Andy Lau Tak-wah Movies

Chinese director Zhang Yimou fuses a martial arts action-drama with a tragic romance in this elegant period piece. In the year 859 A.D., as the Tang dynasty is beset by rebellion, Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are a pair of lawmen who have been given the task of ferreting out the leaders of a revolutionary faction known as the Flying Daggers. Working on a tip that members of the group are working out of a brothel called the Peony Pavilion, Jin arrives there in disguise and is introduced to a beautiful blind dancer named Mei (Zhang Ziyi). After watching Mei's performance following several drinks, Jin drunkenly attempts to have his way with her, and Leo is forced to intervene. After gaining Mei's trust in a game of skill, Leo arrests her and informs her that she'll be tortured if she doesn't tell all she knows about the Flying Daggers. Jin responds by helping Mei break out of prison, but he has an ulterior motive -- by following her, Leo and Jin are certain she'll lead them to the Flying Daggers. However, as he helps the blind girl find her way back home, Jin finds himself falling in love with Mei, and isn't certain if he's willing to betray her again. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Gordon Chan Kar-seung directs this critically panned crime comedy starring Andy Lau Tak-wah as Wong Kau-tai, an idiot savant who is mistaken for the head of a massive and ruthless crime syndicate after his mobland doppelganger is arrested in India. Everyone quickly becomes concerned with Wong's bizarre behavior and his fascination with toys, especially his bodyguard Chung (Aaron Kwok Fu-shing) and the gang's number two guy Uncle Seven (Ng Man-tat). When Wong declares that the gang is getting out of crime all together, crime load Master Dragon (Yuen Woo-ping) orders his stunning hitwoman daughter Veronica Kwan (Rosamund Kwan Chi-lam), who looks fetching in a leather jumpsuit, to marry Wong, and then kill him. Sandra Ng Kwan-yu also appears. Rumor has it that director Gordon Chan was forced to direct this film by the triads. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

This melodramatic tearjerker is about an orphan boy in Hong Kong who grows up to attend law school in England and then decides to go back to the business capital of Asia to work. The young man's girlfriend comes from an influential family, and she is able to get him set up in one of Hong Kong's best law firms. As he is settling in and adjusting to his good fortune, circumstances lead him to take on the defense of an elderly prostitute accused of murder. After he meets the woman, he is convinced she is innocent -- and little does he know then where this particular case will take him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this Hong Kong melodrama, two brothers are destined for tragedy as they try to take on their cruel father and indulge in various delinquent shenanigans on the side. Paul, the older brother (Lau Tak-wah) falls in love with Hsiao, a Vietnamese refugee (Liu Mei-chun) and while trying to steal some diapers for her child at the local supermarket, everything goes wrong, eventually leading to a late-night attack on the supermarket and the death of the youngest brother. Paul goes to prison. Once he has served his sentence, he discovers his Vietnamese lover is in a refugee camp waiting to be deported -- and his father refuses to grant permission for Paul to marry her. With no other solution in mind, he gets Hsiao out of the camp and then is faced with the same policeman who killed his younger brother in a final confrontation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi