Directing

Tony Leung

Born

1954-01-01 (72)

Place of birth

Guangzhou, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

64 titles

Hong Kong Director.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 6 titles

From Beijing with Love poster
7.0

A Chinese secret agent travels to Hong Kong to reclaim a dinosaur fossil but experiences hilarious incidents because of his incompetence.

From Beijing with Love

1994

The Untold Story poster
6.3

Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.

The Untold Story

1993

The Banquet poster
5.8

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

The Banquet

1991

Fight Back to School 2 poster
6.8

Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover as a student.

Fight Back to School 2

1992

Even Mountains Meet poster
7.0

A Hong Kong diva dies of a heart attack during a rehearsal with her faithful servant. Unaware of her death, the servant goes about her life as usual, until she is visited by the diva's spirit. The diva coaxes her servant into believing that the only way to bring her back to life is to find her long lost love, Prince Charming. Ironically, he is both the diva and the servant's love interest.

Even Mountains Meet

1993

Lying Hero poster
7.0

Wai was a stuntman who was lazy, loved to dream and afraid to die. He loaned a large amount of money from some bad persons. His wife abandoned him and quit. Also, he will never been employed in his business in stunt. He then wanted to suicide from taking drugs. But after he had taken the drugs, he discovered that had won the first prize in mark six at the same time. He was then sent to hospital. But he was afraid his winning ticket would be theft away. At the end, he hid it inside a TV-set. Unfortunately, the bad persons who loaned to him before came to his home and sold out all the electronic appliances in his home for money. Lastly, a good man bought the TV-set and donated it to the poor persons in Guangxi. Wai traced to Guangxi. But he was robbed by a bad taxi driver and stayed there. Fortunately, he encountered a nice girl called Luk Wan. She took him to her home for a temporary accommodation. At the same time, his TV-set was sent to the same village of Luk Wan. Hilarity ensues.

Lying Hero

1995

1980s · 8 titles

Magic Crystal poster
6.6

Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.

Magic Crystal

1986

Girl with the Diamond Slipper poster
5.7

Two hopeless housebreaker brothers, Ah Chi and Fatty, steal a diamond that had already been earmarked by a criminal gang. Through a series of unfortunate and - frankly - unlikely events, the diamond ends up in the shoe of a rising star TV actress Cheung Man Ju. They pursue her all over Hong Kong until finally tracking her down at a charity ball where she must leave by midnight, and accidentally loses a shoe in the process.

Girl with the Diamond Slipper

1985

Walk on Fire poster
6.0

Sergeant Kwok Wah (Andy Lau) and Ho Lung (Ray Lui) are both colleagues and best friends. Ho Lung has developed hatred with a gang leader Dick. Dick sends Hung (Cherie Chung) as a bait to kill Ho Lung. Swore to take revenge for his best friend, Kwok Wah works with Ho Lung's partner Mother (Kent Cheng) to unveil the enemy. Kwok Wah saves Hung during an operation and Hung starts to like Kwok Wah. Kwok Wah and Mother follow their plan to capture Dick, but it ends in vain and both of them get into a gunfight. Hung is killed for saving Kwok Wah during the gunfight. Though heart-broken, Kwok Wah and Mother go on fighting the villain...

Walk on Fire

1988

Thunderclap poster
10.0

A clever Shaw Brothers wuxia comedy about a young antihero (Tony Leung Siu Hung) getting himself and his friend (Max Mok) into all kinds of trouble and ultimate defeating the "Heavenly Demon" (Chen Kuan Tai). Lightning fast action, pleasant humor, great acting and a helpful modern-day narrator makes this an unusually enjoyable Shaw Brothers production.

Thunderclap

1984

Conduct Zero poster
9.0

Stephen and his friends Linus and William, all in their late teens, loitering out all day with nothing to do. They steal cars' radios for a living. Previously, they are unduly provoked by an instructor at a Cadet School, the three decide to get revenge and steal the car's radio of that Instructor. However, they get caught. Leung, another probation officer, requests to take on their case. Leung is a kind man who loves cycling, he hopes that he could inculcate them an interest in cycling...

Conduct Zero

1986

Yellow Peril poster
6.5

Alan Tang Kwong-Wing is a young family man in San Francisco whose sense of obligation to his gangster cousin conflicts with his home life. When he is falsely accused of the murders of some Vietnamese gangsters, Tang flees to his native Hong Kong, followed closely by his wife and small child, a corrupt CIA agent (as if there were anything else), and the remaining Vietnamese gang members out for revenge. The wife and kid get kidnapped, but Tang and a friend kick everyone's ass, with the wife helping out in rather unexpected ways.

Yellow Peril

1984

Mobfix Patrol poster
7.5

This is an atypical police film from 1981 and an opportunity to see a younger Kent Cheng playing a policeman.

Mobfix Patrol

1981

The Shaolin Disciple poster
7.0

Wu Chin (Ku Feng) is aided in a jail break by the alleged son of his dead partner. They work together find the loot WU Chin's partner hid from their last crime. Problems arise when local authorities and an annoying Mouse get involved.

The Shaolin Disciple

1980

1970s · 18 titles

The 14 Amazons poster
6.6

The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.

The 14 Amazons

1972

Little Superman poster
6.8

World War II Japan...the Japanese military learn that the Chinese government has stolen some secret military plans and that they will attempt to send them to Hong Kong via Macau. When a respected Chinese officer is ambushed, he must rely on his old friend (played by 'Bruce Liang' ) to help him overthrow the Japanese and successfully send the plans to Hong Kong.

Little Superman

1975

Enter the Fat Dragon poster
6.6

Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but only ridiculed for his attempts. He is sent to the city to earn a living working at his uncle's restaurant, but when he arrives, he finds a gang of thugs causing trouble in the restaurant. He takes the chance to prove himself and attacks the thugs, defeating them and saving the restaurant. Soon, he becomes a waiter, and discovers a plot by the same thugs to kidnap a woman he works with. Eventually, he defeats the thugs once again and saves the day.

Enter the Fat Dragon

1978

The Thunderbolt Fist poster
6.1

A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping the wrath of the Japanese, the son of the master flees into the hills, where he trains with a group of rebels led by Gam Kei-Chu. Fast-forward ten years, and Chuen returns to the village armed with his father's secret technique of the Thunderbolt Fist with the hopes of killing the leader of the Japanese.

The Thunderbolt Fist

1972

The Thunderbolt Fist poster
6.1

A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping the wrath of the Japanese, the son of the master flees into the hills, where he trains with a group of rebels led by Gam Kei-Chu. Fast-forward ten years, and Chuen returns to the village armed with his father's secret technique of the Thunderbolt Fist with the hopes of killing the leader of the Japanese.

The Thunderbolt Fist

1972

Shaolin Hand Lock poster
5.8

As an expert of the 'Cross fists' technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the 'Shaolin Handlock' while an old wolf-in-sheep's-clothing friend Fang Yun-piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Armed with the deadly Handlock maneuver, Cheng-ying & Kun Shih joins forces to exact revenge on the evil Ling Hao after the truth is unraveled.

Shaolin Hand Lock

1978

Supermen Against the Orient poster
5.4

Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.

Supermen Against the Orient

1973

Hong Kong Superman poster
7.3

Hong Kong Superman is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie.

Hong Kong Superman

1975

The Amsterdam Kill poster
5.2

Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amsterdam drug cartel, who wants out of the business. Quinlan's job is to use Chung's information to tip DEA agents to drug busts, thereby destroying the cartel. But when the first two "tips" go awry, resulting in murdered DEA officers, the feds must decide whether to trust Quinlan further...

The Amsterdam Kill

1977

Five Superfighters poster
6.8

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu." Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.

Five Superfighters

1979

Monkey Kung Fu poster
7.0

A small-time crook goes in search of the other half of a wooden keepsake which will lead him to the legendary kung fu technique of the Gibbon Clan Fist.

Monkey Kung Fu

1979

The Tattoo Connection poster
5.2

When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.

The Tattoo Connection

1978

Jackie Chan and the 36 Crazy Fist poster
5.4

When a young man's village is destroyed by a band of thugs, he seeks help from a great kung-fu master, but his real lessons come from a drunk old man, he basically learns kung fu by accident and seeks his revenge.

Jackie Chan and the 36 Crazy Fist

1977

The Tournament poster
6.5

After an unsanctioned match between a Chinese martial arts student and a Thai boxer results in disgrace for the Chinese, they determine to train and salvage their master’s reputation.

The Tournament

1974

Little Godfather from Hong Kong poster
6.8

Bruce Liang plays a Chinese Kung Fu movie star, who during his free time carries on a one-man crusade against drug dealers. The villains trick Liang into signing up to appear in a new martial arts movie. The plan is to kill Our Hero while the cameras are running, and make it look like an accident.

Little Godfather from Hong Kong

1974

Fighting Dragon poster
NR

Lung Yen Fei returns from Japan to investigate the cause of his teachers' death.

Fighting Dragon

1975

Mantis Fists & Tiger Claws of Shaolin poster
4.8

When the local thugs harass a restaurant owner's daughter, Shuang Shuang, a mysterious stranger named Yung Feng fends them off. While Yung Feng is off to the local brothel to find his long lost sister, Shuang Shuang gets sexually assaulted by the thugs, who are later killed by something hiding in the woods. The father of the thugs, Hung Chun Piao, believes that Yung Feng committed the murders, and confronts him...

Mantis Fists & Tiger Claws of Shaolin

1977

Black Belt Karate poster
7.0

Young man travels to Indonesia to visit relatives and learns the art of karate.

Black Belt Karate

1977

Behind the camera

Bloodmoon poster
6.9

Ken O'Hara is a "Mindhunter" - a serial killer specialist enlisted to find the mass murderer intent on killing the strongest fighters in New York City. Trying to catch this cunning and clever killer is the hardest assignment Ken has ever had. Now, the moon is rising again and he must use all of his resources to hunt down the murderer....or he may be the next to die.

Bloodmoon

1997

A Wicked Ghost II: The Fear poster
6.0

Three police officers attempt to nab a serial rapist and pursue him to a construction site. The suspect's body is found dismembered later, with his limbs and torso scattered around three different locations at the site.

A Wicked Ghost II: The Fear

2000

In the Line of Duty 5: Middle Man poster
6.6

When he is framed for being a spy because of his friend's illegal activities, David must escape from police, CIA, and assassins with the help of his cousin.

In the Line of Duty 5: Middle Man

1990

Guns of Dragon poster
4.0

a HK cop (Mark Cheng) comes to New York City to try and patch things up with his estranged wife (Yvonne Yung Hung), only to find that the criminal (Patrick Lung Kong) that made his life hell in Hong Kong has also come to the States.

Guns of Dragon

1993

Taxi Hunter poster
6.3

Kin is a hard-working insurance salesman with a very pregnant wife. When his wife starts haemorrhaging, he calls a taxi, but it leaves when someone else offers more money. After his wife dies, Kin vows to get revenge on all taxi drivers by taking them out one at a time.

Taxi Hunter

1993

Sea Wolves poster
6.4

Madam Yeung is assigned to investigate a serial murder in a Philippine cargo ship anchored in Hong Kong.

Sea Wolves

1991

To Catch A Thief poster
6.2

Developer Ms. Cheung (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) yearns for a quieter life in Hong Kong and moves to the countryside, getting herself caught in a showdown between a gang of jewel thieves and two police officers along the way. While Ms. Cheung survives the ordeal, the thieves' injured getaway driver (Siu-Chun To) sneaks into Cheung's moving van and escapes to the countryside, into Cheung's new home. As Cheung settles down into her new environment, she befriends Pak-Lam (Pak Lam Cheng), a skillful and inquisitive little boy who lives in the village. While Pak-Lam helps Cheung tend to her house, he encounters the injured thief. After a brief exchange, Pak-Lam realizes the thief has a harmless and non-aggressive attitude and decides to shelter him in his secret makeshift hideout, not knowing his new friend has in his possession a bag of stolen jewels, in which both the police and the gangsters are searching for.

To Catch A Thief

1991

Forbidden Arsenal poster
5.9

Hong Kong policewoman Yeung teams up with Taiwanese and Mainland officers to take down a gunrunning ring.

Forbidden Arsenal

1991

New Tenant poster
8.0

Alan Tam is a writer who has spent the last decade in a mental hospital. Upon leaving, he rents an apartment in an abandoned building which contains a clock that sends him back to 1984. The only person that can hear Alan during this time is one of the previous tenants, a young girl named Dolphin. A strange romance soon develops between the two, and so when her sister Whale begins dating a suspicious professor, Alan helps Dolphin to find out the shocking truth about her sister's beau.

New Tenant

1995

New Tenant poster
8.0

Alan Tam is a writer who has spent the last decade in a mental hospital. Upon leaving, he rents an apartment in an abandoned building which contains a clock that sends him back to 1984. The only person that can hear Alan during this time is one of the previous tenants, a young girl named Dolphin. A strange romance soon develops between the two, and so when her sister Whale begins dating a suspicious professor, Alan helps Dolphin to find out the shocking truth about her sister's beau.

New Tenant

1995

Satin Steel poster
4.5

Jade Leung, who delivers a lethal kick, the deadly and awesome cop who teams with policewoman Anita Lee track an arms dealer in Singapore. The fighting and stuntwork in this action film has audiences cheering for the women when they show their stuff.

Satin Steel

1994

The Big Brother poster
7.0

Scriptwriter Zee is a confirmed bachelor. Hero Wain is his devoted butler. Next door is no-good detective Gho and his complaining wife Kit. Kit is beautiful and vain. Zee takes Goh to a macho convention chaired by young and handsome Mau. Without Goh knows, Kit works as a waitress there. She falls heavily for Mau. Zee gets the highest prize - a beautiful slave girl. She immediately turns the Zee household upside down. Zee wants to escape. Goh learns Kit's romance with Mau. He asks Zee for help. But Mau defeats their every move. The slave girl becomes the master mind. She devices the plan and unveils Mau as a slave trafficker. Above all, she proves woman is much more macho than man.

The Big Brother

1987

The Perfect Match poster
7.2

George Lam is a famous conductor, Maggie Cheung an auto-mechanic; he rides a portable bicycle, she a motorcycle. Somehow, together, they find time to deal with some troublesome teens (Jacky Cheung, Vivian Chow) and fall in love.

The Perfect Match

1991

Superfights poster
6.7

Jack Cody has always wanted to enter the world of the Superfights, a free fighting tournament. One night, Jack rescues a girl from a mugging and becomes a national hero. Only then is he given his opportunity to become a Superfighter. Jack soon meets a ninja who informs him that the man behind the Superfights is involved in illegal acts. Armed with this knowledge Jack must fight . . . for his life!

Superfights

1995

Happy Together poster
8.0

Kenny Bee works for a large Hong Kong corporation who's business practice is not exactly honorable. But he is being promoted to upper management with all its perks. Cherie Chung is a woman reporter working for Hong Kong TV station who is trying to expose the corrupt practice of the company Kenny works at. By chance they get together by being shoved into the same taxi while they're totally drunk. They again meet while grocery shopping, but they get robbed and Kenny can't go back to his home without money for the ferry. This starts a relationship between them, and from conscience, Kenny decides to expose the corruption within his company. Vivian Chow plays a secondary role as semi love triangle between Cherie and Kenny.

Happy Together

1989

Best of the Best poster
6.6

The son of a crooked cop follows in his father's footsteps. He joins an elite group of cops known as the "Flying Tigers" and there learns the true meaning of justice.

Best of the Best

1992

Best of the Best poster
6.6

The son of a crooked cop follows in his father's footsteps. He joins an elite group of cops known as the "Flying Tigers" and there learns the true meaning of justice.

Best of the Best

1992

Vendetta poster
6.6

A robber is arrested and his two siblings are shot dead by a cop. Same day, the cop's wife gives birth to twins. The babies have birthmarks on their foreheads, which just like the wounds on the two dead robbers.

Vendetta

1993

BB 30 poster
8.7

Pao is a terrible lawyer who has never won a litigation. He is a righteous man but his unstable character brings him under disciplinary investigation, during which he meets a beautiful doctor, Cheng. However, since Cheng is often called upon as an opposing witness in Pao's court cases, conflict and misunderstanding grow between the two. Susan, an aerobics instructor, has had a deep passion for Pao for a long time and this makes Mao jealous and determined to go against him.

BB 30

1990

Insanity poster
5.3

A young couple moves into a new home on a day said to bring badluck. Darkness falls on them when a man dressed as a cop Invites himself inside their home...

Insanity

1993

Thunderclap poster
10.0

A clever Shaw Brothers wuxia comedy about a young antihero (Tony Leung Siu Hung) getting himself and his friend (Max Mok) into all kinds of trouble and ultimate defeating the "Heavenly Demon" (Chen Kuan Tai). Lightning fast action, pleasant humor, great acting and a helpful modern-day narrator makes this an unusually enjoyable Shaw Brothers production.

Thunderclap

1984

Lying Hero poster
7.0

Wai was a stuntman who was lazy, loved to dream and afraid to die. He loaned a large amount of money from some bad persons. His wife abandoned him and quit. Also, he will never been employed in his business in stunt. He then wanted to suicide from taking drugs. But after he had taken the drugs, he discovered that had won the first prize in mark six at the same time. He was then sent to hospital. But he was afraid his winning ticket would be theft away. At the end, he hid it inside a TV-set. Unfortunately, the bad persons who loaned to him before came to his home and sold out all the electronic appliances in his home for money. Lastly, a good man bought the TV-set and donated it to the poor persons in Guangxi. Wai traced to Guangxi. But he was robbed by a bad taxi driver and stayed there. Fortunately, he encountered a nice girl called Luk Wan. She took him to her home for a temporary accommodation. At the same time, his TV-set was sent to the same village of Luk Wan. Hilarity ensues.

Lying Hero

1995

No artwork available
NR

Die-hard kung fu fan Kit becomes a student of Hei, a once-famous kung fu master whose former student Lung is the winner of the last Ultimate Fight competition. When Kit discovers that Lung has betrayed Hei, he enters the next Ultimate Fight tournament.

Ultimate Fight

2004

A Gleam of Hope poster
9.0

A Gleam of Hope is an Action movie starring Anthony Wong

A Gleam of Hope

1994

Ungrateful Tink poster
6.3

Brothers growing up together in the Sau Mau Ping ghetto finsd themselves involved in a web of revenge, misunderstandings, and betrayal when one of them becomes the witness to a drug deal.

Ungrateful Tink

1999

Ungrateful Tink poster
6.3

Brothers growing up together in the Sau Mau Ping ghetto finsd themselves involved in a web of revenge, misunderstandings, and betrayal when one of them becomes the witness to a drug deal.

Ungrateful Tink

1999

A Game Of No Rule poster
8.0

A suspended alcoholic cop and a small-time street gang get mixed up with a powerful religious cult and vengeful cops.

A Game Of No Rule

2000