Michelle YeohFilmography

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen continues the tale set into motion by director Stephen Sommers with this globe-trotting adventure that finds explorer Rick O'Connell and son attempting to thwart a resurrected emperor's (Jet Li) plan to enslave the entire human race. It's been 2,000 Read More

The Children of Huang Shi

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, David Wenham

Synopsis: As China is ravaged by war in the late '30s, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) leads 60 orphans over the Liu Pan Shan mountains and into the safety of the Mongolian desert. Joining the journalist and the children on their arduous journey are an American nurse (Radha Mitchell Read More

Sunshine

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: As the sun begins to dim along with humankind's hope for the future, it's up to a desperate crew of eight astronauts to reach the dying star and reignite the fire that will bring life back to planet Earth in this tense psychological sci-fi thriller that re-teams 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle Read More

Far North

Actors: Sean Bean, Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec

Synopsis: The simple existence of a woman and a young girl is unexpectedly disrupted by the sudden arrival of a mysterious soldier. Sean Bean, Michelle Yeoh, and Michelle Krusiec star in a film written and co-written by Asif Kapadia and Tim Miller, and directed by Kapadia. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Memoirs of a Geisha

Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh

Synopsis: This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head Read More

Silver Hawk

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Michael Jai White, Brandon Chang, Li Bingbing, Richie Jen, Hsien Chi, Kouichi Iwaki, Michelle Yeoh, Luke Goss

Synopsis: Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh serves as both producer and leading lady for this bit of slam-bang adventure. By day, Lulu Wong (Yeoh) is a mild-mannered environmental activist, but when the going gets tough, she transforms herself into Silver Hawk, a battle-ready heroine who finds herself Read More

Chop-Socky: Cinema Hong Kong

Synopsis: Explore one of the cinema's most enduring traditions as the Independent Film Channel and filmmaker Ian Taylor team up to take viewers on an unforgettable tour of the stars, fighting styles, and inventive weaponry of the Hong Kong film industry. From the early screen adventures of Chinese folk hero Read More

Tian Mai Chuanqi

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin, Richard Roxburgh, Sihung Lung, Brandon Chang

Synopsis: Peter Pau, the oscar winning cinematographer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed Tian Mai Chuanqi (The Touch). Pak Yin-fay (Michelle Yeoh) and Pak Yeuk-tong (Brandon Chang) are siblings in a family of acrobats. Bad guy Karl (Richard Roxburgh) employs gifted thief/acrobat Eric (Ben Read More

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-Pei

Synopsis: Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. In the early 19th century, martial arts master Li Mu Read More

Top Fighter 2: Deadly China Dolls

Synopsis: As Hong Kong action movies grow in popularity, so do their male movie stars. But, for every Jackie Chan or Jet Li there is a female equivalent who rarely receives as much attention. Toby Russell, director of Cinema of Vengeance, finally gives the women their due in Top Fighter 2: Deadly China Read More

Tomorrow Never Dies

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Roger Spottiswoode (Air America) directed this film, the 18th chapter in the 35-year-old James Bond series (excluding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) is manipulating world events via an exclusive Read More

The Stunt Woman

Actors: Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: After wowing audiences both in Hong Kong and abroad with her jaw-dropping stunts during Supercop, Michelle Yeoh stars in this melodrama -- directed by Ann Hui -- about a stuntwoman struggling to survive in Hong Kong's notoriously cutthroat film industry. Kam (Yeoh) is a fearless stunt double Read More

Wonder Seven

Synopsis: Noted choreographer Ching Siu tung spins this two-fisted action flick about Wonder Seven, a band of motorcycle-driving orphans who battle enemies of the Mainland Chinese government. After their dealings with a band of thugs, their investigation leads them to Hong Kong and a Swiss bank account Read More

Wing Chun

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

Shaolin Popey 2: Messy Temple

Synopsis: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh appears in this light-hearted kid-centric martial arts film. Directed by Chu Yin Ping, the sequel to Shaolin Popey finds the Shaolin shorties defending their master from an evil bad guy and his pair of thugs. Filled with slapstick and kung fu 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

Executioners

Actors: Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Johnny To and Ching Siu-tung co-directed this futuristic sequel to Heroic Trio set several years after a nuclear meltdown has contaminated the water supply with deadly radiation (a reference to the controversy over China's rather haphazard construction of the Dai Ah Bay plant near Hong Kong). Tung Read More

Supercop 2

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Yu Rongguang

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh returns as Inspector Jessica Yang in this fast-paced action thriller. While Jessica's career as a policewoman in China has been going great guns, her fiancé David (Yu Rong-Guang), also a cop, is not having the same kind of luck; dismissed from the force, he leaves town to start his Read More

Tai Chi Master

Actors: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: Hong Kong star Jet Li portrays the inventor of T'ai Chi in this entertaining if not historically accurate martial-arts movie. Junbao (Li) and Tienbao (Chin Siu-Ho) are a pair of young monks studying kung fu in a Shaolin temple. Junbao is balanced and humble, but Tienbao is competitive and eager to Read More

The Heroic Trio

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Anthony Wong, Damian Lau

Synopsis: In this cartoonish live-action martial arts feature, three female super-heroes battle the forces of evil in the form of a woman who has hatched a plot to create China's next ruler. Over the years, she has stolen over a dozen children from their families. She hopes to raise them in a way that will Read More

Easy Money

Actors: Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh stars in this breezy caper yarn loosely adapted from The Thomas Crown Affair as Michelle Yeung, a bored millionaire who at the film's opening stages an armored car heist of $HK 33 million of horse race receipts for the fun of it. Insurance investigator Lam (George Lam) immediately Read More

Yes, Madam!

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh makes her starring role debut in this police drama\action spectacular, directed by Corey Yuen. The film opens with the fierce, relentless Inspector Ng (Yeoh) cleaning the clocks of a band of thieves. Meanwhile, vicious crime boss Tin (James Tien Chun) puts a hit out on his accountant Read More