Jordan Chan Movies

An unstoppable shopaholic with no self-restraint and a true gift for spending finds that love can be complicated when all you want is everything in a spendthrift tale of romance starring Celia Cheung, Lau Ching Wan, and Jordan Chan. At first seeking the aid of a zany psychiatrist named Choosey (Wan) to help curb her hearty consumer appetite, Fong Fong finds her problem persisting when the doctor-patient relationship between the pair grows increasingly personal. Subsequently courted by competitive shopaholic billionaire Richie (Chan), who can only find pleasure by purchasing items that other people want, Fong Fong finds herself the connecting factor in a wild love-triangle in which she is forced to risk losing out in love if she can't let go of her materialistic ways. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

The Asian gambling film Bet to Basic concerns a gangster named Flying Dragon who owes a lot of unsavory types a great deal in gambling losses. Flying Dragon discovers his cousin Roy has uncanny luck at games of chance. He gets Roy to come to a casino in order to help raise the money to get Dragon out from under his creditors. Soon Roy is hobnobbing with some respected gamblers, but his lack of ambition makes it easy for him to become a pawn in the complicated machinations of very bad men. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

A man who gave up on himself is redeemed by new and unexpected challenges in this drama from Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To. Sze-To (Louis Koo) was once a respected judo champion, but he became jaded and lost interest in the sport. Now, Sze-To is an alcoholic who runs a night club and wastes his spare time by spending a massive bankroll he stole from a rival in fight promotion on gambling and liquor. When Sze-To learns that the judo master who was his mentor and teacher has died, it knocks a hole in the wall of booze and despair he's built around himself, and soon two new challenges present themselves. Mona (Cherrie Ying) is an aspiring singer trying to break away from her overly controlling father who arrives at Sze-To's club looking for a gig -- and won't go away until she gets one. And Tony (Aaron Kwok) is a young martial arts prodigy who has heard of Sze-To's former skills in the judo ring; eager to test his skills against a true master, Tony challenges Sze-To to a match, encouraging Sze-To to begin familiarizing himself again with the art of the gentle way. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Ho Cheung Ping, who wrote the novel that was the basis for Fulltime Killer and made his directorial debut with the crime comedy You Shoot, I Shoot, returns to the parody genre with his second film, Men Suddenly in Black. Eric Tsang does a takeoff of his role in Infernal Affairs, playing Tin, the leader of a group of four men who enact an intricate plot to cheat on their significant others while the women are away for the day in Thailand. The others are Cheung (Jordan Chan), a relatively straight-laced doctor; Chao (Chapman To), the fun-loving goofball of the group; and Paul (Spirit Blue), Tin's virginal nephew. All their machinations threaten to unravel when they discover that their wives, played by Teresa Mo, Marsha Yuan, Tiffany Lee, and Candy Lo (The Eye), never left for Thailand and are following them. The men begin to suspect that there is a traitor in their midst. They face many obstacles, but they soldier on to honor "Ninth Uncle" (Tony Leung of Dragon Inn), who once took the fall for them when their wives showed up at their favorite strip club and who is now imprisoned in his home by his vengeful wife (Sandra Ng). The film presents all this material in the style of a typical Hong Kong action film, with many references to other films and cameos by Sammo Hung, Alan Tam, Maria Cordero, and others. Ping won Best New Director and Leung Best Supporting Actor at the 2004 Hong Kong Film Awards. The film was shown at the 2004 New York Asian American International Film Festival. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

A low-key supernatural chiller from Bio-Cops director Steve Cheng, Sleeping With the Dead finds depressed hospital surgeon David (Jordan Chan) drifting into contact with a malevolant ghost following the death of his mother and the discovery that his wife has been unfaithful. Having gained the ability to see ghosts following an incident in which he momentarily flatlined as a child, David's unique ability results in a withdrawn man pushed even further towards the edge following his wife's affair. Soon embarking on an affair of his own, David is subsequently troubled to learn that several members of his childhood group of friends have fallen victim to an otherworldly killer, each killed on their birthdays and having had their left eyeballs removed. Teaming with surviving friend, and cop, Iron Cheung (Simon Lui) to uncover the mystery of the killing before Cheung's rapidly approaching birthday, it seems that time may be running out for the hapless duo. When mysterious scars begin to form on Cheung's body - most disturbingly near his left eye, David must use his abilities to uncover the killer before its too late. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A team of adventurers are out to save the world in this tongue-in-cheek action comedy from Hong Kong. Mac (Leon Lai), Michelle (Michelle Saram), Bird (Jordan Chan), and Sam (Sam Lee) are the Skyline Cruisers, a team of elite, super-intelligent, crime-fighting secret agents who are called in for only the most important assignments. When it's learned that arch-villain Kam (Patrick Lung) has stolen the latest innovation from one of the world's leading medical research labs -- a possible cure for cancer -- the Skyline Cruisers are sent into action, and they travel to Kuala Lumpur to track down Kam's compound and bring back the formula. However, the Cruisers are met by an unexpected ally -- June (Shu Qi), who says she's Kam's secretary and wants to help them recover the drug. San Tau Chi Saidoi was originally announced as a sequel to the 1997 Hong Kong hit Downtown Torpedoes, though the producers later denied any connection between the two films. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Three dedicated health-care workers try to save a hospital from itself in this satiric comedy. Sir Ho Kau Kei Hospital is an absurdly mismanaged medical facility in Hong Kong where most of the doctors have given up caring about their patients, and the few that still do are frustrated with the endless red tape of the hospital's management team. Three exceptions are doctors Joe (Ekin Cheng) and Jim (Jordan Chang) and nurse Yan (Cecilia Cheung) -- or at least two of them are exceptions, since Joe has quit to become a mechanic with a team of race car drivers. Jim, however, tries to convince Joe to return to the hospital, where he knows he's doing something worthwhile. Yan, meanwhile, was inspired to enter the medical profession when her life was saved by an emergency appendectomy performed at Sir Ho Kau Kei Hospital; Yan has decided she'll marry whoever it was who performed the surgery, but no one is sure if the doctor on call was Jim or Joe. Lat Sau Wui Cheun was created by the same production team responsible for the box-office triumph Gu Nam Gwa Nui, and was screened in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Jordan Chan and Alex Fong headline this stylish thriller about a group of five swindlers who target a notorious conman known as "King of Ghosts," only to find that they've been betrayed by someone within their own group. But "King of Ghosts" has even bigger plans, and before long no one is quite sure who to trust. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Wilson Yip directs the horror comedy movie Bio Zombie, in which a biological weapon has the power to turn people into zombies. Woody Invincible (Jordan Chan) and Crazy Bee (Sam Lee) are two kids who work at a video store in a mall. While driving their boss' car, they crash into an agent carrying the deadly weapon in a tainted soft drink. Putting him in the trunk, they go back to the mall. However, the dead guy gets loose and the mall eventually gets filled with zombies, with Woody, Bee, and their friend Rolls (Angela Tong) trapped inside. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Roy Chueng Yiu Yeung was so memorable as a sociopathic supervillian in the previous installment of Young and Dangerous that he returns in this outing as a different character. With the don of the Hung Hing group, Chiang Tin-sung, dead, his underlings journey to Thailand to persuade his brother, Tin-yeung (Alex Man Chi-leung), to helm the crime syndicate. Meanwhile, an ambition young gangster, Lui Yiu-yeung (Chueng), from the rival Tung Sing group tries to make a play for the big time by killing his boss and dumping the body in Ho-nam's (Dior Cheng Yee-kin) turf. At the same time, a rift in Ho-nam's long-time friendship with Chicken (Jordan Chan Siu-chun) when the former fails to support the latter's bid for a higher level position. This feud eventually spills over into a showdown with Lui, after that gangster's henchmen kills one of Ho-nam and Chicken's friends. The critically panned Young and Dangerous 5 and Young and Dangerous: the Prequel follow up on this installment. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

Teddy Chen spins this Mission Impossible variation featuring international heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro. Crack members of the Available Tactical Mercenaries group, Jackel (Kaneshiro), Cash (Jordan Chan), Sam (Charlie Yeung), and Titan (Ken Wong), are coerced into performing dark deeds for the Hong Kong government. Their mission is to steal some U.S. dollar printing plates which Britain's M-15 swiped from an Iranian syndicate ring and has plans to use themselves. With the help of their computer whiz cohort Phoenix (Theresa Lee), their assignment goes off without a hitch. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong government double-crosses them by planting a bomb in a briefcase housing some incriminating information about their group and making off with the plates while the group reel from the blast. Soon Jackel and company are heading to Budapest to get the plates and clear their name. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

In this upbeat Taiwanese comedy, a dark domestic cloud proves to have a silver lining for an oppressed housewife. The trouble begins when aging dentist Mr. Chen tires of merely eyeing the sweet things at the local swimming pool and takes up with his granddaughter's much-younger teacher. His poor daughter Hsiao-chi is crushed by the news, for she always envied her parents' union. Her brother Sze-ming is too busy with his own family and struggling business to care. His tune changes when he learns that his mother, not content to stay home and grieve, falls in love with a wealthy Hong Kong gigolo. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi