Ching-Ying Lam

Country: Hong Kong
Total Credits at Criticker: 62 (Actor), 2 (Director)
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When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it... (imdb)
Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally retarded brother... (imdb)
A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires. (imdb)
A ghost sucks the life-force out of a one of Uncle Nine's student. The other is slowly turned into a vampire... (imdb)
Husker joins forces with the legendary Shaolin monk Brother Tak, and the two embark on a no-holds-barred, eyeball-gouging, back-flipping rampage of kung fu and death.
Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing play dual roles as both masters and students of the sword and spear styles of kung fu. Comic mayhem ensues when the students get kidnapped and the masters must rescue them.
Leung Jan is a young martial artist from a wealthy family. He has fought over three hundred times in Foshan and won every fight, but his opponents are being bribed to lose. This has caused Jan to believe that he is a world-class fighter, but in truth he hasn't even mastered the basics of kung fu and any real fighter could easily defeat him. Everyone knows this but him, giving him the nickname "The Prodigal Son" behind his back.
Beloved for its combination of thrilling combat choreography and hilarious physical comedy, the film tells the story of a humble cashier who discovers a plot to kill his small town mayor. (imdb)
An action film about a daring commando raid into Vietnam to destroy a munitions dump left behind by American marines. (imdb)
Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient Chinese vampire who can only be controlled by a series of yellow tapes... (imdb)
Courageous Cheung (Sammo Hung) has a reputation for taking on any dare, no matter how foolish it may be, in order to prove his unabashed bravery. Though his friends often take advantage of his misguided machismo by luring him into dubious dares in which they attempt to scare him and laughingly ridicule him, Cheung is placed in very real danger after the Master -- the man his wife is having an affair with -- hires an evil Taoist priest to kill him in what Cheung at first considers a routine test of bravery. (All Movie Guide)
The main character (Sammo) is obsessed with Bruce Lee and emulates him freakishly well for a man of his size. Nominal story about how his fighting keeps causing his loved ones trouble - then fighting... (IMDB Comments)
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs. (imdb)
A young man turns to the Fat Master (Hung) after being kicked out of a pair of Kung Fu schools run by rival brothers. When a pair of evil masters come to town looking for revenge, the young man must use everything he's learned from his three recent masters to stop the killing.
Multi-Hand Chick asks Crazy Frog for protection after stealing someone's wallet at the casino. Foolishly he accepts, and even more foolishly he follows her home and removes his Invincible Armor when she pretends to be willing to sleep with him. Of course she steals it, and when he tries to follow her, he's stopped by Dirty Tiger who is on a mission to bring Crazy Frog back to his wife. However, Dirty Tiger would really like to have that armor himself... (imdb)
Modern grave robbing "archeologists" find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman... (imdb)
A telephone salesman trying to maintain his marriage suddenly finds himself mixed up with two killers after witnessing a murder.
During the Japanese occupation, corrupt officials track down and eventually capture a Korean resistance leader. His top three students then attempt to rescue him in northeast China, using a resistance member list as bait.
You Feng (Joey Wong) -- a beautiful spirit trapped between heaven and hell -- disguises herself as a painted concubine to escape the torment of the Demon King. While she roams the mortal world, the king wreaks havoc on earth. Her only hopes for freedom come from a learned scholar (Adam Cheng) and a benevolent monk (Sammo Hung). Together, the trio takes on the ultimate evil in this haunting horror fantasy from King Hu. (Netflix)
A guileless martial arts student competes with an evil sorcerer for the love of his intended, and it isn't long before the grudge match turns really ugly. Far-out supernatural hijinks--kung-fu zombies, warrior ghosts, vampires, and much, much more--quickly ensue. (www.rottentomatoes.com)
Leung Chun-Yau must uncover the identity of a deadly martial arts killer before it's too late.
The Thai government hires group of Chinese mercenaries to capture powerful drug lord from Golden Triangle. In the process, their leader must not only keep his men from being killed, but also his only son.
Pauline Wong plays an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who alienates a gang of drunken men (led by Shing Fui-on). They tail her after her shift, and mount a gang assault. She attempts to enlist the aid of her former brother-in-law (Lam) - an ex-triad now confined to a wheelchair. A lounge owner in HK, he hires her as a waiter and finds her a place to live, but refuses to help in her quest for vengeance. She, however, has other ideas.
