Derek Yee Tung-sing () is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor.

Early life

Yee was born Yee Tung-sing in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

on 28 December 1957, the son of Yee Kwong (), a film producer from Tientsin (Tianjin), and Hung Wei (), an actress of half

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ...

, half

Mongol Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family of M ...

ethnicity. His elder half-brothers Paul Chun and David Chiang as well as his elder half-sister Yim Wai were also actors.

Career

In 1977, Yee became an actor for

Shaw Brothers Studio Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited () was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011. In 1925, three Shaw brothers— Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shang ...

in Hong Kong and starred in over 40 movies produced by the studio. Yee became a screenwriter and film director. He is known for the 2004 film '' One Nite in Mongkok'', which won multiple awards. His other notable films include '' C'est la vie, mon chéri'', '' Viva Erotica'', ''

The Truth About Jane and Sam ''The Truth About Jane and Sam'' ( Chinese: 真心話; Simplified Chinese: 真心话) is a 1999 Hong Kong film co-produced by Hong Kong's Film Unlimited and Singapore's Raintree Pictures. Directed by Hong Kong director Derek Yee, the movie st ...

'' and ''

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''. In 2017, Yee became the chairman of Hong Kong Film Awards Association.

Filmography

As director and screenwriter

As actor

References

External links

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Hong Kong Film Awards Association

Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yee, Derek 1957 births Living people Hong Kong film directors Hong Kong male film actors Hong Kong people of Manchu descent Hong Kong people of Mongolian descent Hong Kong screenwriters Manchu male actors Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021 Shaw Brothers Studio 20th-century Hong Kong male actors 21st-century Hong Kong male actors