5 Best Old Films Starring by Chow Yun Fat
5 Best Old Films Starring by Chow Yun
Fat
Chow Yun Fat, formerly known as Donald Chow, was a top Hong
Kong actor who was no stranger to us. His face always starred in Chinese films
that we often watch in our childhood in the 90s and early 2000s. Men who have
worked as housekeeping in this hotel, have listed their names as mandarin film
legends along with other big names like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi
Michelle Yeoh and others.
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| Chow Yun Fat aka Donald Chow |
Although not an action actor who is skilled at playing Kung
Fu like most other Hong Kong actors who have penetrated the Hollywood world,
the 63-year-old actor has also been able to penetrate Hollywood by starring in
several films there although most of his films are not as successful as his
Mandarin films. Indeed, most of his mandarin films, especially films of the
past, were in his days when he was young, who had successfully catapulted his
name and made an impression on our memory of this one cool guy. And here are
the 5 best old school films that Chow Yun Fat has played that make us
nostalgic.
1. The Killer (1989)
The film, inspired by French criminal film Le Samourai (1967)
by Jean Pierre Melville, tells Ah-jong (Chow Yun Fat) A high-class hitman who
decides to retire from his job after completing his last mission. While
carrying out the action in a pub, Ah-jong accidentally hurt Jennie's eyes
(Yeh), a pub singer almost blind. Ah-jong who feels guilty decides to finance
Jennie's eye surgery by doing one more mission.
While Li Ying (Lee) is a
persistent police inspector who is disappointed with the way police work in
handling criminal cases. Li once had the task of protecting a corrupt tycoon
who was targeted by Ah-jong. Li immediately hunts down Ah-jong when the target
is killed. At the same time, Ah-jong turned out to also be the prey of his superiors
to eliminate witnesses.
2. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
The film tells the story of Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung) who has a
burden and discomfort for his work as a Triad boss and someone behind the crime
business, so that one day he brings Ho into a flurry of mind: does he have to
stop or continue his work. The friend and partner-in-crime, Mark (Chow Yun Fat)
insisted on persuading him to continue in this black world, while on the other
hand Ho's mind was disturbed by the persuasion of his sickly father and his
younger brother who had the intention of being a police officer, Kit (Leslie
Cheung ) At one point, there was a tragedy that brought changes to Ho's life
and made him know clearly, it was difficult to find a way out in the triad
world.
The film directed by John Woo has been remake 3 times as in the 1994
Indian version of the Korean version of Aatish, A Better Tomorrow (2010), A
Better Tomorrow (2018) the modern version of Hong Kong.
3. Hard Boiled (1992)
The film, made by the great director John Woo, tells of a
Hong Kong policeman who will later collaborate with a double agent disguised to
be closer to carrying out their operations which is to capture criminal
conspirators with contraband arms business.
Here in Hard Boiled Movie, Chow Yun Fat acts as Inspector
Tequila Yuen, a great policeman who is good at using his firearms and is also
good at playing the clarinet but on the one hand he is also a heavy drunkard.
4. Prison on Fire (1987)
In this film tells how the life of prison life is hard for
people who feel the name of life for the first time. Lo Ka-Yiu (Tony Leung
Ka-fai) an advertising designer who lives a normal life like ordinary people in
general, was forced to live in prison for three years because he accidentally pushed
a thug who had robbed his father's grocery store so that the thug was killed by
a bus.
He first felt life in prison, making it difficult for him to adapt to
the rigors of life there, until he later became friends with Chung Tin-Ching
(Chow Yun-fat) an inmate who had been imprisoned long enough but Chung had a
good, unique and funny personality even he taught Lo Ka-Yiu how to survive in
prison. And in this prison, the two of them will face various problems that
they must follow each other.
5. God of Gamblers (1989)
Surely you already know about the following film. Yup, the
film God of Gamblers has been attached to the figure of Chow Yun Fat all this
time, where in the film he plays Ko Chun or commonly known as The God of
Gamblers.
The film that successfully catapulted the name Chow Yun Fat has also
produced several sequels that are not less successful with its first film even
though in the sequel film Chow Yun Fat does not play a role anymore, like God
of Gamblers II (here is not only Andy Lau but Stephen Cow too come play) God of
Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (The film Stephen Cow), God of Gamblers Returns
(Here Chow Yun Fat is back again, the continuation of the first God of Gamblers
film).