Cast: Tony Leung Ka-Fai

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Center Stage

1991 · Movie · 150 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Stanley Kwan

Cast Maggie Cheung · Chin Han · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Carina Lau

Synopsis Biopic of 1930's Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.

6.9

189 votes

6.9

189 votes

Election

2005 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To

Cast Simon Yam · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Louis Koo · Gordon Lam

Synopsis The story takes place amid the Wo Shing, the most venerable triad of Hong Kong. The Uncles, the elders who rule the crime organization, are about to elect a new chief executive officer. Lok, who is wise and cautious, is...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Throw Down

2004 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To

Cast Aaron Kwok · Louis Koo · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Jordan Chan

Synopsis A former judo champion quits the tournament cirucit and runs a nightclub. However, when a new challenger appears as well as an old rival and a judo master in need of reviving his school, the young man must go back...

6.6

122 votes

6.6

122 votes

Dragon Inn

1992 · Movie · 88 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Raymond Lee · Ching Siu-Tung · Tsui Hark

Cast Brigitte Lin · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Maggie Cheung · Donnie Yen

Synopsis During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan, the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends on destroying the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary's children as bait. Ultimately, the two warring factions...

6.5

58 votes

6.5

58 votes

The Lover

1992 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Jane March · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Frédérique Meininger · Arnaud Giovaninetti

Synopsis It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

Zhou Yu's Train

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · China

Direction Zhou Sun

Cast Gong Li · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Sun Honglei · Li Zhixiong

Synopsis Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until...

6.4

814 votes

6.4

814 votes

Three... Extremes

2004 · Movie · 128 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Fruit Chan · Park Chan-wook · Takashi Miike

Cast Bai Ling · Pauline Lau · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Meme Tian

Synopsis A beautiful female novelist, still guilt-ridden over the childhood death of her twin sister, receives a mysterious invitation to meet at the site of her sister’s demise… more… A retired actress longing to retain her beauty seeks the rejuvenating effects...

6.4

4K votes

6.4

4K votes

A Better Tomorrow II

1988 · Movie · 105 min. · Hong Kong

Direction John Woo

Cast Ti Lung · Chow Yun-Fat · Leslie Cheung · Dean Shek

Synopsis Several years after the events of 'A Better Tomorrow'. Sung Tse Ho (Ti Lung) and his brother Tse Kit (Leslie Cheung) are undercover police agents collecting evidence of the counterfeit activities of Lung's (Dean Shek) ship building company. Actually, Lung's...

6.4

968 votes

6.4

968 votes

Dumplings

2004 · Movie · 91 min. · Hong Kong

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Eye in the Sky

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Yau Nai-Hoi

Cast Simon Yam · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Kate Tsui · Lam Suet

Synopsis The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a...( read more ) recent...

6.3

102 votes

6.3

102 votes

The Drummer

2007 · Movie · 119 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Kenneth Bi

Cast Jaycee Chan · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Angelica Lee · Roy Cheung

Synopsis Sid, the son of a Hong Kong mob boss, is forced to flee to the mountains of Taiwan. There he meets the members of a small community devoted to perfect body and mind through rigorous physical training. They are also...

6.2

335 votes

6.2

335 votes

Prison on fire (Gaam yuk fung wan)

1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ringo Lam

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · William Ho · Roy Cheung

Synopsis An explosive crime-drama that caused a sensation upon its release. Audiences gasped for breath from the bloodshed and violence, yet were deeply moved by the fraternal bond between the two leading characters. Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung are riveting as...

6.2

223 votes

6.2

223 votes

20 30 40

2004 · Movie · 113 min. · Hong Kong

6.0

133 votes

6.0

133 votes

Ashes of Time

1994 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Leslie Cheung · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Brigitte Lin · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Lost in Beijing

2007 · Movie · 112 min. · China

Direction Li Yu

Cast Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Fan Bingbing · Tong Dawei · Elaine Jin

Synopsis A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.

6.0

116 votes

6.0

116 votes

Rise of the Legend

2014 · Movie · 131 min. · China

5.7

320 votes

5.7

320 votes

Tai Chi Hero

2012 · Movie · 100 min. · China

Direction Stephen Fung

Cast Daniel Wu · Shu Qi · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Angelababy

Synopsis Stephen Fung delivers the second part of the trilogy initiated with Tai Chi Zero. We now find our hero Yang Luchan about to marry Master Chen’s daughter. Their happiness won’t last long: one of Chen’s sons appears to announce that...

5.6

117 votes

5.6

117 votes

Bodyguards and Assassins

2009 · Movie · 139 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Teddy Chan

Cast Donnie Yen · Wang Xueqi · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Nicholas Tse

Synopsis In 1905, Sun Yat-sen (called "Sun Wen" in the film) intends to come to Hong Kong (then a colony of the British Empire) to discuss his plans for revolution with fellow Tongmenghui members to overthrow the corrupt and crumbling Qing...

5.6

589 votes

5.6

589 votes

Love Will Tear Us Apart

1999 · Movie · 109 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Nelson Yu Lik-wai

Cast Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Lü Liping · Ning Wong · Rolf Chow

Synopsis This film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor...

5.6

65 votes

5.6

65 votes

The Founding of a Republic

2009 · Movie · 135 min. · China

Direction Han Sanping · Huang Jianxin

Cast Tang Guoqiang · Zhang Guoli · Vivian Wu · Summer Xu

Synopsis Produced in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, this political drama begins in 1945 and chronicles the Chinese Civil War, which eventually led to the Kuomintang’s retreat onto the island of Taiwan, as well as...

5.6

121 votes

5.6

121 votes