Leon LaiFilmography

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

The Matrimony

Actors: Leon Lai, Rene Liu, Fan Bingbing, Xu Songzi, Zheng Yuzhi

Synopsis: Chinese director Hua Tao-Teng's Mandarin-language gothic horror picture The Matrimony (AKA Xin zhong you gui) unfurls in Shanghai, during the 1920s, when the fiancée of wealthy Junchu is killed in a bizarre accident. Junchu allows his mother to talk and pressure him into marrying Sansan, another 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

Moonlight in Tokyo

Synopsis: Abandoned by his family on a trip to Tokyo and desperate to be loved, a fragile simpleton enters into a curious business agreement with a former classmate whose lingering debt to the yakuza has driven him to desperate measures in a hilarious tale of love and swindling from the producers of Infernal Affairs Read More

Leaving Me, Loving You

Actors: Leon Lai, Faye Wong

Synopsis: When two former lovers are brought back together by fate, their one chance to rekindle romance becomes more complicated than either could have ever anticipated. Zhou Qian (Leon Lai) is an outpatient doctor who works the streets of Shanghai from his SUV. His girlfriend Xin Xiaoyue (Faye Wong) is a Read More

Infernal Affairs III

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Chen Daoming, Kelly Chen

Synopsis: Infernal Affairs III picks up where the first film left off. Ming (Andy Lau) is cleared of any charges involving Yan's (Tony Leung) death, and is eventually assigned to the Internal Affairs division. He discovers that another cop, Yeung (Leon Lai of Fallen Angels), quickly rising through the ranks Read More

Dream of a Warrior

Synopsis: The time travel drama Dream of a Warrior stars Leon Lai as Dean, a police officer who must travel back in time to save Rose, the daughter of the time machine's inventor. Making matters more difficult is that fact that the brave man loves Rose, who is stuck in the past...and the time machine Read More

Three

Actors: Kim Hye-su, Jung Bo-Seog, Moon Jung-Hee, Park Hee-Soon, Jang Jun-Won

Synopsis: Three constitutes an omnibus package of three short horror films made by Asian directors. "Memories," made by Kim Ji-Woon, is about a woman (Kim Hye-Soo) who disappears from the home she shares with her husband (Jung Bo-Seog) and children, and ends up in a futuristic city filled with many Read More

Everyday is Valentine

Actors: Leon Lai, Cecilia Cheung, Ng Man Tat, Yuen King-tan

Bullets of Love

Synopsis: Hong Kong superstar director Andrew Lau (Storm Riders, Infernal Affairs III) brings his action flair to the screen once again with Bullets of Love, a tale of lust and deceit between a police officer and an assassin that killed his fiancé. Sam (Leon Lai) and Ann (Asaka Seto) are on a romantic Read More

San Tau Chi Saidoi

Actors: Leon Lai, Jordan Chan, Shu Qi, Sam Lee

Synopsis: A team of adventurers are out to save the world in this tongue-in-cheek action comedy from Hong Kong. Mac (Leon Lai), Michelle (Michelle Saram), Bird (Jordan Chan), and Sam (Sam Lee) are the Skyline Cruisers, a team of elite, super-intelligent, crime-fighting secret agents who are called in for Read More

Yijian Zhongqing

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Valerie Chow, Eric Kot, Leon Lai

Synopsis: One of Asia's most popular screen stars, Maggie Cheung stars in this romance about two Chinese 30-somethings living in California. Ellen (Cheung) is a single mother who works as a cabby; Mike (Cantonese pop star Leon Lai) is a computer genius who owns a struggling dot com. The two exchange glances Read More

A Hero Never Dies

Actors: Leon Lai, Lau Ching-Wan, Fiona Leung, Yo Yo Mung, Fong Ping

Synopsis: In this action thriller from Hong Kong, Jack (Leon Lai) and Martin (Lau Ching-wan) are gunmen who work for two rival kingpins, Yam (Yam Sai-koon) and Fong (Fong Ping). Jack and Martin have been warring on their bosses' behalf for close to a year, but when the two factions declare a truce, the Read More

Bolei Chi Sing

Actors: Leon Lai, Shu Qi, Nicola Cheung, Daniel Wu, Eason Chan

Synopsis: A romantic drama, Bolei chi sing/City Of Glass begins with a car crash, in which Raphael (Leon Lai) and Vivian (Shu Qui) are killed in London on New Year's Eve. The two were lovers, but both were married to other people. Raphael's son and Vivian's daughter, both adults, meet in Hong Kong to Read More

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Synopsis: Destiny brings two people together, but they aren't sure if they're meant to be friends or lovers in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1986, Xiaojun (Leon Lai) arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, full of dreams about life in the big city and determined to make enough money to send for his Read More

God of Gamblers 3: The Early Stage

Synopsis: A prequel to the two previous entries in the God of Gamblers saga, this drama follows the apprenticeship of the unbeatable cardsharp Ko Chun. The story begins as his stepfather Kent, one of the world's greatest gamblers, enters him in a competition and then betrays him by arranging things so his Read More

Killing Me Tenderly

Actors: Sammi Cheng, Leon Lai

Synopsis: Lee Lik-chi directs this knockoff of the 1992 Whitney Houston smash The Bodyguard. Pop superstar Cindy (Sammi Cheng Sau-man) realizes that she needs some help when some loonball hurls a box full of live tarantulas at her during a PR appearance. She soon learns that she has received a number of Read More

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

Fallen Angels

Actors: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok

Synopsis: Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is a sequel of sorts to the director's 1994 U.S. breakthrough Chungking Express. Expanding on the latter's style, themes, and mood, Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong. As with the filmmaker's other features, plot takes a back seat Read More

Love and the City

Synopsis: Like a fine soup, this Hong Kong film offers a deft blend of several film genres to tell the story of an unlucky ex-con and the woman he loves. Having just been released from prison, Wu returns to the home of his widowed father. He is the classical angry young man; much of his anger stems from his 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

The Sword of Many Loves

Actors: Leon Lai, Cheung Man, Michelle Reis

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler a handsome, lovestruck swordsman must battle it out with the power-mad father of his one true love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

City Hunter

Actors: Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This 1992 film is a live-action version of a popular Japanese comic book and animated series, transformed into a vehicle for international action hero Jackie Chan. Ryu Saeba (Chan), a womanizing private detective, is hired to find the runaway daughter of a wealthy businessman. Ryu's pursuit of the Read More