Chow Yun-Fat Filmography

The Children of Huang Shi

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, David Wenham

Synopsis: As China is ravaged by war in the late '30s, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) leads 60 orphans over the Liu Pan Shan mountains and into the safety of the Mongolian desert. Joining the journalist and the children on their arduous journey are an American nurse (Radha Mitchell Read More

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Actors: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport

Synopsis: Director Gore Verbinski and the crew set sail once again for this, the third chapter in the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is hopelessly trapped in Davy Jones's locker after a harrowing encounter with the dreaded Kracken, and now Will Turner (Orlando Bloom Read More

Curse of the Golden Flower

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye, Chen Jin

Synopsis: A dying love between two powerful people leads to deceit, infidelity, and conspiracy in this epic-scale historical drama from director Zhang Yimou. During the latter days of the Tang dynasty, the Emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) returns home from the war with his son Prince Jai (Jay Chou) in tow. However Read More

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

Actors: Siqin Gaowa, Chow Yun-Fat, Lisa Lu, Shi Ke, Vicki Zhao Wei

Synopsis: An elderly woman discovers her trusting nature is a severe disadvantage in the 21st century in this comedy drama from Chinese filmmaker Ann Hui. Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa) was born and raised in Manchuria, but came to Shanghai to seek her fortune years ago. Now in her early sixties and once again Read More

Bulletproof Monk

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden

Synopsis: A monk and a pickpocket become unlikely allies in this action adventure story. Sixty years ago, a nameless monk (Chow Yun-Fat) was appointed the guardian of a mysterious scroll that grants remarkable powers to those who possess it. After six decades of traveling the world to protect the scroll Read More

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-Pei

Synopsis: Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. In the early 19th century, martial arts master Li Mu Read More

Anna and the King

Actors: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi

Synopsis: The true story of Anna Leonowens' experiences as a governess to the children of an eccentric Asian king has been adapted into a book of memoirs, a biography, a stage play called Anna and the King of Siam -- which was adapted into a 1946 film, a stage musical called The King and I -- made into both Read More

The Corruptor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg, Ric Young, Paul Ben-Victor, Jon Kit Lee

Synopsis: Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) was the first Chinese-born immigrant in the NYPD, and is now one of the force's most decorated officers. As such, he's been named leader of the city's Asian Gang Unit, who are the primary peacekeepers in Chinatown. Trouble has just arrived for the Triads, the Read More

The Replacement Killers

Actors: Carlos Gomez, Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth Tsang, Danny Trejo

Synopsis: Music video and TV commercials director Antoine Fuqua made his feature directorial debut with this action thriller starring Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat. Chinese immigrant John Lee (Yun-Fat) has a violent past as a professional killer. It brings him only remorse, but it makes him the ideal Read More

The Peace Hotel

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: A criminal, known only as "The King of Killers" (Chow Yun-Fat, in a possible nod to his famous role as the God of Gamblers), is guilt-ridden over his violent past and establishes the Peace Hotel, a refuge with a promise of sanctuary to those in need. When he takes in a woman with a troubled past Read More

God of Gamblers' Return

Actors: Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Charles Heung, Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Hong Kong action superstar Chow Yun Fat returns as the God Of Gamblers, whose planned retirement from gaming comes to a halt when an unscrupulous rival tries to take his title. Also stars Tony Leung. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Treasure Hunt

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Jeff Lau directs this action flick cum romantic comedy. The film centers on CIA agent Jeff Chang (Chow Yun-fat) who is assigned to steal a Chinese national treasure, even though he is not told what this treasure might be. He meets his contact Tong Ling (Chin Han) who instructs him to hold up in a Read More

Hard-Boiled

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Bowie Lam, Philip Chan, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kwan Hoi-Shan

Synopsis: Hard-Boiled is the last film directed by Hong Kong action auteur John Woo before his arrival in the U.S. This 1992 thriller, along with The Killer, is widely seen as one of his best from his Hong Kong days. Every ingredient of the quintessential Woo thriller is present, including his ever-present Read More

Full Contact

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Another entry into the "cheer for the most likeable bad guy" series of Hong Kong action flicks, Full Contact tells the oft-told tale of betrayal and revenge, but serves it up as a potent cocktail of Western convention mixed with the trademarked Hong Kong style. When Jeff's (Hong Kong superstar Read More

