Yim Ho Movies

Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this...

Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.

With World War II looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while...

Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's...

Coral, a Hong Kong woman tortured by city life, went back to her home town to visit her two old friends. They all found that some precious things in...

Aggie is suffering a great pain after the death of her Grandmother. She has no one else so she moves in with her Godmother and her son, Louie. Aggie...

The last episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978), unfortunately, was banned by the authorities until its initial...

When impoverished young bride Youyou (Zhang) collapses from hunger at the door of handsome buccaneer Pan Hao (You Yong), he immediately decides to...

One episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “CID” series based on real murder incidents in Hong Kong

Xiao Yu (Zhou), a barista and cake maker in a teahouse-café by Westlake in Hangzhou. Since a car crash long ago, she had been leading a...

A group of teenagers stop at a service station after a leaving a disco. In a fight resulting from their inability to pay, the staff on duty are...

Guan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. The alleged murderer whom Guan Jian accuses of the crime is his own mother.

A romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Yim Ho.

The third episode of the Hong Kong reclaimed “Social Worker” series (1976), which showed the ecology of marginalized teenagers and their...

The second story of “Two Stories” from Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” series (1978)

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...

Two Stories “Water” kicked off with the Cantonese tune of Raindrops Beating on the Banana Leaves, a symbolic hint on the tragic outcome...

The fourth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978), with three short stories combined

About the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.

Lau may love to indulge in a bit of alcohol and womanizing, but he's also a serious writer who's respected by his colleagues in the cultural world....