Leong Po-Chih

Directing

Leong Po-Chih

Born 1939-12-31 · Northampton, England, UK

Leong Po-Chih is a British-Chinese film director. He has worked in England, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Acting credits

Peking Opera Blues poster
7.2

In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pai Niu—embark on a daring quest filled with intrigue and betrayal, challenging societal norms amidst political turmoil and the vibrant world of Peking Opera.

Peking Opera Blues

1986

Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind poster
7.2

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

1980

Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom poster
6.6

Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven join forces with Mr. Boo in a daring mission involving a jewelry heist and a museum caper.

Mr. Boo Meets Pom Pom

1985

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong poster
6.0

Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong

2016

Hong Kong 1941 poster
6.3

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.

Hong Kong 1941

1984

Welcome poster
7.0

A girl from war-devastated Hong Kong in 2005 returns to the present to destroy the man responsible for bombing himself and his VP boss at a foundation plant ceremony. It is prophesied that the aftermath of the bombing will lead to devastating wars in the future. With the man eliminated wars can be prevented, but the spirit of his great-grandfather wants to save him.

Welcome

1985

No artwork available
NR

Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession: he wants to film everything that happens to him. It's a compulsion linked to an accident which left him blind in one eye. When a new technology becomes available that can restore his eyesight, Ming jumps at the chance. But when a new client hires him to follow the beautiful daughter of a shady businessman, everything begins to unravel around him.

Camera

2014

Behind the camera

The Detonator poster
4.7

Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.

The Detonator

2006

Out of Reach poster
4.5

Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irina was staying in, which is financed by honest -- and unsuspecting -- good-intentioned Samaritans, is a cover for a human trafficking network.

Out of Reach

2004

Crazy Hong Kong poster
5.0

In the early 1990s, Nǃxau was cast in three low-budget unofficial sequels that continued the fish-out-of-water aspects of the first two films.

Crazy Hong Kong

1993

Immortality poster
5.8

A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

Immortality

1998

Ping Pong poster
5.5

After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.

Ping Pong

1987

Ping Pong poster
5.5

After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.

Ping Pong

1987

The Island poster
6.6

John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited by a group of seriously demented characters, lead by Peter Chan Lung. This is a family that stays together, slays together and when the youngest one is refused in marriage to one of the young girls of the troupe they turn into savage maniacs.

The Island

1985

The Jade Pendant poster
6.0

Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.

The Jade Pendant

2017

The Darkling poster
5.0

When mechanic Jeff Obold meets the wealthy and mysterious Bruno Rubin, he is exposed for the first time to the finer things in life. But Jeff soon discovers the source of Rubin's power: a caged creature called a "Darkling," which possesses the power to create incredible wealth for the person who will pledge unending "companionship." Now, as Jeff sinks further and further into the blackness of a soul sold to the devil, he will discover there is a high price to pay for the fulfillment of his dreams.

The Darkling

2000

Hong Kong 1941 poster
6.3

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.

Hong Kong 1941

1984

Foxbat poster
5.7

In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.

Foxbat

1977

Foxbat poster
5.7

In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.

Foxbat

1977

Shanghai 1920 poster
4.5

Billy Fong, a Chinese boy working the Shanghai docks, becomes friends with Dawson Cole, the spoiled son of an American shipping tycoon. As adults, the friends become business partners. Dawson wants to run a legitimate trade, but Billy craves the power that comes with leadership among the cities gangster underground.

Shanghai 1920

1991

Fatal Love poster
6.2

Leslie Cheung picks up a girl while driving his car in a remote location and offers her a ride back home.

Fatal Love

1988

He Lives by Night poster
7.4

A killer wears women's clothing and stalks women that wear white fish-net stockings

He Lives by Night

1982

Jumping Ash poster
9.0

Po-Chih Leong's debut film was a trendsetter in Hong Kong cinema. Shot from the shoulder, the fast-moving world of cops, informers, drug dealers and other crooks are evoked in a very lively and realistic way. The action all takes place in carefully selected locations, among them the walled city of Kowloon and Yuen Long. The film looks like a documentary and evokes the kind of excitement usually seen in news programmes. The story focuses on the battle between two gangs and starts in Amsterdam, where one of the gang leaders is murdered.

Jumping Ash

1976

Banana Cop poster
6.3

Two owners of a gambling club in London’s Chinatown are killed by an unknown killer. Edward (Lam), a policeman of heads the investigation. He arrives in Hong Kong to enlist the help of a prison convict, FM (Teddy Robin), who is a former friend of the two dead men.

Banana Cop

1984

Itchy Fingers poster
7.3

Biggie and Tiny grow up together. They fight all the time. Biggie is a detective and Tiny is a thief. Biggie has the satisfaction of catching Tiny and putting him behind bars. When Tiny is released, he is approached by Daigau who wants Tiny's help to steal the world famous diamond.

Itchy Fingers

1979

Itchy Fingers poster
7.3

Biggie and Tiny grow up together. They fight all the time. Biggie is a detective and Tiny is a thief. Biggie has the satisfaction of catching Tiny and putting him behind bars. When Tiny is released, he is approached by Daigau who wants Tiny's help to steal the world famous diamond.

Itchy Fingers

1979

Return to Cabin by the Lake poster
4.8

Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.

Return to Cabin by the Lake

2001

Super Fool! poster
6.7

Kwong and Ming, two boys from rural China, sneak into Hong Kong to get quick rich. But they are instantly disillusioned and they get into messy situations. The superstar who looks exactly like Kwong has a nasty spill in a dangerous stunt and dies. Kwong is recruited to stand in. Money and all life's amenities become available to the pair. While Ming makes the best out of the situation by gambling and womanizing, Kwong realizes that his own amazement money is not everything.

Super Fool!

1981

Super Fool! poster
6.7

Kwong and Ming, two boys from rural China, sneak into Hong Kong to get quick rich. But they are instantly disillusioned and they get into messy situations. The superstar who looks exactly like Kwong has a nasty spill in a dangerous stunt and dies. Kwong is recruited to stand in. Money and all life's amenities become available to the pair. While Ming makes the best out of the situation by gambling and womanizing, Kwong realizes that his own amazement money is not everything.

Super Fool!

1981

Walking Shadow poster
4.7

Spenser attends a play at his girlfriend's insistence to meet a director who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a hale of fake arrows is suddenly killed by a real arrow from a crossbow. This launches Spencer into an investigation of everyone involved with the theatrical company and leads him up against a Chinese mobster, who warns Spencer to quit questioning his wife, one of the theater's patrons. However, everything changes when the mobster is found beaten to death.

Walking Shadow

2001

Cabin by the Lake poster
5.1

A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.

Cabin by the Lake

2000