Jacky CheungFilmography

Ashes of Time Redux

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie 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 Hong Read More

Perhaps Love

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Zhou Xun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ji Jin-hee, Eric Tsang

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Peter Chan takes the helm for this lavish, award winning musical concerning the love triangle between a handsome actor, his beautiful co-star, and a talented film director. Lin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and his ex-lover Sun (Zhou Xun) are shooting a movie for celebrated director Nie Read More

Days of Being Wild

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau

Synopsis: Following up on his debut As Tears Go By, master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs this dark, brooding tale about identity and unrequited love. Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not Read More

Lung Gam Wai 2003

Actors: Ronald Cheng, Stephy Tang, Sam Lee, Cheung Tat-Ming, Law Kar-ying

Synopsis: A spoiled rich boy and his two unruly friends are enrolled in Police Cadet training school to hilarious results in this Hong Kong comedy starring popular actor/singer Ronald Cheng. Lung (Cheng) is a rowdy brat with no sense of respect or responsibility, and his father has grown increasingly Read More

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

Anna Magdalena

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Aaron Kwok, Kelly Chen, Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen

Synopsis: This Hong Kong comedy of relationships is based on composer J.S. Bach's "The Songbook of Anna Magdalena Bach" and is divided into four "movements," each of which presents a sticky romantic situation for the story's three protagonists: Chan (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a piano tuner; his roommate Yau (Aaron Kwok Read More

High Risk

Actors: Billy Chow, Bobby Yip, Jet Li, Jacky Cheung, Yau Chingmy

Synopsis: This action parody is a Die Hard clone with an interesting twist. Kit (Jet Li) leaves the police force after the death of his family at the hands of a terrorist named "The Doctor." Kit becomes the bodyguard for Frankie (Jacky Cheung), a movie star who is famous for supposedly doing his own daring Read More

The Private Eye Blues

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Kathy Chow, Fan Hsiao-Hsuan, Lee Hiu-Tung

Synopsis: This black comedy satirizes Mainland China and examines the relations between Hong Kong and China as Hong Kong fast approaches its Chinese take-over in 1997. When a strange healer with ESP disappears into Hong Kong, a wealthy mainland business man hires a rumpled, beer-guzzling detective to find 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

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

Best of the Best

Actors: Sammi Cheng, Jacky Cheung, Paul Chun

Synopsis: Herman Yau Lai-to -- who a year later would gain notoriety for his over-the-top brain-munching splatter flick The Untold Story -- spins this quickie ultra-violent crime drama. Dee (Jackie Cheung) is a cop with the elite Special Duty Unit who, while on an assignment to apprehend a band of murderous Read More

Pom Pom & Hot Hot

Actors: Alfred Cheung, Loletta Lee, Jacky Cheung

Synopsis: Joseph Cheung Tung-cho returns to direct this name-only sequel to the popular buddy cop Pom Pom series. In this go around, Shin (Jacky Cheung Hok-yau) and Chiang (Stephen Tung Wai) are happy-go-lucky partners investigating a particularly notorious crime syndicate. Unfortunately, Shin's Mainland Read More

The Wicked City

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis: Peter Mak Tai-kit spins this exuberant, visually dense adaptation from the popular similarly named Japanese anime. The film is set in a world where shape-shifting alien creatures known as Raptors have infiltrated human society. To deal with this problem, Hong Kong has fashioned a secret government Read More

Will of Iron

Synopsis: David Chiang Da-wei spins this maudlin, maladroit crime drama. Jacky (Jacky Cheung) is a junkie cartoonist who owes an obscene amount of money to the mob. Jacky's buddy Michael (Michael Wong Man-tak) -- a drug dealer who is in league with the very thugs whom Jacky is in trouble with -- saves his Read More

Once Upon a Time in China

Actors: Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Kent Cheng

Synopsis: Though generally unknown to Western audiences, Tsui Hark is considered a giant among Asian filmmakers and this exceptional epic, combining hard-hitting martial-arts action with romance, comedy, history, genuine poignance, and sharp insight into the effects of the century-long encroachment of Read More

Raid

Synopsis: Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-ting spin this adventure yarn inspired by old Hollywood adventure serials. Set in the 1930s when China's last emperor Puyi allies himself with the invading Japanese army, the film centers on aged though wily Dr. Choy (Dean Shek) vows to lend his experience and his medical Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story 3

Actors: Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: This is the third in a series of movies featuring creatures from Chinese ghost stories. It begins with a scene from the first movie of the series, which shows the hero in an epic conflict with something called the Tree Devil, which has been put to sleep for a hundred years. Now it is "later," and Read More

Swordsman

Actors: Rosamund Kwan, Michelle Reis, Jacky Cheung

Synopsis: In this martial arts adventure set in the Ming Dynasty, a young swordsman named Fox (Sam Hui) gets involved in a quest for a scroll that contains invaluable secrets of swordsmanship. Many warring factions are after the scroll, and they are more than willing to kill Fox to get it. A conflict with Read More

Bullet in the Head

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam, Fennie Yuen

Synopsis: Following up on his 1989 masterpiece The Killer, superstar action director John Woo directs this emotionally wrenching look at three friends waylaid in war-torn Vietnam. Set in 1967, when clashes between leftists protesting British rule and the police were tearing the colony apart, the film opens Read More

Curry and Pepper

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker-stunt man Blackie Ko directed and starred in this standard buddy comedy with Jacky Cheung and Stephen Chiau as Curry and Pepper, two cops who, despite being almost constant embarrassments to the department, are very good at what they do. Trouble begins when a pretty TV reporter Read More

As Tears Go By

Actors: Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai makes his feature film debut with this gritty romantic crime-drama inspired by Scorsese's Mean Streets. The film opens with young gangster Wah (Andy Lau) getting a visit for the day from his beautiful cousin Ah-Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who is coming into Kowloon from the Read More

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

Tiger Cage

Actors: Jacky Cheung

Synopsis: Director turned hot Hollywood fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping spins this propulsive action-thriller. When officer Hsiu (Leung Kar-yan) successfully cracks into a major drug ring, he is able to arrest everyone except the group's ruthless ringleader, Swatow (Johnny Wang Lung-wei). The following Read More