Po-Chih Leong

Po-Chih Leong

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

História

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

Filmes

The Jade Pendant
Director
Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
Taxi driver
Josh é um jovem banqueiro americano que mora há muitos anos em Hong Kong. Durante a noite de aniversário de sua namorada, ele acaba conhecendo Ryby, uma chinesa americana que estava a passeio na cidade. Com uma atração e afinidade instantânea, os dois passeiam pelas ruas de Hong Kong por horas, e depois se despedem, como se não fossem se ver nunca mais. Mas, um ano depois, seus destinos voltam a se cruzar, o que deve mudar suas vidas para sempre.
Baby Blues
Director
When a young couple moves into a home, they find a mysterious doll that changes their lives forever.
O Detonador
Director
O agente disfarçado da C.I.A. Sonni Griffith viaja sozinho para a Polônia para prender um traficante de armas e impedir a venda de uma arma nuclear. Quando o traficante é informado sobre a identidade de Griffith, ele acaba na prisão... mas é rapidamente libertado pela C.I.A. apenas para executar uma nova missão: escoltar uma linda russa de volta aos Estados Unidos. Griffith logo descobre que a obstinada Nadia está sendo perseguida pelo mesmo traficante de armas que ele tentou destruir e que este cruel negociante não vai parar enquanto não conseguir a informação que Nadia detém — a localização dos $ 30 milhões de dólares que ela escondeu e que irão lhe possibilitar a compra de uma bomba nuclear. Quando um vazamento da C.I.A. expõe o paradeiro e a identidade de Griffith e Nadia, eles devem lutar contra os traficantes até a morte para salvarem suas peles e o mundo!
Fora de Alcance
Director
O veterano William Lansing (Steven Seagal) é um antigo agente da CSA que trabalha em um refúgio no Alasca. Ele descobre que o programa de adoção da jovem Irena Morawska (Ida Nowakowska), uma garota polonesa de 13 anos que está ajudando, é, na verdade, um esquema de tráfico humano. Agora, Lansing vai começar uma perigosa missão para salvar a menina e acabar com a operação dos bandidos.
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.
Return to Cabin by the Lake
Director
Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.
The Darkling
Director
When mechanic Jeff Obold meets the wealthy and mysterious Bruno Rubin, he is exposed for the first time to the finer things in life. But Jeff soon discovers the source of Rubin's power: a caged creature called a "Darkling," which possesses the power to create incredible wealth for the person who will pledge unending "companionship." Now, as Jeff sinks further and further into the blackness of a soul sold to the devil, he will discover there is a high price to pay for the fulfillment of his dreams.
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.
The Wisdom of Crocodiles
Director
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
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.
Sonhos da Ópera de Pequim
Mr Kam
Cinco personagens se unem pelo acaso e com diferentes interesses, em meio aos conflitos políticos na Pequim da década de 20.
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.
Não brinque com fogo
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.