Leslie CheungFilmography

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

Inner Senses

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Valerie Chow, Waise Lee, Tsui Siu Keung

Synopsis: Visions of the dead haunt a young woman and the psychologist who falls for her in this romantic supernatural thriller from director Lo Chi-Leung. Though psychologist Jim believes that Yan's otherworldly visions have been brought upon by traumatic events in her past, he attempts to cure her and is Read More

Okinawa Rendez-Vous

And I Hate You So

Synopsis: A radio talk-show host who offers romantic advice to his listeners discovers that his harshest critic could also be his greatest love in a tender tale of high profile romance starring Aaron Kwok and Kelly Chen. Zhang is the man that the heartbroken turn to when they're having problems in love; but Read More

Double Tap

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Alex Fong Chung-sun, Ruby Wong, Monica Chan, Vincent Kok

Synopsis: Leslie Cheung stars as a psycho killer in this Hong Kong bullet fest. Nick (Cheung), a former shooting range champion who has been forced to drop his career due to injury, is persuaded to compete again by his girlfriend Colleen (Ruby Wong). Nick's comeback competition is interrupted by a suicidal Read More

Moonlight Express

Actors: Leslie Cheung

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A Time to Remember

Synopsis: When a doctor arrives in 1930's Shanghai to care for an ailing man, he becomes involved in a fierce struggle between the Nationalists and Communists. With romantic entrapments befalling him and a country on the brink of a revolution, the doctor may not be able to hide the past that he is running 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

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Viva Erotica

Actors: Shu Qi

Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed work Full Throttle, Derek Yee Tung-sing made the unusual move of not only collaborating with movie industry unknown Law Chi-leung, but also to make category III sex comedy. After a string of commercial flops, art house director Sing (Leslie Cheung) resorts to making a Read More

Happy Together

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chang Chen

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) are lovers from Hong Read More

Who's the Woman, Who's the Man

Crew: Second Unit Director

Synopsis: Following up on his wildly popular gender bending comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Peter Chan Ho-sun picks up immediately where the original left off. Chi-wing (Anita Yuen Wing-yee) -- a young lass who dressed like a man to grab the attention of songwriter Sam (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) -- has Read More

Shanghai Grand

Synopsis: Gangsters abound in this lively, romantic crime drama that is set in Shanghai during WW II. The tale of Taiwanese patriot Hsu Wen-Chiang begins as he is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ting Lik, a kindly beggar who is desperately in love with Feng Ching-Ching, the daughter of Read More

Temptress Moon

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, He Saifei, Chang Shi

Synopsis: Chen Kaige, the director of the international smash Farewell My Concubine, reunited that film's stars, Gong Li and Leslie Cheung, for this complexly layered, visually spectacular historical epic. Opening in 1911, shortly before the collapse of the Imperial government, Temptress Moon follows the Read More

Chinese Feast

Synopsis: With a marvelously convoluted plot and featuring plenty of slapstick action, Chinese Feast is essentially a kung-fu film with a tasty twist: the combatants battle with knives, not to carve each other up but to make exquisite culinary delicacies. The story's impetus comes from a long-standing feud Read More

He's a Woman, She's A Man

Synopsis: A fan desperately desires to meet her idols in this gender-bending Hong Kong farce. The idols in question are singer Rose and her manager/lover Sam, who copes with his chronic ennui by playing along to Beatles records and dreaming of going to Africa. Wing is the rabid fan. To meet the popular duo Read More

The Phantom Lover

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: The third filmization of the Chinese version of Phantom of the Opera, this Hong Kong operatic melodrama is set in the fatastical burned-out husk of a once glorious opera house located near 1937 Beijing. The tale begins as a homeless theater troupe arrives there and listens to the caretaker 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 Long and Winding Road

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Rosamund Kwan

Synopsis: Gordon Chan Kar-seung spins this comedy about Lam Chiu-wing (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing), an ambitious sleazebag who, at the film's outset, loses his job and his girl on the same day. He crashes with his ne'er-do-well musician friend James (Tony Leung Kar-fai) and subsequently takes advantage of him. Read More

Farewell, My Concubine

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Lu Qi, Ying Da, Ge You

Synopsis: Until Farewell, My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji), not many people were aware that most members of the Peking Opera were originally orphans or illegitimate castaways with nowhere else to turn. Such is the case of the film's protagonists, Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung), two 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

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 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

Arrest the Restless

Synopsis: Highly unusual in that it was intended as a prequel to another film's sequel, this entry in the Lee Rock series depicts events occurring before 1991's Lee Rock II, but after the events in the first film. The story centers on Sergeant Lam Kung (well-known film producer Charles Heung) and his 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

A Chinese Ghost Story 2

Actors: Wu Ma, Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis

Synopsis: This continuation of A Chinese Ghost Story reunites some of the original cast. Ning Leslie Cheung, the wandering scholar from the first film, is mistakenly imprisoned. An old man helps him escape and gives him a medallion for good luck. Ning meets a group of rebels, and the medallion causes them Read More

Fatal Love

Synopsis: A good example of the Hong Kong predilection for slapping together a film as a pastiche of successful elements from other films, this Cinema City production from director Po-Chih Leong credits five different screenwriters. Leslie Cheung stars as Chi Ken-wing (or "Chicken Wing" as he is sometimes 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

Rouge

Actors: Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Man Chi Leung, Emily Chu

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan directs this stunning supernatural melodrama about a passion, romance, and lost history. Fleur (Anita Mui) is a 1930s high-class courtesan who finds herself sucked into a doomed relationship with Twelfth Master Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung), the rakish scion of a Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Wong Tsu Hsien, Wu Ma

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong producer/director Tsui Hark and filmmaker Ching Siutung combine forces in this high-flying supernatural romance classic. Ning Caichen (Leslie Cheung) is a lowly tax collector who takes refuge for the night at the spooky Lam Ro temple. There he encounters and promptly falls in Read More

Last Song in Paris

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Anita Miu, Cecilia Yip

Synopsis: Pop star Leslie Cheung stars in this maudlin melodrama as Louie, a spoiled pop star, who, at the film's outset, sleeps with beautiful dancer Anita (Anita Mui Yim-fong). The next morning, Anita tells Louie of her dream of becoming a singer. That night, Louie invites Anita on-stage and soon a star 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 Intellectual Trio

Actors: Joyce Ngai, Sandy Lam, Billy Lau, Leslie Cheung

Synopsis: Guy Lai Ying-chau directs this romantic crime yarn about a pair of sibling thieves named Pretty Eyes (Joyce Ngai Suk-kwan) and Slanty Eyes (played by pop star Sandy Lam Yik-lin). When the two make the mistake of lightening the wallet of a mob assassin who just got paid for a hit, they find Read More

For Your Heart Only

Actors: Mang Hoi

Synopsis: Aimed squarely at the lowest common teenage denominator, this tale of three young men out for sex does not rise much beyond a junior-high, locker room humor. The aptly-named Piggy Chan (Leslie Chung) shares an apartment with two buddies and makes his living as a disc jockey. His favorite avocation Read More

Behind The Yellow Line

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Burdened by wooden acting and a fragmented storyline, this romantic comedy set against the posh environment of an upper-class Hong Kong elite is about the love that blossoms between a bumbling young man (Leslie Chung) and an attractive woman he meets on the subway (Maggie Cheung). Both would-be Read More

The Drummer

Actors: Leslie Cheung

Synopsis: In this undistinguished tale of a teenager who wants to become a drummer, there is no kung-fu or martial arts of any kind, just the 27-year-old Leslie Cheung as the aspiring teen who eventually gets around his father's objections and starts studying with a Filipino percussion teacher. ~ Eleanor Read More

The Nomad

Actors: Leslie Cheung

Synopsis: Ma (Tong Chung-yip) works as a taxi driver, as a collector for his father whose business is high-interest loans, and in his spare time, as a lifeguard. In that last role, he meets Kathy (Pat Ha), a wealthy woman, and romance blossoms. Meanwhile, Kathy's friend Louis (Leslie Chung) is also at the Read More

Teenage Dreamers

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Chen Pei Hsi

Synopsis: Four teenagers in a wealthy girls' school are involved in the school's production of "Romeo and Juliet," directed by the savvy Jackson (Leslie Cheung) the lead from the boys' school who also plays Romeo. The girls' lead, Juliet, is played by the innocent Ting-ting (Chou Hsai-lan), and she rapidly Read More

Energetic 21

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Eddie Chan, Rowena Cortes

Synopsis: Chan Chuen directed this story about the many problems besetting Hong Kong youth when they reach that "energetic" age of 21. One poor rich kid has parents who do not really care much about him and another suffers under considerable stress, yet another fellow has to live down the stigma of his Read More

Job Hunter

Actors: Danny Chan, Leslie Cheung

Synopsis: Two brothers from an upper-class family (Danny Chan and Paul Chung) and their impoverished school chum (Leslie Chum, no pun intended), slowly discover their adult personas as they go through a series of love interests and adventures. One of the brothers is a budding musician, innocent of heart and Read More

Encore

Actors: Danny Chan, Leslie Cheung

Synopsis: Teen love and angst are at the nexus of this standard comedy-melodrama from director Clifford Choi. Hong Kong singer Danny Chan is the hero who is not only trying to make it through school and into life intact, he has to somehow deal with an uncle who loves his bottle just a little too much (one Read More