SCHOOL ON FIRE begins with a violent murder committed by some school children/teenagers after a fist fight and chase. It soon turns out that the school is inhabited and terrorized by a bunch of (young) triad gangsters who try to seduce teenagers to join them and to begin a criminal life rather than studying and becoming a potentially good citizen. (imdb comments)
The maiden voyage of a glamorous new express train from Shanghai, called "The Millionaires Express", has a little more excitement than was planned for the high government officials, wealthy merchants and their wives, who make up most of the passengers. (imdb)
"Vampire Buster" Lam Ching-Ying returns as Master Gao in this vampire-filled adventure. Here, he joins forces with his colleagues in ridding the world of restless ghosts, and he, himself, does battle with dozens of jumping Chinese vampires and creepy-looking zombies. Meanwhile, he must also deal with his corrupted senior colleague and a beautiful female ghost, who befriended his two pupils. (imdb)
Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral services. When the body Ma Lun Chio is brought back to the village by a new wife and her "brother", Wai Li is suspicious. He sets out to find out how his friend died, but things are not what they seem. (imdb)
Cynthia Rothrock helps to protect a Buddhist boy from villains who wish to stop him from becoming the Prince of the Sun.
The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks like an oridinary robot, Pioneer 2 has been modelled on Maria, the gang's #2 thug. When Pioneer 2 gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast gang member, an inventor on the police force takes her and changes some of her programming. This new code, plus a few injuries to her logic center, start causing Pioneer 2 to develop her own personality.
Lam Ching-Ying returns as the famous "Vampire Buster," this time starring as the One-Eyebrown Priest. To save the village from paranormal menaces, he deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous Chinese vampire; a lustful female ghost; the spirit of a woman murdered by a club owner and a European vampire and his blood-sucking pet bats. (imdb)
When two Hong Kong buddies become rivals for the same woman, their friendship ends, and they join rival tong gangs. Later, a tong boss cleverly conspires to use a motion picture company to cover illegal drug trafficking: Actresses are sent to Amsterdam for film roles not realizing that they carry cocaine shipments. Once in Holland, the actresses are sold into prostitution. Soon the faux film company shanghais the woman who put the two friends at odds. (imdb)
The film is another Chinese vs. Japanese movie and is set during the early years of the Republic of China. Ying (Pei Pei) is a patriotic young woman who goes undercover to try and find out where a student revolutionary leader called Choi (James Tien) is being imprisoned. Coming up against the invading Japanese and their puppet government, she works her way into the favor of Lui, the Peking Bureau Chief of Security (Ou Wei) by pretending to be his long lost younger sister. (kungfucinema.com)
For noble college and kung-fu student Yen Tzu-fei (played by experienced matinee idol Ling Yun), there can be no forgiveness or mercy, as an unscrupulous Japanese financier's sordid family literally rapes and pillages everything Yen holds dear. It's a fight to the finish against both his oppressors and their even more venal collaborators. (hkcinemagic.com)
Expelled by a band of restless ghosts in his village, Taoist Priest Mao Ming, and his two spirit companions, visit another village to seek wealth. There, Ming meets Master Gau, the "Vampire Buster," who is trying to defeat an evil Sorceress and her henchmen, whose goal is to conquer the human race. As Ming and his ghost companions part ways, they are later attacked by the Sorceress. As a result, Ming joins forces with Gau [...] (imdb)
Master Lam and his two disciples must battle a horde of Chinese vampires in order to get the teeth dust needed to cure an ailing general. Meanwhile, the general's wife is pregnant, and the evil spirit of an aborted baby wants to possess the unborn child's body for its resurrection. (imdb)
Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two movie stunt actors in Hong Kong and are suspicious of Lung's father Chiu's mysterious behavior. Unbeknownst to them, Chiu was commissioned as a "messenger" by the Spirit World to take newly-departed souls to the other side. When Tak suffers a major accident on the movie set, Chiu keeps Tak's soul from being taken away, thereby, reviving him. [...] (imdb)
A Chinese reporter seeks the identity of a masked crime-fighter, who is someone close. (moviefone)
1000 years before our time: Master Cho-Lo, a Taoist priest (Lam Ching-Ying) and his two understudies go on a quest to fight an evil Japanese demon. When the Taoist priest and his two helpers impose a ritual on the demon, they're all thrown into a time vortex and finally find themselves in modern day Hong Kong. Now the fight continues - in a different time and with many new problems... (Letterboxd)
A Tao Priest, Master Tien Kuei, and his family provide shelter to the spirit of a young woman, struck down by lightening, until she is ready to reincarnate. However, the ghost is forced into hiding when Tien Kuei's colleague, Master Tien Lung, known for his unforgiving disposition in capturing any ghost or demon he encounters, visits the family with his daughter after a long journey... (imdb)
Two feuding families brag about their sons on christening day. One, called Long-Life, is destined to die early, while Sing, the other, will do well. Twenty years pass. Long-life has survived, and he fancies pretty Hsio. In a scene stolen from My Life As A Dog, he spies on her in the shower, falls through the roof, kisses her as he lands..... but then her spirit leaves her body. Having died naked, Hsio wanders around sans clothing, and is dubbed the Shy Ghost by other spirits she meets... (hkmdb.com)
A resort owner bribes an official with sex with his starlet in return for planning approval, but the starlet is electocuted and disfigured. Desperate, the resort owner kills another girl, who is then skinned by a taoist, who uses it as a transplant for the starlet. The murdered girl's body must be ritually buried near the sea, and not disturbed for three days, else her spirit will seek revenge. But her body is disturbed by a group of frolicking horny teenagers..... (hkmdb.com)
In Canton, the master of a kung fu school dies and his seemingly lazy and undeserving son, Fei-hong, inherits. In the British commercial sector, an opium den opens with the bribed approval ... (imdb)
A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. The only thing that can somewhat control it is the sound of music. A Tao Priest and his two... (imdb)
This movie follows in the same spirit as Mr. Vampire, Dead and the deadly and Spooky encounters, mixing comedy and horror! (themoviedb)
In the 18th century, the Manchurian Ch'ings are intent on closing the Shaolin temple, where Hong Zhi-Guan is a leader. (imdb)
Shanghai is now in the 1920s. Pop's troupe of all female leads is struggling. Pop calls on Tsui to join him in the hope of her fighting sequences will pull the troupe out from imminent close-down. This enrages the actresses who are already quarreling among themselves. However, they come together with godfather Chang, who has favour to one of them. Young Lu and his friends are new generation of underworld toughs. They resist Chang's invasion because Chang deals in narcotics... (hkcinemagic.com)
Our two young heroes, Little Chili and Embroidered Pillow, go to the aid of millionaire Lin whose beautiful daughter Sylvia Lin has disappeared in San Francisco without a trace. The pair find employment as waiters in a restaurant owned by a Chinese businessman. However they soon lose their job after tangling with a group of teddy boys from one of the street gangs.... (hkcinemagic.com)
A doofus wins the lottery. He and his best friend live it up until a fortune teller tells him that he's going to die. So, the doofus goes to the doctor and after a mix-up his fears come true so he hires a money hungry hitman. The fun begins!! (imdb)
The end of the reign of the Manchus sees the confinement of the Emperor Pu Yi to the Forbidden City and the dissolution of his court. Court officials and the once-powerful eunuchs leave Peking and spread across the countryside. In a village in the Shantung Province, Lai Shi, the nine-year-old son of a poor family, decides to be a eunuch. Lai Shi does not comprehend the dramatic forces of republicanism and revolution that are sweeping the vast country. (hkcinemagic.com)
Britain uncle will tread the will to seize the ghost to study opens Zong Li the faction, will have the apprentice to follow. Britain uncle goes all out to save money the concurrent job protect guard, as soon as is dispatched waits for the development the old room guard ...... Britain uncle seizes the opportunity ? the apprentice to move in collects rent. Winsome is precisely several hundred years ago the model concubine, thousand is suffered by the malicious ghost husband. (hkcinemagic.com)
The story of Beijing Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students. (imdb)
Two halves of a treasure map owned by two brothers is the one thing that the Golden Dragon Gang wants to get, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way. (hkcinemagic)
AKA Hurricane Sword
Fairly obscure Taiwanese Swordplay with a very slight fantasy edge to it. (The Movie Database)
Two men each possess half of a treasure map, but over the years, their greed has prevented either from actually finding the treasure. But it seems that they may now be too late, as a third man plots to steal the treasure right out from under them. (The Movie Database)
Shin and Chiang are happy-go-lucky partners investigating a particularly notorious crime syndicate. Unfortunately, Shin's Mainland relatives -- Cha Chiang and his beautiful sibling Cha Shi (Loletta Lee Lai-chun) -- decide to drop by. While Chiang insists on accompanying his cousin on the job, Shin starts to make eyes with Shi. Meanwhile, Chiang runs into his ex-girlfriend Nancy (Bonnie Fu Yuk-ching). When Nancy witnesses a gangland hit, she and everyone around her are threatened by the mob. (letterboxd)
My Darling Gals aka Kung Fu Stars is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Sammo Hung. Top kung fu stars team up in this rare excinting Triad flick. it's turf wars and Control of kowloon's Ho's that spings the gangs into vilent kung fu kicking action. (Wu Tang Collection)
In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later
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When a Catholic church in a small Chinese town falls prey to an evil combing the powers of Western and Chinese vampires, Taoist priest Uncle Nine (Lam Ching Ying) and Catholic priest Wu (Wu Ma) must overcome religious and cultural differences in order to defeat the vampire. (imdb)
Gold Tortoise is troubled that fairies are having such fun in heaven while people on earth are dying from drought.
Lam Ching Ying is a Taoist wizard who goes to Thailand to help defeat a pair of black magic criminals (Billy Chow and Tsui Man Wah) using huge Taoist charms and good, old-fashioned blood of a black dog. Afterwards, "a fiendish wizard steals the bodies of the two criminals. He anoints them with the sperm of 99 satyrs and the blood collected from the menstrual flow of 99 bitches. (themoviedb.org)