Sylvia Chang Filmography

The Go Master

Actors: Chang Chen, Sylvia Chang, Ayumi Ito, Akira Emoto, Keiko Matsuzaka

Synopsis: The material and spiritual sides of one man's life are reflected in a game that allowed him to become a hero in this historical drama from Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang. Wu Qingyuan (Chang Chen) was born to a wealthy family in China, and as a boy he revealed a remarkable talent for the Read More

American Fusion

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Esai Morales, Collin Chou, James Hong, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Synopsis: A woman stuck in middle age may yet find love if her mother can stay out of the way in this comedy from first-time director Frank Lin. Yvonne (Sylvia Chang) is a divorcee who is about to turn fifty and feels as if life is passing her by. Yvonne works for a throw-away newspaper where ad sales is Read More

20 30 40

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Angelica Lee Singe, Anthony Wong, Tony Leung Kar-Fai

Rice Rhapsody

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Melanie Laurent, Tan Lepham, Alvin Chiang

Seung Fei

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Wu, Edison Chen, Angelica Lee, Anthony Wong, Patricia Ha

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Sylvia Chang writes and directs the dramatic fantasy Seung Fei (Princess-D). Computer graphics designer Joker (Daniel Wu) meets a young woman named Ling (Angelica Lee) at a dance club. He convinces her to model for his latest project: a cybergirl called "Princess Digital." He Read More

Dei Gau Tin Cheung

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Josie Ho, Chris Lee, Joe Cheung

Synopsis: This drama, based on actual events, concerns a young woman who is trying to come to terms with the news that she has contracted a fatal illness. Fion (Josie Ho) has received the news that her test for the HIV virus has come back positive, and she's understandably distraught. A hospital volunteer Read More

The Red Violin

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy Read More

Twin Dragons

Actors: Teddy Robin, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Anthony Chan, Philip Chan

Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan stars opposite knockabout comedy sensation Jackie Chan in this story about identical twins separated in childhood who are unexpectedly reunited years later. While on the run from a Hong Kong hospital, an escaped convict takes an infant hostage, leaving the Read More

Sam Dung

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gigi Leung, Karen Mok, Elaine Jin, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: Renowned actor/director Sylvia Chang created this richly layered film about memory, regret, and lost love. The film opens as successful filmmaker Cheryl (Chang) discusses a script idea about young love with a young screenwriter. She pitches a story about Shao-rou (Gigi Leung) a beautiful though Read More

Bishonen

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Fung, Daniel Wu, Jason Tsang, Terence Yin, Shu Qi

Synopsis: A gay romantic mystery, Bishonen is roughly based on an incident that was the biggest scandal to hit the Hong Kong Police force. A cache of photographs was discovered in the home of a wealthy playboy, which all featured handsome young men in police uniforms, some of them half nude, others holding Read More

Tonight Nobody Goes Home

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this upbeat Taiwanese comedy, a dark domestic cloud proves to have a silver lining for an oppressed housewife. The trouble begins when aging dentist Mr. Chen tires of merely eyeing the sweet things at the local swimming pool and takes up with his granddaughter's much-younger teacher. His poor Read More

Siao Yu

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Taiwanese comedy is set in Lower Manhattan and chronicles the travails of two Taiwanese illegal aliens as they try to get a green card. The woman, Siao-yu, works as a sweatshop seamstress while her lover, Jiang Wei, is a student who works in a fish market. They meet an Italian-American Read More

The New Age of Living Together

Crew: Director

C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri

Actors: Andy Lau, Carina Liu, Carrie Ng, Fong Bo-bo

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Yee's highly lauded and sentimental tearjerker swept the 1993 Hong Kong Film Awards and was warmly embraced by audiences due to its well-developed characters and exceptional performances. Anita Yuen stands out as Min, an ebullient young woman who came from a Read More

Eat Drink Man Woman

Actors: Sihung Lung, Yang Kuei-Mei, Wu Chien-lien, Wang Yu-Wen, Ah-Leh Gua

Synopsis: Director Ang Lee's follow-up to his surprise box-office hit The Wedding Banquet is another look at ethnic and sexual conflicts in a Chinese family, with meals as a centerpiece of the film. Master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) is a long-time widower who lovingly cooks large Sunday dinners for his three Read More

Three Summers

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: As Larry Lau's gentle coming-of-age drama Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of his youth. Against the backdrop of that locale, his young sister (Cherie Chan) has recently befriended a Read More

Mungsing Sifan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gong Li, Wilson Lam, Kenny Bee

Synopsis: Sylvia Chang Ai-chia directs this affable romantic comedy about anxieties over Hong Kong's impending handover to Mainland China and the cultural differences between the two countries. Ma-lei (Gong Li), who was born in Hong Kong but raised in Beijing, is having a dickens of a time trying to Read More

Queen of Temple Street

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Rain Lau, Lo Lieh, Ha Ping

Synopsis: In this unorthodox family drama, Big Sis Wah (Sylvia Chang) is the no-nonsense madam of a brothel in Kowloon. Aside from the nature of her business, she is a down-to-earth, thoroughly traditional mother of a teen-aged daughter. She and her daughter are going through a difficult period, but her 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

Full Moon in New York

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

Ji Tong Ya Jiang

Actors: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Sylvia Chang, Lowell Lo

Synopsis: A Hui (Michael Hui) is a petty, stingy man who owns a restaurant specializing in a certain kind of duck dish. Although the restaurant is filthy, thanks in part to the unspeakable habits of its chef, and the service is awful, the food is good, and he has a loyal clientele. That is, until an Read More

Soursweet

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, Jodi Long, Soon-Teck Oh, William Chow

Synopsis: With this melodrama about a Chinese immigrant couple trying to succeed in the harsh realities of Margaret Thatcher's economically depressed England, the sobering social commentary of director Mike Newell's television work met the airy charm of his romantic films. After their wedding in Hong Kong Read More

All About Ah Long

Synopsis: Future action spectacular maestro Johnny To spins this melodrama based loosely on divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer. Former motorcycle racer Long (Chow Yun-fat) supports his young son Porky (Wong Kwan-yuen) working as a lowly construction worker. Though they struggle to get by, Long and his son live Read More

Seven Years Itch

Actors: Raymond Wong, Sylvia Chang, Eric Tsang

Synopsis: The businessman in this film has been in a committed relationship with a woman for over seven years, and in all that time he hasn't dallied with anyone else. He is not married to her, but he may as well be, except for the fact that he is deeply moved by the sight of beautiful women. One day, while Read More

Passion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Chang, George Lam, Cora Miao

Synopsis: Sylvia Chang stars and directs this low-key drama about the complex relationship between two middle-aged friends who sit down and reminisce about their lives. Wendy (Chang) and Ming (Cora Miao) are inseparable friends who are both in love with handsome lawyer John (George Lam). When Wendy can't Read More

Mad Mission, Part 4: You Never Die Twice

Actors: Sam Hui, Karl Maka, Sally Yeh, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong action filmmaker Ringo Lam (City on Fire and Replicant) reputedly directed this third of four official sequels to 1982's Aces Go Places only as a favor to star Karl Maka, and it shows. King Kong (Sam Hui) once again joins bald detective Albert Au (Maka) and his son Baldy Jr. as Read More

Zhong Shen Da Shi

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Sun Yueh

Synopsis: The ironic title of this undistinguished farce literally means "the affair of a lifetime," or marriage. Keeping that in mind, the future of an up-and-coming advertising designer (Tao Limin) depends on his ability to find a wife -- and soon, as of yesterday -- in order to get a lucrative account Read More

Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street

Actors: Sam Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: After appearing in cameos in the first two Aces Go Places movies, it was only a matter of time before cult filmmaker Tsui Hark took a turn in the director's chair himself, and the result is a spectacularly silly send-up of the spy genre and one of the series' best installments. King Kong (Sam Hui) Read More

Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?

Crew: Production Designer

Synopsis: Melodramatic and maudlin by Western standards, this movie is about a poor bottle collector who finds an abandoned baby one morning and decides to raise her as his own child. While she is growing up, it becomes clear that she has an excellent singing voice and by the time she is an adult, her Read More

Shanghai Blues

Actors: Kenny Bee, Sally Yeh

Synopsis: Shanghai Blues combines romantic comedy, slapstick, music, and several classic coincidences (a favorite ploy of director and writer Tsui Hark to tell the story of a man (Kenny Bee) and a female dancer (Sylvia Chang) who meet under a Shanghai bridge in 1937 as they seek shelter from the Japanese Read More

That Day, On the Beach

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Terry Hu, David Mao, Hsu Ming

Synopsis: Two estranged friends reunite and end up reminiscing, dreaming, and sharing their deepest secrets in this Taiwanese drama. One of the friends is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour. The other is a divorcee who has just started a new business. The two haven't seen each other Read More

Cabaret Tears (Send In The Clowns)

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: In this Hong Kong melodrama, two sisters are part of a cabaret act that is rapidly declining in attendance, and although the older sister (Chang Shio-yen) is constantly trying to push her younger sister to the forefront in a solo act, the younger sibling is less than enthusiastic. She sees little Read More

Mad Mission 2

Actors: Sam Hui, Carl Mak, Sylvia Chang, Yasuka Kurata

Synopsis: Prolific Hong Kong director Lau Kar-wing helmed this first of four official sequels to the 1982 hit Aces Go Places (there was an abortive 1997 follow-up feature as well). An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure (clearly meant to represent Henry Kissinger) and charged with Read More

Mad Mission

Actors: Sam Hui, Carl Mak, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: A hugely successful crime-comedy from Cinema City and director Eric Tsang, Aces Go Places set records at the box office and made a star of Sam Hui. Hui plays King Kong, a clever thief who steals a cache of diamonds from some gangsters, framing another thief called White Glove for the crime. That's Read More

Attack Force Z

Actors: John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood, John Waters

Synopsis: Force Z is a crack Australian military corps during World War II. When a plane carrying a high-profile Japanese defector crash-lands somewhere in the South Pacific, it's up to Force Z to find it. Complicating matters is a traitor in the good guys' midst. John Philip Law heads the cast of Attack Read More

It Takes Two

Actors: Richard Ng, Carl Mak, Teddy Robin

Synopsis: It is the 1960s in Hong Kong, and a pair of friends who are nightclub performers are managing quite well until one of them falls in love with a female singer who happens to be the objective of a gangster's roving eye. The two recklessly get on the bad side of the mobster who has them so badly Read More

In Our Time

Actors: Lee Lichun, Zhang Yingzhen

He Lives by Night

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

Legend of the Mountain

Actors: Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang, Tung Lin, Tien Feng

Synopsis: A traditional Chinese legend comes in for lavish treatment in this (relatively) big-budget Hong Kong film. In the story, Ho is a scholar in Sung Dynasty (11th century) China. He has been given the task of making a finished copy of a religious text. It is a tantric sutra, and he is warned that evil Read More