---
name: "Lau Sai-Wan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lau-sai-wan"
fi1m_id: "lau-sai-wan"
imdb_id: "nm0515010"
tmdb_id: 551565
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T19:51:06.421821+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lau Sai-Wan

## Identity

Lau Sai-Wan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lau-sai-wan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lau-sai-wan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0515010
- **TMDB ID:** 551565
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515010/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551565

Production designer. Born in Hong Kong.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Also known as:** Sai-Wan Lau
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515010/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551565

## Biography

Lau Sai-Wan, also credited as Sai-Wan Lau or Olympic Lau, is a Hong Kong-born production designer and art director. He has worked on numerous films and television series since the late 1980s, often in collaboration with directors including Ang Lee and Jackie Chan.

His credits include art direction on *Lust, Caution* (2007), for which he received a Golden Horse nomination for Best Art Direction, *Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl* (1998) and *The Guillotines* (2012). He served as production designer on *Skiptrace* (2016) and received a nomination for Best Art Direction at the Hong Kong Film Awards for *The Guillotines*. Additional film work encompasses *The Bravest* (2019) and *Sakra* (2023).

Lau won the China Film and Television Costume Award for *East Wind Rain* (2010) and worked as principal art director on the television series *The Song of Glory* (2020), which received an International Emmy Award.

*Sources: imdb.com, hkmdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Lust, Caution* (2007), Fi1m 76, Production Design, Art Direction, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/lust-caution.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sakra* (2023), as Art Direction
- *Skiptrace* (2016), Production Design
- *The House That Never Dies* (2014), as Art Direction
- *The Guillotines* (2012), as Art Direction
- *Lust, Caution* (2007), as Art Direction · Production Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/lust-caution.md)
- *Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl* (1998), as Art Direction
- *Erotic Ghost Story* (1990), as Art Direction

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