Po-Chih Leong

Po-Chih Leong

Nacimiento : 1939-12-31, Northampton, England, UK

Historia

Leong Po-Chih is a British-Chinese film director. He has worked in England, Hong Kong, and the United States.

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Po-Chih Leong

Películas

The Jade Pendant
Director
Una historia de amor que se desarrolla con un telón de fondo trágico: el linchamiento de 18 inmigrantes chinos en Los Ángeles, en 1871.
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
Taxi driver
In this sparkling romance, Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.
Baby Blues
Director
When a young couple moves into a home, they find a mysterious doll that changes their lives forever.
El detonador
Director
Un agente secreto de la C.I.A., Sonni Griffith (Wesley Snipes), viaja en solitario a Polonia para descubrir a un traficante de armas e impedir la venta de un arma nuclear. Cuando el traficante se entera de la verdadera identidad de Griffith, éste acaba en la cárcel, pero es liberado en seguida por la C.I.A. para ocuparse de una nueva misión: escoltar a una mujer rusa... (FILMAFFINITY)
Rescate al límite
Director
William Lancing (Steven Seagal) es un ex-agente de la CIA que vive apartado en una cabaña en Alaska. Todos los días vuelve a su modesta casa deseando haber recibido carta de su joven amiga por correspondencia, Irena, una huérfana polaca de 14 años. Después de varios días sin carta comprende que ella nunca más podrá escribirle y decide viajar a Polonia para descubrir que varias niñas de su orfanato han sido secuestradas por una red que trafica con menores. Con ayuda de uno de los niños del hospicio y de una inspectora de policía intentará encontrar a Irena...
Walking Shadow
Director
Spenser attends a play at his girlfriend's insistence to meet a director who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a hale of fake arrows is suddenly killed by a real arrow from a crossbow. This launches Spencer into an investigation of everyone involved with the theatrical company and leads him up against a Chinese mobster, who warns Spencer to quit questioning his wife, one of the theater's patrons. However, everything changes when the mobster is found beaten to death.
Regreso a la cabaña del lago
Director
Los crímenes de la cabaña del lago continúan. Una chica (Dahlia Salem) es la única que pudo salvarse del novelista-psicópata (Judd Nelson) y ahora se ve acechada por la sombra de éste. Por ello decide cooperar con la policía para capturar al criminal...
The Darkling
Director
Película que trata de como un mecánico , Jeff Obold, se encuentra con el rico y misterioso Bruno Rubin , se expone por primera vez a las cosas buenas de la vida.
Cabin by the Lake
Director
A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.
La sabiduría de los cocodrilos
Director
Steven es un hombre que parece tenerlo todo, es guapo, atractivo e ingenioso, seduce a las mujeres con facilidad y se gana su confianza rápidamente. Pero cuando el cuerpo de su última conquista es encontrado en el mar, todas las pruebas apuntan hacia él. La falta de móvil junto a su sinceridad y amabilidad convencen al inspector encargado del caso de que es inocente pero su compañero no está convertido de eso e intentará descubrir el oscuro secreto que Steven esconde.
Shanghai 1920
Director
Billy Fong, a Chinese boy working the Shanghai docks, becomes friends with Dawson Cole, the spoiled son of an American shipping tycoon. As adults, the friends become business partners. Dawson wants to run a legitimate trade, but Billy craves the power that comes with leadership among the cities gangster underground.
Fatal Love
Director
Leslie Cheung picks up a girl while driving his car in a remote location and offers her a ride back home.
Carry on Dancing
Director
Cheung Sheung and Tze Ngor are twin sisters. Tze Ngor is a lunatic and stays in a mental hospital. But out of a madcap incident, Cheung Sheung is "cheated" into the hospital, exchanging identity with her insane sister. The mad house is lived by all kinds of weirdos. The "game" is that Cheung Sheung will stay in the hospital only for a while. But strangely enough, she gradually becomes more and more ease with the way of life in the hospital until one day, she's forgotten what life is like...
Ping Pong
Writer
After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.
Ping Pong
Director
After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.
Peking Opera Blues
Mr Kam
The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines: Tsao Wan, a patriotic rebel who dresses as a man; Sheung Hung, a woman in search of a missing box of jewels; and Pat Neil, the daughter of a Peking Opera impresario.
The Island
Director
John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited by a group of seriously demented characters,lead by Peter Chan Lung.This is a family that stays together,slays together and when the youngest one is refused in marriage to one of the young girls of the troupe they turn into savage maniacs.
Welcome
Director
A girl from war-devastated Hong Kong in 2005 returns to the present to destroy the man responsible for bombing himself and his VP boss at a foundation plant ceremony. It is prophesied that the aftermath of the bombing will lead to devastating wars in the future. With the man eliminated wars can be prevented, but the spirit of his great-grandfather wants to save him.
Welcome
Tang San
A girl from war-devastated Hong Kong in 2005 returns to the present to destroy the man responsible for bombing himself and his VP boss at a foundation plant ceremony. It is prophesied that the aftermath of the bombing will lead to devastating wars in the future. With the man eliminated wars can be prevented, but the spirit of his great-grandfather wants to save him.
Hong Kong 1941
Emperor
Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.
Hong Kong 1941
Director
Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.
Banana Cop
Director
Two owners of a gambling club in London’s Chinatown are killed by an unknown killer. Edward (Lam), a policeman of heads the investigation. He arrives in Hong Kong to enlist the help of a prison convict, FM (Teddy Robin), who is a former friend of the two dead men.
He Lives by Night
Director
A happily married graphic designer discovers his wife's adultery with a man who dresses up in woman's white fish-net stockings. He is shocked into killing them and starts on a rampage murder. He looms at night under the disguise of a woman with an urge to kill whenever he sees a woman wearing white fish-net stockings. After killing several innocent victims, he zeroes in on a female disc jockey who hosts a midnight to dawn radio show.
Super Fool!
Screenplay
Kwong and Ming, two boys from rural China, sneak into Hong Kong to get quick rich. But they are instantly disillusioned and they get into messy situations. The superstar who looks exactly like Kwong has a nasty spill in a dangerous stunt and dies. Kwong is recruited to stand in. Money and all life's amenities become available to the pair. While Ming makes the best out of the situation by gambling and womanizing, Kwong realizes that his own amazement money is not everything.
Super Fool!
Director
Kwong and Ming, two boys from rural China, sneak into Hong Kong to get quick rich. But they are instantly disillusioned and they get into messy situations. The superstar who looks exactly like Kwong has a nasty spill in a dangerous stunt and dies. Kwong is recruited to stand in. Money and all life's amenities become available to the pair. While Ming makes the best out of the situation by gambling and womanizing, Kwong realizes that his own amazement money is not everything.
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
Interpol officer
A sociopathic beauty urges three nerdy pranksters to embark on a deranged rampage.
No Big Deal
Director
Itchy Fingers
Writer
Biggie (Roy Chiao) and Tiny (Richard Ng) grow up together. They fight all the time. Biggie is a detective and Tiny is a thief. Biggie has the satisfaction of catching Tiny and putting him behind bars. When Tiny is released, he is approached by Daigau who wants Tiny's help to steal the world famous diamond.
Itchy Fingers
Director
Biggie (Roy Chiao) and Tiny (Richard Ng) grow up together. They fight all the time. Biggie is a detective and Tiny is a thief. Biggie has the satisfaction of catching Tiny and putting him behind bars. When Tiny is released, he is approached by Daigau who wants Tiny's help to steal the world famous diamond.
Foxbat
Writer
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Foxbat
Story
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Foxbat
Director
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Jumping Ash
Director
Po-Chih Leong's debut film was a trendsetter in Hong Kong cinema. Shot from the shoulder, the fast-moving world of cops, informers, drug dealers and other crooks are evoked in a very lively and realistic way. The action all takes place in carefully selected locations, among them the walled city of Kowloon and Yuen Long. The film looks like a documentary and evokes the kind of excitement usually seen in news programmes. The story focuses on the battle between two gangs and starts in Amsterdam, where one of the gang leaders is murdered.