James Yi Lui

James Yi Lui

Born: December 13, 1939
Died: February 16, 1999
in Guangdong, China
James Yi Lui was born in 1943, the son of famed comic actor Yi Chau-shui. At age 17, he joined Shaw Brothers as a bit part actor, starting with Sweet Girl in Terror in 1958. A breakout role in Teddy Girls (1969) moved him up to lead and major supporting roles until he achieved stardom with his comedic turn in Adventure in Denmark (1973). He continued to appear in films (nearly 100 total) until 1989 and also formed his own production company, Daai Sing, which enabled him to direct and produced several films. He retired after directing and starring in the ghost comedy Excuse Me, Please! in 1989 and passed away ten years later from heart disease.

Movies for James Yi Lui...

Excuse Me, Please!
Title: Excuse Me, Please!
Released: October 19, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of flim-flam friends are chased by the mob and then by ghosts in this horror comedy.
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Operation Pink Squad
Title: Operation Pink Squad
Character: Man at airport
Released: November 17, 1988
Type: Movie
The Pink Squad is comprised of four strong, tough women (Sandra Ng, Ann Bridgewater, Suki Kwan in her film debut, and Elsie Chan) who do their police work efficiently and successfully. As a result, their chauvinistic superiors in the police department are always scheming to try and get them fired.
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Mistaken Identity
Title: Mistaken Identity
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Mistaken Identity is a Hong Kong Crime-Comedy directed by Tsui Siu-Ming and starring Richard Ng.
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Title: Friends & Enemies
Character: 纪英俊
Released: July 11, 1988
Type: TV
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The Haunted Cop Shop II
Title: The Haunted Cop Shop II
Character: Romeo
Released: April 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.
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Flaming Brothers
Title: Flaming Brothers
Character: Richard Lui
Released: July 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Two blood brothers (Chow Yun Fat and Alan Tang), who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
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十三号地区
Title: 十三号地区
Released: August 8, 1984
Type: Movie
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My Darling Genie
Title: My Darling Genie
Character: Lin Guo Ren
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Out of the Shaw Brothers vaults comes My Darling Genie, an amiable early-eighties comedy starring the enchanting Cherie Chung. Derek Yee is Cheng, a brusque construction worker who discovers a magical umbrella on a routine dig. When the umbrella is opened and sprinkled with water, a 200 year-old genie arrives to grant the owner's wishes. As if that weren't enough, this genie happens to look like Cherie Chung! Cheng has been given a virtual ticket to Heaven, but he's more annoyed than grateful, and uses the Genie to perform mostly menial tasks.
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The Red Panther
Title: The Red Panther
Character: Lei
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop inadvertantly eats. Eventually the hero cop finds himself tied to an operating table with the killer preparing to deal with his "posterior ulcers"!
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The Lost Generation
Title: The Lost Generation
Character: Ya-ch'uan
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Title: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Character: Eden / Yi Tien
Released: February 12, 1983
Type: Movie
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!
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Carry On Police
Title: Carry On Police
Character: Captain Po
Released: June 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy film.
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Food For The Sharks
Title: Food For The Sharks
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: Movie
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To Sir with Troubles
Title: To Sir with Troubles
Character: Teacher
Released: June 19, 1981
Type: Movie
In the pressure-cooker environment of Hong Kong’s education system, students grapple with a relentless barrage of exams and mind-numbing lectures. The strain becomes so overwhelming that it leads many students down the path of rebellion. Mr. Tai (Lui Wai-hung) is a dedicated, albeit nerdy, high school biology teacher who finds himself with his hands full, contending with a group of troublesome teenagers. These unruly students go to great lengths to make Mr. Tai’s life a living nightmare, often with comically disastrous consequences. Amidst this chaos, Ye Feng plays the role of the father of the protagonist. He inadvertently gets caught up in the raucous antics and pandemonium that unfold within the school. This film marked Ye Feng’s final appearance in cinema.
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Money Is Lovely
Title: Money Is Lovely
Character: Lei Tu-Hai
Released: May 14, 1981
Type: Movie
A movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.
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Wedding Bells, Wedding Belles
Title: Wedding Bells, Wedding Belles
Character: Ah Kiu
Released: April 16, 1981
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.
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Hex vs. Witchcraft
Title: Hex vs. Witchcraft
Character: Cai Tou
Released: November 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
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The Ghosts and I
Title: The Ghosts and I
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
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Lam Ah Chun Blunders Again
Title: Lam Ah Chun Blunders Again
Released: August 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Sequel to the comedy movie Lam Ah Chun
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The Extras
Title: The Extras
Character: Hakky Ho
Released: December 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Hakky Ho (James Yi Lui) holds on to his love of acting and dreams of being a star despite the chaotic, brutal, low-paying, hilarious reality of life as an extra. He falls in love with fellow extra Siu-Fong (Idy Chan), but the star (Kenneth Tsang) wants her for his next extra-marital conquest.
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Gee and Gor
Title: Gee and Gor
Released: November 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Two fellows who make friends under the funniest circumstances cause a riot through a series of jobs that they take on and lose at an alarming rate.
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Lam Ah Chun
Title: Lam Ah Chun
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Looking for a job, Ah-chun is sent off into the countryside to a seemingly haunted mansion.
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Foxbat
Title: Foxbat
Character: Cheung
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
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The Discharged