Prison on Fire II

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Ringo Lam follow up on his smash-hit prison flick. In this go around, the Stanley prison is in the throes of an ugly turf war between native Hong Kong cons and Mainlanders. Chung (Chow Yun-fat) befriends Brother Dragon (Chen Sung-yung), the boss of the Mainland inmates, allowing him better Read More

Once a Thief

Actors: Kenneth Tsang, Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung

Synopsis: For this 1991 action comedy from Hong Kong, director John Woo took a break from his ultraviolent thrillers; it was made a year after Bullet in the Head, and a year before Hard-Boiled. Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung portray a trio of orphans who have grown to become art thieves. When Read More

Wild Search

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Lau Kong

Synopsis: Action flick auteur Ringo Lam directs this crime thriller loosely based on Peter Weir's 1985 classic Witness. Lau (Chow Yun-fat), along with his partner, Nam (Tommy Wong Kwang-leung), are investigating a band of gun runners when they get caught in a shoot out that kills their lead suspect and Read More

All for the Winner

Actors: Stephen Chow, Ng Man Tat

Synopsis: This low-budget knockoff of God of Gamblers succeeds primarily due to an exuberant star-making turn from Stephen Chiau as Shing, a rube from the Chinese mainland who comes to Hong Kong to visit his uncle, Blackie Tat (Ng Man-tat). Blackie isn't thrilled about his nephew's visit until he learns Read More

God of Gamblers

Actors: Joey Wong, Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau

Synopsis: This 1989 thriller, directed by Jing Wong, resurrected the subgenre of the Hong Kong gambling film. Do San (Chow Yun-Fat) is a slick professional gambler on a seemingly endless winning streak. On his way to defeat a rival in a card game, Do's streak comes to a close when a head injury leaves him Read More

All About Ah Long

Synopsis: Future action spectacular maestro Johnny To spins this melodrama based loosely on divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer. Former motorcycle racer Long (Chow Yun-fat) supports his young son Porky (Wong Kwan-yuen) working as a lowly construction worker. Though they struggle to get by, Long and his son live Read More

Triads: The Inside Story

Synopsis: Taylor Wong Tai-loi spins this gangster yarn featuring Chow Yun-Fat. Though he has made a conscious attempt at leading the straight and narrow life, Man-ho (Yun-Fat) is obliged to take the helm of the Hung Hing clan after his crime boss father is murdered. With the gang in complete disarray after Read More

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

The Killer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kenneth Tsang, Chu Kong

Synopsis: Though John Woo's lifelong admiration of Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick are also evident in this stylish actioner, the film is essentially a tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville and his cult thriller Le Samouraï. During a restaurant shoot-out, hitman Jeff (Chow Read More

City War

Synopsis: This Hong Kong crime thriller stars Chow Yun-Fat and Ti Lung as two cops who must hunt down Chu, a crime boss who has just been released from prison and is out for revenge against the mismatched partners. It's difficult to determine exactly who is chasing whom as Chu makes an attempt on the family Read More

Diary of a Big Man

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Internationally renowned filmmaker Tsui Hark produced this amiable screwball romantic comedy from Hong Kong director Chor Yuen. Popular action star Chow Yun-fat plays Chow Ting-fat, a stockbroker who is in love with two different women. Joey (Joey Wang) is a beautiful boutique owner and Sally Read More

Goodbye My Friend

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Tiger on Beat

Actors: Conan Lee

Synopsis: Lau Kar-leung directs this action-comedy yarn about lazy police veteran Francis Li (Chow Yun-fat) and his eager beaver partner Michael Cho (Conan Lee Yeun-ba). The two are assigned to investigate the murder of a drug dealer who was known to be associated with crime boss Johnny Law (Norman Tsui Siu-keung Read More

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

A Better Tomorrow II

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu, Waise Lee

Synopsis: Following the bloody climax of the previous film, A Better Tomorrow -- again directed by John Woo -- opens with Sung Chi-hi (spelled Tse-ho in the first film though still played by Ti Lung) getting released from jail on the condition that he rat out his gangland associate and a shipyard owner Read More

Fractured Follies

Eighth Happiness

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To directed this all-star holiday comedy, another in a string of popular Lunar New Year entertainments for actor/producer Raymond Wong, who engineered the similar All's Well, Ends Well series. As usual, the plot line is just an excuse for a series of amusing cameos and Read More

Cherry Blossoms

Synopsis: Hong Kong director Eddie Fong was frustrated with the final cut of this intelligent but troubled film which began life as a Shaw Brothers production in 1985 but found its way to Golden Harvest (which added nude scenes) when the original studio folded. The film deals with the life of Chinese writer Read More

The Romancing Star

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Eric Tsang, Maggie Cheung, Chan Pak-cheung

Synopsis: One misunderstanding after another seems to plague the efforts of Fred, Silver, and Tony in this romantic comedy. Away on vacation, the three run into two beautiful young women named Agnes and Maggie who are strolling down the beach and, by all appearances, seem quite wealthy. All three men are Read More

Code of Honor

Synopsis: The ganglord Ho has many loyal followers, thanks to his skill in showering his troops with praise and tangible thanks, giving them much honor in the process. However, in this violent movie, three of his senior associates have been picked up by the police on serious charges, and it is beginning to Read More

Flaming Brothers

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Two close brothers (Alan Tang and Chow Yun-Fat) grow up and go their separate ways. One of them (Yun-Fat) gets married and settles down, while the other (Tang) goes into business with a local triad (organized crime family). When a rival triad tries to muscle in on his business and threatens his Read More

Rich and Famous

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Man Chi Leung, Andy Lau, Alan Tam

Synopsis: Taylor Wong delivers this gangster saga about brotherhoood and betrayal. Bumptious, ill-tempered Yung (Man Chi-leung) has run up a huge gambling debt is about to get his finger loped off for non-payment until his more levelheaded brother, Kwok (Andy Lau), intercedes. When Yung's troubles become Read More

Prison on Fire

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Roy Cheung

Synopsis: Ringo Lam delivers this two-fisted gritty thriller written by his brother Nam Yin. Timid Lo Ka-yiu (Tony Leung Kar-fai) is thrown in the clink for a three-year stint after being convicted of manslaughter. Possessing none of the requisite instincts to survive in a maximum-security prison, Lo looks Read More

My Will, I Will

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: In order to keep her fortune based on American oil-company stocks, the extremely beautiful woman played by actress Do Do Cheng must somehow become pregnant with an heir. Fortunately, she runs into the very charming lad played by Chow Yun-Fat, and it begins to look like she can kiss her fears of Read More

An Autumn's Tale

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Chan

Synopsis: Mabel Chueng directs this wildly popular romantic comedy featuring Chow Yun-fat. With two years worth of savings and starry-eyed ambitions of being an actor, Jennifer Lee (Cherie Chung) leaves her comfortable home in Hong Kong for more modest digs in New York City, above the abode of her bumptious Read More

Tragic Hero

Synopsis: Taylor Wong Tai-loi directs this sequel to his gangster epic Rich and Famous. With crime boss Chai (Chow Yun-fat) now a successful legitimate businessman, Yung (Man Chi-leung) wants to kill him more now than ever. While Chai tries to negotiate gangland peace, Yung steady kills off every competitor Read More

City on Fire

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Sun Yueh, Danny Lee, Carrie Ng, Roy Cheung

Synopsis: This tense Hong Kong crime thriller is known best as the film upon which Quentin Tarantino borrowed heavily for his 1992 debut, Reservoir Dogs. Those who criticized the American director for lack of originality have perhaps missed the point. In the highly commercialized, formulaic crime genre of Read More

Hearty Response

Synopsis: A tough detective fights for the freedom of an illegal immigrant in this action-packed Hong Kong thriller starring Chow Yun Fat. When Detective Bond accidentally harms an illegal immigrant named San during a routine police operation, his guilty conscience prompts him to invite her back to his home Read More

Love Unto Waste

Actors: Irene Wan, Elaine Jin, Tsai Chin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Billie (Irene Wan) is a beautiful model who falls for Tony (Tony Leung) in this engaging crime drama. The playboy son of a wealthy rice merchant, Tony has a penchant for nightclubs and drinking when his daily work with his father is complete. Jade Screen (Elaine Jin) is a starlet who comes home to Read More

100 Ways to Murder Your Wife

Synopsis: Two football players currently stuck in unhappy marriages concoct a foolproof method of murdering their wives in a pitch black sports comedy starring Kenny Bee, Chow Yun Fat, and Anita Mui. Bee's wife is always making a spectacle of herself, and when she chastises her successful husband in front Read More

A Better Tomorrow

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung, Young Pao I

Synopsis: John Woo established himself as one of Hong Kong's premiere action directors with this ultra-hip, ultra-violent action classic. The film centers around the complex relationship between two brothers: Sung Tse-kit (Leslie Cheung) is a recent graduate of the police academy while Tse-ho (Ti Lung) runs Read More

The Lunatics

Actors: Deanie Yip, Chow Yun-Fat, John Sham, Chun Pui

Synopsis: An exceptional and at times disturbing drama, Lunatics is among the top-grossing films of all time in Hong Kong. The somewhat fact-based tale centers on a social worker's attempts to help the mentally ill people who furtively live and work on the teeming city streets. As the story opens, Fung the 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

Rose

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Yeung Fan writes and directs this melodrama about Rose (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a beautiful orphaned teenager who has boys pursuing her by the boatload. When she decides to study in France, her overly protective brother Charles (Chow Yun-fat) begs her to return to Hong Kong. Instead, she marries Read More

The Seventh Curse

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau

Synopsis: What do a cannibalistic, flying-demon baby, a spine-sucking Worm-tribe god, a blood curse that can only be cured by eating a nipple, and Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun Fat have in common? If you guessed they are all elements of one of the most outrageous and bizarre Hong Kong films of the 1980s, you Read More

Women

Actors: Cora Miao, Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Not everyone would agree with the premise of this standard story of female bonding -- that divorced or single women are secretly longing for a male relationship -- but the camaraderie of the "Happy Spinsters Club" and the life of the heroine Liang Bo-yi (Cora Miao) are not as controversial. Read More

Witch from Nepal

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Noted action director Ching Siu-tang spins this wild and woolly supernatural romantic thriller. Joe Wong (Chow Yun-fat) is an architect, who, while on vacation in Nepal with his lady friend, Ida (Yammie Nam Kit-yang), gets thrown from an elephant, injuring his leg. While convalescing in a Read More

Spiritual Love

Synopsis: Directed by Taylor Tai-Loi, this supernatural love story stars Chow Yun-fat as an amiable n'er do well with a grumpy girlfriend with a very unique quality--namely, the fact that she's been dead for quite sometime. Complications ensue when the her husband, also dead, leaves Hell in the form of a Read More

Hong Kong 1941

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip, Man Chi Leung

Synopsis: This melodrama is one of many that have embraced the period setting of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Chow Yun-Fat, in an award-winning performance, plays a poor worker at a small rice shop. He befriends a rickshaw driver (Alex Mann) who falls in love with the shop Read More

The Occupant

Love in a Fallen City

Actors: Cora Miao, Chow Yun-Fat, Helen Ma

Synopsis: The time is the late 1930s and a pending war with the Japanese forms a part of the epic setting for a fashionable and old-fashioned love affair between a once-wealthy widow and divorcée (Cora Miao) newly arrived in Hong Kong and a rich Chinese playboy educated at Cambridge. The epic treatment of Read More

Last Affair

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Set designer Tony Au Ding-ping makes his directorial debut in this stylish romantic drama set in Paris. While venturing to France, Ha-ching (Carol Cheng Yu-ling) visits her old school chum, Bing (Pat Ha Man-chik), who is engaged to be married. While on the subway, she is approached by Hong Kong Read More

Blood Money

Synopsis: Wong Shu-tong spins this family drama about life on the set of kung-fu flicks, featuring a young Chow Yun-Fat. Bullet (Chow) is the youngest and best performer in a family stunt outfit that is barely staying afloat. Bullet's older brother Chin lacks the ability of his younger sibling and his Read More

Long Goodbye

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Rosamund Kwan, Philip Chan, Dolly Carpio, Or Chung Heung

Synopsis: Chow Yun Fat, star of many a John Woo actioner, is top-billed in Long Goodbye. Alternately known as Hunting Heads, this is the story of a vengeance-motivated hit man. His methods are unorthodox, not to mention gruesome. The film is alternately known as The Head Hunter. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Read More

God of Killers

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Lo Lieh

Synopsis: Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-Fat landed one of his first starring roles in this somber military drama. Wu Viet (Yun-Fat) is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand Read More

The Postman Fights Back

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Chow Yun-Fat stars in this historical drama from Hong Kong. During the Republican era in China, warlords divided the nation and fighting was fierce. But while many of the best soldiers could command a handsome fee for their services, the greatest warrior of them all was a man who would not fight Read More

Police Sir

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: A young still relatively unknown Chow Yun Fat stars in this low-budget critically panned police action-comedy. Fresh out of the academy, straight-laced and obtuse rookie cop Chu quickly lands in hot water when his integrity and by-the-book manner gets his colleagues in trouble. When he Read More

Killers Two

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat