Derek Yee
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (43)
Rob N Roll
Producer (Production)
2024
Time Still Turns the Pages
Producer (Production)
2023
In Broad Daylight
Producer (Production)
2023
In Search of Lost Time
Director (Directing)
2022
Keep Rolling
2020
A Witness Out of the Blue
Producer (Production)
2019
Guilt by Design
Producer (Production)
2019
Kung Fu Monster
Producer (Production)
2018
Somewhere Beyond the Mist
Producer (Production)
2018
Sword Master
Director (Directing)
2016
I Am Nobody
as Himself
2016
The Vanished Murderer
Producer (Production)
2015
I Am Somebody
as Derek Yee
2015
Insanity
Producer (Production)
2015
Shanghai Noir
Producer (Production)
2015
The Bullet Vanishes
Producer (Production)
2012
The Great Magician
Director (Directing)
2011
Triple Tap
Screenplay (Writing)
2010
Overheard
Producer (Production)
2009
Shinjuku Incident
Director (Directing)
2009
Protégé
as Miu Chi Wah
2007
Drink-Drank-Drunk
Writer (Writing)
2005
2 Young
Director (Directing)
2005
Electric Shadows
Producer (Production)
2005
Crazy n' the City
Producer (Production)
2005
One Nite in Mongkok
Director (Directing)
2004
Lost in Time
Director (Directing)
2003
Inner Senses
Producer (Production)
2002
July Rhapsody
Producer (Production)
2002
A Fighter's Blues
Producer (Production)
2000
Double Tap
Producer (Production)
2000
The Truth About Jane and Sam
Director (Directing)
1999
Till Death Do Us Part
Producer (Production)
1998
My Dad Is a Jerk
Producer (Production)
1997
Viva Erotica
Writer (Writing)
1996
Stooge, My Love
1996
Lover's Tears
1996
Full Throttle
Director (Directing)
1995
Wong Fei Hung Series : The Eight Assassins
as Eight Assassins 1
1995
The True Hero
as Principal Chun
1994
Victory
as Ma Chi
1994
How Deep Is Your Love
1994
Hello! Who Is It?
as Supt [cameo]
1994
