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一九零五的冬天 (1982)
Character: Li Shutong
Tsui Hark stars as Chinese artist and Buddhist monk Li Shutong, a.k.a. Master Hong Yi. Li travels to Japan to study Western artistic practices, and revolutionizes the teaching of art in China upon his return. Set during the turbulent era of the Russo-Japanese War circa 1905.
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Crossings: John Woo (2004)
Character: Self
Crossings: John Woo starts with Woo's emotional homecoming to Hong Kong in 2004 to promote his latest blockbuster Paycheck. It leads you through his teen years where he made avant garde films, his apprenticeship with Shaw Brothers' martial arts director Chang Che, his coming of age as a director directing slapstick Hong Kong comedies through the 70s and 80s. It charts the genesis of the groundbreaking A Better Tomorrow starring Chow Yun Fat, a film that creates a new genre in Hong Kong cinema and launches Woo's career into the international arena.
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In the Mood for Melville (2017)
Character: Self
Various directors and film critics discuss Jean-Pierre Melville’s importance and influence in the world of cinema.
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Hong Kong Stories (2003)
Character: Self
A documentary about Hong Kong cinema mythology via Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud’s experience as screenwriters in the HK film industry, working for Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark, Daniel Lee and Johnnie To
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The Master: Chang Cheh Documentary (2003)
Character: N/A
One of the greatest, prolific and most influential action directors in history Chang Cheh! Documentary about the Shaw Brother's most prolific director.
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个十百千万 (2022)
Character: Self
A documentary on the making of China's war epic "The Battle at Lake Changjin".
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Action et Vérité: Souvenirs de The Blade (2006)
Character: Self
This documentary consists of testimonies from Tsui Hark, Koan Hui (co-writer and assistant director) and Hung Yan Yan (actor and choreographer). All three of them look back on their memories of filming and give us a large number of anecdotes.
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小倩 (1997)
Character: Solid Gold (voice)
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.
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西游伏妖篇 (2017)
Character: Theater Employee (uncredited)
Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are not in agreement. After a series of demon-capturing events, the monk and his disciples gain mutual understanding of each others' hardships and unease. Finally, they resolve their inner conflict and work together to become an all-conquering, demon-exorcising team.
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最佳拍檔大顯神通 (1983)
Character: Camco
An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure and charged with killing the heroes. The men are framed twice for different robberies by King Kong's new girlfriend, nearly committed to a mental hospital by their devious boss, and forced to battle Filthy Harry's weaponry-laden robot while covered with time bombs.
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美人鱼 (2016)
Character: Uncle Rich
When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.
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追女仔 (1981)
Character: [deleted scenes]
Afro-haired Robert demonstrates over and over to his gawking cousin how easy it is to pick up girls. Robert eventually narrows the field down to two girls. One is a TV model, the other a rich girl with a red sports car working as a waitress. Robert finds the part after the pickup to be a bit more difficult.
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龍虎武師 (2021)
Character: N/A
A new documentary film revisits the golden age of kung fu stuntmen and action directors in Hong Kong during the 1960s-'80s, exploring their pain and struggles. The documentary is a tribute to kung fu stuntmen. “They risked their lives for stunts,” said kung fu choreographer Yuen Bin. In their heyday, these stuntmen and choreographers presented the best, most creative and most complicated kung fu fight sequences anywhere in the world, creating stunts that looked seemingly impossible.
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Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America (2022)
Character: Self
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.
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我愛夜來香 (1983)
Character: Japanese Ambassador
In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese occupation. They aim to steal back the formula to the atomic bomb from a war traitor and transfer it to an American before the formula ends up in the Japanese emperor's hands.
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開心鬼撞鬼 (1986)
Character: Godfather
A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.
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星際鈍胎 (1983)
Character: Reporter
A second-rate private eye sees a woman's UFO abduction claim as his ticket to fame and fortune.
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女人不坏 (2008)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A series of intertwining stories focus on the lives and transformations of three women and their romantic relationships.
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A Portrait of Lin Ching Hsia (1991)
Character: Self
A documentary that offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the life of the iconic Taiwanese and Hong Kong actress. It provides fans with a candid, unscripted view of her personal life at a pivotal moment in her legendary three-decade career.
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超级保镖 (2016)
Character: Old Man
Wu-Lin is the successor of an ancient, once powerful Chinese clan, the "Iron Feet." After the death of his master, Wu-Lin leaves his rural village for the City of Stone-Cold looking for his fellow apprentice Jiang Li. Along the way, he becomes the bodyguard of Fei-Fei, the daughter of Jia-Shan Li, the richest family in the city, and quickly gets drawn into a mob war in order to protect her.
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皇家師姐 (1985)
Character: Panadol
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
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双龙会 (1992)
Character: Card Player
Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.
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男生女相：華語電影之性別 (1998)
Character: Self
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
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第一類型危險 (1980)
Character: Interpol Officer
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.
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鐵甲無敵瑪利亞 (1988)
Character: Whiskey
A gang of criminals terrorizes Hong Kong with two killer robots, one of which is modelled on the gang's female thug, Maria. When the robot gets damaged during a mission, an inventor working for the police captures and reprograms her to develop an independent personality.
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新蜀山劍俠 (1983)
Character: Blue Army Soldier (uncredited)
5th century western China: As constant civil wars scars the nation, to evade death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he becomes entangled in a great battle against the Blood Demon, a supernatural entity seeking to wreak havoc upon the world.
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大魔術師 (2011)
Character: Warlord
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One 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 him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
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最佳拍檔III之女皇密令 (1984)
Character: Police Officer in Computer Room
While vacationing in Paris, King Kong is kidnapped by a British agent called James, who seeks to recover one of the stolen crown jewels, the Star of Fortune, supposedly at the request of the Queen of England. The jewel is hidden at the Hong Kong Police Headquarters and Kong will have to steal the jewel without his partner-in-crime, Detective Albert 'Baldy' Au, finding out. When James' devious intentions are revealed and Baldy and his wife, Supt. Nancy Ho, discover Kong's heist, Kong finds himself at a crossroad.
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難兄難弟 (1982)
Character: Taoist Priest
It Takes Two is a 1982 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Karl Maka and starring Dean Shek and Richard Ng.
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豪門夜宴 (1991)
Character: N/A
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
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七人樂隊 (2022)
Character: Self (segment "Conversation in Depth")
A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
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恭喜發財 (1985)
Character: Grabbing Gold
Money God was being naughty in heaven and as a punishment, he was sent to Earth to do good deeds for humans. On Earth, he meets Fung, a restaurant owner and his son Ben. Money God guides Fung to success and his business begins to rise while also helping him fend off loan shark Mo. At the same time, Money God tries to woo Fung's younger sister Ellen. Later, Mo learns of the Money God and unsuccessfully tries to exploit him. As his popularity spreads across Hong Kong, cops, triads and ghostbusters start trailing the Money God.
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英雄本色 (1986)
Character: Music Judge
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
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好好拍電影 (2020)
Character: N/A
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
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桃姐 (2012)
Character: Director Tsui
After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
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金玉滿堂 (1995)
Character: N/A
Within a few years, petty crook Chiu rises to gang leader. But his professional ambitions are actually quite different: he wants to leave illegality behind and make a career for himself and his lover in Canada... as a chef. However, this craft must first be learned and Chiu's talent in the field of cooking leaves much to be desired.
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最後勝利 (1987)
Character: Big Bo
Shy and timid Hung is asked by his jailbird brother to look after his mistress and his unsuspecting wife. Chaos and many hilarious situations arise when Hung is caught between the two women.
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兩隻老虎 (1985)
Character: Grandpa Steak
Homeless lads Teddy and Benny befriend a rich boy, heir to his grandfather's massive fortune. His uncle mistakes all of them for his nephews and, plotting to steal the inheritance for himself, abducts Benny. Teddy teams up with his friends and an assassin to pull off a rescue mission.
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最佳拍檔 (1982)
Character: Ballet Director
The police track down a notorious burglar in order to apprehend him. However, he is given a chance to make up for his ways by working with the police on a case involving stolen diamonds.
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我的特工爷爷 (2016)
Character: Old Man C
A retired bodyguard who has settled into a corner of the world where China, Russia and North Korea meet as he suffers from early dementia finds a new friend in a young girl. When her life is threatened by her father's connection with a local crime lord, the bodyguard must call upon his long forgotten skills to save her.
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上海之夜 (1984)
Character: Pedestrian Who Gets Soaked
In 1937 Shanghai, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet-cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Ten years later, the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps, he mistakes her new ingénue roommate for his love interest and wacky love triangle hijinks ensue.
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打工皇帝 (1985)
Character: Sunny
Buddies Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing have all been dismissed. creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor labour relationship. The superiors are always harassing their subordinates, so the workers take an united front to oppose their superiors.
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