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
Direction Michael Hui
Cast Michael Hui · Ricky Hui · Samuel Hui · Stanley Fung
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...
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
Direction Stephen Chow · Lee Lik-Chi
Cast Stephen Chow · Anita Yuen · Pauline Chan · Joe Cheng
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...
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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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She Shoots Straight
1990 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Corey Yuen
Cast Joyce Godenzi · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Sammo Hung · Carina Lau
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