Derek Yee

Derek Yee
Chinese name	爾冬陞 (traditional)
Chinese name	尔冬升 (simplified)
Pinyin	Ěr Dōngshēng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Yee5 Tung1 Sing1 (Cantonese)
Born	(1957-12-28) 28 December 1957 (age 59) British Hong Kong
Parents	Yee Kwong 爾光 Hong Wei 紅薇
Ancestry	Tianjin
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director 1994 C'est la vie, mon chéri 2005 One Nite in Mongkok Best Screenplay 1994 C'est la vie, mon chéri 2005 One Nite in Mongkok Golden Bauhinia Awards Best Director 2005 One Nite in Mongkok Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best Director 1995 Full Throttle 2004 One Nite in Mongkok Film of Merit 1995 Full Throttle 2003 Lost in Time 2004 One Nite in Mongkok 2007 Protégé 2009 Shinjuku Incident

Derek Yee Tung-sing (traditional Chinese: 爾冬陞; simplified Chinese: 尔冬升; pinyin: Ěr Dōngshēng; Jyutping: Yee5 Tung1 Sing1), born in 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.

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