Brigitte LinFilmography

Deadful Melody

Synopsis: Ng Min-Keng spins this kung-fu revenge fantasy featuring Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia. As a child, Snow witnessed her family getting murdered at the hands of dark-hearted martial arts masters looking for a priceless, magical lyre. The highly sought-after instrument plays music that has the power to Read More

Chungking Express

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow

Synopsis: A Hong Kong fast food restaurant acts as the link between two unusual stories of police officers in love in this eccentric, stylish comedy-drama. Director Wong Kar-Wai plays freely with traditional narrative structure, dividing his film into two loosely connected segments. The first centers on a Read More

Three Swordsmen

Synopsis: In this martial arts-adventure, three warriors who are gifted with swords -- Smiling Sam (Andy Lau), Big Knife (Elvis Tsui), and Samurai (Brigitte Lin) -- are en route to Central China for a tournament where their skills are to be put to the test. A villain who has disguised himself as Smiling Sam Read More

Ashes of Time

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung

Synopsis:
Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features a virtual who's-who of the Read More

Dragon Chronicles

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Gong Li, Cheung Man

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Andy Chin directed this colorfully gaudy and delightfully satirical fantasy based -- very loosely -- on the classic novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Jin Yong. Popular Asian pin-up queen Brigitte Lin stars in dual roles as Li Chou-shui, an outcast member of the San sect, and Read More

The Bride with White Hair

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Nam Kit-Ying

Synopsis: Following on the success of 1987's Chinese Ghost Story, Hong Kong was inundated with romantically themed tales of the supernatural. Most were awful, but Ronny Yu's The Bride With White Hair has become a classic of the genre. Based on a two-volumed 1954 novel written by Leung Yu-Sang, the film Read More

The East is Red

Actors: Brigitte Lin

Synopsis: The third installment in the Hong Kong Swordsman trilogy is intended to recapture the success of the second film, including its gender-bending performance by Brigitte Lin. Lin reprises her role as Asia the Invincible, a swordsman whose use of a supernatural scroll caused him to turn into a woman. Read More

The Bride with White Hair 2

Synopsis: Editor and co-writer of the original, David Wu Tai-wai directs this follow-up to the wildly popular romantic fantasy-horror masterwork Bride With White Hair. The last film ended with Cho (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing), following the defeat of the Wu Tang clan, waiting atop the snowy peak of mount Shing Read More

The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: Jeff Lau Chun-wai spins this wild and woolly parody of Wong Kar-wai's martial arts epic Ashes of Time, which was actually produced by Wong himself and features many of the same cast members as Ashes. This loosely plotted film centers around the misdeeds of a pair of royals (Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Read More

Black Panther Warriors

Synopsis: Clarence Fok Yiu-leung spins this slick action-comedy crime flick featuring an all-star cast. The film centers on Black Cougar (Alan Tang Kwong-wing), a crack thief who gets the job of a lifetime -- a shadowy client is paying him an obscene amount of money to swipe a photograph from a police Read More

Swordsman II

Actors: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan, Fennie Yuen

Synopsis: In this second of three "Swordsman" martial arts thrillers, the swordsman Ling Jet Li is traveling with his sister to a religious retreat when they are informed that the leader of the sect has been captured by a mysterious being who has been transformed into a nearly immortal woman through the Read More

Anlian Taohuayuan

Synopsis: It is 1949, in Singapore, and two acting troupes are rehearsing their forthcoming performances on the same stage. In this comic tour-de-force, scenes from one show are rehearsed and then scenes from another, and the two entirely different plays become intermingled in a hilarious fashion. The first Read More

Dragon Inn

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin

Synopsis: Raymond Lee Wai-man remakes King Hu's 1966 masterpiece about revenge and intrigue between imperial eunuchs during the Ming Dynasty. At the film's outset, the villainous Eunuch Tsao (Donnie Yen Chi-tan) has assassinated one of his primary court rivals and is looking to take out his former rival's Read More

Web of Deception

Synopsis: Cinematographer-turned-director David Chung Chi-man spins this taut homage to Alfred Hitchcock. The film opens with high-powered lawyer Jane (Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia) receiving a blackmail letter from someone threatening to reveal some creative accounting she did a few years back to get out of Read More

Lady In Black

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Kar-Fai

Synopsis: Kin (Tony Leung Ka-Fei) is up to his neck in gambling debts. When he asks his wife May (Brigitte Lin) to embezzle funds from her employer to pay them off, she refuses-but Kin doesn't take no for an answer. He plots to kill her and make her death look like a suicide, but things don't go as planned. Read More

Peking Opera Blues

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy drama stars three of Hong Kong's most attractive and popular actresses of their time: Brigitte Lin is the daughter of a general, Cherie Chung is a petty thief, and Sally Yip is the daughter of the manager of the Beijing Opera theater. The story is set in 1911 when the Chinese Read More

Dream Lovers

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cher Yeung

Synopsis: Noted art director Tony Au Ding-ping helms this acclaimed romantic fantasy featuring Chow Yun-fat and Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia. Sony Yu (Chow) is a famous orchestra conductor who recently suffers from a series of bizarre visions of a beautiful woman and a Qin dynasty era terracotta statue. When he Read More

Police Story

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Cho Yuen, Bill Tung, Kenneth Tong

Synopsis: This was internationally famous Jackie Chan's breakthrough action film, the work that got him past the ethnic boundaries of Hong Kong and into competition at the New York Film Festival in 1986. It also got him into the hospital after performing a stunt in which he fell through a glass canopy Read More

Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain

Actors: Yuen Biao

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark spins this lavishly designed fantasy epic featuring some of the most cutting edge, oft-imitated special effects of the day. The film, set in 5th century China, centers on Ti Ming-chi (Yuen Biao) a young innocent from the West Zu army who wandered away from Read More

Golden Queen's Commandos

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Elsa Yeung Wai-san

Fantasy Mission Force

Synopsis: Taiwanese filmmaker Chu Yen-ping directed this typically peculiar (and not too far from insane) action-comedy. It is nominally set during World War II, although it really exists in a world all its own, as references run the gamut from the '40s to the '80s. Hard-bitten Lieutenant Duan Wen (Jimmy Wang Yu Read More

Faster Blade, Poisonous Darts

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Adam Cheng

Synopsis: Chu Yin-Ping directs the Hong Kong martial arts action film Faster Blade Poisonous Darts. Brigitte Lin stars as a woman who is kidnapped. Adam Chang plays the adventurer who attempts to rescue her. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Marigolds