Riley Yip Kam Hung

Riley Yip

(Yip Kam Hung, Ip Kam Hung, Riley Ip)

Director, Screenwriter

In the oeuvre of HK Filmmaker Riley Yip Kam Hung, the one consistent theme is love.

Yip made his directorial debut in 1997 with the light hearted romance Love is Not a Game,

But a Joke, starring Andy Hui and Shu Qi. This was followed by Metade Fumaca, a

stylistic triad drama starring Nicholas Tse and Eric Tsang which earned Yip a HKFA Best

Screenplay nomination.

Shot on location in Hong Kong and France, Lavender is a lyrical romance about a winged

angel (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who befriends a pretty aromatherapy shop clerk (Kelly Chen).

Lavender was the first film in the history of Hong Kong cinema to employ smell technology

for theatre audiences, who were exposed to flowery scents during key scenes in the film.

Just One Look (2002) is a nostalgic 60's era youth drama starring Shawn Yu, Wong Yau

Nam and Twins' Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi which pays homage to Yip's childhood

and classic Hong Kong cinema.

Aromatherapy figures again in Riley Yip's 2004 release Elixir of Love, which stars Miriam

Yeung and Richie Ren as a pair in search of a precious perfume in turn of the century China.

Riley Yip Filmography

1997	Love is Not a Game, But a Joke (co-wr, dir)
1999	Metade Fumaca (wr, dir) 1
2000	Lavender (wr, dir)
2002	Just One Look (wr, dir)
2004	Elixir of Love (wr, dir)

1 aka Half Smoked

Hong Kong Film Awards

Best Screenplay Nominations- Riley Yip Kam Hung

1999 Metade Fumaca