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03-03-2016 (8 years)
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Hong Kong, China
Biography
Ivan Lai Kai-Ming was born in 1955 as Kai-Ming Lai. He was a director, writer and producer, best known for his work in the Category III film field in the 90s Hong Kong, such as Daughter of Darkness (1993), Daughter of Darkness 2 (1994), The Imp (1996), The Peeping Tom (1997), Ancient Chinese Whorehouse (1994), Erotic Ghost Story III (1992). He passed away on March 3, 2016 in Hong Kong, China.
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The Banquet
event1991 star_border 5.5
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Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Daughter of Darkness
Director
event1993 star_border 5.8
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The police suspect a young teenager who was horrifically abused by her family and raped by her father of finally snapping and slaughtering them all.
Daughter of Darkness 2
Director
event1994 star_border 5.6
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Another gruesome case involving a woman who's a sole survivor of a brutal massacre. A local constable questions the woman about her whereabouts and what might have happened the night before. As he gets the young woman to talk, she spins a tale of debauchery, madness and people so vile that you wished that they'll never see daylight again. Why is this woman so reluctant to talk? Who else might be involved in this ghastly murder? How will this bumbling cop get any solid leads or useful clues from this shell shocked woman?
Ancient Chinese Whorehouse
Director
event1994 star_border 4.4
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Madam Five and carpenter Kong work together managing a famous whorehouse. Kong's apprentice Yat fails to get along with Ching due to a misunderstanding between them. Luckily, the appearance of a murderous rapist helps to resolve the misunderstanding between them. It also unites the group to defend against the sex maniac and to rebuild Madam Five's business at a new location.
The Imp
Director
event1996 star_border 5.4
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Shan is in search of her twin sister who disappeared leaving nothing more than a native doll. Along the way she meets a mobile film crew. They discover that something isn't quite right with the boarding house in which they're staying.
Love, Guns and Glass
Director
event1995
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Simon Yam, gang boss, turns himself in to the cops in order to spare his buddies. He spends ten long years in jail during which his no good wife gambles away all his money and raises his little daughter into an ungrateful slutty teen with an attitude. When he returns to his former life. He generously loans money to a high class gal, Cecilia Yip with financial troubles. His wife and daughter leave him. In despair over the mess he has made of his life, he proposes to Cecilia hoping to start over and go straight. In spite of their different class status, the two fall for each other and make a go of her failing factory.
A Fake Pretty Woman
Director
event1995 star_border 4
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An insecure waitress (Yvonne Yung Hung) who thinks all her problems will be solved if she has plastic surgery to become beautiful. Initially it actually does work. She becomes a model and starts dating a billionaire at once after her surgery.
Erotic Ghost Story III
Director
event1992 star_border 5.5
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A wanderer meets a monk with magical powers and becomes entranced by a mural of exquisite dancing women. He enters the painting, unaware of the conspiracy behind it, and must rescue the women who are trapped within.
The Peeping Tom
Director
event1997 star_border 5.1
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Roy Chen Chih Lai is a serial rapist and murderer with a leg fetish, and cuts off his victims' legs as trophies after he's through with them. One day at a bank robbery shootout, he catches police woman Cheng Hsuen on camera, and chooses her to be his next victim. He begins to stalk her and enter her personal life, even waiting for her inside her home. He notices her sister, Kelly, as well (who is also a cop), and her boyfriend, Ken. After he kidnaps and rapes Kelly, Cheng decides to lure the madman by using herself as bait, and bring justice to the situation.
The Blue Jean Monster
Director
event1991 star_border 6.1
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A cop gets buried under steel rebars while pursuing triad bank robbers through a construction site. He gets reanimated supernaturally and becomes invulnerable, but needs electricity to remain alive, and goes after the gang who killed him.
Walking Beside Me
Assistant Director
event1986 star_border 8
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Joey was at the age of twenty-two and she was an independent and cheerful girl. She worked in an advertising company and she met a boy named Chiu Kwok Chiao who had just returned from America. Chiu was at the age of twenty-four. He seemed childish, when he met Joey, he fell a victim to her beauty. After a period of time they were in a low spirit because Joey was more intelligent than Chiu. Lui Lai Ho was Joey's mother and she was forty years old.
Troublesome Night 9
Director
event2001 star_border 3
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Liu Ah Yee goes to the Bud household to worship the Buddha and to have her fortune told, but Mrs. Bud tells her it is not necessary. Ms. Liu is a compulsive gambler on the cruise ship Neptune, where Mrs. Bud's son, Pit, works, and he recognizes her. Pit has stretched the truth to his girlfriend, Moon Ah Say, about his job, so she thinks he's working in stocks, and she gets quite perturbed when he discovers that he is trying to help Ah Yee, who never wins, and whose grandmother, her only living relative, is dying. She returns to the Buds for help with her gambling, but Mrs. Bud gives her a egimen of alternatives to get her to stop gambling. Only after completing this regimen does Ms. Liu explain why gambling was so important to her.
Thank You Sir
Director
event1989 star_border 5.5
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Lee Ying, who is the chief inspector of Regional Crime Unit, is newly promoted to Royal Hong Kong Police Cadet School as Deputy Commandant. He confronts a group of youngsters of different social backgrounds, turning them into self-disciplinary and self-contained young men.
The King of Debt Collecting Agent
Director
event1999 star_border 4.3
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A debt collector leaves the loan shark company to start his own debt collection business, but his success is threatened when his old boss seeks revenge and competes with him in the same trade.
Boxer's Story
Director
event2004 star_border 4
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Wah Sang was a boxing champion seven years ago. He now works at a garage and cares for his seven-year-old son Henry. They live a small apartment and Wah spends much of his time gambling and drinking. Henry wants Wah, whom he addresses by that name him to return to boxing, but Wah is hesitant because he suffered a brain injury.
Feng Shui and Gambling
Director
event2001
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God.com
Director
event1998 star_border 3.5
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During an investigation into a mass murder with links to a doomsday cult, Officer Chan reluctantly enlists police occult expert Officer Chiu to help him solve the case. But during their investigation of the cult and its charismatic leader The Pope, they realize the killings may be related to a previous serial murder case, their own pasts, and the psychotic hypnotists in charge of it all may be preaching some truth...
Prison on Fire: Plaintive Destiny
Director
event2001 star_border 3
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The Jail having a new comer, Uncle Pui, he got life-time lock up since was charged murder his daughter. He was an owner of BBQ Shop, his daughter Man came from Mainland China, hooked up Pui's student Yat in a short time. But the truth is Man want to cheat all Yat's money. It makes Yat committed suicide. Pui was in great anger and killed Man…
The Kingdom of Mob
Director
event1999 star_border 4
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Hong Kong authorities dispatch a mob task force to investigate a troublesome official.
Iron Angels
Assistant Director
event1987 star_border 6.5
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Yeung’s poppy fields are torched by a law enforcement task force, she retaliates by ordering police officials assassinated. The Angels break into Yeung’s corporate offices, eventually tracing her headquarters. After Alex Fong’s character is captured and held by Yeung, the Angels mount an assault to rescue him. A complex sub-plot involving an armored car bullion robbery eventually leads the Angels to a final showdown with Yeung and her men.
Hot Blood Band
Producer
event2015
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To save a small business a group of outsiders decides to form a rock band.
Jail House Eros
Producer
event1989 star_border 5.9
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In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad ghost, in contrast to the good ghost who dies in a previous escape attempt. Finally, the chief warden, the interior decorators, Blackie and the good ghost come to an agreement. They would get the chief warden's girl friend, the exorcist, to banish the bad ghost. To leave quietly too are Blackie and the good ghost...
Final Justice
Producer
event1988 star_border 5.9
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A cop relies on a young car thief to take down four gangsters, who plan to rob a rich merchant for a large amount of money.
Beloved Daddy
Producer
event1984 star_border 9
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The trials and tribulations of men having just survived a divorce is told in this delightful comedy.
Royal Warriors
Assistant Director
event1986 star_border 6.8
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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.
The Comedy
Assistant Director
event1984 star_border 10
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A Mo Lai Tau (Nonsense Comedy) directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Dennis Yu.
The Imp
Assistant Director
event1981 star_border 6
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Keung has a pregnant wife but he has been unemployed for a long period. One day he gets a new job as a security guard in a commercial building. But strange incidents start happening and his colleagues die in horrible ways one by one. A geomancer tells Keung that he will be the next victim and teaches him how to avoid his fate. But Keung begins to notice his wife's strange behaviour...
Coolie Killer
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event1982 star_border 6.7
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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.
Sketch
Songs
event1983
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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.
Hong Kong Graffiti
Assistant Director
event1985
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Yang Hsiu Shan was grown up in Hong Kong and her folks were emigrated to Canada. She felt in love with her boss, Chen Kai Ping, and in order to set up her business. So she decided to stay in Hong Kong. Yang's sister-in-law, Luk Ping Ting, was emigrated from China and was living in her house. Both Yang and her room-mate, Chan Pei Lien, an air hostess, were taken care of her. In the meantime, Chen's daughter, Fong, came from Taiwan to visit him. She realized that Yang was kind to others and helpful to her father's business so she got to like her more. Luk and Chen had developed a secret love affair. Yang was stunned by the news and became to hate Luk. Yang, Fong, Chan and Luk finally became reconcile.
The Club
Assistant Director
event1981 star_border 6.7
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Mainly the story of Sai, a rascal who works at a gang-operated nightclub, and his conflicts with a rival gang.
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