Tsui HarkFilmography

All About Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zhou Xun, Kwai Lun-Mei, Kitty Zhang Yuqi

Synopsis: Seven Swords director Tsui Hark proves his multi-genre mastery with this romantic comedy. Kitty Zhang (CJ7), Guey Lun Mei (Secret), and Zhou Xun (Painted Skin) star as three women who are very different, but they share a similar goal of finding romance. They encounter a variety of strange Read More

Triangle

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

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

The Legend of Zu

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Seven Swords

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Young, Sun Hong-Lei, Lu Yi-ching

Synopsis: Tsui Hark (The Blade) adapted his massive martial arts epic Seven Swords (AKA Qi Jian) from Liang yu-Sheng's ravenously popular novel Seven Swordsmen from Mount Tian. The story opens in the 1660s, following the implementation of China's (Manchu) Qing dynasty. To quell possible nationalist Read More

Black Mask 2: City of Masks

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Traci Lords, Jon Polito, Rob Van Dam, Andy On

Synopsis: The Black Mask (Andy On replacing Jet Li) faces-off against a series of gruesome mutants while frantically searching for a cure for his ability not to feel pain in this flashy sequel to the 1996 original. When the Black Mask learns that genetic scientists worldwide are falling victim to an unknown Read More

Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ken Chang, Michael Chow Man-kin, Lam Suet, Chan Kwok Kwan, Anya, Ji Chun-Hua, Yu Rongguang

Synopsis: Hong Kong legend Tsui Hark brings you this tale of high-kicking vampire action. A quartet of kung fu masters trained in the Taoist Mao Shan School of magic are on the hunt for zombie vampires in 19th century China. When their Master Jiang (Yu Rongguang) disappears in an intense fight with one of Read More

Iron Monkey

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Yu Rongguang, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Tsang Sze Man, Yuen Shun-Yi

Synopsis: This kung fu classic weaving fact and myth earned a theatrical release in the U.S. from Miramax eight years after it was produced, following a successful retrospective screening at the 2001 Los Angeles Film Festival. Wong Kei Ying (Donnie Yen) is a master of the Hung Gar style of boxing in Read More

Time and Tide

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

Black Mask

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Martial arts star Jet Li donned a black hat and mask to portray a comic book superhero in this pulp action tale that gets the full-blown Hong Kong treatment from choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who later designed the fight scenes for The Matrix (1999). Li stars as Tsui Chik, leader of Squad 701, an Read More

Twin Dragons

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Knock Off

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Carman Lee

Synopsis: Hong Kong action genre craftsman Tsui Hark directed this martial arts tale, his second collaboration with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme after Double Team (1997). Van Damme stars as Marcus Ray, a Hong Kong fashion designer who specializes in "knock-offs," cheaply produced jeans and sneakers meant to Read More

Double Team

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke, Paul Freeman, Natacha Lindinger

Synopsis: Like John Woo and Ringo Lam before him, noted Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark made his American filmmaking debut with a thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. For this film, Hark also had the privilege of guiding basketball star Dennis Rodman through his first dramatic role. American Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

Crew: Editor, Executive Producer, Production Designer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Jan Lam, Lai Sui-yan, Tsui Hark, Ko Min-fai, Wong Yu-min

Synopsis: Tsui Hark is the executive producer, production designer, and screenwriter of this 82-minute Chinese animated feature displaying a full panoply of magical supergods, vexing spirits, and mere mortals. After debt collector Ning (voice of Jan Lam) loses his girlfriend Siu Lan (Lasi Suiyan), he Read More

Once Upon a Time in China and America

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

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

Chinese Feast

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: With a marvelously convoluted plot and featuring plenty of slapstick action, Chinese Feast is essentially a kung-fu film with a tasty twist: the combatants battle with knives, not to carve each other up but to make exquisite culinary delicacies. The story's impetus comes from a long-standing feud Read More

The Blade

Crew: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The godfather of the Hong Kong action spectacular, Tsui Hark adapts Chang Cheh's 1967 martial arts masterpiece The One-Armed Swordsman into a two-fisted yarn about violence and revenge. On (Zhao Wenzhou) is a nebbish orphan working at sword manufacturers. When he learns of first the vicious murder Read More

Shanghai Grand

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Gangsters abound in this lively, romantic crime drama that is set in Shanghai during WW II. The tale of Taiwanese patriot Hsu Wen-Chiang begins as he is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ting Lik, a kindly beggar who is desperately in love with Feng Ching-Ching, the daughter of Read More

Butterfly Lovers

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A traditional Chinese opera provides the basis for this nonmusical sweet & sour romance that tells the tale of a 4th-century student who finds himself confused when he becomes attracted to a fellow student. Unbeknownst to him, the "he" is really a she in disguise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Burning Paradise

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Tsui Hark produces and Ringo Lam directs this bleak kung-fu action thriller. Qing dynasty era martial arts heroes Fong Sai Yuk (Willie Chi Tian-sheng) and Hung Hei-kwun (Yang Sheng) are students at the Shaolin temple when the government decides that the celebrated monastery is a threat to imperial Read More

The East is Red

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Lin

Synopsis: The third installment in the Hong Kong Swordsman trilogy is intended to recapture the success of the second film, including its gender-bending performance by Brigitte Lin. Lin reprises her role as Asia the Invincible, a swordsman whose use of a supernatural scroll caused him to turn into a woman. Read More

The Magic Crane

Crew: Producer

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

Green Snake

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Hsing-Kuo, Ma Tsing-mou

Synopsis: Snakes and special effects abound as human and mythical worlds collide in this lavish variation of an old Chinese fable about a learned man who falls under the spell of two snake women. After 1,000 years of practice, White Snake is finally able to take on a completely human form. Hsu Hsien, the Read More

Once Upon a Time in China III

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Rosamund Kwan, Jet Li, Lau Shun, Xiong Xin Xin

Synopsis: In this, the third of what has become a long series of films, Doctor Wong Fei-Hung (Jet Li), a master of the martial arts, defender of the poor, upholder of tradition and a Confucian scholar (in addition to being a medical man) is visiting Beijing during a competition designed to determine what Read More

Swordsman II

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan, Fennie Yuen

Synopsis: In this second of three "Swordsman" martial arts thrillers, the swordsman Ling Jet Li is traveling with his sister to a religious retreat when they are informed that the leader of the sect has been captured by a mysterious being who has been transformed into a nearly immortal woman through the Read More

Once Upon a Time in China II

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Chiang, Yee Kwan Yan, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: It is 1895 in Canton, China. The Europeans are still milking the country for every dollar they can and claiming special privileges in it, as well. Meanwhile, the virulently anti-foreign White Lotus Society is mounting attacks on the generally clueless British, with the very obvious but low-key Read More

The Wicked City

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis: Peter Mak Tai-kit spins this exuberant, visually dense adaptation from the popular similarly named Japanese anime. The film is set in a world where shape-shifting alien creatures known as Raptors have infiltrated human society. To deal with this problem, Hong Kong has fashioned a secret government Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story 3

Crew: Producer

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

King of Chess

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Yang Lin, John Sham, Yim Ho

Synopsis: In Taipei, Taiwan, a television executive is helping the emcee of a television show about child prodigies prepare for a segment featuring a young chess prodigy. While he does this, he remembers a visit to the mainland at the time of the Cultural Revolution to visit a cousin. While traveling by Read More

Raid

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-ting spin this adventure yarn inspired by old Hollywood adventure serials. Set in the 1930s when China's last emperor Puyi allies himself with the invading Japanese army, the film centers on aged though wily Dr. Choy (Dean Shek) vows to lend his experience and his medical Read More

Once Upon a Time in China

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

A Chinese Ghost Story 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Wu Ma, Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis

Synopsis: This continuation of A Chinese Ghost Story reunites some of the original cast. Ning Leslie Cheung, the wandering scholar from the first film, is mistakenly imprisoned. An old man helps him escape and gives him a medallion for good luck. Ning meets a group of rebels, and the medallion causes them Read More

A Better Tomorrow III

Crew: Director

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Anita Mui, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Shek Kin

Synopsis: Tsui Hark takes the reigns of this series following a much-publicized rift between himself and John Woo -- the director of the first two A Better Tomorrow films -- to direct this prequel based around Chow Yun-Fat's memorable Mark character. Set in 1974, Mark ventures to Saigon after his cousin Read More

The Master

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Tsui Hark directs this critically panned kung fu action spectacular starring Jet Li as Jet, a martial arts master who ventures to San Francisco to find his old teacher Uncle Tak. When he gets there, he discovers that Tak's herbal shop has been trashed and the old man is missing. The reason, he Read More

The Killer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kenneth Tsang, Chu Kong

Synopsis: Though John Woo's lifelong admiration of Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick are also evident in this stylish actioner, the film is essentially a tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville and his cult thriller Le Samouraï. During a restaurant shoot-out, hitman Jeff (Chow Read More

Diary of a Big Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Internationally renowned filmmaker Tsui Hark produced this amiable screwball romantic comedy from Hong Kong director Chor Yuen. Popular action star Chow Yun-fat plays Chow Ting-fat, a stockbroker who is in love with two different women. Joey (Joey Wang) is a beautiful boutique owner and Sally Read More

