11 Movies Starring Carina Lau

Project A 2

Project A 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-08-19

Languages:

Cantonese

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (5826 Reviews)

Director:

Jackie Chan

Cast:

Writer:

Jackie Chan

Jack Maeby (english adaptation)

Edward Tang

Yu Ting (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Dragon Ma is back, having rid the seas of the dreaded Pirate Lo. Back on land, he is assigned to the police force, where he is to clean up corruption and crime in a local suburb. Along the way, he is caught up in the fate of several Chinese patriots attempting to secure sympathy and support for their revolutionary cause. The Chinese Manchu government is after these revolutionaries, and anyone that stands in their way is in trouble, even if they are in the police force.

Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-12-15

Languages:

Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tagalog, English, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (10881 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Cast:

Writer:

Jeffrey Lau

Kar Wai Wong

Fullplot:

Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.

Center Stage

Center Stage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-02-20

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

126 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1086 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kwan

Cast:

Writer:

Peggy Chiao

Kang Chien Chiu

Fullplot:

Biopic of 1930's Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.

Endless Love

Endless Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-11-11

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin, English

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (545 Reviews)

Director:

Tung-Shing Yee

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Forbidden City Cop

Forbidden City Cop

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-02-16

Languages:

Cantonese, English

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

89 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2137 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen Chow

Vincent Kok

Man Sang Lo

Fullplot:

Set in Imperial China, Stephen Chiau plays Fat, a guard in the Forbidden City. But unlike his colleagues he doesn't know anything about Kung Fu or other martial-arts, because he uses his time to make futuristic inventions. So when the emperor is kidnapped and the world most beautiful geisha comes to town Fat has to use his brain to get things done.

Flowers of Shanghai

Flowers of Shanghai

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-10-17

Languages:

Cantonese, Shanghainese

Countries:

Taiwan, Japan

Runtime:

125 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1580 Reviews)

Director:

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Eileen Chang (translation)

T'ien-wen Chu

Bangqing Han (novel)

Fullplot:

In Shanghai in the 1880s there are four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (called madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. The men gather around tables of food, playing drinking games. An opium pipe is at hand. The women live within dark-paneled walls. The atmosphere is stifling, as if Chekhov was in China. The melancholy Wang is Crimson's patron; will he leave her for the younger Jasmin? Emerald schemes to buy her freedom, aided by patron Luo. Pearl, an aging flower, schools the willful Jade, who thinks she has a marriage agreement with young master Zhu. Is she dreaming? Women fade, or connive, or despair.

Infernal Affairs 2

Infernal Affairs 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-10-01

Languages:

Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Thai

Countries:

Hong Kong, China, Singapore

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (12378 Reviews)

Fullplot:

In the prequel of Infernal Affairs. Chan Wing Yan has been expelled from police academy in cause of his relatives to the triad. Now SP Wong give him a chance to undercover the triad family controlled by his half brother Hau. Besides of Ming. He has been ordered to killed Hau father and infiltrated the police department. The story get complicated when Wong's related to Hau father's dead. The avenge is begin when Mary. Sam's wife is the hit order. Now everything is complicated and related

Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-09-30

Languages:

Mandarin, Spanish

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (7747 Reviews)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Cast:

Writer:

Chia-lu Chang (screenplay)

Kuo-fu Chen

Lin Qianyu (original story)

Fullplot:

In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.

Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-09-30

Languages:

Mandarin, Spanish

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (7731 Reviews)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Cast:

Writer:

Chia-lu Chang (screenplay)

Kuo-fu Chen

Lin Qianyu (original story)

Fullplot:

In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.

Let the Bullets Fly

Let the Bullets Fly

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-16

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (5893 Reviews)

Director:

Wen Jiang

Cast:

Writer:

Junli Guo (screenplay)

Wen Jiang (screenplay)

Bukong Li (screenplay)

Ping Shu (screenplay)

Xiao Wei (screenplay)

Sujin Zhu (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.

Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-27

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China

Runtime:

134 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (2338 Reviews)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Cast:

Writer:

Chia-lu Chang

Kuo-fu Chen

Hark Tsui

Fullplot:

From legendary action director Tsui Hark and the creators of international smash hit Detective Dee - Mystery Of The Phantom Flame comes the captivating tale of Dee Renjie's beginnings in the Imperial police force. His very first case, investigating reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town, reveals a sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family.

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