Stephen Tung Wai

Acting

Stephen Tung Wai

Born

1954-02-02 (72)

Place of birth

Shanghai, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Stephen Tung Wai (traditional Chinese: 董瑋; simplified Chinese: 董玮) is a Hong Kong actor born in Mainland China as Tung Wen Wei. His family moved to Hong Kong when he was four years old. Four years later, he began to learn the opera of Beijing under the direction of the famous Ms. Fan Fok Fa. It was under his tutelage that he learned the martial arts of the north. He first appeared on the big screen in the 1965 film Squadron 77 (七七敢死隊). In 1978, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow hit the box office and the race for Jackie Chan's successor began. With his physical abilities displayed in movies such as The Mar's Villa (神腿), Golden Mask (紅衣冷血金面人) and Ten Brothers of Shaolin (十大弟子), one would have thou…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

Stuntman poster
7.1

A washed-up action choreographer, struggling to find his way in a changing industry, risks everything to stage an epic comeback, and attempts to repair the relationship with his estranged daughter before it's too late.

Stuntman

2024

Night King poster
7.0

The once-glamourous nightclub EJ Entertainment suddenly experiences a hostile takeover. Much like the nightclub industry, the glory days are over for the club’s manager, despite having stood tall in East Tsim Sha Tsui for decades. To make matters worse, the new CEO is none other than his cutthroat ex-wife.

Night King

2026

Measure in Love poster
5.0

In a world split by a gravity wall where time moves differently, a woman from the Aurora Zone and a man from the Evergreen Zone fall in love, despite the impossible challenge that one day for her equals one year for him.

Measure in Love

2025

Kung Fu Stuntmen poster
7.2

A new documentary film revisits the golden age of kung fu stuntmen and action directors in Hong Kong during the 1960s-'80s, exploring their pain and struggles. The documentary is a tribute to kung fu stuntmen. “They risked their lives for stunts,” said kung fu choreographer Yuen Bin. In their heyday, these stuntmen and choreographers presented the best, most creative and most complicated kung fu fight sequences anywhere in the world, creating stunts that looked seemingly impossible.

Kung Fu Stuntmen

2021

Night King Director’s Cut poster
7.0

The long-awaited director’s cut, with 30 minutes of unrevealed and breathtaking highlights! The year is 2012. The once-glamourous Club EJ suddenly experiences a hostile takeover. Much like the nightclub industry, the glory days are over for the club’s manager, Foon (Dayo Wong), despite having stood tall in East Tsim Sha Tsui for decades. To make things worse for Foon, the club’s new CEO is none other than his cutthroat ex-wife, Madame V (Sammi Cheng)! Determined to change things up, she leaves Foon and his hostesses with no choice but to transform and modernize in order to breathe new life into their business. Little do they know, a powerful conglomerate has been pulling the strings all along to shut down Club EJ for good. To save their neon empire, Foon and V must join forces and make an epic last stand with the hostesses against what seems to be inevitable doom.

Night King Director’s Cut

2026

2000s · 5 titles

The Sniper poster
6.1

A police sniper teams up with a hot-headed rookie to take down his former friend and teammate, who is exacting revenge on the police force.

The Sniper

2009

My Name Is Fame poster
6.8

Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.

My Name Is Fame

2006

Time 4 Hope poster
5.0

Based on the life of screenwriter Yuen Kai-Chi, the movie tells the story of an acclaimed film writer who's got the World on a string. Tragically, his life changes when he gets in a car accident and loses a leg. However, every cloud has a silver lining and he ends up falling in love with his nurse Cindy. Using love as the binding tie, the two face life's obstacles as if it were a three-legged race: two people working together with three legs.

Time 4 Hope

2002

Who's Next poster
5.0

When the death of a triad boss triggers off an intense ascension battle, everyone's invited to the funeral service of the century to determine who's next in line.

Who's Next

2007

Extreme Challenge poster
5.0

A TV channel would be the first in the world to send a martial arts contest through the Internet. The competition is the people with completely different backgrounds that will make up for the title.

Extreme Challenge

2001

1990s · 12 titles

Hard Boiled poster
7.5

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

Hard Boiled

1992

Twin Dragons poster
6.9

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

Twin Dragons

1992

Once Upon a Time in China V poster
5.7

After the authorities flee China with public funds, Wong Fei-Hung battles pirates and corrupt officials to help the government restore peace.

