Michelle ReisFilmography

Occupation:: Actor

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The City of Lost Souls

Actors: Teah, Michelle Reis, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Koji Kikkawa

Synopsis: The fantastically prolific Takashi Miike directs this dizzyingly stylish thriller -- one of four in the year 2000 alone -- about love, cocaine, and exile. In the film's near-wordless opening, half-Japanese Brazil Mario (Teah) wipes out a room full of his fellow criminals in a bar in Sao Paolo and Read More

2000
Yau Si Tiumo

Actors: Takao Osawa, Shu Qi, Michelle Reis, Kaori Momoi

Synopsis: Renowned director Stanley Kwan spins this parable about post-handover Hong Kong, the second in a trilogy about the former colony that began with Hold You Tight (1998). Inspired from the 1998 "bird flu" that killed several people and prompted authorities to order the wholesale slaughter of that Read More

2000
Healing Hearts

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Michelle Reis, Kenny Bee

Synopsis: Intended as the pilot for a an E.R.-style medical drama set in Hong Kong, Healing Hearts features Tony Leung as Lawrence, a doctor whose personal life has been left in shambles after the tragic hit-and-run death of his wife. As Lawrence sets off to find the driver and bring him to justice, one of Read More

2000
Flowers of Shanghai

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Liu, Jack Kao

Synopsis: Hou Hsiao-hsien (Goodbye South, Goodbye) directed this Taiwanese-Japanese period drama set in the British section brothels of 19th-century Shanghai. Chu Tien-wen's screenplay was adapted from Han Ziyun's 1894 novel Haishang Huia Liezhuang (Biographies of Flowers of Shanghai), translated from the Read More

1998
Young and Dangerous 4

Actors: Cheng Yee-kin, Jordan Chan, Michelle Reis, Karen Mok, Man Chi Leung

Synopsis: Roy Chueng Yiu Yeung was so memorable as a sociopathic supervillian in the previous installment of Young and Dangerous that he returns in this outing as a different character. With the don of the Hung Hing group, Chiang Tin-sung, dead, his underlings journey to Thailand to persuade his brother Read More

1997
Armageddon

Actors: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Michelle Reis

Synopsis: Not to be mistaken for the movie in which a smirking Bruce Willis saves the world, this film, directed by Gordon Chan, is a rare example of a Hong Kong sci-fi thriller. The film opens with a noted scientist bursting into flames in a church belfry at the exact moment that a number of satellites Read More

1997
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

1995
Drunken Master 3

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Kar-leung followed up the outstanding Drunken Master II by directing this mostly unrelated martial arts comedy which still manages to garner a few laughs despite its dubious reputation and the absence of Jackie Chan. In Chan's place is comedian Willie Chi as Wong Fei-hong Read More

1994
Fong Sai-Yuk

Actors: Jet Li, Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Adam Cheng, Zhao Wenzhuo, Michelle Reis

Synopsis: Starring the fabulous Jet Li, this incredible historical epic with its deft blend of high drama, slapstick, and more subtle forms of comedy coupled with breathtaking martial-arts action represents Hong Kong -- filmmaking at its very best. The story contains many serpentine twists and a complex Read More

1993
Fong Sai-Yuk 2

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Following closely on the heels of the original Fong Sai Yuk, a martial arts action-comedy featuring the acrobatic skills of martial arts star Jet Li, Fong Sai Yuk 2 offers a similar mixture of adventure, action, and farce. The previous film had concluded with Fong Sai Yuk working with the secret Read More

1993
Royal Tramp 2

Synopsis: Directed by Gordon Chan, Royal Tramp 2 stars Brigitte Lin as the leader of an all female martial arts sect whose power is based soley on remaining celibate. Knowing this, the ill-intentioned Prince instructs his goons to poison her with one of the few substances she is not immune to; a poison that Read More

1992
Zen of Sword

Synopsis: Yu Ming-sang spins this martial arts fantasy loosely adapted from Romeo and Juliet. The Chun clan and the Ha Hou clan are desperately vying with one another to regain their respective former glories. Though their families are at each other's throats, Choi Siu-ling (Michelle Lee Kar-yan), the Read More

1992
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

1992
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

1992
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

1990
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

1990
The Dragon from Russia

Synopsis: Loosely based on Kazuo Koike's famous manga Crying Freeman, Clarence Fok Yiu-leung spins this wild and woolly gangster drama. The film centers around a ruthless band of criminals called "The Eight Hundred Dragons," who pitilessly track down and kill any defecting members. Snooker (Dean Shek Tien) Read More

1990