Stephen Chow Puns

Haven't seen all of them but have seen many I can recommend (have some more of his movies to watch and will update with recommendations if any after). With top Hollywood stars they can be seen many three times a year but I think most have one or two released

1990

All for the Winner (his breakthrough and a classic I recommend)

Love is Love

My Hero

Lung Fung Restaurant

Look Out, Officer

When Fortune Smiles

Triad Story

God of Gamblers 2

1991

Tricky Brains

Legend of the Dragon

Fist of Fury 1991 (recommend)

Fight Back to School (recommend)

The Magnificent Scoundrels

God of Gamblers 3

1992

Fist of Fury 1991 II

All's Well End's Well (recommend)

Fight Back to School 2 (recommend)

Justice My Foot

Royal Tramp 1 and 2

King of Beggars (recommend)

1993

Fight Back to School 3

Flirting Scholar

The Mad Monk

1994

Love on Delivery (recommend)

Hail the Judge

From Beijing with Love (recommend)

1995

A Chinese Odyssey 1 and 2 (recommend)

Out of the Dark

Sixty Million Dollar Man

Jeff Lau is unknown in the West except for diehard fans of Hong Kong cinema and Wong Kar Wai, but in short he helped launch Stephen Chow's feature film comedy career with the gambling comedy classic, All For The Winner, and he and Wong Kar Wai have been producing and writing partners since the eighties and will often use the same actors. He was called by one critic, to paraphrase, the surfeit of emotion that was found in Wong's early to mid-works (difference can be seen with Ashes of Time produced by Lau and Ashes of Time redux which was not)

So now that you know a little more about Jeff Lau, I can recommend some of his movies.

Lau movies that parody Wong's films

Saviour of the Soul - Wong and Lau are co-writers here with Lau also a co-director with Corey Yuen but there's a heavy rain at the window shot reminsicent of Chungking and Fallen Angels. Also, a tracking shot with the character leaving and providing voiceover. (Also amazing wire-fu)

The Eagle Shooting Heroes - famously got Wong's Ashes of Time cast together that was overbudget to make a quick Lunar New Year movie so their company wouldn't go bankrupt. A parody of the same source material as Ashes. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Out of the Dark - Stephen Chow film that features the Karen Mok character from Fallen Angels, wig and screaming outside and all. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Chinese Odyssey 2002 - Wong and Lau are said to have taken turns directing scenes though Lau got sole director credit to protect Wong's brand. Features Tony Leung and Faye Wong and Chang Chen being silly and melancholic. Some music from Ashes of Time.

A Chinese Tall Story - spoofs Tony Leung whispering in the tree in In the Mood for Love and the line IIRC "I'll love you for ten thousand years."

East Meets West 2011 - spoofs Tony Leung's character speaking to stuffed animals while love interest hides nearby. Rock version of "Happy Together" plays as it did from Wong's Happy Together. Also features Karen Mok from Fallen Angels. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow

Kung Fu League - spoofs the opening fight scene in Ip Man. Running joke about Ip Man. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow (also Vincent Zhao reprises his role as Wong Fei Hung and the Bruce Lee impersonator from Shaolin Soccer is Chen Zhen whom Bruce Lee made famous in Fist of Fury. Yeah, his work has layers of meta as jokes.)

More Jeff Lau and Stephen Chow movies

Fist of Fury 1991 parts 1 and 2 (open

It's a two-part movie and is seen as the first film that showed Stephen Chow's dramatic acting ability though really he'd been doing dramatic roles before he hit it big as a comedic actor (for example, Lung Fung Restaurant).

Other great things is the rest of the cast including his regular partner Ng Man Tat and the radiant Athena Chu and more. The fight scenes show some of the best of wire fu. Though the costumes are silly, it is in keeping with the tone and they have a crafted feel not just the assault of CG that also plagues the third movie made years later. The theme song is widely known and beloved and has been in Chow's own directed adaptation, Journey to the West.

But before you think this is some epic movie with no laughs it is exactly the opposite of that. Writer-director Jeff Lau was responsible for launching Stephen Chow's mo lei tau comedic career in All for the Winner and the pair tell the story as a comedy - Stephen Chow must've had his balls set on fire and then stamped out at least three times.

So before I mention the spoiler, I really urge you to check it out first.

>!What makes this movie's love story truly unique is that Stephen Chow's character, Joker, falls madly in love with Karen Mok's character in part one but is separated from her. Then in part two, he tries to get back to her but then falls truly in love with Athena Chu's character some time before the end. I've never seen that before. It's as if Jack were to fall for another passenger in Titanic.!<

And it works in this movie while also fitting in with and amplified by its theme of one's path to enlightenment.

Total recommend. I found it on Amazon Video.

