Miu Kam-Fung Passes Away in Hong Kong – Cantonese Film Star Dies at 84

Hong Kong Cantonese film actress Miu Kam-Fung, who rose to fame in the 1960s, passed away at Tseung Kwan O Hospital in Hong Kong on June 25, at the age of 84. The news was announced to the public by actor Tin Kai-Man from the movie “Double Happiness” on behalf of her son.

Miu Kam-Fung entered the industry at the age of 17, acting under her real name Lam Wai-San, and achieved instant fame with her debut Cantonese film “The Two Phoenixes' Revenge”. She later adopted the stage name Miu Kam-Fung. Early in her career, she starred in many Cantonese films, often portraying the image of the delicate and pitiful leading lady, and was loved by audiences.

Her representative works include “One River Separates the Horizon” and “Pearl Tears”, cementing her important status during the era of Cantonese films.

Subsequently, Miu Kam-Fung switched to television dramas, where her on-screen persona underwent a major transformation. In the 1994 TV drama “The Third Kind of Court”, she played the assertive mother of Maggie Shiu, a performance that received much acclaim. She also played the role of the “Vietnamese Lady” in the Hong Kong drama “A Kindred Spirit”, which was very popular in Singapore.

After 2005, Miu Kam-Fung gradually faded from show business. In 2013, she was invited by Eric Tsang to make a comeback, appearing in the TVB drama “Never Dance Alone”, where she played the role of an evil mother-in-law to Carmen Lee’s character. However, becoming weary of filming dramas, she soon retired from the limelight again.

Her last public performance was in the 2015 stage play “To Lo Chi”.

At the age of 20, Miu Kam-Fung married film company boss Lau Fong, who was 20 years her senior and the person who gave her the stage name. The couple had two sons, but eventually divorced due to incompatibility. Later, in her thirties, she remarried—a Chinese doctor living in Australia—and moved there, but the marriage lasted only two years.