Please do a video on Chow Yun Fat

@@dietman Oooh, I owuld love that!

Andy Lau and Leslie Cheung tooo!!!

Make video about kamal hassan. Tamil actor , director,writer

Btw AC, I think you need to put a warning when mentioning movies like lust caution because it's a literal semi porn movie, as there are under age audiences in UKposts.

He already is in the trailer. The comments were citing Tony Leung look like a brother instead of a father to Sangchi lol

@@ChyeHeng17 He is probably immortal while he is wearing the rings.

@@ChyeHeng17 Asian don't raisin?

@DmX With all due respect about Liu (I do hope he'll prove the naysayers wrong), Leung is much more well-known among Asians and probably many westerners for his serious roles. Among pan-Chinese fandom we basically joke that Leung is the protagonist instead of Liu.

@DmX “The best” is subjective though. He's among one of the best, that's for sure.

I grew up watching The Five Tigers of TVB. Their every movies and dramas were a big in Asia, not just in Hong Kong.

First i knew him when he played in The Grand Canal series 1987. Love it.

First i knew him when he played in The Grand Canal series 1987. Love it.

Maybe not generally “Asian” since I (Korean American) wasn’t aware of this guy until Shang-Chi. I’m glad that he’s on my radar now though.

Chinese Cantonese kids you mean. Japanese Americans wouldn't have any idea who who is.

non sensually? my womb might just explode being stared at by Tony

so he wasn't acting, he is his own character

Nonsensically

Do you also mean non sexually!🐃

@@KinkyLettuce wtf??

Yeah I feel like he should have had lots more screen time to properly explore the character. Maybe I'm just used to movies with Tony Leung that give us countless scenes focused on trying to work out was hes thinking and feeling

it won't happen, actors don't get awards for superhero roles unless it's the Joker in a serious drama film

The way he looked at his wife MY GOD.

@Joseph the fight he had with her, you can see the precise moment he goes from seeing her as an enemy to “she’s pretty!” to “oh, she’s a match for me” to “I really want her” and then his sadness when she vanishes after he falls in the water.

@@hothotheat3000 Yeah! That was beautiful, it's like they were having a ballroom dance inside their fight. I was personally talking about the moments when he's sitting in his chair, thinking about her.

well..

Im-.....maybe in TVA i guess ლ(・﹏・ლ)

Loki while watching Wenwu: “What?! I died before I could even meet him?! Why?!”

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Funny how they both played two of the best villains in the mcu

That's why De Niro's perfomance in Taxi Driver is a pinnacle of acting. And that is why Tony is of the best actors in the world of last four decades.

@@daniilashurov135 marlon brandos performance in apocalpse now is way bttr lol.

@@lissyjohn7619 both are great?

When ppl try to hide their feelings, they also show their emotions through body and face unconsciously. It just take an observant person to notice it.

对，演戏不能看着是演戏，别夸张！普通人没有那么激动

**coughs**

no homo though😆

I mean I'm not gay but Tony Leung man

The man displayed so much emotion without even saying a word at times. Truly the best performance Marvel has ever gotten out of someone, not to say there haven't been great performances from other actors in the MCU, but this felt like another whole level! I honestly hope he gets some award recognition for this role.

@@JosephDutra There's a cut they didn't put into the movie, only in Trailer. The line is "Be careful how you speak to me. Boy!" Speak without cursing, yelling, threatening but terrifying as fuck.

@@doglovemimijumable Yeah, I loved that line. He’s still intimidating in a lot of other scenes though.

That was me too hahahaha his eyes are hypnotising...🦋🦋

Me too mannnnn he didn't act a lot but he used only his eyes to show how the character feels That is so other level of actor.

cap

So lucky of you to meet him in person 😊

i would do the same.

You looking like a pen with all that cap

👏😂

I’m not surprised. Most of the cast is unknown outside of North America.

Lol I was one of those who 'HAD TO" have a toy figure of Tony Leung :D

imagine both Tony Leung and Michelle Yoh carry this whole movie together

@@yudh0849 but Akwafina is also a very big Asian star as well ,she’s also gonna be great in this I believe !

Usually Hasbro's US office sends their 3D files of their toys to Hong Kong office whom will then transfer them to china factories without giving any comments, but with Tony Leung's figure, for the first time the Hong Kong office asked the US headquarter if they are allowed to improve the head sculpt file by themselves, because they are all fans of Tony and they believe they can make it better. As result it's one of the best Hasbro Marvel figure in likeness, and in many Asian cities its first release was sold out in less than a week .

The last scene made me cry and I didn't particularly feel emotional for any of the characters until then.

