Donnie YenFilmography

Ip Man

Actors: Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Fan Siu-Wong, Xiong Dailin, Wong You-nam

Synopsis: Behind ever great man there lies a teacher, and this was certainly true of Bruce Lee, who claimed as his mentor a martial arts expert named Ip Man (1893-1972). A genius of Wushu (or the Chinese martial arts school), Ip Man grew up in a China nearly ripped to pieces by racial hatred Read More

An Empress and the Warriors

Actors: Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai, Guo Xiaodong, Kou Zhenhai

Synopsis: Two very different men vie for the affection of a beautiful and powerful woman in this historical epic from Hong Kong. During the Era of the Warring States, two rival kingdoms are fighting for control of China, the Yan and the Zhao. Muyong Xuehu (Donnie Yen) is leader of the Yan armies and guides Read More

Painted Skin

Actors: Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Sun Li

Synopsis: This action-fantasy opus from Hong Kong director Gordon Chan - a co-production of Hong Kong, China and Singapore with a predominantly Chinese cast - represents at least the third screen incarnation of a famous macabre Asian short story from the Qing Dynasty. (Prior versions emerged in 1966 and Read More

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

Crew: Martial Arts Instructor/Coordinator

Actors: Sarah Bolger, Alex Pettyfer, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: An outwardly ordinary teenager finds himself suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances upon discovering that his entire youth was part of an elaborate plan to create the perfect super spy in director Geoffrey Sax's action-packed adaptation of author Anthony Horowitz's best-selling series of Read More

Dragon Tiger Gate

Crew: Action Director, Co-producer, Director, Fights Choreographer, Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Dong Jie, Li Xiao-ran

Synopsis: SPL collaborators Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip join forces once again for this high-energy adaptation of Wong Yuk-Ling's popular manga Dragon and Tiger Heroes. The Dragon Tiger Gate is a Hong Kong martial arts dojo co-founded by the descendents of Dragon (Yen) and Tiger (Nicholas Tse). Separated as Read More

Seven Swords

Actors: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Young, Sun Hong-Lei, Lu Yi-ching

Synopsis: Tsui Hark (The Blade) adapted his massive martial arts epic Seven Swords (AKA Qi Jian) from Liang yu-Sheng's ravenously popular novel Seven Swordsmen from Mount Tian. The story opens in the 1660s, following the implementation of China's (Manchu) Qing dynasty. To quell possible nationalist Read More

Kill Zone

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Wu Jing, Liu Kai-chi

Synopsis: An ailing veteran cop whose relentless determination to do away with an untouchable gangster has led him to employ a series of unethical tactics finds his investigation complicated by the arrival of principled new inspector and the death of a fellow cop in this explosive underworld tale from Skyline Cruisers Read More

The Huadu Chronicles: Blade of the Rose

Actors: Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Donnie Yen, Jaycee Chan, Wilson Chen

Shanghai Knights

Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Aaron Johnson, Tom Fisher, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: East and West team up to take on bad guys in the British Empire in this sequel to the action comedy hit Shanghai Noon. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), once an Imperial Guard in China, is now the Sheriff of Carson City, NV, while his onetime cohort, former train robber Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), scrapes Read More

The Twins Effect

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Ekin Cheng

Synopsis: A powerful, age-old bloodsucker attempts to gather the blood essence that will enable him to walk in daylight -- and the only thing standing between his success and the forthcoming age of darkness is a trio of skilled vampire slayers in director Dante Lam's The Twins Effect. Top agent Reeve (Ekin Cheng Read More

Hero

Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak of their Warring States period, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. Most determined to dominate China was the kingdom of Qin, whose Read More

Blade II

Crew: Fights Choreographer

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Four years after scoring a box-office touchdown with Blade (1998), actor Wesley Snipes returns to portray the Marvel Comics character again in this sequel that teams him with Mexican horror director Guillermo del Toro. A half-vampire, half-human hybrid, Blade (Snipes) is a merciless vampire hunter Read More

The Princess Blade

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Hideaki Ito, Yumiko Shaku, Shiro Sano, Yoichi Namata, Kyusaka Shimada