After watching some of Zau Sing Ce (Stephen Chow)'s movies, for e.g King of Comedy and Flirting Scholar, it was glaringly obvious to me that the Cantonese he speaks in these films is really different OR complicated in comparison to daily Cantonese. I was born in Hong Kong and migrated when I was 3 but my level of Cantonese is good enough that I can maintain a conversation with any Cantonese person (as i regularly converse with my Hong Kong relatives). However, I literally could not make out alot of the words and sentences that Zau Sing Ce was saying in his films, I have never heard such Cantonese. It's so much different then for e.g. Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love in which I could pretty much understand everything cause they were speaking I guess "normal" Canto. Could someone who knows what im talking about explain to me what Cantonese Zau Sing Ce uses in his films, is it like some Hong Kong slang? Thanks

Can anyone explain what specifically makes it ENTP? Any specific examples from scenes and dialogue?

Also, do you know any other movies or books that are "very ENTP"?

I love his movies so much and I really hate the idea of buying them all separately and I can’t even find most of the ones I want

Jeff Lau is unknown in the West except for diehard fans of Hong Kong cinema and Wong Kar Wai, but in short he helped launch Stephen Chow's feature film comedy career with the gambling comedy classic, All For The Winner, and he and Wong Kar Wai have been producing and writing partners since the eighties and will often use the same actors. He was called by one critic, to paraphrase, the surfeit of emotion that was found in Wong's early to mid-works (difference can be seen with Ashes of Time produced by Lau and Ashes of Time redux which was not)

So now that you know a little more about Jeff Lau, I can recommend some of his movies.

Lau movies that parody Wong's films

Saviour of the Soul - Wong and Lau are co-writers here with Lau also a co-director with Corey Yuen but there's a heavy rain at the window shot reminsicent of Chungking and Fallen Angels. Also, a tracking shot with the character leaving and providing voiceover. (Also amazing wire-fu)

The Eagle Shooting Heroes - famously got Wong's Ashes of Time cast together that was overbudget to make a quick Lunar New Year movie so their company wouldn't go bankrupt. A parody of the same source material as Ashes. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Out of the Dark - Stephen Chow film that features the Karen Mok character from Fallen Angels, wig and screaming outside and all. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Chinese Odyssey 2002 - Wong and Lau are said to have taken turns directing scenes though Lau got sole director credit to protect Wong's brand. Features Tony Leung and Faye Wong and Chang Chen being silly and melancholic. Some music from Ashes of Time.

A Chinese Tall Story - spoofs Tony Leung whispering in the tree in In the Mood for Love and the line IIRC "I'll love you for ten thousand years."

East Meets West 2011 - spoofs Tony Leung's character speaking to stuffed animals while love interest hides nearby. Rock version of "Happy Together" plays as it did from Wong's Happy Together. Also features Karen Mok from Fallen Angels. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow

Kung Fu League - spoofs the opening fight scene in Ip Man. Running joke about Ip Man. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow (also Vincent Zhao reprises his role as Wong Fei Hung and the Bruce Lee impersonator from Shaolin Soccer is Chen Zhen whom Bruce Lee made famous in Fist of Fury. Yeah, his work has layers of meta as jokes.)

More Jeff Lau and Stephen Chow movies

Fist of Fury 1991 parts 1 and 2 (open

Jeff Lau is unknown in the West except for diehard fans of Hong Kong cinema and Wong Kar Wai, but in short he helped launch Stephen Chow's feature film comedy career with the gambling comedy classic, All For The Winner, and he and Wong Kar Wai have been producing and writing partners since the eighties and will often use the same actors. He was called by one critic, to paraphrase, the surfeit of emotion that was found in Wong's early to mid-works (difference can be seen with Ashes of Time produced by Lau and Ashes of Time redux which was not)

So now that you know a little more about Jeff Lau, I can recommend some of his movies.

Lau movies that parody Wong's films

Saviour of the Soul - Wong and Lau are co-writers here with Lau also a co-director with Corey Yuen but there's a heavy rain at the window shot reminsicent of Chungking and Fallen Angels. Also, a tracking shot with the character leaving and providing voiceover. (Also amazing wire-fu)

The Eagle Shooting Heroes - famously got Wong's Ashes of Time cast together that was overbudget to make a quick Lunar New Year movie so their company wouldn't go bankrupt. A parody of the same source material as Ashes. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Out of the Dark - Stephen Chow film that features the Karen Mok character from Fallen Angels, wig and screaming outside and all. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Chinese Odyssey 2002 - Wong and Lau are said to have taken turns directing scenes though Lau got sole director credit to protect Wong's brand. Features Tony Leung and Faye Wong and Chang Chen being silly and melancholic. Some music from Ashes of Time.

A Chinese Tall Story - spoofs Tony Leung whispering in the tree in In the Mood for Love and the line IIRC "I'll love you for ten thousand years."

