24 Movies Starring Tony Chiu Wai Leung

A City of Sadness

A City of Sadness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-10-21

Languages:

Mandarin, Min Nan, Japanese, Cantonese

Countries:

Hong Kong, Taiwan

Runtime:

157 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (2347 Reviews)

Director:

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Genres:

DramaHistory

Fullplot:

A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.

Bullet in the Head

Bullet in the Head

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-08-17

Languages:

Cantonese, English, Vietnamese, French

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

136 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (7596 Reviews)

Director:

John Woo

Cast:

Writer:

Janet Chun

Patrick Leung

John Woo

Fullplot:

In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend a young man is accosted by a local gang member. Later, the three friends administer justice, in the process of which the gang member is killed, so they leave Hong Kong to avoid the police and the gang. They run black market supplies to Saigon and get embroiled in the war, being arrested as Viet Cong, then later captured by the Viet Cong, and find that their friendship is tested to the limits as they try to escape.

Hard Boiled

Hard Boiled

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-04-16

Languages:

Cantonese, English

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (36499 Reviews)

Director:

John Woo

Cast:

Writer:

John Woo (story)

Barry Wong (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly.

Chungking Express

Chungking Express

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-03-08

Languages:

Cantonese, English, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (36787 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Fullplot:

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.

Ashes of Time

Ashes of Time

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-09-17

Languages:

Mandarin, Cantonese

Countries:

Hong Kong, Taiwan

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (9459 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Genres:

ActionDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Louis Cha (novel)

Kar Wai Wong (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ou-yang Feng lives in the middle of a desert, where he acts as a middle man to various swordsmen in ancient China. One of those swordsmen is Huang Yao-shi, who has found some magic wine that causes one to forget the past. At another time, Huang met Mu-rong Yin and under the influence of drink, promised to marry Mu-rong's sister Mu-rong Yang. Huang jilts her, and Mu-rong Yin hires Ou-yang to kill Huang. But then Mu-rong Yang hires Ou-yang to protect Huang. This is awkward, because Mu-rong Yang and Mu-rong Yin are in reality the same person. Other unrelated plot lines careen about. Among them is Ou-yang's continuing efforts to destroy a band of horse thieves. Oy-yang recruits another swordsman, a man who is going blind and wants to get home to see his wife before his sight goes completely. The swordsman is killed. Ou-yang then meets another swordsman who doesn't like wearing shoes. Oy-yang sends this man after the horse thieves, with better results. We then find out what a man must give up to follow the martial path.

Cyclo

Cyclo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-08-02

Languages:

Vietnamese

Countries:

Vietnam, France, Hong Kong

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (3611 Reviews)

Director:

Tran Anh Hung

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city) gets contact to a group of criminals. They introduce him to the mafia-world of drugs and crime.

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-03-09

Languages:

Cantonese, Shanghainese, French

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (67663 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.

Happy Together

Happy Together

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-05-30

Languages:

Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish

Countries:

Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (13630 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

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.

The Longest Nite

The Longest Nite

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-01-01

Languages:

Cantonese

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

81 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1299 Reviews)

Director:

Tat-Chi Yau

Fullplot:

A corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces. However, he meets a suspicious bald man named Tony, who keeps following him around and disrupting his personal business.

Gorgeous

Gorgeous

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-02-06

Languages:

Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Min Nan

Countries:

Hong Kong, Taiwan

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(8247 Reviews)

Director:

Vincent Kok

Cast:

Writer:

Jackie Chan

Ivy Ho (story)

Vincent Kok

Yiu Fai Lo

Fullplot:

A Taiwanese girl named Bu has just been proposed to. While pondering the proposal, she finds a message in a bottle which inspires her go to Hong Kong to meet the guy, Albert, who wrote the message. However, she finds out that Albert is gay. A successful playboy businessman CN, and Howie have been rivals in love and business since school days. Howie finds out that CN is dating his girl and also trying to take over his company. Howie tells his guys to teach CN a lesson. Bu happens to be there and saves CN, but decides to fake her identity and scheme to make him fall in love with her. In the meantime Howie, who wants to teach CN a humiliating lesson, hires a highly trained foreign fighter to beat him.

2046

2046

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-29

Languages:

Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany

Runtime:

129 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (39392 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Cast:

Writer:

Kar Wai Wong (screenplay)

Fullplot:

He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.

Tokyo Raiders

Tokyo Raiders

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-01-28

Languages:

Cantonese, Japanese, English

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (2002 Reviews)

Director:

Jingle Ma

Fullplot:

Is anyone who he says he is in this caper that moves from Hong Kong and Las Vegas to Tokyo? Ken doesn't show up in Vegas for his wedding; his disconsolate bride, Macy, heads home for Hong Kong and finds John, an interior decorator, waiving a check of Ken's that has bounced. She leaves immediately for Tokyo to find her businessman boyfriend, and John tags along. Ken's flat is teeming with members of the Ito gang, who are also looking for Ken. John and Macy escape, with the help of a crew of look-alike cuties who work for Lin, who claims to be a private investigator. He too is looking for Ken. Where is Ken, why has he disappeared, and who will find him first?

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-03-09

Languages:

Cantonese, Shanghainese, French

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (67292 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-03-09

Languages:

Cantonese, Shanghainese, French

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (67292 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.

