Sammo Hung Filmography

The Legend of Zu

Synopsis: Directed by Tsui Hark, The Legend of Zu is an adaptation of the 64-volume epic novel of the same name, and follows several warriors training in the mysterious Zu mountains. Somehow, the powers of the mountain are absorbed by the warriors and subsequently used to help combat the evil forces Read More

Kung Fu Hustle

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Yuen Qiu, Stephen Chow, Yuen Wah, Leung Siu Lung, Dong Zhi Hua

Synopsis: The work of international superstar Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle is a humorous, special-effects-filled, action-packed martial arts epic set in early '40s China. A bumbling thief named Sing (Stephen Chow) desires to be the toughest member of the dreaded gangster hit squad known as The Axe Gang, but Read More

Kill Zone

Actors: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Wu Jing, Liu Kai-chi

Synopsis: An ailing veteran cop whose relentless determination to do away with an untouchable gangster has led him to employ a series of unethical tactics finds his investigation complicated by the arrival of principled new inspector and the death of a fellow cop in this explosive underworld tale from Skyline Cruisers Read More

Legend of the Dragon

Actors: Sammo Hung, Timmy Hung

Dragon Heat

Synopsis: Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn, Maggie Q, and Shawn Yue} star in this action-packed thriller concerning a disappeared crime lord and the elite team of Interpol agents who set out to recapture him at all costs. A notorious Triad crime boss has disappeared just as his case was about to go before the Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Robert Fyfe, Cécile De France

Synopsis: Jules Verne's famous novel of a daring man of science who takes on the greatest voyage in history is once again adapted for the big screen in this adventure comedy. In 1872, eccentric British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) has come up with any number of gadgets to help people travel with Read More

The Medallion

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, Julian Sands, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: Though it's an English-language film, the fantasy action comedy The Medallion is one of the highest-budgeted movies to come out of Hong Kong. Cop Eddie Yang (Jackie Chan) and his partner, Interpol agent Arthur Watson (Lee Evans), are in pursuit of international human-smuggling crimelord Snakehead (Julian Sands Read More

Men Suddenly in Black

Actors: Eric Tsang, Jordan Chan, Chapman To, Teresa Ho, Candy Lo

Synopsis: Ho Cheung Ping, who wrote the novel that was the basis for Fulltime Killer and made his directorial debut with the crime comedy You Shoot, I Shoot, returns to the parody genre with his second film, Men Suddenly in Black. Eric Tsang does a takeoff of his role in Infernal Affairs, playing Tin, the Read More

Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger

Actors: Sammo Hung, Cheng Pei-Pei, Fan Siu-Wong, Jade Leung

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Allen Lan directs the martial arts-action film Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger, which, despite its similar title and sharing some of the same actors, has nothing to do with Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Set during the Ming dynasty, the story involves horse thief Luk Read More

Modern Warriors

Synopsis: From the maker of Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel, Peter Spirer's documentary Modern Warriors explains the history and practice of martial arts fighting. Featuring martial arts legends Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, and Bill "Sugarfoot" Wallace, this program discusses the origin Read More

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Actors: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, David Carradine, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, John Woo, Ang Lee

Synopsis: The Art of Action is a compilation film, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, that offers clips from various action films that featured martial arts action sequences. Among the films excepted for this collection are Rush Hour 2 with Jackie Chan, Charlie's Angels, and the multiple-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Read More

Martial Law [TV Series]

Actors: Sammo Hung, Tammy Lauren, Louis Mandylor, Tom Wright, Kelly Hu

Synopsis: Hong Kong action-movie superstar Sammo Hung keeps the kicks flying in this TV action farce about a Chinese lawman (Hung) brought to Los Angeles to join forces with detective Louis McGray (Louis Mandylor) and detective Dana Doyle (Tammy Lauren). It's not long before this trio has the bad guys on Read More

Mr. Nice Guy

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Miki Lee, Karen McLymont

Synopsis: Mr. Nice Guy opens on a darkened Australian warehouse full of seedy criminal types who have gathered to make a large-scale drug transaction. When it goes horribly wrong and bullets start flying, the hoods flee in different directions -- until one realizes an investigative reporter (Gabrielle 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

Once Upon a Time in China and America

Crew: Director

Actors: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xiong Xin Xin, Chan Kwok-pong, Jeff Wolfe

Synopsis: Martial arts master/doctor Wong Fei-hung (a familiar character in Hong Kong cinema) and his gang find adventure amidst the cowboys and Indians of the American West. The sixth in the enormously popular "Once Upon a Time in China" series of Hong Kong action films that was created by director Tsui Read More

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Synopsis: This Hong Kong melodrama shares only the title Robert Wise's 1956 film biography of American middleweight champion Rocky Graziano. The story begins as a luminescent beauty watches two men fighting in the ring. Suddenly the story jumps back 10 months when Gloria, the girl first fell in love with Read More

Ashes of Time

Crew: Action Director

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

Don't Give a Damn

Crew: Director

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao

Synopsis: With the rising international popularity of Asian filmmaker Sammo Hung, it may be surprising that this fast-paced action-comedy -- which he not only produced, directed, and choreographed, but also contains one of his most amusing starring roles -- has not seen wider distribution outside Hong Kong. Read More

Moon Warriors

Crew: Director

Actors: Kenny Bee, Anita Mui, Andy Lau

Synopsis: This Hong Kong kung fu adventure, directed by Sammo Hung, tells the story of Fei, a fisherman (Andy Lau), and Yen Ling, a prince (Kenny Bee). When Yen Ling is betrayed by his own brother, the two form a friendship. Fei is sent to retrieve the prince's fiancee, Yueh (Anita Mui), but falls in love Read More

Kung Fu Cult Master

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: This film stars two important stars of the Hong Kong kung fu cinema, Jet Li, and Sammo Hung (who also directed the film's action sequences). In addition to a blatant disregard for gravity and other physical laws, this film revolves around a popular genre theme, a battle between warriors from Read More

Blade of Fury

Crew: Director

Actors: Cynthia Khan, Rosamund Kwan, Ti Lung

Synopsis: Hefty Hong Kong kung-fu star Sammo Hung steps behind the camera to direct this period swordplay flick. The film opens in 1895 when a band of nationalists calling themselves the Black Flag Troop get annihilated while attacking the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese war. Fast forward a couple Read More

The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu

Crew: Director, Stunts

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

Slickers Vs. Killers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sammo Hung Kam-po directs, produces and stars this comedy action thriller about Success Hung, an ace cell phone salesman who his feeling the heat from young, up and comer Miss Cheng (Carol Cheng Yu-ling). One day, Hung witnesses a mob hit. Though the panic-stricken salesman tries to tell his Read More

Touch and Go

Actors: Vincent Wan, Tommy Wong, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: After making a name for himself with the gritty action spectacular City on Fire, Ringo Lam returns to directing comedies with his film featuring Sammo Hung. When humble noodle stand owner Fat Goose (Hung) is the unfortunate witness to a mob hit, he is convinced by ambitious cop Pitt (Vincent Wan Yueng Read More

The Gambling Ghost

My Flying Wife

Actors: Sammo Hung, Fennie Yuen, Yu Lianqi, Wong Kwong Leung

Synopsis: Sammo Hung Kam-po stars in this offbeat gangster ghost yarn as Qun, the head of a crime family gone more or less straight. While trying to collect a debt from a suicidal lass named Helen (Fennie Yuen Kit-ying), Qun winds up saving her from jumping off a tall building. This act of benevolence Read More

Operation Scorpio

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: David Lai Tai-wai directs this period kung-fu yarn, set in the 1920s, about Fei Yu-shu (Chin Kar-lok), an undisciplined, wayward student who is about to be kicked out of school. One day, he saves a beautiful young maid named Hsiao-ju (May Lo Mei-mei) from being sold to a whorehouse by her venal Read More

She Shoots Straight

Crew: Producer

Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Films

Synopsis: Piecing together exciting film footage of martial arts performances, Deadliest Art demonstrates the reasons for the popularity of martial arts combat in visual entertainment. The history of the art, including basics of the Eastern philosophies that govern it, provides insight along with the Read More

Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon

Actors: Sammo Hung, Karl Maka

Synopsis: King-sized martial arts hero Sammo Hung stars in this wild and wacky blend of action and comedy. Skinny (Karl Maka) and Fatty (Sammo Hung) are a pair of police detectives who soon find themselves on the outs with their boss when they accidentally make a mess of his wedding while chasing Tak, a big Read More

The Prisoner

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai

Synopsis: Chu Yen-ping directs this all-star cast prison flick about cop Huang Wei (Tony Leung Kar-fai) who goes into the clink undercover to figure out how the fingerprints of a long deceased death-row inmate ended up at the scene of a recent murder. There he quickly runs afoul of gangland powers, making Read More

Shanghai Shanghai

Actors: Yuen Biao, Lam Chi-Cheung

Synopsis: Teddy Robin Kwan directs this lavish period action flick set in the first half of the 20th century and featuring a dazzling line-up of stars. Little Tiger (Yuen Biao) ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger (Chi-cheung Lam), an honest cop working in a Read More

Bat Leung Gam

Actors: Sammo Hung, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: Famously rotund kung fu master Sammo Hung Yuen-ting stars in this bittersweet drama about Slim, New York City taxi driver who fled his native China during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Though he has only written home once during the sixteen years abroad, Slim ventures back home. Upon Read More

Pedicab Driver

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker (Sammo Hung) directs and stars in this film about a pair of bumbling, but likeable pedicab operators. When the two find girlfriends, one of the women turns out to be a prostitute, and the heroes run afoul of a local gangster. The film blends slapstick comedy, romance, and Read More

Fortune Code

Synopsis: Kent Cheng Chuk-see directs this Chinese lunar extravaganza, which, true to this subgenre, features a huge budget, an eye-popping all-star cast, and not much of a story to speak of. The film is set in Japanese POW camp 732, which houses scores of Chinese rebels. Rakish special agent Wah (Andy Lau Tak-wah Read More

Dragons Forever

Crew: Director

Actors: Benny Urquidez

Synopsis: Hefty martial arts star Sammo Hung directs this wacky kung-fu-comedy featuring Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. Jackie Lung (Chan) is a philandering attorney who has been hired by ruthless gangster Hua Hsien-wu (Yuen Wah), who thwarts a lawsuit brought about by the wealthy and angry Miss Yip (Deanie Yip Read More

Painted Faces

Actors: Sammo Hung, Ham-bo, Cheng Pei-Pei, Lam Ching-Ying, John Sham

Synopsis: This drama focuses on life at the Peking Opera School and is a loose biography of Hong Kong film stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Sammo Hung portrays Master Yu, the academy's brutal schoolmaster, who takes the youths through the rigorous acrobatic training. The film offers an Read More

Paper Marriage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alfred Cheung spins this madcap comedy about an embittered Canadian ex-boxer named Chien Pao (Sammo Hung), who is desperate to pay off a band of loan sharks. Desperate to come to Canada to be with her true love Peter, Jade Li (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) agrees to marry the pugilist for a price. Read More

Happy Bigamist

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chan Friend, Kenny Bee, Anita Miu, Patricia Ha

Synopsis: In this comedy starring its director Chan Friend, an ex-wife prevails upon her first hubby to let her stay at his home. She has some financial troubles and this will help her out a lot. However, since her ex-husband has remarried in the meantime, his current wife is none too happy with this Read More

Killer's Nocturne

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Man Chi Leung, Chin Siu Ho, Patricia Ha

Synopsis: The hero of this story suffered horribly from watching his well-to-do father not only be murdered, but lose his reputation due to the manipulations of a sadistic and hateful gang boss. He hits on a scheme of getting his digs of revenge in by besting the foul fellow in a game of mah-jongg. All the Read More

Sworn Brothers

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A Cantonese detective trained in Scotland Yard returns to Hong Kong to take on the mob in this bloody crime drama. His assignment leads him to the hit man (Lau Tak Wah), an orphan who was raised by the notorious leader of the syndicate. Although they respect each others abilities, the hit man and Read More

The Final Test

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Borrowing wholesale from the Sean Connery vehicle Outland, Lo Kin directs this rare Hong Kong sci-fi flick. Set in the mid-21st century, the film centers on Sum Ying-mo (Austin Wai Tin-chi), a kung-fu master and secret agent assigned to undercover work in the remote space mining outfit Cosmos IV Read More

Shanghai Express

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: This slapstick Hong Kong action film follows the passengers of the Shanghai Express, a train running to the small village of Hanshui. Plenty of action takes place as the gallery of wealthy socialites, con men, cops, and train robbers speeds towards its destination. Directed by Sammo Hung, a master Read More

Eastern Condors

Crew: Director

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Joyce Godenzi, Lam Ching-Ying

Synopsis: Actor/director Sammo Hung gathered an international cast including the late Oscar winner Dr. Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) and some of the most recognizable faces in Hong Kong cinema for this action-packed martial arts adventure. Set in 1976, the film focuses on a ragtag group of Chinese and Read More

Mr. Vampire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ricky Hui, Moon Lee, Chin Suit Ho, Pauline Wong

Synopsis: Ricky Lau directs this fantastically successful horror yarn that successfully fused high-flying slapstick with creepy genre atmospherics. The film opens with Taoist priest Kau (Lam Ching-ying) along with his two hapless assistants, Chou (Chin Siu-ho) and Man Choi (Ricky Hui Koon-ying), set out to Read More

Island

Crew: Producer

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

Heart of the Dragon

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Emily Chu, Melvin Wong

Synopsis: This Jackie Chan martial arts actioner is a bit different than most of his films (although it does have the requisite spectacular stunts and kung fu fights). In it, he plays a police officer who is a member of a SWAT team but leaves it to join the C.I.D. division. His reason for leaving isn't to Read More

My Lucky Stars

Crew: Director

Actors: Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This is an early onscreen collaboration of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Muscles (Chan) and Ricky (Biao) are two cops who go after a corrupt cop with ties to the Japanese underworld. When Ricky is kidnapped, Fastbuck (Hung), a childhood friend of Muscles, recruits some of their old Read More

Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars

Crew: Director

Actors: Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This third installment in the popular "Lucky Stars" series -- directed by Sammo Hung -- finds Muscles (Jackie Chan), Kidstuff (Hung), Fung (Yuen Biao), and the gang taking a well-needed vacation in Thailand courtesy of the Hong Kong police department. Also on the trip is police inspector Woo (Sibelle Hu Hui-chang Read More

Hong Kong 1941

Crew: Presented by

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

Wheels on Meals

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng, John Sham

Synopsis: Following up from their success with Project A, martial arts-comedy trio Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao head out to Spain for this screwball kung-fu flick. Thomas and David (Chan and Yuen) run a Chinese lunch wagon in the streets of Barcelona. One day, David encounters a beautiful Read More

Winners and Sinners

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng, John Sham

Synopsis: In this entertaining Hong Kong comedy-action-drama, five creatively-named criminals (Teapot, Vaseline, Exhaust Pipe, Curly Jerk, and Ranks) get out of prison and decide to "go straight" by starting a cleaning business. One of their customers is the underworld counterfeiter "Boss Chau," also Read More

Jackie Chan's Project A

Synopsis: Jackie Chan directs himself and fellow martial arts superstar Sammo Hung in the action film Jackie Chan's Project A. Chan plays a 19th century Coast Guard office who must defend Hong Kong's borders from a variety of smugglers and undesirables. As is usually the case, Chan performs all of his own Read More

Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain

Actors: Yuen Biao

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark spins this lavishly designed fantasy epic featuring some of the most cutting edge, oft-imitated special effects of the day. The film, set in 5th century China, centers on Ti Ming-chi (Yuen Biao) a young innocent from the West Zu army who wandered away from Read More

The Dead and the Deadly

Synopsis: One of the more noteworthy Hong Kong horror-comedies of its time, this period thriller from Golden Harvest and actor/director Wu Ma (who co-stars as Ma Lucho) is filled with both fascinating mythology and outrageous setpieces. Co-screenwriter Sammo Hung stars as Fatboy, who becomes suspicious when Read More

Carry on Pickpocket

Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong actor-filmmaker Sammo Hung directed himself in this amusing action-comedy in which he stars as Rice Pot, a highly skilled pickpocket who falls in love with a beautiful female police inspector. The inspector (Deanie Yip) decides that she will overlook Rice Pot's prodigious list of Read More

The Prodigal Son

Crew: Choreography, Director

Actors: Yuen Biao, Frankie Chan, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: In this classic martial arts film from Hong Kong, Yuen Biao plays the effete son of a wealthy man who is halfheartedly studying kung fu, though his father has to pay ringers to fight him (and, of course, lose). When he finds out that his father has been deceiving him, Biao decides he must learn Read More

Encounter of the Spooky Kind

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung, Lam Ching-Ying

Synopsis: Courageous Cheung (Sammo Hung) has a reputation for taking on any dare, no matter how foolish it may be, in order to prove his unabashed bravery. Though his friends often take advantage of his misguided machismo by luring him into dubious dares in which they attempt to scare him and laughingly Read More

The Magnificent Butcher

Crew: Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Sammo Hung

Synopsis: Yuen Woo-ping directs this classic of the period kung fu epic. Butcher Wing (Sammo Hung) is the most talented and the most troublesome pupil of Master Wong (Kwan Tak-hing). One day while helping to stop a robbery, Butcher runs afoul of the power, and evil, Master Ko (Lee Hoi-sang), resulting Read More

Dragon Forever

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sammo Hung directs himself and Jackie Chan in the Hong Kong action film Dragon Forever. Chan plays a lawyer who discovers that his client is a drug king. Chan teams up with a hapless friend (Hung) and a mentally unstable associate (Yuen Biao) to stop the kingpin. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Victim

Crew: Action Director, Director

Actors: Karl Maka, Chang Yi, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: Sammo Hung Kam-po spins this old school kung-fu flick. Chan-wing (Hung) is an unruly fighter determined to get martial arts master Leung Chun-yau (Leung Kar-yan) as his teacher. Leung, however, is up to his ears in his own problems and the last thing he needs is an undisciplined lad to make Read More

Warriors Two

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sammo Hung directs and stars in this classic of the genre, featuring some of the best fighting sequences ever recorded on celluloid. One day, while working late on the job, bank teller Chan Hua (Casanova Wong) discovers that his villainous boss, Mo (Fung Hark-on), is plotting to kill the town's Read More

Knockabout

Crew: Action Director, Director

Actors: Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Lau Kar-wing, Leung Kar Yan

Synopsis: Brothers Little John and Big John make a living as small-time con men. When things go sour, they turn to a powerful man called the Silver Fox, only to find that he too is a con man who's playing them at their own game. Their luck is sure to run out soon, but lucky for them, they run into Fatty the Read More

The Odd Couple

Actors: Sammo Hung

Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog

Synopsis: Out on the town gambling after running away from his wife, Crazy Frog (Sammo Hung) makes the acquaintance of pickpocket Multi-Hand Chick (Meg Lam Kin-Ming) when the less-than stealthy thief pleads with him to protect her from the wrath of an angry target. Her skills prove more effective, however Read More