Po-Chih Leong Filmography

Born:: London, England, UK
Occupation:: Director

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The Detonator

Crew: Director

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Silvia Colloca

Synopsis: An undercover CIA agent attempting to thwart the sale of a nuclear weapon is forced to do battle with a dangerous horde of murderous arms dealers in this explosive action entry directed by Hong Kong veteran Po-Chih Leong and starring American action icon Wesley Snipes. Sonni Griffith (Snipes) is Read More

2006
Out of Reach

Crew: Director

Actors: Steven Seagal

Synopsis: Amoral men who traffic in human beings pick the wrong girl to exploit when they discover her best friend is an fighting machine bent on revenge in this thriller. Billy Ray Lancing (Steven Seagal) is a former American intelligence agent who has retired to seek peace of mind by living alone with Read More

2004
Return to Cabin by the Lake

Crew: Director

Actors: Judd Nelson, Dahlia Salem, Brian Krause, Claudette Mink, Michael P. Northey

Synopsis: Most screenwriters fight to protect their creative vision, but one man goes a good bit farther than most in this sequel to the made-for-TV horror flick Cabin by the Lake. Murderous scriptwriter Stanley Caldwell (Judd Nelson) is missing and thought to be dead, but the strange stories of his grisly Read More

2001
Walking Shadow: A Spenser Mystery

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts, Christina Moore

2001
Immortality

Crew: Director

Actors: Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall, Kerry Fox, Jack Davenport

Synopsis: Stephen Griscz, the protagonist of The Wisdom of Crocodiles, is a handsome but enigmatic man of many talents. He is also an incurable womanizer, always searching for the perfect woman. But all his relationships end in tragedy, which arouses the suspicions of police officer Healey. One day Read More

7/14/00
Cabin by the Lake

Crew: Director

Actors: Judd Nelson, Hedy Burress, Michael Weatherly

Synopsis: A writer's deadly secret is about to rise to the surface in this made-for-TV suspense thriller. Stanley Caldwell (Judd Nelson) is a screenwriter working on a story for a suspense film about a lunatic who kidnaps and murders young women. However, Stanley's research methods are more than a bit Read More

2000
The Darkling

Crew: Director

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: A poor man learns that obtaining wealth through evil means can command a terrible price in this made-for-TV horror story. Jeff Obold (Aiden Gillen) is a struggling auto mechanic whose personal life is a good bit more rewarding than his career; he has a lovely wife, Marla (Nina Siemaszko), and a Read More

2000
Ping Pong

Crew: Director

Actors: David Yip, Lucy Sheen, Robbie Lee, Lam Fung

Synopsis: Pleasant and unpresumptuous, this modest comedy drama is about Elaine (Lucy Sheen), a young female lawyer in London and how she tries to do her duty by executing the last will and testament of a Chinese VIP. The heirs to the man's fortune argue among themselves, creating more headaches for Elaine Read More

7/17/87
Peking Opera Blues

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy drama stars three of Hong Kong's most attractive and popular actresses of their time: Brigitte Lin is the daughter of a general, Cherie Chung is a petty thief, and Sally Yip is the daughter of the manager of the Beijing Opera theater. The story is set in 1911 when the Chinese Read More

1986
The Island (Life and Death)

Crew: Director

Actors: John Sham, Tse Ching Yuen, Ronald Wong Ban, Timothy Zau, Amy Kwok

1985
Island

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Leung Po-chi directs and Sammo Hung produces this grim horror flick about a school field trip gone horribly horribly wrong. Mr. Cheung (John Sham Kin-fun) takes a half-dozen high school students for a two-day outing on a remote island. Soon after they are dropped off, they realize that the Read More

1985
Banana Cop

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Among the first of Hong Kong filmmaker Leung Po-chi's British-set adventures, this action-comedy re-teams George Lam and Teddy Robin from All the Wrong Spies. Lam plays the fully assimilated Scotland Yard Inspector Edward Yip, who can no longer read or write Chinese, but is sent to Hong Kong Read More

1984
Hong Kong 1941

Crew: Director

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip, Man Chi Leung

Synopsis: This melodrama is one of many that have embraced the period setting of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Chow Yun-Fat, in an award-winning performance, plays a poor worker at a small rice shop. He befriends a rickshaw driver (Alex Mann) who falls in love with the shop Read More

1984
He Lives by Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Eddie Chan

Synopsis: (Eddie Chan) plays a murderous salesman in this Hong Kong suspense-thriller about a mind gone haywire. When he discovers his wife has been seeing a lover in their own house, he kills both of them and then goes to jail for the crime. After he serves his prison term, the salesman looks like an Read More

1982
Itchy Fingers

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Ng, Cora Miao

Synopsis: Childhood chums Biggie and Tiny (Roy Chiao and Richard Ng) grow up together in the slums of Hong Kong. One of them becomes a policeman, the other a professional con-man. When it begins to appear that Tiny was set-up to take the fall for a jewel robbery, he persuades his friend Biggie to join him Read More

1979
Foxbat

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Rick van Nutter, James Yi Liu

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, this action-adventure thriller concerns the race to obtain the blueprints of a MIG-25 "Foxbat" Soviet fighter plane which has landed in Japan, complete with a pilot who is asking for asylum. Undercover U.S. spy Michael Saxon (Henry Silva) is trying to get the microfilms Read More

1977
Jumping Ash

Crew: Director

Actors: Chen Sing

Synopsis: In this police action thriller, a Hong Kong undercover cop (Callan Leung) makes inroads into a drug-smuggling ring which routes its "jumping ash" (drugs) through the Netherlands. In the process, he endangers not only his own life, but the lives of his family and girlfriend (Siu Fong Fong). Read More

1976