Highest rated movie: July Rhapsody (2002)
Lowest rated movie: Heaven in the Dark (2016)
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Looking for reviews of Karena Lam Kar-Yan movies? Cinafilm has a total of 233 reviews across 11 movies.
Movies starring Karena Lam Kar-Yan have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.
July Rhapsody - released in 2002 - is Karena Lam Kar-Yan's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 13 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Karena Lam Kar-Yan is Heaven in the Dark - released in 2016 - with a score of 49% based on 2 reviews.
Karena was working at her Vancouver family restaurant when she was discovered by a talent scout from Taiwan in 1993, at age fifteen. The scout persuaded her to fly to Taiwan that Christmas, alone, for a singing audition in the hope of securing a professional contract. The audition was a success and she released two albums, her debut album in 1995 and her second album later in 1999. However both were met with modest success.
Her film debut in 2002 changed all this and propelled her to real stardom. Karena starred in three successful Hong Kong films in the same year, winning the awards of Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer for her role in July Rhapsody directed by Ann Hui (at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards) and for Inner Senses by Lo Chi Leung (at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards), gaining her recognition as a talented young actress and marking the start of her film career.
In recent months she has been taking on much more challenging roles, as witnessed in the 2005 horror film Home Sweet Home, where she plays an insane and horribly deformed "phantom" monster who kidnaps a boy from his genetic mother to claim as its own, and was nominated for major awards again.
Karena Lam Kar-Yan has acted in films with Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau, Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Chin Ka-Lok and Sammy Leung.
Karena Lam Kar-Yan has worked with these film directors: Nick Cheung Ka-Fai, Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu, Dante Lam Chiu-Yin and Herman Yau.
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