Hero

Hero

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-08-27

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (142006 Reviews)

Director:

Yimou Zhang

Cast:

Writer:

Feng Li

Bin Wang

Yimou Zhang

Fullplot:

In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-06

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1927 Reviews)

Director:

Jeffrey Lau

Cast:

Writer:

Jeffrey Lau (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang, both confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress Dowager. The other pair is decidedly lowborn: the wanderer Li Yilong (known as King Bully for the way he terrorized the town of Meilong in his youth) and his sister Phoenix, who still runs a restaurant in Meilong. When both the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang contrive to leave the Palace and head south, they meet the loves of their lives in Meilong. But Wushuang has disguised herself as a man, and the Emperor is incognito. Numerous confusions, complications and misunderstandings ensue: genders and gender-roles are reversed, class differences prove hard to negotiate and identities and egos block the promptings of desire. It takes the interventions of a goddess to get everyone back on the right road. But it may be already too late to heal the wounds of disappointment and separation.

Infernal Affairs

Infernal Affairs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-12-12

Languages:

Cantonese, English, Thai

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (83515 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

Infernal Affairs 3

Infernal Affairs 3

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-12-12

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(9019 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Because Chan was being expelled from the school in 1991, SP Yeung Kam Wing graduated, with all police reports distinctions, being the first in whole class. Twelve year later, he was being sent, working to Lau. Ten months after Chan dies, Yeung's spy had blew a case and the spy wish to kill Yeung, but Yeung took his gun and shot him to conclude this failure. Lau gave Yeung car park seat B3A6 when Yeung met Lau. Yeung asked Chan who he is, but Chan didn't remember him. Sam works with Yeung and Lau is recording Yeung's words so that he can sue Yeung. Yeung is a police SP, which is being sent to Sam as the spy from police. Lau doesn't really know Yeung's Police SP position and wish to catch Yeung to the police head. Yeung work with another inspector who is a good friend of Yeung himself. Lau sneaked into Yeung's office, stealing the cassette, and ask the head to tell him that Yeung is the spy of the triad, Sam's triad. The inspector friend of Yeung, without found by Lau, changed Lau's own cassette back to Lau's own player. When Yeung was talking with his staff about the event, Lau brought the head to meet Yeung, and played the tape, because it's changed back with Lau's tape, so Lau ashamed himself instead of able to prove that Yeung is the spy. Lau said why are the police people playing him with this. Yeung, spoke like Chan, Sorry Lau, I am a policeman. Lau said that he is also a police, and shot Yeung's heart. Yeung and the inspector shot Lau back, but Lau succeeded to shoot Yeung's forehead. Yeung was proved deceased with lots of blood. Lau was sent to hospital and met his girl. Sammi told him that her baby is his, and she is able to call Lau as daddy. Ten months ago, when Chan dies, the inspector and Yeung were talking together, Yeung told the inspector that there are still things that need both Yeung and inspector to tackle after Chan die. Inspector cried when he watched Yeung's past. Ten months after, now, Psychologist talked with the inspector after she paid her tribute to Chan, and the inspector paid his tribute to Yeung. Psychologist said that it may be the destiny. Inspector told her that it is chance not destiny. It's always things change human, human can't change things. But Chan, Yeung, Lau had changed some things themselves. Inspector ask Psychologist to let the things to past off, tomorrow still have to face.

Red Cliff

Red Cliff

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-12-04

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea

Runtime:

148 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (34540 Reviews)

Director:

John Woo

Cast:

Writer:

John Woo (screenplay)

Khan Chan (screenplay)

Cheng Kuo (screenplay)

Heyu Sheng (screenplay)

Guanzhong Luo (novel)

Fullplot:

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.

Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-26

Languages:

Mandarin, Japanese, English, Hindi, Shanghainese, Cantonese

Countries:

USA, China, Taiwan

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

NC-17

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (29176 Reviews)

Director:

Ang Lee

Cast:

Writer:

Eileen Chang (story)

James Schamus (screenplay)

Hui-Ling Wang (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai, Old Wu, who has lost his wife and two sons as well as two women who had attempted to seduce Yee, now recruits Kuang, Mai Tai Tai, and their troupe of drama students from Hong Kong University in yet another attempt to do away with Yee. Mai Tai Tai is chosen to befriend Yee, which she does by posing as the wife of Mak, befriending Yee's wife and her female friends, and then eventually befriending Yee himself. Even though both get together, they do end up going separate ways, only to meet again four years later. This time Mai is all set to entrap Yee at Chandni Chowk Jewellers which is owned by an East Indian man named Khalid Saiduddin. The question does remain: Will she and her troupe succeed?

Red Cliff II

Red Cliff II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-20

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea

Runtime:

142 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (17930 Reviews)

Director:

John Woo

Cast:

Writer:

John Woo (screenplay)

Khan Chan (screenplay)

Cheng Kuo (screenplay)

Heyu Sheng (screenplay)

Guanzhong Luo (novel)

Fullplot:

In this sequel to Red Cliff, first minister Cao Cao convinces Emperor Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Xu and Wu, who have become allied forces, against all expectations. Red Cliff will be the site for the gigantic battle.

The Grandmaster

The Grandmaster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-08-30

Languages:

Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (22237 Reviews)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Cast:

Writer:

Kar Wai Wong (story)

Kar Wai Wong (screenplay)

Jingzhi Zou (screenplay)

Haofeng Xu (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.

The Great Magician

The Great Magician

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-12-22

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (1145 Reviews)

Director:

Tung-Shing Yee

Cast:

Writer:

Tin Nam Chun (screenplay)

Ho Leung Lau (screenplay)

Tung-Shing Yee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In the years after the Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty in China and established the republic, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. A lieutenant is using magic to scare convicts into joining a warlord's army. His warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill the warlord and bring back the republic. The lieutenant is secretly a member of the Qing Dynasty Remnant and wants to bring back the Empire. The local Japanese businessman is actually trying to take over with help of the local Blackhawk gang. Into this chaos, a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic, and is back to recover the girl he loved (daughter of his master/teacher). Who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

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