Simon Yam Filmography

Sparrow

Actors: Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Lam Ka-tung, Lo Hoi-Pang, Law Wing-cheung

Synopsis: Simon Yam and Kelly Lin star in director Johnnie To's tale of three professional pickpockets, one mysterious beauty, and the elusive key that brings them all together. It's title taken from a street slang term describing the unique dexterity needed to lift wallets and flutter away undetected Read More

Sasori

Actors: Miki Mizuno, Dylan Kuo, Emme Wong, Sam Lee, Bruce Leung

Synopsis: An ordinary woman is transformed into a fighting machine in the wake of a shocking crime in this action drama from Japan. Sasori (Miki Mizuno) is a housewife happily married to a policeman (Dylan Kuo) who plays guitar in his spare time. One day, a gang of violent criminals break into Sasori's home Read More

Exiled

Actors: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Nick Cheung, Josie Ho, Simon Yam

Synopsis: Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To returns to the characters of his international success The Mission (aka Chueng Fo) with this action-packed thriller. It's 1998, and the Portuguese colony of Macau, a city along the Southern coast of China, is about to be handed over to Chinese authorities Read More

Eye in the Sky

Actors: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Kate Tsui, Lam Suet, Maggie Shiu

Synopsis: Longtime screenwriter Yau Nai-hoi makes his feature directorial debut with this tale of a Hong Kong surveillance unit ensnared by underworld violence. In the aftermath of a daring daytime jewelry store heist, criminal mastermind Shan (Tony Leung) and his crew celebrate their success with a rooftop Read More

The Exodus

Actors: Simon Yam, Annie Liu, Nick Cheung, Maggie Shiu, Irene Wan

Synopsis: Inspired by a news story the director Pang Ho-cheung noticed while still a high school student, The Exodus tells the darkly comic tale of a world in which the female population are slowly, and methodically doing away with their male counterparts. Sergeant Jim Yip (Simon Yam) is constantly being Read More

Triangle

Actors: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Sun Hong-Lei, Lam Ka-tung, Kelly Lin

Synopsis: Three maestro Chinese action directors - Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and Johnny To - co-helm the adventure saga Triangle. The film actually constitutes a film serial, divided into thirds, with each filmmaker responsible for one episode. Three drinking buddies, Fai, Sam and Mok are visited one dark and Read More

Breaking News

Actors: Richie Ren, Kelly Chen, Nick Cheung, Cheung Siu Fai, Hui Siu-hung

Synopsis: Hong Kong-based filmmaker Johnny To directed this fast-moving action drama that explores the role of the media in current events. The Hong Kong police force takes a beating in the court of public opinion after their unsuccessful attempt to foil a high-stakes robbery is broadcast on live Read More

Triad Election

Actors: Simon Yam, Louis Koo, Wong Tin-lam, Yao Yung, Lam Suet

Synopsis: Superstar action director Johnny To's Hong Kong gangster picture Triad Election (aka Election 2) revolves around Jimmy (Louis Koo), a second-tiered triad member vying aggressively for the position of godfather in the current election. He is restrained in his pursuits by the current mob boss, Lok (Simon Yam 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

Election

Actors: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Cheung Siu Fai

Synopsis: A crime family flirts with democracy, leading to a fierce gangland battle in this stylish crime drama from Hong Kong director Johnnie To. With over 50,000 members, the Wo Shing Society is one of the largest and most powerful Triads in Hong Kong, and when the leadership committee needs a new head Read More

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

Wake of Death

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Synopsis: Action star and goofball extraordinaire Jean-Claude Van Damme returns in this gritty tale of revenge between the Los Angeles mob and an invading Chinese Triad. The "Muscles From Brussels" stars as Ben Archer, an ex-mob tough guy whose wife is savagely murdered after she brings home an orphaned Read More

Moving Targets

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie Read More

PTU

Actors: Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Ruby Wong, Maggie Shiu, Eddy Ko

Synopsis: Johnny To's police drama PTU details the ramifications of an officer losing his weapon. Seargant Lo (Lam Suet), head of the police anti-crime division, finds his gun missing after an altercation with a gang. Police Tactical Unit (PTU) team leader Mike Ho (Simon Yam), not wanting to get the Read More

Looking for Mr. Perfect

Actors: Shu Qi, Andy On, Simon Yam, Isabel Chan, Chapman To

Synopsis: A spirited female detective who never had time for love realizes just how complicated romance can be after meeting Prince Charming while vacationing in Malaysia with her best friend. Grace is completely dedicated to her job, and as a result she's never had the time to seek out the man of her Read More

Fulltime Killer

Actors: Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Cherrie Ying

Synopsis: Following up on his two-fisted 2000 flick The Mission, Johnnie To, along with Wai Ka Fai, directs this high-octane shoot 'em up about a pair of hired killers vying for their reputation and for a beautiful girl. O (Takashi Sorimachi) is a reclusive, highly disciplined assassin who is considered the Read More

Juliet in Love

Actors: Sandra Ng, Francis Ng, Eric Kot, Simon Yam, Tats Lau

Cold War

Actors: Simon Yam, Christy Chung

Synopsis: Leung Ka Yan's action thriller Cold War stars Simon Yam as a hitman. Having become a hired killer in order to find out the identity of his wife's murderers, Ka Kui (Yam) learns that his victims are not who he thought they were. After becoming aware that the organization has conned him, and has put Read More

The Mission

Actors: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Jacky Lui, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet

Synopsis: Veteran Hong Kong director Johnnie To spins this wild, kinetic crime thriller. Following a failed assassination attempt on his life, crime boss Lung (Ko Hung), instructs his henchman Frank (Simon Yam) to find the villain behind the plot. Frank soon hires a quintet of hired guns to guard the boss Read More

The Legend of Speed

Synopsis: Directed by Andrew Lau, The Legend of Speed follows drag-racer Sky (Ekin Cheng), who gets into some rather serious trouble when one of his rivals tries his darndest to destroy him. Hoping to seek the wisdom of his father (another legendary racer), Sky sets off for Thailand. This film also features Cecilia Cheung Read More

The Hitman

Actors: Jet Li, Eric Tsang, Simon Yam, Gigi Leung, Keiji Sato

Synopsis: The narrative of The Hitman unfolds following the assassination of a sleazy Japanese businessman in Hong Kong. Various groups come together at a meeting held by the administrators of the dead man's Revenge Fund, which offers a $100 million reward to find the killer. Fu (Jet Li), a penniless Read More

Expect The Unexpected

Actors: Lau Ching-Wan, Simon Yam, Ruby Wong, Hui Shiu-hung, Raymond Wong

Synopsis: In this "cops and robbers" film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go into action at a moment's notice. Working as a unit, they Read More

Suspect

Synopsis: A hit man fears that he may be going back to jail for a crime he didn't commit in this action thriller from Hong Kong. Hired killer Don Lee (Eric Moo) has just been released from prison after serving 12 years for murder. Two of Don's old friends, Max (Louis Koo) and Chan (Simon Yam) offer him a Read More

Casino

Actors: Alex Fong Chung-sun, Simon Yam

Synopsis: The Asian crime drama Casino takes place during the sweltering Macau summer of 1991. Two rival gangs are engaged in a bloody battle over control of the region's gambling business. Winnie Fong, a reporter, gets an interview with Giant, one of the two local crime lords. As Fong grills Giant about Read More

Young and Dangerous 3

Synopsis: Andrew Lau Wai-keung spins this third installment of the popular Young and Dangerous series to hit the theaters in a year. The film opens with the hero Ho-nam (Dior Cheng Yee-kin) run afoul of Crow (Roy Chueng Yiu-yeung), the psychotic henchmen of Tung Sing clan boss Camel Lok (Michael Chan Read More

Bloody Friday

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Danny Ko continued in the vein of his popular thriller The Crucifixion with this serial-killer film about a maniacal motorcyclist in black leather murdering young women walking alone on Friday nights. The Friday Killer, as he becomes known, even murders an undercover officer as Read More

Scarred Memory

Synopsis: Veronica Yip Yuk-hing stars in this romantic thriller about doctor Ivy Yip who one day is attacked and raped by an assailant whose face was obscured. The incident sends her reeling, sending her relationship into the dumpster and her job performance into the toilet. At work, she becomes seized with Read More

Young and Dangerous

Synopsis: Andrew Lau Wai-keung spins this mobland thriller adapted from Niu Lo's cult comic book Cow Man. The film opens with members from the Hung Hing Society whacking another gangster from a rival group who is deep in debt. A comrade with the slain man, sociopathic crime boss Ugly Kwan (Francis Ng Read More

Young and Dangerous 2

Synopsis: Following up the surprise hit Young and Dangerous only a couple months after the original's release, this sequel -- again directed by Andrew Lau Wai-keung -- centers around Jordan Chan Siu-chan's Chicken Chiu. At the end of the last film, Chicken left for Taiwan after he was lead to believe that Read More

All of a Sudden

Actors: Alfred Cheung, Irene Wan, Wong Chi Wah, Simon Yam

Synopsis: Herman Yau spins this low-budget erotic thriller featuring the softcore screen debut of pop idol Irene Wan. The film opens with a naked woman plunging to her death off of a high-rise -- a seeming suicide. Her husband Tsui Chin-tung (Simon Yam) is unconvinced and sets out to seek vengeance against Read More

Ghostly Bus

Synopsis: A bus driver with the ability to see ghosts agrees to reunite the spirit of a mournful specter with the lover she left behind in a romantic tale of love after death starring Simon Yam. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Man Wanted

Actors: Simon Yam, Yu Rongguang, Christy Chung, Eileen Tung Oi-lung

Synopsis: Simon Yam Tat-wah stars in this B-grade cop action flick as Man-hwa, an undercover cop who has been on the job so long that he has forgotten his priorities. When the cops set up a sting for notorious drug lord and Man-hwa's buddy Lu Chan-feng (Yu Rongguang), our hero dithers on handing the Read More

Crossings

Actors: Anita Yuen, Simon Yam, Lindzay Chan, Ted Brunetti, Monica Ha

Synopsis: This dramatic film compares and contrasts Chinese and American cultures. It is based upon real events which took place in New York during the mid-'80s when a deranged white male pushed a Hong Kong immigrant off a subway platform. The movie begins in modern Hong Kong and follows the life of Read More

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

Crystal Fortune Run

Synopsis: This science fiction-thriller from Hong Kong attempts to blend the grittiness of noir-ish Blade Runner-type cyberpunk with the sweeping plot lines of animé to rather confusing effect. The story revolves around the legendary Diamond of Emperor Chen, which -- aside from its considerable inherent Read More

Naked Killer

Actors: Carrie Ng, Kelly Yao

Synopsis: Lesbian assassins at war provide the focus for this outrageous Hong Kong martial arts film that is already becoming a cult classic. Tinam is the cop on the case searching for the person who keeps killing Hong Kong men and cutting off their genitals. Tinam is on the edge of a breakdown after he Read More

Black Panther Warriors

Synopsis: Clarence Fok Yiu-leung spins this slick action-comedy crime flick featuring an all-star cast. The film centers on Black Cougar (Alan Tang Kwong-wing), a crack thief who gets the job of a lifetime -- a shadowy client is paying him an obscene amount of money to swipe a photograph from a police Read More

Insanity

Run and Kill

Synopsis: Billy Tang directs the extremely dark and sadistic thriller Run and Kill. Hong Kong businessman Fatty Cheung (Kent Cheng) walks in on his wife and another man. He immediately gets drunk at a bar, and before he realizes it, he has made a deal with some gangsters to kill her. When he sobers up, he Read More

First Shot

Synopsis: This Hong Kong actioner is basically a remake of Brian DePalma's 1987 The Untouchables. A tough cop is determined to bring down a powerful gangster but also has to fight corrupt elements both in the police department and the political establishment of the city. He is befriended by a federal agent (Maggie Cheung Read More

Powerful Four

Actors: Danny Lee, Simon Yam, Waise Lee

Synopsis: David Lam delivers this straight-ahead police drama about the exploits of a band of rogue cops during the 1960s, a period of massive corruption in the police force. Luk (Danny Lee), Lui (Simon Yam), Yiu Hung (Waise Lee), and Fatty B (Kent Cheng Chuk-see) are all old friends working the beat in Read More

Dr. Lamb

Actors: Simon Yam

Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong actor Simon Yam, who had previously portrayed serial killer Lam Guo-wen in a television miniseries, plays his fictionalized counterpart in this gore-soaked exploitation film from producer-director Danny Lee. Starting with Lam's difficult childhood, the story then moves forward to Read More

Full Contact

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Another entry into the "cheer for the most likeable bad guy" series of Hong Kong action flicks, Full Contact tells the oft-told tale of betrayal and revenge, but serves it up as a potent cocktail of Western convention mixed with the trademarked Hong Kong style. When Jeff's (Hong Kong superstar Read More

Once Upon a Time in China

Actors: Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Kent Cheng

Synopsis: Though generally unknown to Western audiences, Tsui Hark is considered a giant among Asian filmmakers and this exceptional epic, combining hard-hitting martial-arts action with romance, comedy, history, genuine poignance, and sharp insight into the effects of the century-long encroachment of Read More

Black Cat

Actors: Jade Leung, Simon Yam, Thomas Lam

Synopsis: Following up on his vampire gangster flick A Bite of Love, Stephen Shin Kei-yin spins this knock off of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita. The film centers on young wayward lass named Erica (Jade Leung), who escapes from police custody just before her court date. She is eventually hunted down by a Read More

Bullet in the Head

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam, Fennie Yuen

Synopsis: Following up on his 1989 masterpiece The Killer, superstar action director John Woo directs this emotionally wrenching look at three friends waylaid in war-torn Vietnam. Set in 1967, when clashes between leftists protesting British rule and the police were tearing the colony apart, the film opens Read More

Killer's Romance

Synopsis: Simon Yam stars in this Hong Kong-lensed crime thriller as a man sworn to avenge the death of his father, who was killed by Triad gangsters. But when a woman witnesses one of his killings, instead of murdering her, he falls in love -- and soon both must run for their lives. ~ Mark Deming, All Read More

Return Engagement

Bloodfight

Actors: Bolo Yeung, Simon Yam, Yasuaki Kurata

Synopsis: Kickboxer Bolo Yeung is the star of Bloodfight. The scene is a major martial-arts tournament, ostensibly dedicated to fair play. But all good intentions are dashed when one of the contestants (Yeung) accidentally impugns the master's honor. The finale features a square-off between master and Read More

Final Run

Actors: Yukari Oshima

Synopsis: To finance his sister's medical bills, a martial arts expert must win a tournament for the prize money. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Burning Ambition

Synopsis: Frankie Chan Fan-kei directs and stars in this tight-scripted gangster thriller yarn. The film opens with the triad clan's patriarch getting whacked by his brother Chau Hsiong (Ko Chuen-hisang). With the leadership of the family up in the air, Chau tries to enlist the help of his vacillating Read More

Mistaken Identity

Actors: Simon Yam

Synopsis: Simon Yam Tat-wah stars in this action flick as two men named Chow -- Chow Tak-kan is a nebbish geek with bad teeth while Chow Man-heng is a slick confidence man. When the latter is being chased by the cops following a botched robbery, he plows into a car driven by the former. In the chaos that Read More

Tongs: A Chinatown Story

Actors: Simon Yam, Larry Tan, Anthony Gioia

Synopsis: Philip Chan spins this low-budget gangland saga shot and set in New York's Chinatown. Brothers Mickey and Paul Lee (Simon Yam and Tam Pak-pan respectively) arrive in the Big Apple with two wildly different ambitions. While Mickey simply wants a study and get ahead, Paul wants to become a big-name Read More