Chow Yun-Fat
Birthday: 1955-05-18
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Biography: Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, 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.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow f...
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Anna and the King
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
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Curse of the Golden Flower
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...
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The Killer
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profess...
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The Replacement Killers
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of poli...
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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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A Better Tomorrow
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...
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Bulletproof Monk
A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around t...
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The Corruptor
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try t...
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Full Contact
In an effort to get his buddy out of a gambling debt, Jeff agrees to join forces with Judge in a wea...
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Confucius
In 500 B.C., during Chinas famed 'Spring and Autumn Period', Kong Ze (Confucius), a commoner reverre...
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The Children of Huang Shi
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurs...
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A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark, travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he ...
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City on Fire
Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants hi...
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Dragonball Evolution
On his 18th birthday, Goku receives a mystical Dragonball as a gift from his grandfather. There are ...
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Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and...
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God of Gamblers
Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Littl...
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Treasure Hunt
A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a...
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An Autumn's Tale
Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her ...
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The Occupant
When a college student returns to her native Hong Kong to do academic work on Chinese superstitions,...
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City War
Two partnered cops who are also best friends find their friendship and their lives at stake when the...
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Once a Thief
Three orphans grow up to become art thieves under the tutelage of a crime boss. Romance complicates ...
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Tiger on the Beat
A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-com...
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A Better Tomorrow II
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a frien...
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Peace Hotel
After his wife's murder, Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs prote...
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Let the Bullets Fly
When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the...
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God of Gamblers' Return
Ko Chun, the God of Gamblers, vows to keep his identity hidden while looking for the gangsters who ...
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Fractured Follies
Joe, a reckless cab driver, accidentally hits someone with his taxi. The person he hit is May, a swe...
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Beginning of the Great Revival
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party....
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Prison on Fire
Lo Ka Yiu, a young ad designer who is sentenced to jail for manslaughter, has gotten himself in trou...
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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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Waiting Alone
An award-winning audience favorite in China since it debuted, Waiting Alone tells the first-person-n...
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Prison on Fire II
Ching is a prisoner in a Hong Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. C...
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The Eighth Happiness
Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in t...
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All About Ah-Long
Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bon...
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Tragic Hero
After being released from prison, Tang Kat-Yung exacts revenge on Lee Ah Chai....
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The Postman Strikes Back
Four heroes embark on a secret mission for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist Guard. Relentlessly pursued...
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Hong Kong 1941
Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She'...
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The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Ye Rutang, a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid th...
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The Romancing Star II
Chow Yun Fat leaves his buddies Eric Tsang, Stanley Fung, and Nat Chan Bak Cheung to their own devic...
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The Head Hunter
Former Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Dich (Chow Yun-Fat) comes to HK after the Vietnam war, as a profess...
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Bloody Money
A family of stuntmen in 1980’s Hong Kong suffer the waning of the kung-fu movie industry, relatives ...
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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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Triads: The Inside Story
Li Man-Ho comes to Hong Kong after his father's death following a double crossed peace meeting at th...
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The Last Tycoon
Cheng, a young man who is set up by the chief of police, must leave the life he knows and Qiu, the w...
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100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
Two men, Fat and Roberto, are both married and unhappy. Together they make diverse plans to murder t...
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The Diary of a Big Man
A two-timing bigamist finds himself concocting scheme after scheme with his best friend, Chi Hung, t...
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The Romancing Star
Ah Fat, foul-mouthed, along with his two close buddies, Traffic Light and Ugly, are working in a gar...
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The Monkey King
Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. After rebelling ...
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The Assassins
In his old age, Cao Cao assesses his former military tactics, love, and relationship with his son....
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Wild Search
While conducting a raid of an illegal arms deal, detective Mew Mew discovers the body of a dead woma...
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A Hearty Response
During their last (botched) operation, Hong Kong cops Ho Ting-Bon and Long Man accidentally cause th...
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The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
Lam Bo Sun, the richest man in Hong Kong, is expected to marry the ditziest of socialites in a matte...
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Love in a Fallen City
Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by...
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Code of Honor
In Hong Kong, Ho Chen-tung is the aging Mob boss, living by a code of honor, keeping peace among riv...
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Dream Lovers
Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams...
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Last Affair
A lonely Chinese woman in Paris starts an affair with an womanizer musician....
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Witch from Nepal
A Hong Kong man goes on vacation to Nepal where a local tribe imbues him with magical powers which h...
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From Vegas to Macau
Retired gambling legend Ken returns to Macau, only to be drawn back into action when his daughter be...
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Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
The first episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976)...
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Rich and Famous
To pay off his debt as a gambler, a man drags his sister and step-brother into a life of crime and a...
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Story of Rose
Rose is living an idyllic life with her brother. They are so close that their bond has a subtle hint...
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The Story of Woo Viet
Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United S...
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Women
Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair....
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Spiritual Love
This is a story about a triad enforcer who is a loser in love. He brings home a desk, which causes h...
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The Seventh Curse
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a ...
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Scared Stiff
Alan and Halley are partners in a pest control company. Handsome Alan gets the girls and puffy Halle...
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God Father
A combination of God Of Gamblers and The Sting. Git is a young mechanic working for his uncle in a s...
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From Vegas to Macau II
Following his confrontation with the nefarious DOA organization, Ken (Chow Yun Fat) is looking forwa...
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Office
Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is a...
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Katanyu Prakasit
After hearing his father's death related to the Green Claw Gang, a young banker leaves for Thailand ...
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Now You See Love... Now You Don't
This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a ti...
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My Will, I Will
After almost dying in a freakish accident, wealthy widow Wang Kam decides she needs a will. But unfo...
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From Vegas to Macau III
A gambler is targeted for murder during the wedding of his daughter to his protege....
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Why Me?
The tragic story of Fat Cat, a mentally retarded man who endures the mistreatment of the local villa...
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The Executor
Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee star in this police action film. Two cops are trying to capture a triad b...
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Cold War II
A suspected criminal mastermind escapes from police custody, throwing the city into turmoil. With th...
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Duckweed
When a son attempts to reconcile with his father, a series of fateful events allow him to experience...
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Hot Blood
Chow Yun Fat plays a police inspector named Cheng who is killed in the line of duty while trying to ...
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Their Private Lives
Ko Ming Chung, a wildly popular movie actor is having an illicit affair with similarly popular thesp...
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Miss "O"
A young woman suffering amnesia is separated from her husband and abducted by the owner of a brothel...
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Modern Heroes
A young still relatively unknown Chow Yun Fat stars in this low-budget critically panned police acti...
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The Missed Date
Glamorous Mei builds her entire life around husband Philip, an advertising executive and faithless t...
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The Greatest Lover
A delightful comedy about three illegal immigrants from China, one of whom (Chow) gets roped into a ...
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Massage Girls
The film deals with the struggles of the workers and clients of a Hong Kong massage parlor....
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The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
A Hong Kong cop finds himself up to his neck in trouble when he encounters a tricky bunch of crooks ...
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Ultimate Fights from the Movies
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix ...
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The Bund
After losing everything, a young man rebuilds his life and finds love in 1920s Shanghai -- all while...
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Flaming Brothers
Two blood brothers, who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code ...
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Project Gutenberg
The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter" . The...
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When Tat Fu Was Young
In 1913, 17-year-old Dafu travels from China to Japan to study. Japan is on the rise, a nation of pr...
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One More Chance
Water Ng, a typical loser who likes to gamble and takes no responsibility is asked to take care of h...
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Detective Chinatown 1900
In 1900, a white woman was murdered in Chinatown in San Francisco, and the suspect was a Chinese man...
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God of Gamblers II
Sing finds Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put as...
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Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower'
Behind the scenes look at the making of Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower"....
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The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Documentary on the making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'....
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