Anita MuiFilmography

Born:: October 10, 1963
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Mui Yim Fong
Biography:: Hong Kong actress Anita Mui is often referred to as the "Madonna of Hong Kong" because of her huge success as a pop singer, as well as her sexy image. She has acted in a wide range of genres, from the gangster thrillers, to kung fu films. She is best known to American audiences for her role in the Jackie Chan...Read More

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July Rhapsody

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Karena Lam, Tou Chung Hua, Eric Kot

Synopsis: A subtle study in the deterioration of relationships and the strains of a broken marriage, director Ann Hui's character driven drama draws on Chinese poetry to tell a tale of infidelity and pensive yearning. Tempted by the advances of an amorous student, Chinese Literature professor Lam (Jackie Read More

2002
The Legend of Drunken Master

Actors: Jackie Chan, Ti Lung, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Lau Kar-Leung

Synopsis: Jackie Chan returns in one of his greatest roles in this action-comedy sequel to his 1978 Hong Kong blockbuster Drunken Master. Wong Fei Hong (Chan) is a young master of the martial art of "drunken boxing," in which fighters use alcohol to blind themselves to pain and release the angry brawler Read More

10/20/00
Bun Sang Yun

Actors: Leon Lai, Wu Chien-lien, Anita Mui, Ge You, Wang Lei

Synopsis: In Shanghai of the '30s, Shuhui (Wang Lei) brings together Manzhen (Wu Chien-lien) and Shijun (Leon Lai), and the two fall in love. However, Shijun's parents in Nanjing have planned for him to marry wealthy Cuizhi (Annie Wu), who instead becomes romantically attracted to Shuhui. Manzhen is Read More

1997
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Synopsis: Populist filmmaker Jing Wong spins this wild and woolly fantasy-comedy about gods, gambling, and earthly love. The film opens in heaven where the Windfall God (Nat Chan Pak-cheung) is in love with the stunning Angel of Nine Heavens (Christy Chung), who is, in turn, in love with the hunky St. Read More

1996
Who's the Woman, Who's the Man

Synopsis: Following up on his wildly popular gender bending comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Peter Chan Ho-sun picks up immediately where the original left off. Chi-wing (Anita Yuen Wing-yee) -- a young lass who dressed like a man to grab the attention of songwriter Sam (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) -- has Read More

1996
My Father Is a Hero

Actors: Jet Li, Anita Mui, Tsue Miu

Synopsis: Jet Li stars in this kung-fu vehicle directed by Corey Yuen Kwai. Though a committed father and husband, Kung (Li) is a mainland undercover cop assigned to a case so sensitive that he dare not tell what he does to those he loves the most. Ordered to infiltrate the crime syndicate run by the Read More

1995
Rumble in the Bronx

Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Bill Tung, Françoise Yip, Marc Akerstream

Synopsis: After years as a major star in most of the rest of the world, Jackie Chan finally broke through to stardom in the United States with Rumble in the Bronx, a dubbed and re-edited version of Hung Fan Kui. Here Chan plays Keung, a police officer from Hong Kong who travels to New York to attend the Read More

1995
Executioners

Actors: Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Johnny To and Ching Siu-tung co-directed this futuristic sequel to Heroic Trio set several years after a nuclear meltdown has contaminated the water supply with deadly radiation (a reference to the controversy over China's rather haphazard construction of the Dai Ah Bay plant near Hong Kong). Tung Read More

1993
Moon Warriors

Actors: Kenny Bee, Anita Mui, Andy Lau

Synopsis: This Hong Kong kung fu adventure, directed by Sammo Hung, tells the story of Fei, a fisherman (Andy Lau), and Yen Ling, a prince (Kenny Bee). When Yen Ling is betrayed by his own brother, the two form a friendship. Fei is sent to retrieve the prince's fiancee, Yueh (Anita Mui), but falls in love Read More

1993
The Magic Crane

Actors: Rosamund Kwan, Anita Mui, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Lawrence Ng

Synopsis: Benny Chan directs and Tsui Hark produces this sprawling fantasy yarn. The film opens with kung fu master Ma Kwun-mo (Tony Leung) being saved by the stunning Pak Wan-fai (Anita Mui) and her pet crane Yuen Yuk. In gratitude, Ma promises not to reveal Pak's identity to anyone. Later, at a kung fu Read More

1993
The Heroic Trio

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Anthony Wong, Damian Lau

Synopsis: In this cartoonish live-action martial arts feature, three female super-heroes battle the forces of evil in the form of a woman who has hatched a plot to create China's next ruler. Over the years, she has stolen over a dozen children from their families. She hopes to raise them in a way that will Read More

1992
Savior of the Soul

Actors: Andy Lau, Anita Mui, Kenny Bee

Synopsis: David Lai and Corey Yuen spins this unusual -- for Hong Kong cinema -- sci-fi flick inspired in part by Japanese manga. Set in the near future, notorious assassin Silver Fox (Aaron Kwok) is out to avenge his master who was blinded by cop May-chun (Anita Mui). Fox's first attempt manages to kill Read More

1992
Hoyat Gwan Tsoi Loi

Crew: Singer

Actors: Anita Mui, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Carrie Ng, Tsui Siu Keung

Synopsis: In this romantic melodrama, Wu Mei-yi sings for the guests at her father's nightclub in Shanghai. It's the middle of the Japanese occupation, and her father has just been arrested by the Japanese. She is pregnant, and knows it. Her baby's father is a man she truly loves, but he's not here and may Read More

1991
The Top Bet

Actors: Anita Mui, Carol Cheng, Ng Man Tat

1991
Shanghai Shanghai

Actors: Yuen Biao, Lam Chi-Cheung

Synopsis: Teddy Robin Kwan directs this lavish period action flick set in the first half of the 20th century and featuring a dazzling line-up of stars. Little Tiger (Yuen Biao) ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger (Chi-cheung Lam), an honest cop working in a Read More

1990
Kawachima Yoshiko

Actors: Anita Mui, Andy Lau, Derek Yee

Synopsis: The extremely eccentric Manchurian princess who is briefly seen in The Last Emperor in the scenes set in Manchukuo, receives a more comprehensive screen treatment here. Born a scion of the rapidly fading Ching (Manchu) dynasty of China, Yoshiko Kawashima (Anita Mui) was taken away by the Japanese Read More

1990
Black Dragon

Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Richard Ng

Synopsis: This Hong Kong film is inspired by two of Frank Capra's films: the 1933 classic Lady for a Day, and Capra's own 1961 remake, Pocketful of Miracles. Directed by Jackie Chan, Chan also stars as Dragon, an up-and-coming gangster in 1930s Hong Kong who rises through the mob ranks by a series of lucky Read More

1989
A Better Tomorrow III

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Anita Mui, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Shek Kin

Synopsis: Tsui Hark takes the reigns of this series following a much-publicized rift between himself and John Woo -- the director of the first two A Better Tomorrow films -- to direct this prequel based around Chow Yun-Fat's memorable Mark character. Set in 1974, Mark ventures to Saigon after his cousin Read More

1989
Rouge

Actors: Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Man Chi Leung, Emily Chu

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan directs this stunning supernatural melodrama about a passion, romance, and lost history. Fleur (Anita Mui) is a 1930s high-class courtesan who finds herself sucked into a doomed relationship with Twelfth Master Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung), the rakish scion of a Read More

1988
The Greatest Lover

Actors: Anita Mui, Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Three buffoons from the Chinese Mainland manage to enter Hong Kong illegally. As they are about to meet with a low-life islander who will provide them fake I.D.'s, as was previously planned, one of the trio (Chow Yun-fat) gets lost and finds himself the student -- a la Eliza Doolittle-style -- of Read More

1988
Happy Din Don

Actors: Cherie Chung, Michael Lai, Tin Ching

Synopsis: Michael Hui both directed and stars in this entertaining comedy as an inventive, plucky musician. He overhears some gangsters plotting a murder in an alleyway and when he is caught, he tries to fake blindness to escape with his life (and limbs) intact. Ultimately, the hapless musician is rescued Read More

1986