Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Birthday: 1962-06-27
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Biography: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Chinese: 梁朝偉, born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognised actors and was named as "Small Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love. Leung is widely considered the best native Hong Kong actor of his generation. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time". Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Leung also stars in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero, and the box office hits Hard Boiled (1992) and Infernal Affairs (2002). Leung was cast as the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Leung has a comprehensive set of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a six-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography."
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Hero
During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, cla...
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In the Mood for Love
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. Howeve...
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2046
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...
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Seoul Raiders
Agent Lam (Tony Leung) sets out to track a pair of plates used to make fake American dollars. When h...
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Infernal Affairs
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Ki...
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Lust, Caution
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japane...
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Gorgeous
When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message...
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Chungking Express
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other...
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Hard Boiled
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In or...
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Bullet in the Head
Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murde...
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Red Cliff
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
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Butterfly and Sword
A loyalist attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group....
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Ashes of Time
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert sw...
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The Longest Nite
Caught in the middle of a fierce gang war in Macau, a corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations bet...
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Cyclo
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Min...
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Hidden Blade
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the ...
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Infernal Affairs III
While Yeung Kam Wing is trying to remove all connections between the mob and him, his actions are be...
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Red Cliff II
The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao C...
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The Grandmaster
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern ...
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Chinese Odyssey 2002
Two pairs of siblings are destined for each other, but fate throws countless obstacles in the path. ...
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Tokyo Raiders
When a private eye, a jilted bride and a mysterious stranger join forces to track down an elusive mo...
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Doctor Mack
Since dropping out from the medical school, Lau Mack has been living a humble but contented life, ru...
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Love Me, Love My Money
Skinflint businessman Richard (Leung) doesn't feel bad when he sacks his employees and secretary to ...
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Flowers of Shanghai
At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British...
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Days of Being Wild
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after di...
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Happy Together
A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begin...
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Confession of Pain
In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei fee...
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A City of Sadness
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist po...
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The Founding of a Republic
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ul...
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The Magic Crane
On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued...
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The Lunatics
A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who ...
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The Eagle Shooting Heroes
A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, sl...
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The Great Magician
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy figh...
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The Banquet
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer...
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I Love Maria
RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their kille...
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Crossroads - Strayed
A young adolescent man (Tony Leung) gets into a scuffle with some local punks and things escalate in...
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Sound of Colors
Ming a marriage consultant who runs into the charming but blind Yeuk through a little help of a guar...
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Fighting for Love
A traffic accident brings together Deborah, a high-strung businesswoman, and Veg, successful owner o...
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My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
The fallout resulting from a botched Triad gang smuggling job forces a young couple to separate - sh...
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97 Aces Go Places
Eternal 25 year-old Alan Tam is a wimpy triad boss who must avenge his dad because he had a heart at...
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The Days of Being Dumb
Two losers who'll do anything to try and be successful in the Triad world, but all they've accomplis...
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The Silent War
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Ji...
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My Lucky Star
Yip is attractive but for some strange reason, no man has ever been interested in her. Yip meets Lai...
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Love Unto Wastes
Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in ...
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War of the Underworld
When the son of a gang leader manages to insult the son of a rival gang leader, total war erupts bet...
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People's Hero
Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The ...
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Lucky Encounter
Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncl...
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The Royal Scoundrel
Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight su...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Silent Friend
On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose lo...
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Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time
Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness....
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The Tigers
Cops find their careers and their lives in jeopardy when they spend a gangster's bribe money after r...
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Tom, Dick and Hairy
Tom Chan, Dick Ching and his older cousin Hairy Mo live in the same tenement building but each of th...
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Timeless Romance
Lau (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) is a policeman who meets his true love (Korean actress Chiu Ngan Suk) in t...
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The Road to "The Grandmaster"
This is not a documentary describing the filming process of "The Grandmaster", but a record of Wong ...
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A Chinese Ghost Story III
Set 100 years after the events of A Chinese Ghost Story, Buddhist Bai Yun and his disciple Fong jour...
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Three Summers
Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong K...
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The Returning
Chung has a book project that will make his career in publishing: a collector's edition of the work ...
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father
Yuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel...
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Chinese Midnight Express
The setting is 1960s Hong Kong, and righteous reporter Ching On (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) publishes an a...
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The Temptation
Virginia is a strong businesswoman. She is an old woman in the company and no man has fallen in love...
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孤獨狀元
Cai, a highly talented student, is highly regarded and nurtured by the headmaster and his teachers, ...
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經理後生
Tang Shouqiang is desperate for a white-collar life and is desperate for a chance to fulfil his wish...
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Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
A making of documentary for Happy Together. Includes interviews, on-set footage, cut scenes and foot...
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Young Cops
A typical Hong Kong comedy about young inexperienced cops that get into a lot of silly antics. The f...
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Healing Hearts
Intended as the pilot for a an E.R.-style medical drama set in Hong Kong, Healing Hearts features To...
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Blind Romance
Spunky girl-next-door Tung Tung, who's hot for rich guy, Chi Wing, but she can’t say two words to hi...
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Always Be the Winners
Third Master Sha (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) is a descendant of a powerful gambling family who must battle...
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Heaven Can't Wait
Foreign - Tony is a wily, pessimistic scam artist who uses an ancient superstition to build a hilari...
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End of the Road
Fan Long (played by Liang Chaowei), the staff officer of the National Army, escaped from the captive...
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Forced Vengeance
A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends....
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Fantasy Romance
Fans of Hong Kong pinup queen Joey Wang are likely to appreciate this ghost-themed seriocomic fantas...
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See You Tomorrow
Chen Mo, a bar owner, listens to his customers' heartbreaks and helps them navigate their lives duri...
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Don't Mind Me
A short film with dialogue for Eason Chan's Mandarin song "Don't Mind Me" 社交恐懼癌 (from his most rece...
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Your Place or Mine!
Your Place or Mine! explores the difficulties of finding true love in the modern Hong Kong setting v...
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Happy Go Lucky
Tony Leung plays Wai, an apple polisher working in a finance company co-managed by Ma and Kang, both...
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Europe Raiders
Mr. Lin and Ms. Lin are the number one and number two in the field. They are neither friends nor ene...
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Come Fly the Dragon
A young undercover cop woos the innocent sister of a Triad big brother in order to bring him down....
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1:99 Shorts
Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Ho...
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Two of a Kind
Two of a Kind is a Hong Kong Romance-Comedy starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai...
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The Great Pretenders
The Great Pretenders is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai...
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Iron Butterfly III: Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai...
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Super Model
Super model Mandom (Ronald Cheng) is very famous in the field. One day, he is threatened by someone,...
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Seven Warriors
In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village again...
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Monster Hunt 2
The sequel to Monster Hunt. Set in a world where monsters and humans co-exist, the franchise tells t...
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Where the Wind Blows
The decades spanning story of two very different policemen who rise to power in Hong Kong during Bri...
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the myst...
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Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait
The dazzling new film from Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magi...
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Fox Hunt
Based on true events. Dai Yichen, the Shanghai-based mastermind of a massive financial fraud who has...
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继续宠爱·十年·音乐会
10th Anniversary “Miss You Much Leslie” memorial concert held in 2013, commemorating the death of Le...
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The Goldfinger
In 1970s Hong Kong, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was formed to bring down th...
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The Nameless
The Nameless revolves around the story of a man named Lai Teck, one of the 50 known aliases of the S...
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Untitled Johnnie To Gangster Film
Revolves around the conflict of Hong Kong gangs in Japan....
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In the Mood for Love 2001
Set in a convenience store, this short film was originally intended as the third segment of Wong Kar...
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@ in the mood for love
A documentary following Wong Kar-wai and his cast and crew through the production of his 2000 film I...
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In the Mood for Love – Day One
Edited from never-before-seen footage, this short film unveils rare scenes of Tony Leung and Maggie ...
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Infernal Affairs Trilogy
The Infernal Affairs: Ultimate Collector's Edition 8-disc DVD Box Set is a commemorative collection ...
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Making of 2046
This 2004 documentary details the making of 2046 and features interviews with director Wong Kar Wai,...
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