Title: The Discharged
Character: Mental Prisoner 1691
Released: November 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Hong Kong action / crime / drama.
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The Clumsy Gambler
Title: The Clumsy Gambler
Character: Jimmy Chan
Released: November 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy
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The Simple-Minded Fellow
Title: The Simple-Minded Fellow
Released: August 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Hong Kong movie
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Body for Sale
Title: Body for Sale
Character: Ah Chung
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The Winner Takes All
Title: The Winner Takes All
Released: September 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Directed by Sum Cheung.
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Bald-Headed Betty
Title: Bald-Headed Betty
Released: September 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Poor Betty gets drugged and kidnapped at a teen beach party and finds herself in clutches of a sleazy prostitution ring. After trying to escape, her head is shaved as punishment. Soon enough, she's the star of the stable for all the local bald freaks.
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A Haunted House
Title: A Haunted House
Character: Lei I
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: Movie
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My Darling Slave
Title: My Darling Slave
Character: Lo Ah Fuk
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy film.
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The Crazy Instructor
Title: The Crazy Instructor
Released: June 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A bumbling martial arts teacher has the skills but lacks the confidence to use them. Run out of town by some ne'er-do-wells, he sets out on some comic adventures as he travels the countryside. Taking up some companions that are as bumbling as he is, the group seems to stumble into one misadventure after another. Will our hearty band eventually prove their worth with their skills and bring their enemies to justice?
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Adventure in Denmark
Title: Adventure in Denmark
Character: George - Tour Winner #2
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Two Chinese men go to Copenhagen for some reason. While one of them philanders around with various Danish and Asian women, the other falls in love with his Chinese tour guide, but takes time to have various drawn-out kung fu battles with a seemingly endless amount of thugs sent by his partner's overweight and very jealous girlfriend back home.
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The Money-tree
Title: The Money-tree
Character: Suzy's Boyfriend
Released: June 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy film.
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The Call-Girls
Title: The Call-Girls
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A story of female sex workers across all social strata.
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Tiger
Title: Tiger
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Hapkido Master Kim Jin Pal takes on a mass of Japanese bushido experts in occupied China Bolo plays Zatoichi hired by the Japanese as a last resort to take on the might of Kim's boot.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Released: March 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Two rival street gangs from Kowloon go to war over turf and bar girls so as to dominate the area and maximize their takings; however things go from bad to worse as the girls start to get involved in the bloody feud.
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3 Pussycats
Title: 3 Pussycats
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Hong Kong drama film.
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Black List
Title: Black List
Character: Ho
Released: November 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Two brothers, one wrongly accused of a crime, go on a mission of vengeance to find the men who framed him.
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Love and Blood
Title: Love and Blood
Released: July 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Hong Kong 1972. Shiu Pang is a poorly paid photographer with a very jealous fiancee. One day he meet an innocent girl and he falls in love with her. His fiancee decides to give a lesson to the young girl by sending a bunch of youngsters beating her and things goes worse and worse, the photographer's best friend dies in fighting the gangsters and the girl loses his mind, ending up in an asylum.
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Bus Stop
Title: Bus Stop
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
A gangster thriller.
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Maria
Title: Maria
Released: May 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Romantic tragedy based on John Lo Mar's story "Love Under the Cross".
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Social Characters
Title: Social Characters
Character: Tong Wong
Released: November 21, 1969
Type: Movie
The delinquent gang 'The Seven Brigands' consists of the unruly rich heir Peter Ko, sister Connie, classmates Lisa, B.B. Jane and sister Angel, Tommy and Tong Wong. The good-natured Peter and Lisa want to put the gang back on the right track, but with Lisa falling out with the group following a row, Peter reverts to his former self.
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The Secret Agent 303
Title: The Secret Agent 303
Character: scientist
Released: May 4, 1966
Type: Movie
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!
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Spy No. 13
Title: Spy No. 13
Character: Tong Kwong-kwan
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy number 13 Cheung Chi-ping. While Wu establishes a relationship with Sakei, the assistant general of the Japanese army, she also gets acquainted with Cheung. Cheung and Wu fall in love. Wu recommends Cheung to become Sakei's driver. Cheung pretends to court the Japanese spy Siu-kuen, but Siu-kuen arranges to kill the spies contacting with him. Cheung has seen through Kuen's identity for long. When Kuen is going to kill Wu, Cheung kills Kuen, Fan compels Wu to kill Cheung. Wu follows the instruction to murder Cheung. After the murder, Wu disappears. After the war, Fan discovers Wu ends up in asylum. When he visits Wu, he tells her of Cheung's innocence. This breaks Wu's heart. Cheung turns out to have seen through Wu's identity for a long time and pretended to have been killed to cover up his identity and facilitate his work. With the truth known and the war ended, Cheung and Wu married.
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Horror by the Sea
Title: Horror by the Sea
Character: Lee Cheng
Released: May 27, 1964
Type: Movie
HK horror film.
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Sweet Girl in Terror
Title: Sweet Girl in Terror
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Early Shaw Brothers thriller.