Stanley KwanFilmography

Occupation:
First Assistant Director, Director, Producer
Biography:
Along with Wong Kar-Wai, Stanley Kwan is one of the most prominent directors of Hong Kong's Second Wave. In a national cinema known more for martial arts films than art films, Kwan has created some of Asia's most inventive and complex films of the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Hong Kong in 1957, Kwan...Read More

  • Miao Miao

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Ko Chia-yen, Fan Chih-wei, Sandrine Pinna

    2008

  • Everlasting Regret

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Hu Jun, Daniel Wu, Huang Jue

    2005

  • Yiu Ye Wui Long

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Daniel Wu, Wai Ying-hung, Ku Feng, Eddy Ko, Allan Wu

    2004

  • Lan Yu

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Hu Jun, Li Huatong, Lu Fang

    Synopsis: Stanley Kwan, one of Hong Kong's few openly gay filmmakers, directed this drama that blends a same-sex love story into a tableau of China's tumultuous recent history. In 1988, Lan Yu (Liu Ye) is a college student from rural China who has just arrived in Beijing, where he intends to pursue his Read More

    7/3/02

  • Yau Si Tiumo

    Crew: Director

    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

  • Tianshang Renjian

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Lu Liping, Wang Ning, Rolf Chow

    Synopsis: The first film of Yu Lik Wai, this is the story of Ah Ying from Wunan in Mainland China, who arrives in Hong Kong with a tourist visa. She is called "Miss Big North," which means a prostitute from the mainland. During her initiation to the fast-moving, fast-living, materialistic world of Hong Read More

    1999

  • Hold You Tight

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Yau Chingmy, Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang, Ko Yu-lun, Sandra Ng

    Synopsis: Hong Kong helmer Stanley Kwan directed this study of sexual desire, featuring sexy Chingmy Yau (Naked Killer) in a dual role. Rosa Gao (Yau) loses her ticket at the airport, but a woman who resembles her boards the plane. Gay real-estate salesman Tong (Eric Tsang) puts the make on Fung-wai (Sunny Chan Read More

    1998

  • Yang & Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This entry in the British Film Institute-sponsored international centenary celebration of cinema -- in which noted directors presented a film exemplifying their country or region's cinema and its origins -- represents China, or rather one aspect of the country's large body of work as seen through Read More

    1996

  • Red Rose White Rose

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this sensitive Asian melodrama chronicles the two major loves in the life of a man who cannot change. The story is divided into two parts; each part focused upon one woman. The story begins in Shanghai during the early 1930's and follows the loves of Chen-pao. His early love life abroad is Read More

    1994

  • Centre Stage

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau

    Synopsis: In the 1930s, in China, there was a woman film-actress who was tagged as "the Chinese Garbo." She was a wildly popular performer who made her first film at age 16 and died by her own hand at age 25. Ironically, she was famous for playing tragic heroines, and her own life mirrored the kinds of Read More

    1992

  • Ah-Ying

    Crew: Associate Producer

    Synopsis: This 1992 film is not to be confused with a 1983 feature with the same phonetic Chinese title. In this story, a grim and duty-mad judge enacts a horrific revenge on his wife for having cuckolded him. A decade and more later, the judge's daughter is raped and her husband is killed while they are on Read More

    1992

  • Full Moon in New York

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Siqin Gaowa, Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung

    Synopsis: In this drama, three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York. Chao Hong (Sichingowa) is from mainland China, and has come to marry a Chinese man with American citizenship. Aside from the difficulties of being newly Read More

    1989

  • Rouge

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Man Chi Leung, Emily Chu

    Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan directs this stunning supernatural melodrama about a passion, romance, and lost history. Fleur (Anita Mui) is a 1930s high-class courtesan who finds herself sucked into a doomed relationship with Twelfth Master Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung), the rakish scion of a Read More

    1988

  • Operation Condor 2: The Armour of Gods

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan, Lola Forner, Bosidale Sumiljanik

    Synopsis: Jackie Chan takes a break from police thrillers featuring kung-fu and wild stunts to star and direct this action-adventure yarn featuring kung-fu and wild stunts. Chan plays Jackie, aka the Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune finding exotic antiquities. After Read More

    1987

  • Love Unto Waste

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Irene Wan, Elaine Jin, Tsai Chin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chow Yun-Fat

    Synopsis: Billie (Irene Wan) is a beautiful model who falls for Tony (Tony Leung) in this engaging crime drama. The playboy son of a wealthy rice merchant, Tony has a penchant for nightclubs and drinking when his daily work with his father is complete. Jade Screen (Elaine Jin) is a starlet who comes home to Read More

    1986

  • Women

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Cora Miao, Chow Yun-Fat

    Synopsis: Not everyone would agree with the premise of this standard story of female bonding -- that divorced or single women are secretly longing for a male relationship -- but the camaraderie of the "Happy Spinsters Club" and the life of the heroine Liang Bo-yi (Cora Miao) are not as controversial. Read More

    1985

  • Boat People

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: Lam Chi-Cheung, Season Ma, Cora Miao

    Synopsis: A landmark of the nascent Hong Kong New Wave of the early '80s, this melodrama -- directed by Ann Hui -- concerns the plight of Vietnamese peasants shortly after the fall of Saigon. The film centers on a Japanese photojournalist named Shiomi Akutagawa (George Lam Chi-cheung) who ventures to Danang Read More

    1982

  • The Nomad

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: Leslie Cheung

    Synopsis: Ma (Tong Chung-yip) works as a taxi driver, as a collector for his father whose business is high-interest loans, and in his spare time, as a lifeguard. In that last role, he meets Kathy (Pat Ha), a wealthy woman, and romance blossoms. Meanwhile, Kathy's friend Louis (Leslie Chung) is also at the Read More

    1982

  • The System

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: Shek Kin, Chiao Chiao

    Synopsis: The demi-monde of Hong Kong drug lords and their connections is the focus of this police drama by Peter Yung. Detective Chan is a cop in the narcotics bureau who is out to break the back of the drug cartels in the city. Through his investigations, the notorious workings of the Chinese Triads are Read More

    1980

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