Mark Cheng Movies

Notorious Untold Story director Herman Yau returns to terrify viewers with this supernaturally-charged tale concerning a Hong Kong policeman whose extramarital affair literally comes back to haunt him. Cheung Lok-man (Mark Cheng) is a hard-boiled CID detective who is better known as "Rockman" by his fellow law enforcers, and who previously entered into a heated tryst with sultry stripper Elli (Teng Tzu-hsuen) while in Thailand investigating a case involving both the Hong Kong and Thai underground syndicates. Unexpectedly summoned back to Hong Kong, Rockman promises Elli that he will return for her sometime in the not too distant future but ultimately fails to make good on his word. Three years later, Rockman is investigating a murder in Hong Kong when his son dies under mysterious circumstances and notorious fugitive Lam Chiu (Kenny Wong) murders a high-ranking policeman. Despite the fact that he was shot in the head by Rockman, Lam miraculously recovers from his would-be mortal wound and finds that he is no longer able to experience physical pain. As the local newspapers scramble to find a connection between the two cases, supernaturally perceptive detective Brother Sum (Lam Suet) begins to suspect that the lovelorn Elli may have placed a curse on detective Rockman after he failed to return to her in Thailand. At first Rockman is skeptical of this speculation, but when his grieving wife Kar-pi (Maggie Siu) begins suffering from a potent form of black magic known as Gong Tau he quickly seeks the assistance of renowned exorcist Master Clear Sea. Unfortunately the exorcism fails to take, causing the malevolent sorcerer who originally placed it to grow infinitely more powerful. Later, when Lam offers to remove the curse that hangs over Kar-pi if Rockman allows him to go free, it is revealed that the originator of the curse was Elli's guardian angel Lockman, and that the malevolent Gong Tau-practitioner is determined to make Rockman and his family suffer the worst torment imaginable. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Follow the further adventures of the master swordsman as he attempts to save China from a diabolical conspiracy in director Lo Ting's dazzling sequel to the martial arts hit featuring Hong Kong screen icon Christopher Lee. When Ximen (Lee) begins to suspect that his old friend Lu Xiao Feng is carrying on an affair with his beloved wife, he hastily challenges Feng to partake in a duel to the death. After escaping the wrath of his old friend and stumbling upon a Phantom Villa hidden deep within the countryside, Feng discovers that a deadly plot is unfolding that will bring all of China crumbling to its knees if not thwarted immediately. With time running out for the entire nation, Feng must do battle with a force greater than anything he has ever witnessed. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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 with a young Hero Wah (Ekin Cheng) going to study under Master Pride (Anthony Wong). When he returns to his parents, he learns that they have been murdered by a band of evil Westerners. After impregnating his wife Jade (Kristy Yang), Hero Wah ventures to New York in search of his parents' killers. Sixteen years later, Hero's son Sword Wah (Nicholas Tse) along with family friend Sang (Jerry Lamb), arrive at Ellis Island in search of Hero's dad. Once the tearful reunion finally takes place, much of the rest of the story is related through flashbacks involving a fearsome fight with Japanese ninjas and the death of Jade at the hands of the ninja ring leader. The film climaxes a la Alfred Hitchcock or Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) with a battle to the death against the ninja grand master at the Statue of Liberty. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Chao Lu-chiang directed this low-budget historical fantasy from Taiwan, featuring Sharla Cheung as Miss Shen, who is raped by the wicked Register (Lung Fong). The Register then murders her by smashing her head into a tree brought along by a woodsman named Feng Yun-tin (Mark Chen). What the Register doesn't know is that the murder weapon is a thousand-year old holy tree which has magical powers and now holds the discorporated soul of the murdered girl. Miss Shen's spirit tells Feng that if he doesn't help her get revenge on the Register, she will possess his body forever. While Feng begins turning the tree into a sacred statue of Kwanyin, Miss Shen stays with him and he falls in love with her. This makes him start to reconsider his task, because completing the statue will also cause her spirit to disperse and become one with nature. Another man who doesn't want the statue to be made is the leader of the Da Hung (Lau Shun), whose evil religious cult will not be able to release the demonic Blood Kid to conquer humanity if the icon reaches completion. Wu Ma co-stars. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

When a news writer begins digging into village affairs even more deeply than the police did, she runs afoul of a multiple murderer. She was only looking for some local color and inspiration and is accompanied by her sister and a friend known as "weeny eyes." ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

During a Hong Kong currency revaluation, old banknotes are routinely replaced by banks. The old notes are generally burned each day. However, by Friday evening at one bank, there is a cache of over thirty million old Hong Kong dollars which will go unburned until the next Monday. A bank employee gets the notion that stealing this cash would be an easy and relatively harmless way of getting rich quick, and he enlists some friends to help him get it. However, he has told one too any people, and he is opposed in his scheme by a nun who will gladly bash heads in order to save souls. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In a typical Hong Kong police melodrama, five young men join a special corps of elite officers but first they have to pass a brutal training program run by a hard-nosed, uncompromising "drill sergeant." When one of them falls in love with a local woman and gets into trouble for it, the buddies can sympathize. But no one could predict the tragedy that would soon follow, and even if some Hong Kong audiences could, they have come to see the melodrama and melodrama they get. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide