Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Filmography

Red Cliff

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Vicky Zhao

Synopsis: John Woo's historical drama The Battle of Red Cliff re-creates the legendary Chinese battle from 208 A.D. that led directly to the end of the Han Dynasty. The film charts how different factions joined forces to create this turning point in history. Chow Yun-Fat stars in the film that is adapted Read More

Lust, Caution

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Lee Hom

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee adapts this Eileen Chang story set in World War II-era Shanghai that details the political intrigue surrounding a powerful political figure named Mr. Yee (Tony Leung) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Spanning the late-'30s and early-'40s, the movie introduces Read More

Confession of Pain

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Shu Qi, Xu Jinglei, Chapman To

Synopsis: A man trying to run away from a personal tragedy finds out the hard way how much one of his best friends has changed in this action drama. In 2003, Lau Ching-hei (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Bong (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are a pair of police detectives who are both partners and close pals. While Bong Read More

2046

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he reexamines and amplifies the themes from his film In the Mood for Love in this offbeat romantic drama. Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuades wjw 1967 (Faye Wong) to travel Read More

Seoul Raiders

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Qi Shu, Richie Jen

Synopsis: Hero and Infernal Affairs star Tony Leung takes the led in cinematographer-turned-director Jingle Ma's action thriller about a Japanese National Security agent and a thief who find their plans for splitting a lucrative reward complicated by the appearance of an unanticipated adversary. Japanese Read More

Sound of Colors

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Miriam Yeung, Chang Chen, Dong Jie, Fan Jik-Wai

Synopsis: The budding romance between a girl blinded in a childhood accident and a dating agency owner who has inexplicably lost his own eyesight is contrasted against the tender relationship between a heartbroken young woman and the man who was mysteriously guided to her by forces he cannot comprehend in Read More

Infernal Affairs III

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Chen Daoming, Kelly Chen

Synopsis: Infernal Affairs III picks up where the first film left off. Ming (Andy Lau) is cleared of any charges involving Yan's (Tony Leung) death, and is eventually assigned to the Internal Affairs division. He discovers that another cop, Yeung (Leon Lai of Fallen Angels), quickly rising through the ranks Read More

My Lucky Star

Synopsis: From filmmaker Vincent Kok, this Hong Kong romantic comedy centers on a unique battle between two competing masters of the art of Feng Shui. Looking to put an end to a life of endless misfortune, Yip (Miriam Yeung) hooks up with Lai (Tony Leung) with hopes that his knowledge of Feng Shui can help Read More

Hero

Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak of their Warring States period, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. Most determined to dominate China was the kingdom of Qin, whose Read More

Infernal Affairs

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Chapman To

Synopsis: As Infernal Affairs opens, Ming (Andy Lau of Full-time Killer) is being initiated into the criminal underworld by triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang of The Accidental Spy), who ends his speech to his young charges by wishing them success in the police department. Ming enters the police academy, where he Read More

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Vicki Zhao Wei, Chang Chen, Rebecca Pan

Synopsis: Chinese Odyssey 2002, produced by Wong Kar-Wai, is writer-director Jeff Lau's energetic parody of Chinese kung fu epics, with a bit of Shakespeare thrown in. Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) plays the Emperor, who, desperate for the free-spirited life of a wanderer, tries to escape from Read More

In The Mood For Love

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Lai Chin, Rebecca Pan

Synopsis: For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent Read More

Gua Sha

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhu Xu, Jiang Wenli

Synopsis: Hong Kong indie film icon Tony Leung stars in this Chinese production about cultural misunderstanding and intolerance. Datong (Leung) is a patrician of a St. Louis Chinese-American family and a designer of violent video games. When Datong's father (Zhu Xu) visits from China, he performs some Read More

Time and Tide

Actors: Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Anthony Wong

Synopsis: Two men who have a great deal in common become friends, only to find themselves turned into enemies in this slam-bang action fest from Hong Kong. Tyler (Nicholas Tse) is a man trying to make a career in a rough section of Hong Kong. One night, after several drinks too many, he hooks up with Ah Jo Read More

Healing Hearts

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Michelle Reis, Kenny Bee

Synopsis: Intended as the pilot for a an E.R.-style medical drama set in Hong Kong, Healing Hearts features Tony Leung as Lawrence, a doctor whose personal life has been left in shambles after the tragic hit-and-run death of his wife. As Lawrence sets off to find the driver and bring him to justice, one of Read More

Tokyo Raiders

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen, Cecilia Cheung, Toru Nakamura

Synopsis: In this fast-moving, light-hearted thriller from Hong Kong, Macy (Kelly Chen) is supposed to marry her Japanese boyfriend Takahashi (Toru Nakamura) during a trip to Las Vegas, but instead he leaves her at the altar. Told that Takhashi has returned to Tokyo, Macy and her friend Yung (Ekin Cheng) Read More

Gorgeous

Actors: Bradley Allan, Jackie Chan, Shu Qi, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan shifts gears in Bolei Cheun, in which martial arts are put on the back burner and romantic comedy is in the forefront. Bu (Shu Qi), the daughter of a pair of Taiwanese restaurant owners, one day finds a bottle floating near the docks with a message inside. The Read More

The Longest Nite

Actors: Lau Ching-Wan, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Shiu, Mark Cheng, Lung Fong

Synopsis: The title of this Hong Kong crime tale translates as "dark flowers," slang for an underworld contract. While a gang war is developing, Macao cop Sam (Tong Leung Chiu-wai) takes on a gunman in a restaurant where bald Tony (Lau Ching-wan) is eating. After Sam goes to a mobster's restaurant where an Read More

Flowers of Shanghai

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Liu, Jack Kao

Synopsis: Hou Hsiao-hsien (Goodbye South, Goodbye) directed this Taiwanese-Japanese period drama set in the British section brothels of 19th-century Shanghai. Chu Tien-wen's screenplay was adapted from Han Ziyun's 1894 novel Haishang Huia Liezhuang (Biographies of Flowers of Shanghai), translated from the Read More

'97 Aces Go Places

Happy Together

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chang Chen

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) are lovers from Hong Read More

Heaven Can't Wait

Synopsis: The cynical bite of this Hong Kong comedy will be most appreciated by those intimate with the culture as it comments upon those who use superstition and religion for their own benefit. Fung was raised in a Buddhist temple and so has the first-hand knowledge needed to run a first-class scam with Read More

War of Underworld

Synopsis: Herman Yau Lau-to spins this goo wak jai gangster yarn featuring Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The film opens with a gangland fight that breaks out at a screening of Young and Dangerous 3 -- which also happened to be made by this film's producers. During the fight, bumptious gangster Siu-chun Read More

Cyclo

Actors: Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tran Nu Yên-Khê

Synopsis: A "cyclo" is a bicycle-drawn taxi similar to a rickshaw, and, in this story, the nickname of an 18-year-old boy trying to scrape together a living in the desperate poverty of Ho Chi Mihn City. Cyclo lives with his grandfather (Le Kinh Huy) and two sisters (Tran Nu Yen-Khe and Pham Ngoc Lieu), and Read More

Chungking Express

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow

Synopsis: A Hong Kong fast food restaurant acts as the link between two unusual stories of police officers in love in this eccentric, stylish comedy-drama. Director Wong Kar-Wai plays freely with traditional narrative structure, dividing his film into two loosely connected segments. The first centers on a Read More

The Returning

Ashes of Time

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 Hong Read More

Three Summers

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

The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu

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

Tom, Dick, and Hairy

Synopsis: Peter Chan Ho-san and Lee Chi-ngai deliver this engagingly loopy romantic comedy about a trio of roommates. Tom (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is a quiet, reserved lad about to enter into an arranged marriage with upper-class ice queen Joyce (Jay Lau Kam-ling); his roommate Dick (Tony Leung Kar-fai) is an Read More

Butterfly Sword

Actors: Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh (aka Michelle Khan) began her comeback bid with this flamboyant Hong Kong action film from director Michael Mak and choreographer Ching Siu-tung. Based on a novel by Ku Long, previously filmed in 1976 as Killer Clans, the film stars Yeoh as Sister Ko, part of the Happy Forest clan Read More

The Magic Crane

Actors: Rosamund Kwan, Anita Mui, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Lawrence Ng

Synopsis: Benny Chan directs and Tsui Hark produces this sprawling fantasy yarn. The film opens with kung fu master Ma Kwun-mo (Tony Leung) being saved by the stunning Pak Wan-fai (Anita Mui) and her pet crane Yuen Yuk. In gratitude, Ma promises not to reveal Pak's identity to anyone. Later, at a kung fu Read More

Hard-Boiled

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Bowie Lam, Philip Chan, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kwan Hoi-Shan

Synopsis: Hard-Boiled is the last film directed by Hong Kong action auteur John Woo before his arrival in the U.S. This 1992 thriller, along with The Killer, is widely seen as one of his best from his Hong Kong days. Every ingredient of the quintessential Woo thriller is present, including his ever-present Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story 3

Actors: Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: This is the third in a series of movies featuring creatures from Chinese ghost stories. It begins with a scene from the first movie of the series, which shows the hero in an epic conflict with something called the Tree Devil, which has been put to sleep for a hundred years. Now it is "later," and Read More

The Tigers

Synopsis: TVB network's five most popular male idols all star together on the silver screen in this critically panned crime thriller. The film centers around a quartet of young police detectives -- Chi-ming (Andy Lau Tak-wah), Tau-pi (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), Bong (Felix Wong Yat-wah), and Wai (Miu Kiu-wai) 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

City of Sadness

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Jack Kao

Synopsis: Seen through the prism of the Lin family, this complex family drama from Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao Hsien details a brief but crucial moment in Taiwanese history between 1945, when 50 years of Japanese colonial rule came to an end, and 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Kuomintang forces Read More

My Heart is That Eternal Rose

Actors: Joey Wong, Kenny Bee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: Hong Kong director Patrick Tam's Cantonese-language saga My Heart is That Eternal Rose explores the social dynamics and tumultuous life-changes that unfold between two young men who are fast friends - Cheung (Tony Leung) and Rick (Kenny Bee) - and the sexy young woman caught between them, Lap Read More

People's Hero

Actors: Ti Lung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ronald Wong Ban, Elaine Jin

Synopsis: Derek Yee Tung-sing directs this critically praised crime thriller about two amateur thugs -- Sai (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Boney (Ronald Wong Pan) -- who bungle a bank heist, resulting in a hostage situation. Unbeknownst to them, one of their hostages is the notorious criminal Sunny Koo (Ti Lung) Read More

The Lunatics

Actors: Deanie Yip, Chow Yun-Fat, John Sham, Chun Pui

Synopsis: An exceptional and at times disturbing drama, Lunatics is among the top-grossing films of all time in Hong Kong. The somewhat fact-based tale centers on a social worker's attempts to help the mentally ill people who furtively live and work on the teeming city streets. As the story opens, Fung the Read More

Love Unto Waste

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

Gods, Gangsters and Gamblers

Actors: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai