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Derek Yee (b. 1957)

Alias:
Derek Yee
Yee Tung-Shing
尔冬升
爾冬陞
이동승

Birthplace:
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Born:
December 28, 1957

Biography from TheMovieDB

Derek Yee Tung-sing (Chinese: 爾冬陞, born 28 December 1957), is a former Shaw Brothers actor from Hong Kong, currently a film director and screenwriter, who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international film festival circuits for treading carefully commercial viability concerns with artistic integrity. He is the younger half-brother of famed Hong Kong actors Paul Chun and David Chiang, the latter also a former Shaw Brothers star. Yee has starred in over 40 movies in Hong Kong between 1975 and 1986, during the time when Shaw Brothers Studio were still producing movies. Since then Yee turned to screenwriting and directing and has made a career out of making films like C'est la vie, mon chéri, Viva Erotica and The Truth About Jane and Sam and also gritty dramas like One Night in Mongkok and Protégé. Derek Yee was a former boyfriend of Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1986  The Lunatics
1987  People's Hero
1989  The Bachelor's Swan Song
1993  C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
1995  Full Throttle
1996  Viva Erotica
1999  The Truth About Jane and Sam
2003  Lost in Time
2004  One Nite in Mongkok
2005  2 Young
2005  Drink-Drank-Drunk
2007  Protégé
2009  Shinjuku Incident
2010  Triple Tap
2011  The Great Magician
2015  I Am Somebody
2016  Sword Master
2022  In Search of Lost Time

Producer:
1986  The Lunatics
1987  People's Hero
1989  The Bachelor's Swan Song
1993  C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
1995  Full Throttle
1996  Viva Erotica
1997  My Dad Is a Jerk
1998  Till Death Do Us Part
1999  The Truth About Jane and Sam
2000  A Fighter's Blues
2000  Double Tap
2002  Inner Senses
2002  July Rhapsody
2003  Lost in Time
2004  One Nite in Mongkok
2005  2 Young
2005  Crazy n' the City
2005  Drink-Drank-Drunk
2005  Electric Shadows
2007  Protégé
2009  Overheard
2009  Shinjuku Incident
2010  Triple Tap
2011  The Great Magician
2012  The Bullet Vanishes
2015  I Am Somebody
2015  Insanity
2015  Shanghai Noir
2015  The Vanished Murderer
2016  Sword Master
2018  Kung Fu Monster
2018  Somewhere Beyond the Mist
2019  A Witness Out of the Blue
2019  Guilt by Design
2022  In Search of Lost Time
2023  In Broad Daylight
2023  Time Still Turns the Pages
2024  Rob N Roll

Screenplay:
1986  The Lunatics
1987  People's Hero
1989  The Bachelor's Swan Song
1993  C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
1995  Full Throttle
1996  Viva Erotica
1997  My Dad Is a Jerk
1998  Till Death Do Us Part
1999  The Truth About Jane and Sam
2000  A Fighter's Blues
2000  Double Tap
2002  Inner Senses
2002  July Rhapsody
2003  Lost in Time
2004  One Nite in Mongkok
2005  2 Young
2005  Crazy n' the City
2005  Drink-Drank-Drunk
2005  Electric Shadows
2007  Protégé
2009  Overheard
2009  Shinjuku Incident
2010  Triple Tap
2011  The Great Magician
2012  The Bullet Vanishes
2015  I Am Somebody
2015  Insanity
2015  Shanghai Noir
2015  The Vanished Murderer
2016  Sword Master
2018  Kung Fu Monster
2018  Somewhere Beyond the Mist
2019  A Witness Out of the Blue
2019  Guilt by Design
2022  In Search of Lost Time
2023  In Broad Daylight
2023  Time Still Turns the Pages
2024  Rob N Roll

Story:
1986  The Lunatics
1987  People's Hero
1989  The Bachelor's Swan Song
1993  C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
1995  Full Throttle
1996  Viva Erotica
1997  My Dad Is a Jerk
1998  Till Death Do Us Part
1999  The Truth About Jane and Sam
2000  A Fighter's Blues
2000  Double Tap
2002  Inner Senses
2002  July Rhapsody
2003  Lost in Time
2004  One Nite in Mongkok
2005  2 Young
2005  Crazy n' the City
2005  Drink-Drank-Drunk
2005  Electric Shadows
2007  Protégé
2009  Overheard
2009  Shinjuku Incident
2010  Triple Tap
2011  The Great Magician
2012  The Bullet Vanishes
2015  I Am Somebody
2015  Insanity
2015  Shanghai Noir
2015  The Vanished Murderer
2016  Sword Master
2018  Kung Fu Monster
2018  Somewhere Beyond the Mist
2019  A Witness Out of the Blue
2019  Guilt by Design
2022  In Search of Lost Time
2023  In Broad Daylight
2023  Time Still Turns the Pages
2024  Rob N Roll

Writer:
1981  The Legend of the Owl
1986  The Lunatics
1987  People's Hero
1989  The Bachelor's Swan Song
1993  C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
1995  Full Throttle
1996  Viva Erotica
1997  My Dad Is a Jerk
1998  Till Death Do Us Part
1999  The Truth About Jane and Sam
2000  A Fighter's Blues
2000  Double Tap
2002  Inner Senses
2002  July Rhapsody
2003  Lost in Time
2004  One Nite in Mongkok
2005  2 Young
2005  Crazy n' the City
2005  Drink-Drank-Drunk
2005  Electric Shadows
2007  Protégé
2009  Overheard
2009  Shinjuku Incident
2010  Triple Tap
2011  The Great Magician
2012  The Bullet Vanishes
2015  I Am Somebody
2015  Insanity
2015  Shanghai Noir
2015  The Vanished Murderer
2016  Sword Master
2018  Kung Fu Monster
2018  Somewhere Beyond the Mist
2019  A Witness Out of the Blue
2019  Guilt by Design
2022  In Search of Lost Time
2023  In Broad Daylight
2023  Time Still Turns the Pages
2024  Rob N Roll

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Creator:
????  中国力量 China Power

Director:
2008  C'est La Vie, Mon Chéri
????  中国力量 China Power

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