James Lee
While investigating a murder that happened 10 years ago in their school, a group of girls are being haunted by supernatural events. They reveal the things that have happened & the curses around them.
A musician decides to goes off the grid after the sudden passing of his girlfriend. He moves into a vacant house and plans to take his own life until a ghost interferes.
In this homage to Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) sci-fi time travelling short film involves a woman novelist being visited by a scientist from he future, claiming to be her husband.
Following a girl's release from an asylum, she is reunited with her older sister and together they return to their abandoned family home. However, the two sisters harbour a dark and tragic family secret, which begins to unfold after their return.
Starring Michael Chin in a one versus two assailants, part of a continuing fight short film series.
An experimental travelogue film that follows K a traveler and his encounter with the girl that he met last year, except, she claims she's not her.
Zhang a middle aged man struggling with a dead end job as an insurance sales person, on the verge of divorce with his wife, losing custody of her daughter and on top of all this he had to take care of his father who's suffering Alzheimer's. Unknowingly Zhang was invited to join an underground fighting game for financial purposes but eventually Zhang becomes hooked on the fights and turns professional.
The story follows two high school best friends, Sam and Cassie nearing the end of the term. Cassie admires a school mate John. And when John enters Cassie's life, the girls relationship takes an unexpected turn.
Three former high school best friends gather for a steamboat dinner just to catch up. As the dinner went on into the night with beers and wine thrown in things get complicated as one of them has a hidden secret that no one wants to know in their present situation.
This is a branded short film for Platinum Victory a property management service company. In conjunction with Valentines Day we've written a romantic love story set in their apartment where the manager of the management team Wilson and his encounter with a new tenant Hui Ling.
A flu like infection has taken over KL which turns into a zombie outbreak as we follow three intersecting stories of the survivors fleeing for safety.
Jane is unsure of her relationship with James, so with a little bit of advice and help from her mom will Jane be confidence enough to continue the relationship and find true love?
JRaymond an office drone who had no luck with women finally met Cindy in an online dating website, unknown to him Cindy is a cannibal. Will he becomes her true love and convert her into a vegetarian?
Every child deserves a bright future, but not every child can have a bright future. Follow the story of Siew Fang, a girl with big dreams but with even bigger responsibilities towards her family. She is faced with the ultimate test when she has to choose between her studies and her family.
Jay, a lonely coffee barista who works only the night shift encounters Eva who had just broke off with her boyfriend and also lost her cat.
After losing his wife to illness, an old man, feeling lost and alone, decides to go for a walk, with no idea of where his destination might be. Along the way, he encounters a feisty taxi driver and her peculiar housemate, and an unlikely relationship develops between the three of them, reinvigorating the old man’s hunger for life, love and good duck rice.
A dark drama about the relationship between a high school student and his young tutor. When the boy is being punished for not doing his homework, he starts to develop affection for the teacher until he realizes the teacher herself maybe just like him is another victim of torment and bullying.
Siew Fang, a girl with big dreams but with even bigger responsibilities towards her family. She is faced with the ultimate test when she has to choose between her studies and her family.
A story that explore the relationship between two young couple from a small town and when they moved to the city. How the two of them eventually grew apart wihtout knowing why.
A dark time-travel love story about Joe, a directionless youth whose life and ambitions are saved by the beautiful Yen, who claims she has mysterious ties to another dimension. Joe is both intrigued and frightened by the strange woman, but she nonetheless guides the unstable young man to take control of his own fate.
Life seems to be normal for the two protaganists a woman whose husband suddenlty decides to kill her and a man who woke up with no clue what had happened, even though not related but the incident will put them two together in the same trail.
An exhausted doctor with years of experiences in abortion surgery are caught in a quirky conversation with his patient, a struggling feminist novelist. From the conversation both manages to discovered something about each other and themselves.
Auto Kid, who is a seasoned mechanic just like his father and grandfather, grew up in the garage. He often witness lost spirit taking shelter under an automobile, which in turn, causes the vehicle to have an unexplainable breakdown. As he gradually develops the ability to fix cars by returning the spirits to their world, he becomes known for his mysterious skill.
A woman hires a pair of spiritual medium to help her to communicate with her recently deceased husband who was killed in an auto accident.
A girl sends her old SLR camera to a reclusive camera repair master. In the course of getting the camera to be fix, the girl develops a special relationship with the master.
Four girls break into an abandoned bathroom at their University one night as part of their class assignment on urban legends. The story goes as saying that a young woman disappeared there. The girls discover a pink digital camera and one of them decides to take it home for further analysis. Strange things begin to happen; a phone calls from a mysterious voice under heavy static urging them to “delete”.
Set in one night in a spooky basketball courtyard. A young man arrived to have a game with his friends when he received a call to tell him the game was cancelled. The young man decided to shoot some hoops on his own since he’s already there. But something else is going to join him and play a very different game.
The Short film was funded by Microsoft Malaysia which takes a lighthearted look at how modern IT related technology have influenced a contemporary Chinese household in Malaysia.
A short film about a lonely middle aged landlord who rented a room to a couple. The landlord begins to develop an interest to the tenant's young girlfriend and starts creeping into her life.
This is a proof of concept short film of an original feature length screenplay.
The Collector is a martial arts action comedy from James Lee starring Sunny Pang.
A gang is interrogating a man, while waiting for their supper. But it'll be the gang's last supper as SUNNY PANG pays them a visit with guns blazing.
If It’s Not Now, Then When? mostly takes place in an apartment inhabited by three members of a family (though never at the same time): mother Pearlly Chua (from Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone), daughter Tan Bee Hung and young son Kenny Gan. Their father seems recently to have died. The mother leaves early and returns late, out on long walks in the park with a lover whom the daughter and her best friend try to spy on. The daughter pecks away at a computer at work and has a desultory affair with her married boss, which he carries on between his business and family phone calls. And the son breaks into cars and “recycles” the electronics he finds.
Rama is a supervisor who is looking for a driver at the last minute to deliver out of town. He manages to get Ah Meng and Bakri to do the task with additional overtime and bonus. The only catch is that they have to deliver a Chinese-style large wooden coffin on time. For the extra money, the two men take on the job and travel in the van through the quiet expressway. During the journey, the delivery van's radio player gets busted. To kill time, both men begin to tell ghost stories which they declare as genuine. Bakri starts off the ghost stories from his kampung that involves a young man and a banana tree spirit.
Naive yet kind Bob moves to a new apartment and falls in love with a peculiar woman named Maya. Maya who lives with her sister, harbours a secret and other around her are beginning to suspect that she just might just be a vampire.
Mrs. Chew and her three daughters run a small but flourishing restaurant. Most of the customers come for the house specialty: Homemade Curry - cooked from an old family recipe. Nobody suspects that the special ingredient that turns Mrs Chew's curry from standard fare into a gourmet's delight is human flesh!
Fifteen short films with socio-economic subject matter by 15 directors of Malaysia's "New Wave" and "No Wave." 15Malaysia is a short film project. It consists of 15 short films made by 15 Malaysian filmmakers. These films not only deal with socio-political issues in Malaysia, they also feature some of the best-known faces in the country, including actors, musicians and top political leaders. You may think of them as funky little films made by 15 Malaysian voices for the people of Malaysia.
A dark take on media manipulation and political situation in Malaysia. The idea is to convey how normal citizens even though sometimes they know what they read and heard are absurd and not right but still with not much options to react but to accept them in order to maintain their livelihood. And at the same time powerful figures whom understands the mentality of the citizens continues to drives their ridiculous and absurd ideas and opinions to the mass.
Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best friend Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster and enforcer. While Or Kia works hard to put a sister through school, Ah Soon cares for an unstable girlfriend prone to mysterious disappearances. As they both sink deeper into a nocturnal world of debts, drugs, and betrayal, Or Kia's loyalties are strained when Ah Soon falls out of favor with the bosses and tries to escape the business.
Histeria is a horror film about six female students attending a supposedly haunted school. As part of a prank, they pretend to be hysterical and are so convincing that the school calls in a witch doctor to “cure” them. However, they soon find themselves faced with some truly mysterious occurrences and a series of grisly deaths that could either be caused by supernatural forces or by one of the girls themselves.
7 years ago, small-time gangster Meor went missing. His wife Nina eventually re-married, to his best friend, Din. Din is a loving husband and doting father to their daughter, Mina, 5, and Rosli, 10, Nina's son with Meor. Despite this, he is having an affair with Liza, his feisty young secretary. To cover his tracks, Din pretends to drive graveyard shifts for his taxi driver friend, Azman. Din's cozy world goes Topsy-turvy when Meor suddenly reappears, with knock-on effects for the others. They each have to struggle with the question of relationships and loyalties, amidst a backdrop of urban decay and powerlessness. Are they prepared to give up what's comfortable for new possibilities? Where has Meor been all this time? And why is there a gun in his bag?
The movie follows two unfortunate secret lovers who are constantly looking for a solution to their situation. Both of them are always arguing over their relationship. One day they went to a trip out of the city, into the outskirt. They hope they can solve their problems or at least escape them temporarily. They don’t have a solution, and they don’t understand why they are together. One thing that keeps them together is their love and care for each other. This is the second part of James Lee’s Love Trilogy which takes another look at unfaithfulness or rather faithlessness.
Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys' quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a puppy. But when the animal is sent away for being a nuisance, the boys are devastated. For the first time, Sui realizes that all his children ask is simply to love and be loved.
Three scenes about three couples with each portraying maybe the turning point of their relationship. First scene, Lim & Amelia are a couple who had been together for almost five years. While he works as a salesman and trying to save up for marriage, the girl are not sure if he’s the one she wants to marry. One day he confronts her about a letter from her admirer. Second scene, Pete & Bernice are a couple who had been together almost ten years. They’re not married because he doesn’t believe in marriage. While she tags along, one day she might realizes this may not be the man she wants to end up with. Third scene, we see Amy & Lai are a pair of secret lovers. This maybe their last meeting or maybe not. They may had loved each other in the past they may not now in this scene. This is the third and final part of James Lee's Love Trilogy which takes offers a glimpse of the life of three lovers.
It has been a month Chang's wife Ling Yue has been missing. With no reasons one fine day she went to work as usual and then never returns. No one knows where she went or what had happened to her. Chang could not figure out why she disappears out of the sudden. She left no message of whatever kind or clues. One day a man named Tong shows up and claims to be Ling Yues lover. Apparently Tong is looking for Ling Yue too. In a turn of event both men formed an uneasy alliance in order to find Ling Yue
A photographer, Azman, is in love with Lina, whose husband Meor has just been released from prison.
The laundry girl & motorcycle girl are best friends since childhood. Over the years their relationship has slightly changed. The laundry girl is two-timing her boyfriend, the motorcycle girl continues to help keep it a secret. The motorcycle girl remains single and the laundry girl continues her search for true love. Or maybe due to some unforseen circumstances the girls will continue to keep their real feelings from each other and remain best friends.
Between a man and his lover lies a wall, between the man and the country he loves lies another wall. Can a one-sided dialouge breaks the walls and expresses the man’s feelings and sentiments? Or does the lover or the country wants the wall to be broken in the first place? This short was inspired by Amy Len’s dance choreography “Wall” and colloborated with Loh Bok Lai. The dance was originally choreographed for a performance in Japan Dance Wave Fukuoka ‘06 - Asian Contemporary Dance Now and later made into an experimental video combining elements of an actor and monologue. The video footages were also used for the dance piece itself in KL.
Teoh is dumped by his live-in girlfriend who takes all her possessions, including the washing machine. He buys a second-hand machine, which is when things go wrong.
A man waits. He longs for and mourns for, his increasingly disconnected and disparate love for a person. Goodbye to Love is an epilogue of a romance, contemplative of a protagonist who meditates on the forking ways his liaisons have left him. Suspended in that final, desperate monochrome moment, Goodbye to Love geometrically traces the evaporating points of a love triangle in three spare, melancholic acts. An elegy to the demise of a feeling, and the longing that permeates
Berg has just come to Kuala Lumpur and agrees to share a room with Andrew. He meets the other occupants of the house, including the ghost of a murdered girl and a struggling screenwriter whose wife works as a hooker. He also finds out about the mysterious disappearance of an artist who had been a previous tenant. Berg himself is plagued by inertia and the memory of a lost love, and needs to reconcile this with his new life in the city.
An experimental, no-dialogue short in which a man comes literally out of a closet, only to be held in bondage by a woman. She finally puts him back into the closet.
Heavily influenced by Jean-Luc Godard, this experimental piece of anti-cinema is about a group of Chinese Communist gangsters dealing with betrayal, disillusionment and the absence of love.
Lips to Lips is an urban comedy featuring four intertwined stories about desire, all set during one day in Kuala Lumpur. A suicidal young man mourns the death of his stepmother who had come into fatal contact with an apple. A bubbly radio DJ catches her fiancé in an unexpected sexual encounter on the eve of their wedding night. A dapper restaurant owner falls for his doppelganger. A bookshop clerk resorts to black magic to get the attention of a girl with a fetish for cookbooks. Lips to Lips is Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad’s directorial debut. It is Malaysia’s first independent digital feature film that marked the beginning of the Malaysian independent film movement. It paved the way for the Malaysian New Wave’s unique brand of DV (digital video) cinema, whose leading figures have developed a niche of dedicated film audiences.