Ugh same here

@Skill F yes i wanna know too

Me too especially the last scene

@@alessatanoedisastro487 Hello how are you doing? Sending love ❤️

I met Tony Leung once when I was still a small kid visiting the kids show "430穿梭機", or some events related to that show... not sure, but anyway, he was one of the hosts. God, I need to dig out that photo I took with him. Of course I don't remember any details about that day, but I still remember he's a very warm hearted big brother to all the kids there. He's magnificent, as an actor, and as a human being.

@@ZilLonO Luckily you did not meet Stephen Chow as he was also featured in that kid show. Chow had the reputation of bullying kids all the time. BTW please dig up those pictures you took with Tony Leung 🙂

And Michelle Yeoh.

u chinese?

me too. when i was child his tv series. legend of condoe heroes very popular in mycountry. along with andy lau.

ahahah agreed, Tony Leung, Michelle Yeoh, and Awkwafina.

I am an Indian. I only watching shang chi to see Tony leung.

There are so many from yesteryear. I'd add the late Anita Mui who was severely underrated as an actress. And the retired Brigitte Lin as well. They just don't make them like they used to... sigh.

How about the other Tony Leung?

@DmX Leon Lai is an OK actor.

@DmX Still not even close in skill to other actors mentioned in this thread, maybe except Aaron Kwok.

@DmX Yea lol no offense, they are fine actors in their own rights, but if we're being super super picky here, they don't even come close to the calibre of acting with the top 5-6 legendary HK roster :p

Wow don't expect to see you here

so does Tony deserve a spot on the list? He is quite a good looking man

Wenwu is the best mcu antagonist. Tony Leung deserves an Oscar nomination for his performance.

@@silveriver9 He's potentially the best mcu antagonist, but MCU wasted him by killing him in his first movie

Yeah, he's acting was way too ahead the other protagonist. I understood then why he is a legend in Hong Kong

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Yes

unfortunately,casting legends in a movie does not prevent the movie to be complete trash..

@@PtR-ec1wz I agree I was told Al Pacino and Christopher Walken both great actors starred in one of the worst films ever called Gigli. I also know as much as I love the Marvel Movies there were some pretty weak ones in particular Captain Marvel and Thor 2 Dark World not that bad but not as good as the others. I really do hope Shang Chi can work the fact they made characters I know but are not major fans of like Black Panther ,Doctor Strange, and Thor into good films make me hope they can do the same for Shang Chi just keeping my fingers cross.

@@PtR-ec1wz but at least we will be able to see somehing extraordinary,what does a real actor as Tony,an exquisite actor do in that kind of movie.I never saw a Marvel Movie but I want to see Tony Leung in this one,What is stranger to me is to see Tony as a toy.But I can tell you finally I accpted the Beatles as toys ,I had to because it was a present of my children and then they bought me a DAvid Bowie toy!

Am I misremembering, or were they in "City Hunter"? Or was that someone else? Edit: shit I almost immediately remembered that as Leon Lai

@@pannychanman i think that’s Jackie Chan?

@@anthonyruan1454 lol no the handsome card player who blows his fringe

@@pannychanman Yes, that's Leon Lai.

they both had roles in GORGEOUS hahah although I don’t recall if they shared any scenes

The MC had the right face for his convenience store show

Agree. Simu isn't bad-looking, by no means but Tony is just... Very handsome.

I was looking for this comment Simu's handsome & Tony Leung is even more good-looking 😅😍. He's almost 60 years old & still has people(including me) swooning over him, my gosh.

@@thisasiankidistrashfordram374 Tony has much more than just looks.

@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj Of course. I never said that we like him just for being handsome. Tony is a legendary & versatile actor. His looks are just a bonus. He's also a really cool person. Hence why we swoon 🤣.

Good comparison, l like their acting both.

Ohh yess!!!Al is good with eye acting too!!!

Nah..Tony is more asian Deniro..Al has surely done some great eye acting like in scent of a woman..bt Al is mostly a dramatic actor with the signature wildness in him.

@@scortino1008 yea true hes mor deniro

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You should binge both "in the Mood for Love" and "2046" together. You can see the changes of the character in both movies even it is the same character. His acting is also terrific in "The GrandMaster", particularly in the Asian Version. It is a total different movie.

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Same

Yup.

Same

Yes, and the whole CTHD vibe in the bamboo forest with Michelle Yeoh

You gotta give Andy Lau a chance then. Andy is the general in “the Great Wall” with Matt Damon but he is just as big as Tony Leung in China. Watch Andy Lau’s movie “killer” as he plays the antagonist. :)

@UCB5z-FhINdQGiGZaVR8joEA ^^^yes that one is pretty awesome too. Andy as the antagonist and Takeshi Kaneshiro as the protagonist. And then…!!! Once you appreciate Takeshi also, you must watch Red Cliff after that as has Tony Leung and Takeshi as the main leads! ❤️

Definitely catch Internal Affairs too. That has BOTH Tony Leung and Andy Lau in it, and it really doesn't get better than that.

sameeeeeeee

Yea I fell for him hard after Shang Chi. I'm going to look up his other work too because he's such an amazing actor I feel like it's not right only knowing him from a Marvel movie (even though I absolutely loved the movie and his role)

Hou Hsiao Hsien is one of the greatest filmakers of the last 40 years for sure !

@@NinoJoy agreed. along with edward yang

What book was this?

@@Lern2Read The cinema of Wong Kar Wai

Rumor says there's a lot of unused footage from Days of Being Wild and many of them with Tong Leung, which were supposed to be used in the never-made sequel.

@@WalkerMachine even the first cut of chunking express is longer and quite different, the first story continues with a kind of tryst between the cop and raincoat lady. I saw it in you tube with those extended scenes

I think that WKW saw in Tony the seed of a growing flower that after their common work together arrived to a mature fruit,sorry for my poor methafore,but I also think thagt in these common work WKW became a deeper and best director.They came to film Happy together in Buenos Aires,where I live.It seems that Kar is not any easy to work as generally there is a basic script that is changing all them time.For Tony who finally , because of the development of his character, it was the heavier burden.H thought that he was coming for two weeks that became three month or more,.Leslie had a previous contract for a musucx tour and everybody knew he was living soon.But Tony was as all of them in a foireing and quite different country,without knowing when the movie was going to end.It was his great professionalism and his effort to contribute to the film that made all this happen.What I m trying to sat is that for those series of movies that Kar did,Tony was also creating the character at the same time he was writing and rewiting the script.And the result was the Cannes awaed as best director for WKW.I think you are meaning the same,anyway,we agree that it was a match made in heaven.,I ve heard Tony saying that that was his favouite film(Happy Together)but it was a big sacrifice and transformation for all of them.

Wtf

Michelle had nothing to act in Shang Chi, unfortunately

i thought you were referring to michelle reis lol

​@@diastleu274 thank God she got the recognition she should've got a year later

OMG, agreed. The most memorable & painful scene in Infernal Affairs

Ahh and his wink 😜

That was one of the moments I wanted to talk about in this video, but had to cut it to avoid spoilers!

@@AccentedCinema so thoughtful ♥️

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I can't find any young HK Actors/Actress that can perform as well as Tony Leung's Generations or even Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue's Generation. It feels like the good and great HK Actors and actress stopped on Nicholas and Shawn Generations 😅

@@samuelchen5531 we must come from the same gen because that was peak hk entertainment for me too haha

As an Asian who have watched quite many film from HK, it is sad to see nowadays HK no longer have any good actors that can shoulder the cinematic industry. The last generation of good actors look like stopped at the era of Louis Koo and Nicholas Tse. But even with them, we can also see some quite obvious gap if we compare with the like of Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung, and those other greats from 80's and 90's.. Now I don't even bother to watch HK films lol

@@samuelchen5531 I can give you one name :Francis Ng Chun Yu. He is close level to Tong Leung I though.

@@willwill9016 agree. But Francis Ng are also from the same generation with Tony Leung 😅

Did you watched those old '80s series in Korea (South)? Or do you live outside of Korea?

United States but Those chinese TV dramas came from south korea in VHS with korean captions. At that time, there was no internet yet..

I used to have a Korean friend that watched dubbed TVB series in Korean. She lives in the US in LA. She was a big fan of his and many others from the 80s. I have loved Tony and many other TVB stars since the 80s. Glad that Tony is getting more recognition as he truly deserves it. I saw all of his ancient series in the 80s and am recently watching the modern ones since I did not like modern series back then. Did you see Police Cadet? That was one of his classic dramas and he regarded that as his best work at TVB.

​@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj I know TVB series were very popular among us Vietnamese in North America back in the '80s. I'm a fan of the golden period of TVB with the Five Tigers and of course have watched Police Cadet. That was the first time he was paired with Maggie Cheung.

@@canuck21 Me too but I know Chinese too so I watch in Chinese as well. I watch all series from China in Chinese. I watched police Cadet a number of years ago as I was finally liking modern series. I would have watched it back then when it first came out if I liked modern series. Glad I finally did since I used to like only ancient series.

I see you have incredible taste :)

I like both Happy Together and 2046. Still would watch one of such when in a sleepless night.

