Chow Yun-Fat
Known for: Acting
Born: May 18, 1955
Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
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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Filmography
116 movies · 52 TV shows, newest first
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Intermission
2026
6.5
Cold War 1994
2026
6.3
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025
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The Do Show
2023
5.5
One More Chance
2023
6.0
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
2022
7.2
Project Gutenberg
2018
6.6
Duckweed
2017
4.0
鲁豫有约一日行
2016
6.3
Cold War II
2016
4.1
From Vegas to Macau III
2016
5.6
Office
2015
5.0
From Vegas to Macau II
2015
5.2
From Vegas to Macau
2014
5.6
The Monkey King
2014
6.4
The Last Tycoon
2012
5.8
The Assassins
2012
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Voice
2012
4.7
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011
7.8
Let the Bullets Fly
2010
6.1
Shanghai
2010
6.0
Confucius
2010
2.9
Dragonball Evolution
2009
6.7
The Children of Huang Shi
2008
5.6
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
2007
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The Making of Hard Boiled
2007
8.0
The Making of Stranglehold
2007
7.3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007NR
Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower'
2007
6.9
Curse of the Golden Flower
2006
6.8
Waiting Alone
2005
5.5
Bulletproof Monk
2003
5.0
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
NR
Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood
2002
NR
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
2000
7.4
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
6.8
Anna and the King
1999
6.1
The Corruptor
1999
6.3
The Replacement Killers
1998
5.9
Peace Hotel
1995
6.6
God of Gamblers' Return
1994
5.9
Treasure Hunt
1994
6.8
Full Contact
1992
7.5
Hard Boiled
1992
6.2
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
1992
6.8
Prison on Fire II
1991
6.8
Once a Thief
1991
6.9
God of Gamblers II
1990
6.4
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
1990
7.2
God of Gamblers
1989
6.4
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989
6.1
Triads: The Inside Story
1989
9.0
Everybody Loves Somebody
1989
6.8
Wild Search
1989
7.6
The Killer
1989
7.3
All About Ah-Long
1989
9.5
Celebrity Talk Show
1989
6.8
City War
1988
7.0
Goodbye My Friend
1988
7.5
When Tat Fu Was Young
1988
5.4
The Greatest Lover
1988
6.6
Diary of a Big Man
1988
6.0
Fractured Follies
1988
6.5
Tiger on the Beat
1988
6.4
The Eighth Happiness
1988
5.0
The Romancing Star II
1988
7.1
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
7.0
Prison on Fire
1987
6.4
Spiritual Love
1987
6.4
Flaming Brothers
1987
7.4
An Autumn's Tale
1987
6.0
The Romancing Star
1987
6.6
Rich and Famous
1987
7.3
Code of Honor
1987
7.3
Scared Stiff
1987
6.1
Tragic Hero
1987
6.9
City on Fire
1987
6.8
The Seventh Curse
1986
9.0
My Will, I Will
1986
6.5
A Hearty Response
1986
6.7
Love Unto Wastes
1986
7.4
A Better Tomorrow
1986
7.3
The Lunatics
1986
5.5
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
1986
7.0
The Missed Date
1986
6.9
Dream Lovers
1986
5.5
Witch from Nepal
1986
6.8
Story of Rose
1986
8.8
Why Me?
1985
8.9
The Yang's Saga
1985
7.0
Women
1985
7.0
The Battle Among the Clans
1985
6.3
Hong Kong 1941
1984
7.0
Police Cadet
1984
6.3
The Occupant
1984
6.4
Love in a Fallen City
1984
7.5
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
1984
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笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版)
1984
7.4
Last Affair
1983
10.0
Angels And Devils
1983
NR
The Super Power
1983
7.0
Bloody Money
1983
NR
Katanyu Prakasit
1983
6.5
The Bund Part II
1983
5.7
The Bund
1983
NR
The Radio Tycoon
1983
NR
播音人 (數碼修復版)
1983
8.7
The Legend of Master So
1982
NR
蘇乞兒 (數碼修復版)
1982
6.6
The Postman Strikes Back
1982
6.1
The Head Hunter
1982
NR
The Maverick
1982
NR
Good Old Times
1981
NR
Hero's Blood Road
1981
NR
The Fate
1981
6.4
The Story of Woo Viet
1981
NR
The Shell Game (II)
1981
7.0
The Executor
1981
NR
Soul Ash
1981
8.0
Modern Heroes
1980
5.3
The Shell Game
1980
7.5
Pursuit
1980
6.5
Joy to the World
1980
NR
The Brothers
1980
8.9
The Bund
1980
6.0
God Father
1980
9.0
The Good The Bad The Ugly
1979
NR
Man From Hong Kong
1979
NR
I Am Woman
1979
NR
The Cheap Detective
1979
NR
The Landlord
1979
8.0
Conflict
1978
NR
Disco Fever
1978
NR
Hong Kong Story II
1978
10.0
The Giants
1978
8.0
Miss "O"
1978
8.0
Their Private Lives
1978
NR
Vanity Fair
1978
10.0
Hot Blood
1977
NR
Hero
1977
NR
A House is Not a Home
1977
NR
13
1977
9.0
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
1977
NR
C.I.D.(Series 2)
1976
NR
畸人列傳
1976
7.0
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
1976
NR
Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
1976
NR
七女性
1976
NR
Hotel
1976
8.5
Massage Girls
1976
NR
Teenager
1976
NR
The First Love
1976
NR
Mystery Beyond
1976
9.0
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
1976
NR
This Generation
1976
9.0
The Reincarnation
1976
NR
The Killer
1976
6.0
Dream Of The Red Chamber
1975
NR
Murder of Passion
1974
NR
The God of Aqua
1974
NR
Chinese Folklore
1974
NR
歷年TVB台慶經典回顧
1968
9.0
Golden Horse Awards
1962
NR
Cold War III
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The Golden Sting
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Cold War 1995
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NR
電視先鋒群星會
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NR
七龙珠
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