Once Upon a Time in China V

1994

Purple Storm poster
5.7

Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, sustains a serious head wound. Now a total amnesiac, Todd wakes from a coma to find he's been given a new life, one that may be the death of him. With the help of psychiatrist Shirley Kwan, anti-terrorist officer Mark Chan tries to convince Todd that he is actually an undercover cop sent to infiltrate Chow's group. As fragments of his shattered memory return, Todd is forced to choose between his dark past and this one shot at redemption

Purple Storm

1999

Return Engagement poster
6.7

A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.

Return Engagement

1990

Hong Kong Godfather poster
9.7

When the boss of a highly profitable Triad family is forced to flee from Hong Kong, rival gangs swoop in to steal any piece of the action they can. York Koo becomes the family's acting boss, and must do what he can to handle the difficult situation, with mounting pressure from both the Hong Kong police, and rival families.

Hong Kong Godfather

1991

Intimates poster
6.1

Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.

Intimates

1997

Metade Fumaça poster
7.3

Former Hong Kong gangster Roy returns home after three decades of exile in Brazil, hoping to settle some unfinished business before he dies. Affected by Alzheimer's disease, he hires young thug Smokey to act as his guide and helper as he searches for the man who put a bullet in him and stole the love of his life. Traveling through the Hong Kong underworld together, the two men form a close bond as they discuss their idealized loves and missed opportunities.

Metade Fumaça

1999

Pom Pom and Hot Hot poster
5.0

Shin (Jacky Cheung) and Chiang (Stephen Tung Wai) are happy-go-lucky partners investigating a particularly notorious crime syndicate. Unfortunately, Shin's Mainland relatives -- Cha Chiang (Alfred Cheung Kin-ting) and his beautiful sibling Cha Shi (Loletta Lee Lai-chun) -- decide to drop by. While Chiang insists on accompanying his cousin on the job, Shin starts to make eyes with Shi. Meanwhile, Chiang runs into his ex-girlfriend Nancy (Bonnie Fu Yuk-ching). When Nancy witnesses a gangland hit, she and everyone around her are threatened by the mob.

Pom Pom and Hot Hot

1992

The Kid poster
7.3

When Maise's husband walks out on her, she leaves her baby son in a luxury yacht, hoping that he'll be adopted by affluent parents. Little did she know that its owner Daniel has lost everything in derivative speculation that very day. Four years later, Maise has pulled herself together...

The Kid

1999

Task Force poster
7.5

Lin is a plain-clothes cop in the crime-riddled district of Mongkok who bungles a vice operation directed at mainland prostitues. He falls for a ditsy hooker who tells him the love of her life is a killer who once svaed her life in a shootout.

Task Force

1997

Night Life Hero poster
7.0

Chung (Max Mok) and Peter (Chin Kar Lok) are two loyal friends who move from scrape to scrape with the latter often being saved by the former. When a loan shark (Shing Fui On) and his heavies start to put considerable pressure on Peter because of his copious debt, Chung devises a plan that puts the villains behind bars. This proves to be especially well-timed when Peter announces that he is getting married and Chung himself finds also falling in love. Unbeknownst to Chung though, his new love is in fact the daughter of a wealthy real-estate tycoon and all of his subsequent attempts to earn a living are all being orchestrated by his potential father-in-law. These tests are put into perspective when Chung's nemesis is freed from prison and immediately sets his sights on revenge...

Night Life Hero

1992

1980s · 7 titles

Hocus Pocus poster
6.7

This movie follows in the same spirit as Mr. Vampire, Dead and the deadly and Spooky encounters, mixing comedy and horror!

Hocus Pocus

1984

Mr. Handsome poster
6.4

Two Hong Kong men must find a way to deal with their love lives: One with a much younger girlfriend and is admired by his co-worker, and one who is married to two hilarious, dictatorial and stubborn women.

Mr. Handsome

1987

The Other Side of Gentleman poster
6.0

As part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to fall in love with her. Not only does he fall for her, but he finds it impossible to return to his playboy life.

The Other Side of Gentleman

1984

Journey of the Doomed poster
5.8

Journey of the Doomed stars Tung Wei as a knight that finds himself protecting the life of a beautiful young lady being stalked by a bunch of assassins headed by kung-fu actress extraordinaire Hui Ying-hung. Tung Wei was the kid that Bruce Lee slaps on the head at the beginning of Enter The Dragon. He went on to kung-fu stardom before becoming a highly successful fight director for Jet Li and Jackie Chan.