Synopsis: Based on a manga series, this science fiction-adventure is set in a near future in which Japan is governed by a monarchy who use a highly trained band of samurai-style assassins known as the House of Takemikazuchi to suppress a fierce band of rebels. Yuki (Yumiko Shaku), a lethal young female Read More

Iron Monkey

Actors: Yu Rongguang, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Tsang Sze Man, Yuen Shun-Yi

Synopsis: This kung fu classic weaving fact and myth earned a theatrical release in the U.S. from Miramax eight years after it was produced, following a successful retrospective screening at the 2001 Los Angeles Film Festival. Wong Kei Ying (Donnie Yen) is a master of the Hung Gar style of boxing in Read More

Highlander: Endgame

Crew: Martial Arts Instructor/Coordinator

Actors: Adrian Paul, Christopher Lambert, Bruce Payne, Lisa Barbuscia, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: In this fantasy adventure tale, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and his kinsman Duncan (Adrian Paul) are "Immortals," members of a secret clan who can be killed only through decapitation. Connor and Duncan find themselves thrown into a tournament where Immortals both good and evil battle one Read More

Ballistic Kiss

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Donnie Yen, Annie Wu, Jimmy Wong, Simon Yu-Yeung Lui, Yu Rongguang

Synopsis: Martial arts star Donnie Yen serves as producer, director and leading man of this stylish Hong Kong crime drama. Cat (played by Yen) is a killer for hire who is eager to leave the business, but agrees to one last hit to get even with a former friend who turned on him when they were both police Read More

Shanghai Affairs

Synopsis: A famished peasant who has inadvertently mastered the lethal art of king fu sparks a brutal gang war in a hard-hitting martial arts adventure starring Hong Kong superstar Donnie Yen. In addition to contributing to the fall of Fuehein's two most feared gangs, lowly peasant Tangsan has also aided in Read More

Legend of the Wolf

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Donnie Yen, Carman Lee, Wong Chi Wah, Lam Kwok-pang, Leung Hon-man

Synopsis: Chinese-American martial arts performer Donnie Yen directed, co-scripted, and stars in this tale providing background on the initial meeting of the legendary assassin Wolf and his sidekick. Flashbacks are set in a Canton community of the late '40s where a local bandit chief threatens WW II Read More

Shaolin vs.The Devil's Omen

Actors: Donnie Yen

Synopsis: Lam Wai-lun directs this supernatural crime thriller about Judas (Francis Ng Chun-yu), a psychopathic killer who stalks women born on June 6, 1969 and cuts out their hearts to check whether or not they are agents of Satan. Naturally, the police takes a dim view of this mode of inquiry and summons Read More

Iron Monkey 2

Actors: Donnie Yen

Synopsis: In this sequel to the martial arts cult classic Iron Monkey, Cool Head (Chen Kwun Tai) is a Kung Fu master and strong-arm man with the Monkey Fist. With a beautiful warrior (Judy Lee) at his side, Cool Head is sent out to vanquish a team of hired killers who intend to topple the government. Iron Read More

Fist of Fury: Sworn Revenge

Actors: Donnie Yen, Eddy Ko

Synopsis: After their parents are murdered by bandits, Chen Jun (Donnie Yen) and his younger sister are forced to journey to Shanghai in order to raise enough money to rebuild their homes. Neither of them, particularly Chen, realized just how dangerous city life could be. Chen quickly finds himself the Read More

High Voltage

Actors: Donnie Yen, Yu Rongguang

Synopsis: This entertaining Hong Kong crime film from director Leung Tung Ni manages to enhance its predictable plot with some strong action sequences and a fair amount of tension. Donnie Yen stars as a police officer who chases a ruthless criminal across international borders to avenge the murder of his Read More

Fist of Fury

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Donnie Yen

Synopsis: Prepare for the hardest hitting martial arts action since Bruce Lee as Donnie Yen reprises the role made famous by the tragic screen legend in this made-for-television effort inspired by Lee's timeless classic Fist of Fury. As the dejected citizens of Shanghai cower in fear of the Japanese Read More

Wing Chun

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: Wing Chun is a martial-arts film with an unusual feminist bent, inspired by a true historical figure. In 19th-century China, a pack of bandits attacks a remote village, attempting to kidnap a beautiful young widow named Charmy. However, they are foiled by Yim Wing Chun, a local tofu-shop owner who Read More

Kung Fu Master

Actors: Donnie Yen

Synopsis: From acclaimed action director/star Donnie Yen comes this action-packed martial-arts classic featuring one of the most beloved heroes in Chinese cinema. For as far back as he can recall, nationalist martial-arts expert Hung Hei-Kwun (Yen) has idolized mysterious Sun Moon Sect leader "Red Dragon" Read More

Circus Kids

Actors: Donnie Yen, Yuen Biao, Irene Wan

Synopsis: Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Wu Ma directed and acted in this standard martial-arts actioner about a circus troupe which is chased out of Shanghai after the attacking Japanese force destroys their circus in 1942. Master Shen's Shanfu Circus moves to Canton, China, but can't get any work and are Read More

Cheetah On Fire

Synopsis: Thomas Yip directed this low-budget Hong Kong action film shot back-to-back with Crystal Hunt and utilizing many of the same actors and locations. Sharla Cheung stars as Peggy, a CIA agent who joins the Hong Kong police in chasing fugitive convict Tong Yiang (Shing Fui-on). Tong is quite the hot Read More

Butterfly Sword

Actors: Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh (aka Michelle Khan) began her comeback bid with this flamboyant Hong Kong action film from director Michael Mak and choreographer Ching Siu-tung. Based on a novel by Ku Long, previously filmed in 1976 as Killer Clans, the film stars Yeoh as Sister Ko, part of the Happy Forest clan Read More

Heroes Among Heroes

Actors: Yuen Kit, Ying Ng, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: As officer Lam Che Chu (Fong Pao) and Wong Fei Hong (Yuk Wong) join forces to fight a gang of determined opium smugglers, Beggar So Chen (Kwan Hoi-Shan) takes on the dreaded Fire Lotus Gang in this martial-arts classic from Drunken Master director Yuen Woo Ping. As the tireless trio do their best Read More

Once Upon a Time in China II

Actors: David Chiang, Yee Kwan Yan, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: It is 1895 in Canton, China. The Europeans are still milking the country for every dollar they can and claiming special privileges in it, as well. Meanwhile, the virulently anti-foreign White Lotus Society is mounting attacks on the generally clueless British, with the very obvious but low-key Read More

Crystal Hunt

Actors: Donnie Yen, Sibelle Hu

Synopsis: This standard Hong Kong action film from director Pak Lam Chui was filmed in Thailand using much of the same cast and crew as the contemporaneous Cheetah on Fire. Carrie Ng stars as Lisa Li, who gathers an expedition to seek out the legendary Gold Crystal God, which, according to the local Read More

Holy Virgin Vs. the Evil Dead

Tiger Cage 2

Actors: Donnie Yen

Synopsis: In this name-only sequel to the 1988 Tiger Cage, Hong Kong cop Dragon Yau (Donnie Yen Chi-tan) is having a truly bad day: His wife is demanding a divorce, he is almost killed in a bloody robbery attempt, and he gets thrown from a speeding ambulance. Worse still, he finds himself not only framed Read More

In the Line of Duty 4

Actors: Cynthia Yang Li-ching, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: Cynthia Yang Li-chang stars again in this fourth installment of the popular series directed by Yuen Woo-ping. The film opens with straight arrow American longshoreman Luk Wan-ting (Yuen Yat-chor) stumbling into a police raid, in which he gets blamed for a DEA agent's death. Now a murder suspect Read More

Drunken Tai-Chi

Actors: Donnie Yen, Wang Tao

Synopsis: Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Yuen Woo-ping directed this amusing martial arts spoof which marked the film debut of popular genre actor Donnie Yen. Yen plays Chin Dao, an unruly rascal who continually runs headlong into trouble. After causing the son of a local boss to lose face, Chin Dao compounds Read More