Michael Wong Movies
- 1987
In order to make a place for themselves as young women in the man's world of Hong Kong, the two women in this story enter a beauty contest. One of them is a flashy gal with simple tastes and a ditzy approach to life. However, she really wants to be financially and socially successful. Despite her quirky, devil-may-care attitudes, she occasionally comes out with some unexpectedly wise remarks, which astound and please the second woman in the story, a co-contestant. When both women fail to make it to the final selection of the contest, they commiserate with one another and strike up a friendship. Where the one woman is fast and flashy, the other is quiet and low-key, but equally ambitious. Their friendship prospers for a while but is challenged when a Japanese playboy enters their lives. Fortunately, they are able to remain friends, and the threat of the Japanese man to their relationship is shown to have been an empty one. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cecilia Yip, Michael Wong, (more)
The first film role of the late Brandon Lee, this Hong Kong thriller is the story of Brandon (Lee), a hard-working young man who has an unfortunate friendship with Michael (Michael Wong), a gangster who has his eye on Brandon's girlfriend May (Regina Kent). Michael frames Brandon for the murder of one of his rivals, and Brandon is imprisoned. Many years later, Brandon's reunion with May and their son is cut short when Michael kidnaps the mother and child. Brandon must rescue his family and exact revenge on Michael. Although Lee had yet to reach the level of acting demonstrated in The Crow and Rapid Fire, this 1986 film provides a better showcase for his martial arts abilities than his later American films; each film would progressively de-emphasize his skills. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brandon Lee, Michael Wong, (more)
This sequel to Yes, Madam is a good vehicle for the martial arts talents of Michelle Khan (aka: Michelle Yeoh, Yeung Chi-king), the Hong Kong star who gained prominence in the West as a Chinese superspy in the 1997 James Bond thriller Tomorrow Never Dies. The film features Michelle Michelle Khan as a tough cop and Michael Michael Wong as a less-than-tough security officer. When Michelle, Michael, and a Japanese cop overpower and kill a hijacker on a jet plane, the hijacker's friends decide to go all out for revenge and danger is the result -- but not for the high-kicking protagonists. A romance also blooms between Michelle and Michael. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michelle Khan
- 1985
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
- Starring:
- Mark Cheng, Anthony Tang, (more)
To be invincible is is impressive enough. To be obsessed can be equally impressive. But to be invincible and obsessed-well, it's just too much to take in one sitting. Elton Chong and Michael Wong costar in this martial-arts melange. The plot is set in motion by a search for a hidden treasure. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
