Derek Yee

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 the Hong Kong actors Paul Chun and David Chiang, the latter is also a former Shaw Brothers star.

Yee has starred in over 40 movies in Hong Kong. This was 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 producing films such as 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.