Journey of the Doomed

1985

Killer Wears White poster
5.2

A veteran and tough sheriff's wife has a gambling problem. He works both sides of the law. He gets teamed up with a young cop who he is told to take under his wing. They end up working together well and the young cop's martial arts skills are very useful.

Killer Wears White

1980

Life Goes On poster
NR

The movie was originally a TV series exported by "9 Hong Kong Radio & TV Department". Its film version was used as a commemorative work for the 60th Anniversary of Radio 9 Hong Kong for a charity screening at the cinema. It describes the lives of firefighter Jiang Jiahe and his life before his death from cancer. Jiang's family is a dedicated firefighter. He loves his wife and family. Unfortunately, he contracted nasopharyngeal cancer. He was initially calm and under the careful treatment and care of the doctor and his wife, but his family was hit by a series of blows: his father was injured and fell to death; his younger brother’s career was frustrated; to solve family life, He was a part-time taxi driver who suffered from lung cancer because of overwork...

Life Goes On

1989

Oh! My God poster
10.0

1985 movie

Oh! My God

1985

1970s · 21 titles

Enter the Dragon poster
7.4

A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Enter the Dragon

1973

Executioners from Shaolin poster
6.7

After the destruction of the Temple, a Shaolin disciple devotes years to mastering the Tiger style in order to defeat the martial arts master who killed his teacher. His wife, a Crane style specialist, has a feeling one style won't be enough.

Executioners from Shaolin

1977

All in the Family poster
6.4

A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.

All in the Family

1975

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 Valiant Ones poster
6.9

A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo struggle to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials.

The Valiant Ones

1974

Two Assassins of the Darkness poster
8.5

Two hitmen arrive in a small town, each becoming aware of the other due to a mix-up over intended targets. One killer (Yi Chang) falls for a girl (Chung-Erh Lung) whose brother (Dong Wai) is in trouble. This leads Chang to investigate the employer of the other killer (Don Wong).

Two Assassins of the Darkness

1977

Freedom Strikes a Blow poster
5.4

A martial arts fighter, haunted by his past, takes a job as a dock worker in a small village. His vow never to fight again is tested by the cruel owner of the pier.

Freedom Strikes a Blow

1973

18 Fatal Strikes poster
5.7

Kung fu classic about a Shaolin monk on the run from a Manchu warlord, and his mighty Shaking Eagle Style. After narrowly escaping the warlord, the monk is nursed back to health by two brothers. However, the warlord is close behind, and the brothers must learn Lo Han style from the monk to protect themselves. However, when one of the brothers is killed, the other, with help from the monk, seeks revenge.

18 Fatal Strikes

1978

The Incredible Kung Fu Master poster
6.8

Tung Wei is a lad who wants to learn kung fu. He trains in two different styles: Hung Gar and Wing Chun. Everything is fine until a jealous master creates a rift between Tung's two teachers, and he has to choose sides. But a bigger problem looms ahead. The Tiger Master wants to fight both men to the death. They're no match for him, so Tung goes to the one man who can train him properly: Sammo Hung

The Incredible Kung Fu Master

1979

The Warlord poster
6.4

No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.

The Warlord

1972

Warriors of the Sacred Temple poster
4.1

The High Abbot of Shaolin Temple sends the Ten Brothers, newly finished with their Shaolin training, as escorts to one Master Chu. Master Chu has been living in the Temple for two years waiting for the right time to leave and renew his fight against the Mings. The road to victory is filled with danger--can the Ten Brothers guide Master Chu through?

Warriors of the Sacred Temple

1977

Tiger Love poster
3.3

A young couple in love is running away from her father, who is forcing her to marry her cousin, when they are confronted by the father and his henchmen. The suitor fights valiantly against the henchmen but is overwhelmed by their sheer numbers. Thinking that her father had killed him, the young woman, pregnant with her suitor's child, jumps off of a cliff to kill herself, but survives the fall and is taken in by a guardian tiger. Living with the tiger and raising her son, the woman sees her young son grow into manhood and he eventually decides to head back to his mother's village to find out what happened to his father and his grandfather.

Tiger Love

1977

The Fatal Flying Guillotines poster
6.0

Those rascally Shaolin monks are at it again, and this time they're tracking down some vitriolic villains who have heisted a sacred book. Throw in an evil prince, a flying guillotine, and manic martial hijinks, and you've got a potent mix for action.

The Fatal Flying Guillotines

1977

The Mar's Villa poster
5.6

On his wedding night Mar Tien Lang, a prosperous businessman and instructor of 'The Magic Kick' technique, is attacked in his villa by the vilainous Fang Kang.

The Mar's Villa

1977

No End of Surprises poster
8.0

The film consists of three stories: "All about Mahjong", "The Women Killer", and "The White Lie".

No End of Surprises

1975

Along Comes a Tiger poster
6.3

After seeing his father killed by the master of the Black Dragon gang, a man known only as Miracle sets about taking revenge on the entire gang.

Along Comes a Tiger

1977

The Golden Mask poster
6.0

Life takes a turn for Chi Kwan Chun after he accepts a contract from the mysterious "Golden Mask". The "mark" turns out to be Chi's brother and after unwittingly …

The Golden Mask

1977

The Lady Killer poster
5.5

A popular singer named Ah Hui is approached by gangsters who want him to perform at their nightclub. When Ah Hui rejects, they set him up by making him believe he murdered an innocent man; Of course, Ah Hui falls for it. With nowhere to turn and the fear of being sent to jail, Ah Hui accepts help from the gangsters. In return he has to sign an exclusive singing contract with them. Little does Ah Hui know, they have other sleazy plans in store for him.

The Lady Killer

1977

Shaolin Devil and Shaolin Angel poster
5.0

When a Shaolin warlord is murdered the Emperor must discover where the evil lies amongst the warlords. Calling upon a young commander, he sends him on a quest to avenge the warlords death.

Shaolin Devil and Shaolin Angel

1978

Kung Fu King poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kung Fu King

1973

Elmo Takes a Bride poster
NR

A city sanitation worker Ah Mao (played by Li Tien-Sheng), who accidentally gets caught up in a gang chase: the gang hangs a bag of pay-day money on his garbage truck, but Ah Mao, rushing to meet his girlfriend, doesn't notice and places the bag under his bed. To formally propose to his girlfriend's mother, he needs to prepare a banquet of sixty tables, leading to a series of hilarious misadventures with his housemate Ah Fook.

Elmo Takes a Bride

1976

Series credits

The Smiling Proud Wanderer poster
7.5

Lingwu Chung is a carefree martial arts disciple. After breaking a few too many rules, he along with Yam Yingying seek understanding from the all sides in a unavoidable fight between different factions.

The Smiling Proud Wanderer

1984

The Old Miao Myth poster
9.0

The dark secret of the most wealthy and powerful man 謝罡 in Shanghai in the 1930s is related to a mystic Buddha statue from a secret Miao tribe. His son 尚楚 (Andy Lau) will find out his family's fate once the Buddha is missing...

The Old Miao Myth

1983

The Understudy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Understudy

1981

The Wild Bunch poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Wild Bunch

1982

笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版)

1984

The Hawk poster
NR

The Ding family has been in the business of catching criminals for generations, and their descendants are honored as "Flying Eagles". A mysterious person hires Ding Lan to investigate the whereabouts of the remnants of the "Baiyue Sect" at a high price. While investigating, Lan falls into his mother's scheme and is arranged to marry wealthy young lady Ni Tian'er. Unexpectedly, Lan disappears without a trace, which makes Tian'er furious and determined to seek revenge. Lan meets Zhao Ling and his father Zhao Hongyi, who is known as the "Sage of Martial Arts", at the Zhejian Mountain Villa. Lan respects him, but accidentally discovers that his wife Shui Ru is the mastermind behind the "Four Evils" gang. The mysterious person who entrusts him with the case is Wei Jinglun, the manager of the villa. Lan meets the beautiful courtesan Susu and pursues her passionately, only to find out later that she is actually Tian'er. On the day when Lan and Tian'er get married again...

The Hawk

1981

The Restless Trio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Restless Trio

1982

新少林五祖 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

新少林五祖

1998

The Young Heroes Of Shaolin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Young Heroes Of Shaolin

1981

Before the End poster
8.0

As a long-standing bar prepares to close, owner Hung and his young staff member Yip set out to return unclaimed bottles of wine to their owners. Through these encounters, Yip learns the deep connections between the wines and their stories, gaining insight into Hung’s philosophy. Alongside veteran bartender Bill, passionate mixologist Grace, and singer Adam, they create lasting memories for their customers in the bar’s final days.

Before the End

2025

The Bold Ones poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bold Ones

1983

The Sacred Commandment poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sacred Commandment

1984

It Takes Three poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

It Takes Three

1983

Behind the camera