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Simon Yam Tat-wah has starred in hundreds of films over his long career – some of them controversial for their sexual or violent content. Photo: SCMP
Simon Yam Tat-wah has starred in hundreds of films over his long career – some of them controversial for their sexual or violent content. Photo: SCMP
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
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What’s veteran Hong Kong actor Simon Yam’s most shocking X-rated film? Before hits like Young and Dangerous, Yam spent the 1990s making notoriously sexual and violent Category III flicks

  • Yam has appeared in over 200 Hong Kong films including The Mission, Bullet in the Head and Election, winning an award for Echoes of the Rainbow in 2010
  • He’s starred opposite Carina Lau, Donnie Yen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Jackie Cheung … but has also made scandalous movies like Naked Killer and Doctor Lamb

Douglas Parkes
Douglas Parkes

Updated: 5:21pm, 19 Mar, 2021

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Simon Yam Tat-wah has starred in hundreds of films over his long career – some of them controversial for their sexual or violent content. Photo: SCMP
Simon Yam Tat-wah has starred in hundreds of films over his long career – some of them controversial for their sexual or violent content. Photo: SCMP
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