They're the most real people I've ever seen in a movie. Chang too, what a phenomenal performance from the trio

pure gold, same here 😌

@@Rodrgo1997 well, I honestly think Hollywood doesn't know how to utilize Asian stars. They squandered Jackie Chan when he started doing Hollywood movies. They put him in this one very serious role and he had a cameo in a Burn Reynolds movie. After that he didn't come back till Rumble in the Bronx hit big. Hollywood just didn't get it. They didn't understand what his appeal was and probably didn't bother to, either. Right now, I think the worst utilized actor from Asia is Lee Byung-hun, who I first saw in I Saw the Devil and is completely miss utilized in his Hollywood roles. He has leading man potential and action Star skills, but they just won't push him.

I knew him from Hard Boiled

@@oliverdelica2289 See, I saw Hard Boiled when I was a kid because I loved Van Damme movies and Hard Target was a favorite. I didn't know who he was at the time.

@@humbertougalde6880 I agree. Same thing happened with Aishwarya Rai. She in Devdas is completely utterly different from her Hollywood movies.

Thanks, Humberto.

There's an old series where he acted as the villain and one of the good guy (it's a double role). I forgot the title but the main lead was Stephen Chow in his earlier days in the industry.

@@Ikiya69 I didn't know that one. I will try to look up for it later. Thank you

Man Tat is one of thr best actor HK cinema has ever seen! Man (no pun intended) can act comedy and drama within a same scene!

I was saddened to find out he died earlier this year from liver cancer. He will always be in my Americanized heart as a Hong Kong comedic legend during my impressionable teen years here in the U.S. But yes, now that you mention it he is a good actor b/c I felt it in Shaolin Soccer. That was probably the last recent role I saw him in before finding out about his passing this yr.

He passed away recently

:O Good point!

They were awesome in Hard Boiled.

Absolutely stunning work. And it is definitely all about eye commumication, isn't it? Between he and she, nary a word was really needed and it worked beautifully.

Same! I bought the DVD when it came out and oooooh it was juicy also. Like they say “if you do it right, you’ll get praised but if you do it wrong, you’ll get judged” pertaining to his nudity. Oh yeah he did it right alright. Lol

@@nkaujnoog956 wow a dvd? Unfortunately, i discovered him late haha n just watched it online. Definitely did not expect the nudity😅 and was quite startled by how he brought the intensity to the character.

I watched this movie in secret because you know it's a naughty movie😁

No one wants to bring up Lust, Caution in other vids 🤭

he did real sex in that movie you know like real penetration. His wife nearly divorced his ass for his dedication LoL

I know right. Suddenly there's this flood of interview videos of him from various sources. After watching several of them, I was like, whoa we're really seeing Tony on youtube huh? Something I never would have imagined before.

FINALLY

Actually he's always been respected in asian cinema and he's an A lister. All asians know him. So it's not true when you said he's finally getting the recognition now. More accurately, he's getting known in the younger generation and in the west now.

@@EVL-xj5vc He's one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed actor of Hong Kong cinema. He's an absolute legend to me.

They all have their muse

Very good comparisons

does Uma Thurman and tarantino count

the correct pairing is Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman, tho.

Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman, perhaps? But everything else is spot on.

@DmX Its still there if that's what you mean, but its glory days are passed

@DmX No idea, I live in the UK

@@426mak and gone the golden age of Hong Kong pop culture.

@@deliciousful Yes, I miss the days of Sam Hui & Leslie Cheung. This generation of HK singers just don't cut it.

@DmX still churning out dramas, whether memorable is another matter.

Yes! Infernal Affairs! 无间道!

@@DeGreatHan1 Not many westerners knew about this masterpiece, which is a shame.

@@briangen0 worse still almost nobody in the west knows infernal Affairs inspired The Departed.

@@ANTSEMUT1 not even inspired but The Departed is a pure copycat of the original

Never thought a super hero movie will bring this caliber of acting to the table, amazing.

god, that ending scenes in chungking express where he just looks at her was magic. So sweet.

I totally agree. It's what's not said but shown in his eyes.

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Exactly, he showed so much empathy in the film

Same!!!!!!!

Its not weird

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"The City of Sadness" is a Taiwanese movie. In that movie, he was a mute so he used his eyes very well. The soundtrack is incredible. That movie won either Cannes or Venice Best movie of that year. "Lust, Caution" is Ang Lee's most underrated movie. "Hard Boiled" is John Woo's movie. "Hero" is Zhang Yimou's movie. "In the Mood for Love", "Happy Together", "2046", "Days of Being Wild", "Ashes of Time", "The GranMaster" and "Chungking Express" are Wong Ka Wai's movies.

Very different of himself, And Lee said Tony help him a lot in the filming.