The Replacement Killers 1998
Chow Yun-Fat   Mira Sorvino
Director Antoine Fuqua
Michael Rooker   
Gonzalez Gonzalez
First movie CYF made in America

John Lee (CYF) is an assassin working for a
crime boss.  He is being blackmailed to kill,
or his family in China will be killed.  He
receives an assignment to murder
someone he cannot bring himself to
assassinate, and he knows he and his
family are now in danger. He encounters
Mira Sorvino obtaining a counterfeit
passport, and they find themselves as
partners running for their lives.

The Corruptor  1999
Chow Yun-Fat   Mark Wahlberg
Ric Young    Paul Ben-Victor
Jon Kit Lee   Brian Cox   
Tovah Feldshuh  -  Director James Foley

Nick Chen (CYF) is a New York City Police
Detective in Chinatown.  Mark Wahlberg is
sent into Chen's unit to secretly investigate
any wrong-doings inside the unit.  Chen in
order to do his job better has cooperated
with a criminal to learn more about crimes
within the area.  

Anna and the King  1999
Jodie Foster   Chow Yun-Fat  Bai Ling    
Tom Felton  Randall Duk Kim    Keith Chin
Syed Alwi  -  Director Andy Tennant

A beautiful movie about Anna and the King
loosely based on the experiences of Anna
Leonowens  in Siam as a teacher to the
children and some of the wives of King
Mongkut.  In the book and movie Anna
and the King have a sometimes rocky
relationship as they grapple with the place
of women within the culture of Siam.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  2000
Chow Yun-Fat    Michelle Yeoh  Zhang Ziyi    
Chang Chen   Sihung Lung   
Pei Pei Cheng
Fa Zeng Li    Xian Gao   Yan Hai   
Deming Wang  Li     Zheng Pei-Pei  -  
Director Ang Lee
Winner of 3 Academy Awards

Li Mu Bai (CYF) is a famous warrior who with
Michelle Yeoh longs to have a private life
and declare their love for one another.  He
gives away his famous G
reen Destiny sword,
and it is stolen by Zhang ZiYi who is from a
wealthy family, but wishes to have the
exciting life of a warrior such as CYF and
Yeoh.  

Bulletproof Monk  2003
Chow  Yun-Fat   Seann William Scott  
Jaime King    Karel Roden  Victoria Smurfit   
 Marcus J. Pirae   Chris Collins   
Patrick Hagarty  
Marcus Jean Pirae    Mako
Director: Paul Hunter
 

A monk with no name (CYF) has been
trusted to protect a scroll that contains
words that have the power over life and
death.  A Nazi group has been trying to
steal the scroll for the past 60 years during
which the monk has not aged.  He goes to
New York City and meets Scott.

Waiting Alone  2005
Chen Wen    Xia Yu    Liu Rong
Li Bingbing    Li Jing   Gong Beibi
Du Haitao     Gao Qi
Zhao Xiaosan     Wu Chao
Directed, written, edited by Dayyan Eng
(Wu Shixian).

Chow Yun-Fat playing himself in a cameo
appearance

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt aka The
Aunt's Postmodern Life  2006
Siqin Gaowa    Vicki Zhao Wei
Chow Yun-Fat
Lisa Lu    Guang Wen-suo    Shi Ke
Director Ann Hui
  

A man romancing an older woman.  Even
though many people betray Siqin Gaowa's
character including Kuankuan, the
middle-aged man Pan Zhichang (CYF), Jin
Yonghua, who constantly threatens to hurt
herself, and her daughter Dafan (Wei),
they also have stories that make Rutang`s
heart ache with pity and elicit her sympathy.

The City of Golden Armor aka
Curse of the Golden Flower   2006
Chow Yun-Fat   Li Gong
Jay Chou   Ye Liu   Qin Junjie   Man Li   
Dahong Ni
Director Zhang Yimou

Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li as Emperor and
Empress in the Tang Dynasty.  The story of
a dysfunctional royal family surrounded by
incredible wealth and beauty, but harboring
secrets that will ultimately destroy all of
them.

Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End
2007
Johnny Depp   
Orlando Bloom  
Kiera Knightely  
Chow Yun-Fat    Geoffrey Rush
(Rest of Cast on POTC 3 blog)
Director Gore Verbinski

Johnny Depp and friends with CYF playing a
pirate .  Barbossa reappears as does
Captain Jack Sparrow.  A journey to Asia
brings some of the characters in close
contact with the Chinese pirate Captain Sao
Feng.

Children of Huang Shi
(a.k.a. Bitter Sea)
TBR 2008
Jonathan Rhys Meyers  Radha Mitchell
Chow Yun-Fat   Michelle Yeoh
Director Roger Spottiswoode

Based on the true story of British journalist
George Hogg, who rescued scores of
children during Japan's 1937 invasion of
China, and who led them on an arduous
trek to safety.  CYF will play a man
returning to China to help defend the
country against the Japanese invaders and
helps the children to escape.
     
     
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