Shaw Yin Yin
(Siu Yam Yam, Yum Yum Shaw, Shao Yin Yin)
Actress
Famed erotic star Shaw Yin Yin garnered attention during the 1970's with a glamorous
image and her willingness to appear fully nude onscreen.
Initially a singer, she performed in numerous historical dramas for the Shaw Brothers
studios with renowned directors such as Li Han Xiang and Lui Kei. In 1977 she promoted
one of her films at the Cannes film festival, leading to offers from America, an unheard of
feat for a Chinese star of adult films.
Her offscreen exploits have also been noteworthy. In 1996 her godson was sentenced to
two years prison time for slashing a friend's face in her home, and in 1999 she seriously
injured her own face in a home accident. She has also made news for admitting to plastic
surgery and was even a suspect in a jewel smuggling investigation.
Today Shaw Yin Yin still appears occasionally in films and public events. She is
interviewed at length in the award winning documentary Women's Private Parts and
is on the executive committee of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Guild.
In August 2002, Shaw Yin Yin attended the memorial service for another erotic actress,
Pauline Chan Bo Lin. After Leslie Cheung's suicide in 2003, she angrily criticized the
show business community for not doing more to prevent the tragedy. She said that his
good friends, such as Brigitte Lin and Anita Mui, should have alerted the HKPAG of
his problems, instead of learning of them after the fact as in the case of Pauline Chan.
Shaw Yin Yin made news again in 2004 when she donated ancient Chinese relics
including
a book of valuable imperial seals from a Qing dynasty emperor to a museum.
Shaw Yin Yin Filmography
1975 |
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1975 | Don't Call Me Uncle |
1975 | No End of Surprises |
1976 | Oriental Playgirls |
1976 | I Want More |
1976 |
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1976 | Love Swindlers |
1976 | Girls For Sale |
1976 | Big Bad Sis |
1977 | Moods of Love |
1977 | Return of the Con Men |
1977 | Mysterious Lady Killer |
1977 | The Deadly Angels |
1977 | The Romantic Scholar |
1977 | Murder On the Wedding Night |
1977 | Negotiation |
1977 | Warning For the Young |
1977 | The Lady Killer |
1977 | To Kill a Jaguar |
1977 | Starlets For Sale |
1977 | Last Strike 1 |
1977 | The Chinatown Kid |
1977 | The Mad Monk |
1978 | The Vengeful Beauty |
1978 | Delinquent Teenagers |
1978 | Black Society |
1978 | Sensual Pleasures |
1979 | The Scandalous Warlord |
1979 | Naughty Scandals |
1980 | A Haunted House |
1980 | The Stud and the Nymphs |
1981 | Sexy Career Girls |
1981 | Notorious Eight |
1982 | Green Killer (cameo) |
1982 | Passing Flickers |
1982 | Human Lanterns (Human Skin Lanterns) |
1982 | Buddha's Palm |
1983 | Tales of a Eunuch |
1983 | Top Fit |
1990 | Gangland Odyssey |
1993 | Forbidden Love |
1993 | Love Chaser |
1993 | Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday |
1994 | The Romance of the Vampires |
2001 | You Shoot, I Shoot |
2001 | Women's Private Parts 2 |
2003 | Eternal Flame of Fatal Attraction |
2003 |
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1 aka Kung Fu Avengers, aka Soul Brothers of Kung Fu
2 interviewed in documentary about women
Shaw Yin Yin -TV Credits
1982 |
Heaven's
Gate (ATV)
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