Li Enlin

Not to be confused with Lee Lam Yan.

Lee Yan-Lam is a Hong Kong film producer and financial director. He participated in the production of films directed by Ann Hui, including Summer Snow and A Simple Life. The latter was adapted from the true story of him and his family's amah, Chung Chun-tao.

Background

Lee was born at Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas) in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. His mother was a teacher. He loved film from an early age. After graduating from high school, his whole family emigrated to the United States. He attended Primary 1 through Primary 5 at St. Francis of Assisi's English Primary School, then transferred to Diocesan Preparatory School for Primary 6. At Diocesan Boys’ School, he was classmates with Hong Kong film director Lawrence Lau Kwok-Cheong. Following his father’s advice, he majored in international marketing at the University of Oregon. After returning to Hong Kong, he joined Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and became involved in film production.

When Sister Peach passed away, Lee devoted himself to managing her funeral arrangements, leaving his grief unexpressed. As he approached the age of 60, he felt the need to release this pressure and was suddenly inspired to write the outline for the film A Simple Life, which later became a critically acclaimed movie directed by Ann Hui. He later extended the concept into a memoir titled A Simple Life and I.

Television Works

• 198? – The Enforcer (RTHK), assistant director
• 198? – Drama episode Warming Series: Solving Pregnancy (RTHK), director
• 1986 – Drama episode Warming Series: Traces in the Wind (RTHK), director
• 2013-01-20 – Golden Era, Episode 3: Sister and Paco (RTHK), writer-director
• 2013-01-27 – Golden Era, Episode 4: Sister and Me (RTHK), writer-director

Filmography

• 1986 – Escape from Coral Cove, music score
• 1987 – City Girl, planning
• 1989 – Endless Love, producer
• 1989 – A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon, producer? cameo (Vietnamese war doctor)
• 1991 – Once Upon a Time in China, executive producer
• 1991 – A Chinese Ghost Story III, executive producer
• 1994 – The Final Option, executive producer
• 1995 – Summer Snow, creative director
• 1997 – The Soong Sisters
• 1997 – Kitchen, executive producer
• 1997 – Hearts Against Hearts
• 1998 – City of Glass
• 2007 – Blood Brothers, executive producer
• 2008 – Red Cliff (Part I), financial director
• 2009 – Red Cliff (Part II), financial director
• 2011 – A Simple Life, story, co-writer, producer, financial director
• 2017 – Our Time Will Come, producer

Books

The memoir A Simple Life and I was published on 14 March 2012.