Shawn Yue Movies

Up and coming Pye-Dog director Derek Kwok follows-up his award-winning feature directorial debut with this Wilson Yip-scripted crime drama following the search for an adolescent boy through the crime-riddled streets of Hong Kong. Fatty has gone missing, and should Cheung (Shawn Yue) fail to locate the obese boy in short order, his vengeful mother Big Sister (Susan Shaw) is sure to have his head. The last place Fatty was known to have been was in Four-Eyed Tong's district, engaging in vigorous sex with a neighborhood hooker. Later, as undercover cop Cheung meets with Four-Eyed Tong to assess the situation, the Sum Sui Po district is about to explode. The players in this deadly game are Cheung, a young prostitute named Lulu, thirteen year old prostitute-in-training Fa, Four-Eyed Tong, and ruthless assassin Lo (Story of Ricky star Louis Fan). But who is Lo working for, and how does Cheung's frequent use of escort services factor into the equation? As the search for Fatty intensifies, the violence in the neighborhood escalates, soon threatening to consume everyone involved. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

A Hong Kong adaptation of a Japanese manga, director Soi Cheang's follow-up to the dark 2006 thriller Dog Bit Dog stars Hong Kong teen idol Shawn Yue as a young sociopath sent to prison for the brutal murder of his parents, and determined to seek salvation by becoming a professional fighter. Upon being incarcerated for his unspeakable crime, Ryo is targeted for extreme abuse and humiliation by the more established inmates in the penitentiary. Under the approving eye of a warden who would sooner see Ryo dead than reformed, the timid teenager is humiliated, raped, beaten, and left for dead. But while no one expected that Ryo could possibly endure such abuse and live to see another day, it isn't long before he's back on his feet and mastering the martial arts under the tutelage of the prison karate instructor (Francis Ng). Ryo is determined to ensure that he will never be victimized again, and by the time he's released from prison he is a formidable fighter. Once paroled, Ryo sets out in search of his missing sister, whom he believes to be working as a prostitute on the streets of Hong Kong. But while Ryo's sister is nowhere to be found, his search leads him to a girl with the same name who just happens to know the main promoter of a prominent fighting league. Before long Ryo is in the ring and living his dream, but will he ever find out what became of his long lost sister? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Gen X-Cops director Benny Chan helms this action-packed police thriller starring Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, and Jaycee Chan. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

A mentally disturbed girl mistakes a man on the street for the boyfriend who walked out of her life without a sound, only to find out just how deceiving appearances can be in director Oxide Pang's mind-bending psychological thriller. Winnie Leung (Charlene Choi) is a rather plain girl who spends most of her days in her apartment cooking, carving wooden dolls, and waiting quietly alone for her boyfriend, Seth (Shawn Yue), to return. One day, after recording Seth's furtive departure in her diary, Winnie ventures out onto the streets and makes acquaintances with a kind and handsome stranger named Ray (also Yue) after mistaking him for the missing Seth. Later revealing over lunch that Seth had apparently been killed in a tragic car accident, Winnie and Ray form a warm bond, and she eventually invites him to move in with her. As Winnie and Ray gradually begin to grow closer, the parallels between her new relationship with Ray and her old relationship with Seth begin to shed an entirely different light on the events of the recent past. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Infernal Affairs powerhouse Andy Lau and Alan Mak bring the most popular manga in Japan screaming to life in this in this live-action look at the high-speed sport of "drifting" that shot straight to the top of the Hong Kong box office. Eighteen-year-old Takumi (Jay Chou) is never late for a tofu delivery, and though he speeds the tofu to its destinations with the velocity of a landlocked stealth plane, his true aspiration in life is to follow in the footsteps of his formerly fast-driving father (Anthony Wong) -- an ex-adrenaline junkie who eventually gave up the race track for the restaurant business. In his five years delivering meals from his father's restaurant Takumi has learned the streets of his hometown like the back of his hand, and he can take every corner with the needle planted firmly on the right. The trick to Takumi's amazing driving skills is a technique known as "drifting," and in a world where high-risk racing has spilled out of the tracks and onto the streets, this daring driver is about to become a legend. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

The prequel to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's smash hit Infernal Affairs opens in 1991, with Inspector Wong (Anthony Wong) explaining the frustrations of police work to gangster Sam (Eric Tsang). He also expresses his desire to see the seemingly reasonable Sam take over he reins of the local triad from the current boss. When that boss is murdered, with no apparent heir, it seems that Hong Kong is going to explode in an all-out gang war. But the boss' bespectacled, soft-spoken, and well-mannered son, Hau (Francis Ng), unexpectedly takes charge, calmly and cleverly defusing the situation. Meanwhile, Yan (Shawn Yu, reprising his role as the younger version of Tony Leung's character in the first Infernal Affairs) is thrown out of the police academy for breaking the rules, and it's discovered that he's Hau's half-brother. Wong recruits him to work undercover in Hau's organization. Ming (Edison Chen playing the younger Andy Lau) is a corrupt cop secretly working for Sam. His progress up the ranks of the police force is swift, but his relationship with Sam is threatened when he finds himself falling in love with Sam's girlfriend, Mary (Carina Lau). For his part, as the handover of Hong Kong to China approaches, Hau plots to become involved in "legitimate" politics, and to avenge himself against those he believes responsible for his father's death. Chapman To reprises his role as the goofy Keung. Infernal Affairs II was selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center for inclusion in the 2004 New York Film Festival. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

A new face in the world of independent cinema in Hong Kong, director Vincent Chui uses his first digital video feature to explore the complex array of emotions that citizens of Hong Kong hold for their city in the face of the 1997 turnover. Utilizing Dogme 95 aesthetics, Chui follows three interconnected stories involving a westernized U.S. citizen who returns to Hong Kong to experience a cultural re-awakening, a passive priest who struggles with his real-estate agent wife over money matters in a hot, pre-1997 property market, and a H.K. gossip columnist whose obsession with his editor leads her to confront the harsh memories that she's tried for years to forget. As the current and former citizens of the city ponder everything from the economics to politics of their beloved homeland, pressing issues of the past and future are brought to the forefront of their consciences, and decisions on whether to carry on with life elsewhere or simply press on in their current surroundings weigh heavily in their daily lives. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Although Jesus (Yu Man Lok) has quickly gained a reputation as a dedicated CID officer during his short stint at the police department, he soon follows his dreams by departing from the force in order to join the SDU. Certain that he will be accepted following five weeks of vigorous training, Jesus is baffled when Stone (Michael Wong) cuts him from the SDU for no apparent reason. As the SDU and criminal Huang (Patrick Tam) subsequently embark in a fierce gun battle, Stone leads the team in just before Jesus takes down Huang with a high powered sniper rifle. Later approaching Stone, Jesus finds out that Stone's reasoning for cutting him from the SDU may not have been what he had originally suspected. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide