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Chow Yun-fat

05/18/1955 (68 years old) | Hong Kong, China | Actor | Male

Chow Yun-fat SBS (born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.

Chow Yun-fat Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Bulletproof Monk	18
2.	Shanghai	9
3.	God of Gamblers II	7
4.	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	7
5.	Project Gutenberg	1
6.	Cold War II	0
7.	A Better Tomorrow	0
8.	A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon	0
9.	The Replacement Killers	0
10.	A Better Tomorrow II	0
11.	Anna and the King	0
12.	Dream Lovers	0
13.	Let the Bullets Fly	0
14.	The Corruptor	0

Bulletproof Monk

Movie | United States | 03/28/2003 | Action | Buddies

A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.

5.5/10

23%

Shanghai

Movie | China | 10/02/2010 | Romance

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

6.6/10

God of Gamblers II

Movie | Hong-Kong | 12/13/1990 | Action

Wong Jing's sequel to All for the Winner and spin-off to God of Gamblers finds Chow Sing Cho looking up to Michael Dagger Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.

6.8/10

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Movie | China | 10/01/2000 | Action | Kung-fu

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

7.9/10

98%

847

Project Gutenberg

Movie | China | 09/30/2018 | Action

The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named Painter . The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of its counterfeit currency. The scope of their criminal activities extends globally and greatly attracts the attention of the police. In order to crack the true identity of Painter, the police recruits a painter named Lee Man to assist in solving the case.

6.8/10

245

Cold War II

Movie | Hong-Kong | 09/08/2016 | Action

A suspected criminal mastermind escapes from police custody, throwing the city into turmoil. With the police department now divided, rival police chiefs are forced to take their fight to the streets of Hong Kong with deadly consequences.

6.5/10

301

A Better Tomorrow

Movie | Hong-Kong | 08/02/1986 | Action | Heroic Bloodshed

Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a star studded cast.

7.4/10

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

Movie | Hong-Kong | 10/20/1989 | Action

The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark (Chow Yun-Fat), travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life...

5.9/10

The Replacement Killers

Movie | United States | 02/06/1998 | Action | Heroic Bloodshed

Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the childs life. Afraid that Wei will take revenge on his family in China, Lee seeks out expert forger Meg Coburn to obtain the passport he needs to get out of the country, but a band of replacement killers is soon on his trail.

6.1/10

37%

102

A Better Tomorrow II

Movie | Hong-Kong | 12/17/1987 | Action

A restaurant owner his ex-con brother and a policeman team up to avenge the murder of his old friends daughter by the Triad.

7.2/10

Anna and the King

Movie | United States | 12/16/1999 | Romance | Forbidden Love

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860's. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.

6.7/10

Dream Lovers

Movie | 04/25/1986

Chow Yun-Fat and Brigitte Lin have their incredible talents used to the hilt in this romantic mystery about a pair of tragic lovers from 2100 years before now reincarnated in modern Hong Kong.

43%

Let the Bullets Fly

Movie | China | 12/16/2010 | Comedy | Buddies

Set in China during the Warlords Period of the1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.

7.3/10

307

The Corruptor

Movie | United States | 03/12/1999 | Action

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.

6.1/10

48%

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