Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#74409
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Lo Chun-Yip is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Lo Chun-Yip appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lo. Time Still Turns the Pages is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with , Lo Chun-Yip helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Time Still Turns the Pages (2023) as Mr. Cheng · Night King (2026) · Fagara (2019) as Radish
Career snapshot
Ranked #74409 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Time Still Turns the Pages
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Time Still Turns the Pages
Most frequent director
—
Longest collaboration
—
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
0h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Mending, Fagara, The Dropout Of Her — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Mending, Fagara, The Dropout Of Her.
Most productive era
2020s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.42 films | 5.312 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.42 films |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019The Mending
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chun / Hiu Chun.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Time Still Turns the Pages
7.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026We Are Born Good
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
16 of 16 films
as Lok
Directed by Unknown
as Lam Ka-wai
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Mr. Cheng
Time Still Turns the Pages (2023)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mr. Cheng gives Lo Chun-Yip a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lok
before it melts (2021)
Performance score6.9
before it melts asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lok is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Cheung
The Dropout Of Her (2019)
Performance score6.8
The Dropout Of Her asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Cheung is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lam Ka-wai
Zombies in the House (2019)
Performance score6.8
Zombies in the House asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lam Ka-wai is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Mr. Cheng
Start here. Time Still Turns the Pages is the clearest statement of what Lo Chun-Yip does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lo at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Dropout Of Her (2019)
Same director as Time Still Turns the Pages, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Zombies in the House (2019)
Same director as The Dropout Of Her, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
before it melts (2021)
Same director as Zombies in the House, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
April’s Interlude (2022)
Same director as before it melts, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Not enough analysed work in the catalogue yet. This section fills in automatically as titles are imported.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Night King
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
before it melts
as Lok
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Time Still Turns the Pages
as Mr. Cheng
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Night King
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Time Still Turns the Pages
as Mr. Cheng
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Lo Chun-Yip has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Time Still Turns the Pages
as Mr. Cheng
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Time Still Turns the Pages
as Mr. Cheng
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
before it melts
as Lok
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Zombies in the House
as Lam Ka-wai
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Time Still Turns the Pages
as Mr. Cheng
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fagara
as Radish
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Night King
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sushi
as Koo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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