A director from Guangdong, Richard Yeung had been an assistant director for years, working for such helmers as Mo Kang Shi and Chu Yuan. He was promoted to director in 1967 with ‘Lady in Pink’, and later directed two of the most popular erotic films of the era, ‘Lucky Seven’ and its sequel ‘Lucky Seven Strikes Again’. Yeung joined Goldig Films in 1972 and helmed ‘The Country Bumpkin’, ‘Don’t Call Me Uncle’, ‘Hot Blood’, and ‘Their Private Lives’. He then signed with Shaw Brothers in 1981 and debuted with ‘Hell Has No Boundary’, followed by ‘Seeding of a Ghost’, ‘My Darling Genie’ and ‘Twisted Passion’. He started his own company in 1983 and made ‘The Drummer’, starring Leslie Cheung. Yeung’s works in the 90s include ‘The Revenge of Angel’ and ‘Candlelight’s Woman’. He settled in the United States with his wife in his later years and died in New York on May 30, 2012, at the age of 81.
(Source: Celestial)