Biography
Herman Yau Lai-to is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He studied at the Department of Communications, Hong Kong Baptist College in the early 1980s.
Yau began his career in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of Category III films, including The Untold Story (1993) and Ebola Syndrome (1996). He later directed mainstream action and crime films such as The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010), Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013), Shock Wave (2017) and its 2020 sequel, which he also wrote.
He has directed dozens of features across genres and has worked as a cinematographer on several productions.
