Cinematography: Tom Lau

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Tom Lau. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


A Chinese Ghost Story

1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ching Siu-Tung

Cast Leslie Cheung · Joey Wong · Wu Ma · David Lam

Plot Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends...

6.7

6K votes

6.7

6K 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

Plot 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...

6.5

58 votes

6.5

58 votes

Zhi fa xian feng

1986 · Movie · 85 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Corey Yuen

Cast Yuen Biao · Cynthia Rothrock · Roy Chiao · Fan Siu-Wong

Plot uen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when...

6.2

47 votes

6.2

47 votes

Security Unlimited

1981 · Movie · 90 min. · Hong Kong

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Swordsman II

1992 · Movie · 107 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ching Siu-Tung · Stanley Tong

Cast Jet Li · Brigitte Lin · Michelle Reis · Waise Lee

Plot With an entirely new set of actors, this movie continues the story from Swordsman (1990). Blademaster and his martial arts school decide to retire to a distant mountain. Before leaving,...

6.1

46 votes

6.1

46 votes

Royal Warriors

1986 · Movie · 96 min. · Hong Kong

Direction David Chung

Cast Michelle Yeoh · Michael Wong · Hiroyuki Sanada · Eddie Maher

Plot Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto...

6.0

168 votes

6.0

168 votes

Tai-Chi Master

1993 · Movie · 96 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Yuen Woo-Ping

Cast Jet Li · Michelle Yeoh · Chin Siu-Ho · Fennie Yuen

Plot Jet Li was a monk in Shaolin. In a friendly competition for a higher place in Shaolin, his childhood friend almost kills a fellow student for using a concealed weapon...

5.6

349 votes

5.6

349 votes

The Heroic Trio (Dung fong saam hap)

1993 · Movie · 88 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To

Cast Michelle Yeoh · Anita Mui · Maggie Cheung · Damian Lau

Plot The all-female Heroic Trio are Tung (Wonder Woman), Chat (Thief Catcher), a mercenary, and Ching (Invisible Woman). Initially, they're on opposing sides - the invisible Ching is kidnapping newborn male...

Max

5.5

206 votes

5.5

206 votes

Jet Li's The Enforcer

1995 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Corey Yuen

Cast Jet Li · Anita Mui · Tse Miu · Yu Rongguang

Plot A secret agent infiltrates the Hong Kong triad scene with the help of his son, whose low-key admiration for his detached but loving dad springs from the story's blend of...

5.3

199 votes

5.3

199 votes

Dr. Wai in 'The Scripture with No Words'

1996 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ching Siu-Tung

Cast Jet Li · Rosamund Kwan · Charlie Yeung · Takeshi Kaneshiro

Plot A serial adventure writer with problems in his personal life lives out the adventures of his literary hero, King of Adventurers.

5.3

31 votes

5.3

31 votes

A Chinese Ghost Story III

1991 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ching Siu-Tung · Tsui Hark

Cast Jacky Cheung · Yiu-Sing Cheung · Choi-Chow Hoh · Lau Shun

Plot Basically a retread of the first movie, in which the evil Tree Spirit is back with yet another ghost played by Joey Wong. The Swordsman Yen and Leslie Cheung characters...

5.3

177 votes

5.3

177 votes

High Risk

1995 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Jing · Lam Wai-Lun

Cast Jet Li · Jacky Cheung · Chingmy Yau · Charlie Yeung

Plot After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie...

5.2

226 votes

5.2

226 votes

Last Hero in China

1993 · Movie · 100 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Jing · Yuen Woo-Ping

Cast Jet Li · Nat Chan · Sharla Cheung · Alan Chui

Plot Wong Fei-hung runs a martial arts academy in Canton, and is the exemplar of all sorts of native Chinese virtues. He is appalled to discover that the rent on his...

5.2

228 votes

5.2

228 votes

Legend of the Red Dragon

1994 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Jing · Corey Yuen

Cast Jet Li · Chingmy Yau · Deannie Yip · Tse Miu

Plot When master warrior Kwun (Jet Li) returns to his village to find that his young son Ting is the sole survivor of vicious massacre by Manchu soldiers, he hits the...

5.2

822 votes

5.2

822 votes

From Beijing with Love

1994 · Movie · 94 min. · Hong Kong

5.2

531 votes

5.2

531 votes

The Defender

1994 · Movie · 92 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Corey Yuen

Cast Jet Li · Christy Chung · Kent Cheng · Collin Chou

Plot A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched...

4.8

48 votes

4.8

48 votes

Hero

1997 · Movie · 97 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Corey Yuen

Cast Takeshi Kaneshiro · Yuen Biao · Yuen Wah · Jessica Hester Hsuan

Plot Corey Yuen's remake of Chang Cheh's Boxer From Shantung sees Taiwanese Japanese heart-throb Takeshi Kaneshiro as Ma Wing-jing, a worker from Shantung who rises to the top of the Shanghai...

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Swordsman III

1993 · Movie · 93 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Ching Siu-Tung · Raymond Lee

Cast Brigitte Lin · Eddy Ko · Lau Shun · Waise Lee

Plot A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the...

Not rated

Not rated

The Magic Crane

1993 · Movie · 89 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Benny Chan

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Anita Mui · Rosamund Kwan · Damian Lau

Plot The film opens with kung fu master Ma Kwun-mo being saved by the stunning Pak Wan-fai and her pet crane Yuen Yuk. In gratitude, Ma promises not to reveal Pak's...

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Not rated

She Shoots Straight

1990 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong

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Not rated