent to climb up the social ladder. With the help of a foreign businessman's mistress and mixed ethnicity woman Erica, he joins a real estate company and he knows how to grasp on to opportunities and gets into high position. Later he meets Cheung Ting Ting, a Mainland Chinese girl who illegally came to Hong Kong and sees her pities her and also falls in love in her.
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Sketch
Title: Sketch
Character: Inspector Hank Chin
Released: January 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The police investigate a series of murders by a probably serial killer. The inspector's wife is amongb those threatened by the killer, but no-one believes her, including her husband. Things are further confused by a gang of local punks who also terrorize the wife.
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Title: Tiger Hill Trail
Released: January 3, 1983
Type: TV
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Released: November 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Interpol is a Hong Kong Crime-Drama directed by Chan Siu-Pang.
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Coolie Killer
Title: Coolie Killer
Character: Wor
Released: June 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Ko leads a team of Hong Kong assassins that are taken out one by one. Ko manages to flee to the countryside, where he aims to find out who's behind this and to gain the strength to fight back. Helping him is local girl Tong, whilst chasing Ko is the long arm of the law, represented by cop Chung.
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Title: Ma Wing Ching
Released: November 30, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Legendary Fok
Released: September 28, 1981
Type: TV
The story takes place in the early years of the Republic of China. The Huo family and the Zhao family are the two giants in the martial arts world today. They have been fighting over who is the authentic secret boxer. Huo Yuanjia is the fourth son of the Huo family. People are not optimistic about him because he has been frail and sick since he was a child, and they are not prepared to teach him martial arts. However, Huo Yuanjia, who is extremely perceptive, actually realized the Mizong Fist on his own. On the day when the two families agreed to compete, He used the Mizong Fist and defeated his opponent Cheng Tianxiao. Unexpectedly, Cheng Tianxiao suffered a huge blow and passed away. His apprentice Chen Zhen worshiped Huo Yuanjia as his master. A group of people came to Tianjin. Huo Yuanjia, who was highly skilled in martial arts, quickly attracted the attention of the Japanese and was hunted down. They could only take Qiannan to flee to Beijing and set up the Jingwu Sect.
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Title: Coma
Released: April 27, 1981
Type: TV
Lee Ting-hong joins Guangji Hospital, where he meets the chairwoman's daughter, Xue Baoqi. They initially misunderstand each other but eventually become a couple. As they witness patients, and even acquaintances, die mysteriously, they investigate and discover that the events are related to the hospital's director, Tang Zhiyang, and the chief surgeon, Guo Weicheng.
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Title: Young Wong Fei Hung
Released: March 16, 1981
Type: TV
In order to eradicate the revolutionary chaotic party, Yuan Shikai sent people to design the murder of Huang Qiying and his wife, and his son Huang Feihong was falsely accused and imprisoned. Brother Bu Qingyun betrayed Shikai and was assassinated, and Fei Hong vowed to fight wits and strength with Shikai and others in order to help Qingyun avenge and fulfill his last wish.
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Title: Dynasty (II)
Released: October 6, 1980
Type: TV
The Red Flower Society infiltrates the Qing court, and Emperor Qianlong goes to Jiangnan disguised as a commoner, where he meets and takes in Kong Kong as a maid. They meet Fang Shiyu and are introduced to the leader of the Society, Han Tianchou. With the help of the White Browed Taoist and others, Han intends to overthrow the Qing dynasty, and Qianlong must investigate. Meanwhile, Muslim princess Ma Xianglei seeks Han's help to retrieve the Quran stolen by Qianlong. Xianglei and Qianlong develop mutual feelings, and so do Shiyu and Kong Kong, but they face many obstacles. Ultimately, Qianlong succeeds in dismantling the Society, but Xianglei is murdered. The culprit incites more conflict to harm Qianlong, who vows to avenge Xianglei by finding the true killer.
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Title: Make a Wish
Released: August 4, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: Dynasty
Released: June 16, 1980
Type: TV
During the later years of the Kangxi Emperor's rule, his many sons were vying for the throne. The fourth prince, aided by Lusi, Nian Gengyao, and Han Chong, while the fourteenth prince had the support of martial arts master Zeng Jing. The competition between the two became intense. Lusi developed a romantic relationship with the fourth prince while Zeng Jing also had feelings for her, making their situation more complicated. Later, the fourth prince killed Kangxi and altered the imperial edict, successfully usurping the throne and naming himself Emperor Yongzheng. From then on, Yongzheng ruthlessly eliminated dissidents and even betrayed those who helped him, causing Lusi to regret her involvement. Ultimately, the fourteenth prince plotted to assassinate Yongzheng with the help of Zeng Jing and Lusi, igniting a fierce battle.