Gunmen

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this stylish Hong Kong thriller, Tony Leung stars as a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. His department is overrun with corruption, while gangsters rule the city via the opium trade. The young cop recruits the aid of some rickshaw drivers who turn out to be men he served with during the war Read More

I Love Maria

Crew: Producer

A Better Tomorrow II

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu, Waise Lee

Synopsis: Following the bloody climax of the previous film, A Better Tomorrow -- again directed by John Woo -- opens with Sung Chi-hi (spelled Tse-ho in the first film though still played by Ti Lung) getting released from jail on the condition that he rat out his gangland associate and a shipyard owner Read More

Just Heroes

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this gangster epic in the tradition of The Godfather, the murder of a crime boss leads to a tense power struggle between his three adopted sons. As it is slowly revealed which brother is the traitor, the three-way standoff turns into a bloody final shootout. The signature style of Hong Kong Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Wong Tsu Hsien, Wu Ma

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong producer/director Tsui Hark and filmmaker Ching Siutung combine forces in this high-flying supernatural romance classic. Ning Caichen (Leslie Cheung) is a lowly tax collector who takes refuge for the night at the spooky Lam Ro temple. There he encounters and promptly falls in Read More

Peking Opera Blues

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy drama stars three of Hong Kong's most attractive and popular actresses of their time: Brigitte Lin is the daughter of a general, Cherie Chung is a petty thief, and Sally Yip is the daughter of the manager of the Beijing Opera theater. The story is set in 1911 when the Chinese Read More

A Better Tomorrow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung, Young Pao I

Synopsis: John Woo established himself as one of Hong Kong's premiere action directors with this ultra-hip, ultra-violent action classic. The film centers around the complex relationship between two brothers: Sung Tse-kit (Leslie Cheung) is a recent graduate of the police academy while Tse-ho (Ti Lung) runs Read More

Yes, Madam!

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: Michelle Yeoh makes her starring role debut in this police drama\action spectacular, directed by Corey Yuen. The film opens with the fierce, relentless Inspector Ng (Yeoh) cleaning the clocks of a band of thieves. Meanwhile, vicious crime boss Tin (James Tien Chun) puts a hit out on his accountant Read More

Working Class

Crew: Director

Actors: Sam Hui, Tsui Hark, Wong Joe Yin

Synopsis: Future action auteur Tsui Hark directs this amiable romantic comedy about a perpetually unemployed loser named Yan (Sam Hui Koon-kit), who would much rather hang out with his layabout buddies, Hing (Teddy Robin Kwan) and Sunny (Tsui), than look for gainful employment. One day, he happens upon a Read More

Shanghai Blues

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

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

Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street

Crew: Director

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

All the Wrong Spies

Actors: Teddy Robin, Tsui Hark

Synopsis: A follow-up to the wildly popular All the Wrong Clues, this slapstick comedy directed by Teddy Robin Kwan, who had a supporting role in the original, concerns a number of shady characters looking to get their hands on atomic bomb secrets in Japan-occupied Hong Kong during World War II. Private Read More

Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain

Crew: Director

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 Perfect Wife

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Dean Shek, Eric Tsang

Synopsis: Neither a rank imitation of Benny Hill's comedic style nor the evocation of a playboy bachelor life can save this imperfect film about a "perfect" mate. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide 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

All the Wrong Clues (For the Right Solution)

Crew: Director

Actors: Teddy Robin, Tang Kee Chun

Synopsis: After thrice failing at the box office, future Hong Kong cinema behemoth Tsui Hark has his first bona fide success with this wildly popular slapstick spoof on Hollywood gangster and detective flicks. Yoho (George Lam) is a private dick on the skids who thinks that his luck is about change with his Read More

Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Tsui Hark's original version of this violent and bloody film was first banned, and then censored and recut to eradicate any unwanted political comments. Although politics were not completely excised, the film runs mainly on high testosterone. Like many Hong Kong films of the slasher genre, the Read More

We're Going to Eat You!

Crew: Director

Actors: Han Kuo Tsai, Kao Hsiung, Mel Wong

Synopsis: Following up on his debut outing Butterfly Killers, Tsui Hark spins this gory and controversial cannibal crime flick. The film opens with Agent #999 (Norman Tsui Siu-keung) being sent to a remote island to apprehend wanted criminal Rolex (Melvin Wong Kam-sum). Of course, the island is largely Read More

The Butterfly Murders

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Lau Siu-Ming

Synopsis: Within the walls of Shum Castle, a flock of butterflies seems to have acquired a taste for blood. In this complex tale, a classic of Hong Kong cinema, writer Fong, who knows nothing of martial arts, unravels the mystery with the help of his fearless female companion, the lovely Green Shadow. Read More