Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting

Directing

Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting

Born 1950-11-17 · Canton, China

Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting (Chinese: 張婉婷, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema. Elected "Freshman's Queen" when she was studying undergrad at the University of Hong Kong, she was also an avid sportswoman representing Lady Ho Tung Hall and HKU. Cheung is known for working with the migration issues of Hongkongers and overseas Chinese, especially before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. Her films include the "migration trilogy": Illegal Immigrant (1985), An Autumn's Tale (1987) and Eight Taels of Gold (1989). The Soong Sisters (1997) marks another peak of her filming career. All four films were made in collaboration with writer Alex Law. She has been in the relationship with teammate Alex Law since 1986. The couple first met as classmates in New York University.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Moon Warriors poster
6.5

A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.

Moon Warriors

1992

Beijing Rocks poster
6.1

A rock and roll story that portrays the decay of political and cultural lacunae that have separated China and Hong Kong for so long.

Beijing Rocks

2001

The Soong Sisters poster
6.6

Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.

The Soong Sisters

1997

City of Glass poster
5.8

The story of man and ex-girlfriend found dead after a car crash and how their children come together to retell the story.

City of Glass

1998

City of Glass poster
5.8

The story of man and ex-girlfriend found dead after a car crash and how their children come together to retell the story.

City of Glass

1998

An Autumn's Tale poster
7.4

Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.

An Autumn's Tale

1987

1:99 Shorts poster
6.3

Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the Information Service Departement of the Government of HK SAR. The aim was to bring back confidence to the HK popuation. The running-time is 1 to 2 minutes for each short.12 Short films: 1-"Rhapsody", director: Johnny To and Wai Ka-fai; 2-"My Sow Is Not Feeling Well", director: Fruit Chan; 3-"Smile", director: Teddy Chen; 4-"Of a Cause" (Animation) director: Tsui Hark; 5-"Hong Kong - A Winner", director: Stephen Chow; 6-"Who's Miss Hong Kong?", director: Joe Ma; 7-"Family of Heroes", director: Alex Law and Mabel Cheung; 8-"Until Then", director: Gordon Chan and Dante Lam; 9- "McDull 1:99" director: Brian Tse; 10-"Spring, 2003", director: Peter Chan; 11-"A Glorious Future", director: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak; 12-"Making of 1:99", director: Wong Shou-Ping.

1:99 Shorts

2003

Echoes of the Rainbow poster
7.6

Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.

Echoes of the Rainbow

2010

Painted Faces poster
7.0

This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as young men. The story is about their teacher Master Yu and his school.

Painted Faces

1988

Now You See Love... Now You Don't poster
6.2

This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a tiny village in Hong Kong. The plot revolves around his love interest who has run off to work in downtown Hong Kong and many culture clashes between the peasants and urban life are highlighted.

Now You See Love... Now You Don't

1992

A Tale of Three Cities poster
6.7

A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.

A Tale of Three Cities

2015

A Tale of Three Cities poster
6.7

A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.

A Tale of Three Cities

2015

Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family poster
7.0

A surprising look at the past of movie star Jackie Chan and the difficulties of Chinese families during the Culture Revolution.

Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family

2003

Eight Taels of Gold poster
7.0

An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.

Eight Taels of Gold

1989

Eight Taels of Gold poster
7.0

An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.

Eight Taels of Gold

1989

The Illegal Immigrant poster
6.2

The lead, arrested and processed after a police raid on a Canal St. clothing workshop. He has no status in HK, where he'd swam, or the US, where he arrived as a stowaway, to avoid metal detectors which would pick up the bullets still in his body.

The Illegal Immigrant

1985

Beautiful 2013 poster
NR

Beauty in the eyes of 4 filmmakers. Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Beautiful New Bay Area Project finds it in a kung-fu fighting young woman with a particular sense of honor. From China, Lu Yue's 1 Dimension reinvents a childlike Buddhist fable about good and evil. For Taiwan's Wu Nien-Jen and Hong Kong's Mabel Cheung, beauty resides in reconciliation and new hope. Wu's A New Year, the Same Days happens over New Year when a retired old man leaves home, while Cheung's Indigo takes place during Christmas, with Elaine Jin playing an aging dance teacher with two troublesome children.

Beautiful 2013

2013

To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self poster
9.0

Sparked by the demolition and reconstruction of its century-old campus, Ying Wa Girls' School embarks on a project to chronicle the transformation of its students through the camera of director Mabel Cheung, its distinguished alumna. Following a group of young students since 2011, the documentary captures the trials and tribulations that go with the most turbulent decade in Hong Kong's history.

To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self

2022

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NR

Alex Law’s Swan Song, directed by Mabel Cheung

十個學醫的少年