Soi Cheang
Directing
Biography
Soi Cheang is a Hong Kong director, screenwriter, and actor. He has been mentored by Johnnie To throughout his career.
Born: January 5, 1972
Place of Birth: Macao (now Macao SAR, China)
Known For
Teaching Sucks!
A new teacher’s dream job turns out harder than expected. When he and his single-father friend both fall for a cheerful colleague, he quietly steps back, caught between friendship and love.
Boundless
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world of film. A film student from Beijing and avid Johnnie To fan, Ferris Lin boldly approached To with a proposal to document the master director for his graduation thesis. To agreed immediately and Lin's camera closely followed him for over two years, capturing the man behind the movies and the myths. The result is Boundless, a candid profile of one of Hong Kong's greatest directors and a heartfelt love letter to Hong Kong cinema.
Mad Detective
Bun, a schizophrenic, former police inspector comes out of retirement to help a rookie detective solve a complex murder case involving a missing colleague and a suspected policeman suffering from a multiple personality disorder.
PTU
Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.
Dry Wood, Fierce Fire
A Chinese doctor/herbalist has the uncanny ability to discern a problem with just a superficial touch on the pulse and look at the tongue. This little romantic comedy about such a person could benefit from such an exam.
A True Mob Story
A low level gangster in Hong Kong gains new respect after saving a boss's life in a gang fight. Despite his wife's death in this attack, he appears to be moving up in the Triad family until he discovers the other bosses are not looking out for him when he is double crossed and the gangster he previously hospitalized in the gang fight comes back for revenge.
Kung Fu Jungle
A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Love for All Seasons
May is a martial artist and Chinese medicine practitioner who resides in a temple in Omei mountain. Under the threat of her lovelorn master, Misery, she decides to seek the help of infamous womanizer, Tiger Hung, who she had helped earlier, in order to experience heartbreak and master the "Heartbroken Sword" technique to defeat her.
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
A Witness Out of the Blue
In this classic whodunit, a police detective must rely on the only witness - a parrot, to catch the killer of an armed robber.
Filmography
as Tony Ho (voice)
as Self
as Jia (voice)
as Prison Governor
as Self
as Assassin To
as Arms Smuggler
as Inspector Ho Ka-on (voice)
as Killer
as The director of 'My Love'
as Police Officer
as Undercover Cop
as Policeman
as Furniture Salesperson
as Rascal
as Dr Alan
as John
as Felicia's Ex-Boyfriend
as Mak Sir (as Soi Cheang Pou-Soi)
as Waiter
as Policeman
as Uncle Mei's Bodyguard
as Mechanic
as Fei Tin's Man
as King
as Passenger
as Restaurant Customer
as Xander's Thug