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- He started his career as an actor in kung-fu comedy movies before starting to direct movies. Since 2008, he is only focused on his directing career.
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Oct 5, 2014 · Oct. 5, 2014. If comedy crossed borders as easily as noodle soup or cellphone operating systems, Stephen Chow would be in America what he is in Asia: an integral part of moviegoers’ lives, the ...
- 10 from Beijing with Love
- 9 Forbidden City Cop
- 8 CJ7
- 7 Journey to The West: Conquering The Demons
- 6 King of Comedy
- 5 The New King of Comedy
- 4 The God of Cookery
- 3 The Mermaid
- 2 Shaolin Soccer
- 1 Kung Fu Hustle
Chow’s inaugural directing effort was a James Bond spoof. A man called Golden Gun steals China’s only fossilized dinosaur skull, and Chow stars as 007, the agent tasked by the government with getting it back. But when he finds out that Golden Gun was actually hired by the very same government to steal the skull, well, shenanigans ensue. While being...
The true translation of Chow’s next film’s Chinese title was “Imperial Secret Agent 008”, so you know it won’t be straying too far from the themes of his first film. The twist is that rather than a simple action comedy, this is a wuxia comedy set in ancient China. Chow plays Ling Ling-Fat, one of the emperor’s cadre of personal bodyguards, who is a...
Chow is a wizard when it comes to blending just about any genre with comedy, and here he does it with science fiction. Chow plays Chow Ti, a down-on-his-luck single father unable to afford the robot toy his young son, Dicky, begs him for. Instead, Ti finds a mysterious green orb at a junkyard and gives it to Dicky in lieu of the robot. The orb gets...
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons ushered in a new era of Chow’s films, where he focused solely on directing and did not appear in the film himself. The big budget blockbuster was based on a classic 16th century Chinese novel entitled Journey to the West, and featured a colorful cast of demons from Chinese folklore. It starred well-known a...
This is one of the outliers in Chow’s filmography, in that it’s a straight comedy, without action blended in (although maybe a little bit of drama). It’s the bittersweet tale of Wan Tin-Sau, played sensitively by Chow, an acting teacher at a tiny community center who dreams of stardom, taking movie extra roles whenever he can, and going a little to...
Chow’s most recent film is a remake of his first, The King of Comedy, this time with a new cast and set in mainland China. He stays true to the original concept, and his lead actress had started out just like the original main character and Chow himself, struggling along as an extra. In consciously going back to his beginnings, it is thought that t...
The 1996 comedy is typical Chow: silly, delightful, wacky, and not a little frenetic. Chow stars as a celebrity chef who actually knows nothing about cooking, but his corrupt ways have helped him launch an entire empire built around cooking. But when he’s unmasked as a fraud at his own restaurant’s anniversary ceremony, he ends up on the street, an...
The ninth most successful Chinese film of all time, The Mermaid opens in the world of mermen, who have decided that something needs to be done about the dire state of pollution in their waters, which is sickening and killing them. A property tycoon named Liu Xuan has bought the area where they live, and plans to annihilate the area’s aquatic life. ...
In the same way that Shaolin Soccerbrought the delight of Stephen Chow films to the wider American public, the plot follows five former Shaolin brothers who reunite after years of estrangement, and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses through soccer. Chow leads the cast as “Golden Leg” Fung, who had been a soccer star until suffering a cynical injur...
If you thought Shaolin Soccer was the most out-there film you could imagine, hold onto your hats. Chow goes back to 1940s Shanghai as Sing, a pathetic thief who, along with his best friend Bone, longs to join the bloodthirsty yet stylish Axe Gang. There is a desperate slum that just happens to be populated by a number of kung fu masters; a pair of ...
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- Kung Fu Hustle. Stephen Chow, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu. 241 votes. Set in 1940s Shanghai, this action-comedy film revolves around a wannabe gangster who becomes a kung fu prodigy to protect the residents of a tenement from a ruthless gang.
- Shaolin Soccer. Stephen Chow, Wei Zhao, Yin Tse. 194 votes. This movie combines the worlds of ancient Chinese martial arts and modern soccer, as a former Shaolin monk forms a soccer team with his brothers to promote kung fu.
- Flirting Scholar. Gong Li, Stephen Chow, Chia Hui Liu. 77 votes. An adaptation of a famous Chinese novel, the film follows a wealthy scholar who disguises himself as a poor man to win the heart of a beautiful, talented maid.
- A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box. Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Athena Chu. 78 votes. This fantasy film adapts the famous novel "Journey to the West," and features a hodgepodge of time-traveling antics, comedy, romance, and adventure.
Jun 21, 2020 · Stephen Chow (in white shirt) in a still from Kung Fu Hustle, the 2004 film that made him an international star. He also wrote and directed the film, a blend of cartoons, wuxia, CGI, and action...
CJ7 (2008) 10 Videos. 78 Photos. Stephen Chow was the only boy of his family, and has grown up as a Bruce Lee fan and a martial arts addict. His career started on TV, where he presented a children show ( "430 Space Shuttle" (1983)) and started becoming popular. He got some supporting roles, after that, and won the Taiwanese Golden Horse award ...
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Mar 7, 2016 · He got his start as an actor on Chinese television in the early 80s, and began directing films about a decade later. Soon after that, he became the triple threat he is today. If you haven’t seen a Stephen Chow film yet, do yourself a favor and queue up one (or more, but preferably all) of the following movies.
But the latter half of the 90's saw Chow's box office Teflon start to fade. His second Stars Overseas production, "The King of Comedy" (1999), didn't stand up at the box office, the expectations ...
