Yuen BiaoFilmography

Robin-B-Hood

Actors: Louis Koo, Michael Hui, Gao Yuanyuan, Chen Baoguo

Synopsis: The Jackie Chan-headlined action farce Rob-B-Hood concerns Slipper (Chan), a character caught up in a hornet's nest of problems. Raised by poor parents and expelled from school at an early age, Slipper became notorious for his lightning-fast footwork and quick-fingered hijinks, but managed to Read More

Hero Youngster

Synopsis: The character portrayed by Donnie Yen in Fist of Fury, Jet Li in Fist of Legend, and martial arts legend Bruce Lee in the 1972 classic The Chinese Connection returns as The Prodigal Son and Project A star Yuen Baio takes over the role of Chan Chen in a knock-down, drag-out, kung-fu spectacular Read More

No Problem 2

Synopsis: Directed by Chin Ka-lok, this martial arts adventure centers around the chaos generated when the hapless Kimura (Takashi Okamura) is mistaken for a yazuka hitman. Before he can unpack his suitcase -- Kimura had recently won a free vacation -- he is approached and ordered to kill a young woman Read More

Millennium Dragon

Actors: Chin Siu-hou, Yuen Biao

Synopsis: Martial arts legend Yuen Baio tops the bill of this kung fu thriller from director Phillip Ko Fei. Traveling to Russia in hopes of seeking out a collector who is in search of a mysterious item which bestows great power on its holder, a Chinese secret agent is horrified to hear that the determined Read More

A Man Called Hero

Actors: Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Kristy Yang, Yuen Biao

Synopsis: In 1998, Andrew Lau's groundbreaking smash hit The Storm Riders came out of nowhere and resurrected the ailing Hong Kong film industry. Lau's follow-up, using much of the same cast and crew, is another martial arts epic set largely in New York's Chinatown. The film opens in the early 20th century Read More

Deadful Melody

Synopsis: Ng Min-Keng spins this kung-fu revenge fantasy featuring Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia. As a child, Snow witnessed her family getting murdered at the hands of dark-hearted martial arts masters looking for a priceless, magical lyre. The highly sought-after instrument plays music that has the power to Read More

Dragon from Shaolin

Synopsis: Ha Sau Hin's family-friendly martial arts film Dragon from Shaolin features the adventures of a kung fu master and an orphan who work together to search for Buddha. The film co-stars Yuen Biao, Sik Siu Loong, Tsui Yurk Suen, and Fok Siu Man. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Circus Kids

Actors: Donnie Yen, Yuen Biao, Irene Wan

Synopsis: Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Wu Ma directed and acted in this standard martial-arts actioner about a circus troupe which is chased out of Shanghai after the attacking Japanese force destroys their circus in 1942. Master Shen's Shanfu Circus moves to Canton, China, but can't get any work and are Read More

Don't Give a Damn

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao

Synopsis: With the rising international popularity of Asian filmmaker Sammo Hung, it may be surprising that this fast-paced action-comedy -- which he not only produced, directed, and choreographed, but also contains one of his most amusing starring roles -- has not seen wider distribution outside Hong Kong. Read More

Kickboxer

Actors: Yuen Biao

Synopsis: This martial arts actioner comes from director Wu Ma, the filmmaker behind such pictures as Swordsman and Police Story Part II. Yuen Biao stars as a young man who reluctantly enters a kung fu school and goes on to become a kickboxing master. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

The Setting Sun

Actors: Masaya Kato

Synopsis: Directed by Akira Tomono, this lavish historical epic was a celebration of Nikkatsu studio's 80th year anniversary. Set during the run up to World War II, the film centers on Tatsuma Kaya (Masaya Kato), a brooding secret agent for the Japanese Imperial Army. His mission is to gather funds for Read More

Iceman Cometh

Synopsis: In this adventure story with a comic touch from Hong Kong, Ching (Yuen Biao) is a royal guard of the Ming Dynasty who must find and capture an old friend who has gone bad and is wanted for rape and murder. In the midst of a hard-fought battle in the snow, the two men are frozen, and they remain in 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

Shanghai Shanghai

Actors: Yuen Biao, Lam Chi-Cheung

Synopsis: Teddy Robin Kwan directs this lavish period action flick set in the first half of the 20th century and featuring a dazzling line-up of stars. Little Tiger (Yuen Biao) ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger (Chi-cheung Lam), an honest cop working in a Read More

Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Films

Synopsis: Piecing together exciting film footage of martial arts performances, Deadliest Art demonstrates the reasons for the popularity of martial arts combat in visual entertainment. The history of the art, including basics of the Eastern philosophies that govern it, provides insight along with the Read More

Saga of the Phoenix

Synopsis: This sequel to the Hong Kong thriller, Peacock King (1988), stars Yuen Biao as Kujaku, the heroic Peacock King. In this film, Kujaku is captured and frozen in a prison of ice by the evil Hell Queen. Meanwhile, a young monk must watch over a girl who holds the key to the gates of hell. Due to his Read More

Peacock King

Synopsis: Directed by Nam Lai Choi, The Peacock King chronicles the lives of two monks who, separated at birth, reunite in order to defeat none other than the King of Hell himself. Peacock (Yuen Bao) and Lucky Fruit (Hiroshi Mikami make the trek to Japan in hopes of finding Ashura (Gloria Yip), the daughter Read More

On the Run

Synopsis: An honest cop framed for the murder of his wife by his disreputable colleagues sets out to capture the true culprit with authorities hot on his trail in a noir-styled action thriller starring Yuen Baio and Pat Ha. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Painted Faces

Actors: Sammo Hung, Ham-bo, Cheng Pei-Pei, Lam Ching-Ying, John Sham

Synopsis: This drama focuses on life at the Peking Opera School and is a loose biography of Hong Kong film stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Sammo Hung portrays Master Yu, the academy's brutal schoolmaster, who takes the youths through the rigorous acrobatic training. The film offers an Read More

Dragons Forever

Actors: Benny Urquidez

Synopsis: Hefty martial arts star Sammo Hung directs this wacky kung-fu-comedy featuring Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. Jackie Lung (Chan) is a philandering attorney who has been hired by ruthless gangster Hua Hsien-wu (Yuen Wah), who thwarts a lawsuit brought about by the wealthy and angry Miss Yip (Deanie Yip Read More

Mr. Vampire 2

Synopsis: Ricky Lau follows up on his smash horror-comedy yarn with this sequel set in the present day. The film opens with a swashbuckling professor (Chung Fat), who, during an exposition, stumbles upon a whole family of vampires. His scheme of selling the preserved corpses hits a snag when the child Read More

Eastern Condors

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Joyce Godenzi, Lam Ching-Ying

Synopsis: Actor/director Sammo Hung gathered an international cast including the late Oscar winner Dr. Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) and some of the most recognizable faces in Hong Kong cinema for this action-packed martial arts adventure. Set in 1976, the film focuses on a ragtag group of Chinese and Read More

Shanghai Express

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: This slapstick Hong Kong action film follows the passengers of the Shanghai Express, a train running to the small village of Hanshui. Plenty of action takes place as the gallery of wealthy socialites, con men, cops, and train robbers speeds towards its destination. Directed by Sammo Hung, a master Read More

Mr. Vampire

Actors: Ricky Hui, Moon Lee, Chin Suit Ho, Pauline Wong

Synopsis: Ricky Lau directs this fantastically successful horror yarn that successfully fused high-flying slapstick with creepy genre atmospherics. The film opens with Taoist priest Kau (Lam Ching-ying) along with his two hapless assistants, Chou (Chin Siu-ho) and Man Choi (Ricky Hui Koon-ying), set out to Read More

Righting Wrongs

Actors: Cynthia Rothrock, Yuen Biao

Synopsis: Kung fu star and choreographer Corey Yuen spins this vigilante flick featuring Yuen Biao as Hsia Ling-ching, a court prosecutor who is sick of watching the criminal and the corrupt waltz away from justice. After knocking off well-connected drug pushers and underworld denizens, Hsia finds himself Read More

My Lucky Stars

Actors: Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This is an early onscreen collaboration of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Muscles (Chan) and Ricky (Biao) are two cops who go after a corrupt cop with ties to the Japanese underworld. When Ricky is kidnapped, Fastbuck (Hung), a childhood friend of Muscles, recruits some of their old Read More

Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars

Actors: Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This third installment in the popular "Lucky Stars" series -- directed by Sammo Hung -- finds Muscles (Jackie Chan), Kidstuff (Hung), Fung (Yuen Biao), and the gang taking a well-needed vacation in Thailand courtesy of the Hong Kong police department. Also on the trip is police inspector Woo (Sibelle Hu Hui-chang Read More

Wheels on Meals

Actors: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng, John Sham

Synopsis: Following up from their success with Project A, martial arts-comedy trio Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao head out to Spain for this screwball kung-fu flick. Thomas and David (Chan and Yuen) run a Chinese lunch wagon in the streets of Barcelona. One day, David encounters a beautiful Read More

The Champions

Actors: Yuen Biao, Eddy Ko

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Brandy Yuen wrote and directed this breezy sports comedy set in the 1960s soccer scene. Yuen Biao stars as Lee Tong, who leaves his remote farming village after accidentally injuring the chieftain's son and travels to the big city. While settling in, Lee meets Suen (Cheung Read More

Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain

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

Jackie Chan's Project A

Synopsis: Jackie Chan directs himself and fellow martial arts superstar Sammo Hung in the action film Jackie Chan's Project A. Chan plays a 19th century Coast Guard office who must defend Hong Kong's borders from a variety of smugglers and undesirables. As is usually the case, Chan performs all of his own Read More

The Dead and the Deadly

Synopsis: One of the more noteworthy Hong Kong horror-comedies of its time, this period thriller from Golden Harvest and actor/director Wu Ma (who co-stars as Ma Lucho) is filled with both fascinating mythology and outrageous setpieces. Co-screenwriter Sammo Hung stars as Fatboy, who becomes suspicious when Read More

The Prodigal Son

Actors: Yuen Biao, Frankie Chan, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: In this classic martial arts film from Hong Kong, Yuen Biao plays the effete son of a wealthy man who is halfheartedly studying kung fu, though his father has to pay ringers to fight him (and, of course, lose). When he finds out that his father has been deceiving him, Biao decides he must learn Read More

Dreadnaught

Actors: Yuen Biao, Kwan Tak-Hing

Synopsis: Director and master choreographer Yuen Woo-ping spins this brilliant kung-fu-thriller featuring future star Yuen Biao. The film opens with serial killer White Tiger (Yuen Shun-yee) fleeing from the authorities of rural China and hiding in a small town's opera troupe. There he covers his prominent Read More

The Victim

Crew: Action Director

Actors: Karl Maka, Chang Yi, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: Sammo Hung Kam-po spins this old school kung-fu flick. Chan-wing (Hung) is an unruly fighter determined to get martial arts master Leung Chun-yau (Leung Kar-yan) as his teacher. Leung, however, is up to his ears in his own problems and the last thing he needs is an undisciplined lad to make Read More

Dragon Forever

Synopsis: Sammo Hung directs himself and Jackie Chan in the Hong Kong action film Dragon Forever. Chan plays a lawyer who discovers that his client is a drug king. Chan teams up with a hapless friend (Hung) and a mentally unstable associate (Yuen Biao) to stop the kingpin. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Knockabout

Actors: Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Lau Kar-wing, Leung Kar Yan

Synopsis: Brothers Little John and Big John make a living as small-time con men. When things go sour, they turn to a powerful man called the Silver Fox, only to find that he too is a con man who's playing them at their own game. Their luck is sure to run out soon, but lucky for them, they run into Fatty the Read More

Enter the Fat Dragon

Actors: Sammo Hung

Synopsis: Sammo Hung stars in this parody of Return of the Dragon, the 1973 kung fu classic that paired Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. Sammo plays Lung, an apprentice pig farmer sent to the big city to help his family, only to find himself confronted by a gang of thugs trashing the grocery stand where he Read More

The Young Master

Actors: Jackie Chan

Synopsis: Following up on his success with his 1978 smash hit Drunken Master, Jackie Chan directs this old school kung-fu-comedy. Lung (Chan) is an orphan being raised in a grim martial arts school run by a strict dour master. During the Lion Dance competition, Lung's buddy, Keung (Wei Pai), jumps ship and Read More