East Meets West 2011 - spoofs Tony Leung's character speaking to stuffed animals while love interest hides nearby. Rock version of "Happy Together" plays as it did from Wong's Happy Together. Also features Karen Mok from Fallen Angels. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow

Kung Fu League - spoofs the opening fight scene in Ip Man. Running joke about Ip Man. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow (also Vincent Zhao reprises his role as Wong Fei Hung and the Bruce Lee impersonator from Shaolin Soccer is Chen Zhen whom Bruce Lee made famous in Fist of Fury. Yeah, his work has layers of meta as jokes.)

More Jeff Lau and Stephen Chow movies

Fist of Fury 1991 parts 1 and 2 (open

Jeff Lau is unknown in the West except for diehard fans of Hong Kong cinema and Wong Kar Wai, but in short he helped launch Stephen Chow's feature film comedy career with the gambling comedy classic, All For The Winner, and he and Wong Kar Wai have been producing and writing partners since the eighties and will often use the same actors. He was called by one critic, to paraphrase, the surfeit of emotion that was found in Wong's early to mid-works (difference can be seen with Ashes of Time produced by Lau and Ashes of Time redux which was not)

So now that you know a little more about Jeff Lau, I can recommend some of his movies.

Lau movies that parody Wong's films

Saviour of the Soul - Wong and Lau are co-writers here with Lau also a co-director with Corey Yuen but there's a heavy rain at the window shot reminsicent of Chungking and Fallen Angels. Also, a tracking shot with the character leaving and providing voiceover. (Also amazing wire-fu)

The Eagle Shooting Heroes - famously got Wong's Ashes of Time cast together that was overbudget to make a quick Lunar New Year movie so their company wouldn't go bankrupt. A parody of the same source material as Ashes. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Out of the Dark - Stephen Chow film that features the Karen Mok character from Fallen Angels, wig and screaming outside and all. (Also amazing wire-fu)

Chinese Odyssey 2002 - Wong and Lau are said to have taken turns directing scenes though Lau got sole director credit to protect Wong's brand. Features Tony Leung and Faye Wong and Chang Chen being silly and melancholic. Some music from Ashes of Time.

A Chinese Tall Story - spoofs Tony Leung whispering in the tree in In the Mood for Love and the line IIRC "I'll love you for ten thousand years."

East Meets West 2011 - spoofs Tony Leung's character speaking to stuffed animals while love interest hides nearby. Rock version of "Happy Together" plays as it did from Wong's Happy Together. Also features Karen Mok from Fallen Angels. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow

Kung Fu League - spoofs the opening fight scene in Ip Man. Running joke about Ip Man. Heavy yellow lighting similar to Wong's See You Tomorrow (also Vincent Zhao reprises his role as Wong Fei Hung and the Bruce Lee impersonator from Shaolin Soccer is Chen Zhen whom Bruce Lee made famous in Fist of Fury. Yeah, his work has layers of meta as jokes.)

More Jeff Lau and Stephen Chow movies

Fist of Fury 1991 parts 1 and 2 (open

It's a two-part movie and is seen as the first film that showed Stephen Chow's dramatic acting ability though really he'd been doing dramatic roles before he hit it big as a comedic actor (for example, Lung Fung Restaurant).

Other great things is the rest of the cast including his regular partner Ng Man Tat and the radiant Athena Chu and more. The fight scenes show some of the best of wire fu. Though the costumes are silly, it is in keeping with the tone and they have a crafted feel not just the assault of CG that also plagues the third movie made years later. The theme song is widely known and beloved and has been in Chow's own directed adaptation, Journey to the West.

But before you think this is some epic movie with no laughs it is exactly the opposite of that. Writer-director Jeff Lau was responsible for launching Stephen Chow's mo lei tau comedic career in All for the Winner and the pair tell the story as a comedy - Stephen Chow must've had his balls set on fire and then stamped out at least three times.

So before I mention the spoiler, I really urge you to check it out first.

>!What makes this movie's love story truly unique is that Stephen Chow's character, Joker, falls madly in love with Karen Mok's character in part one but is separated from her. Then in part two, he tries to get back to her but then falls truly in love with Athena Chu's character some time before the end. I've never seen that before. It's as if Jack were to fall for another passenger in Titanic.!<

And it works in this movie while also fitting in with and amplified by its theme of one's path to enlightenment.

Total recommend. I found it on Amazon Video.

Haven't seen all of them but have seen many I can recommend. With top Hollywood stars they can be seen many three times a year but I think most have one or two released

1990

All for the Winner (his breakthrough and a classic I recommend)

Love is Love

My Hero

Lung Fung Restaurant

Look Out, Officer

When Fortune Smiles

Triad Story

God of Gamblers 2

1991

Tricky Brains

Legend of the Dragon

Fist of Fury 1991 (recommend)

Fight Back to School (recommend)

The Magnificent Scoundrels

God of Gamblers 3

1992

Fist of Fury 1991 II

All's Well End's Well (recommend)

Fight Back to School 2 (recommend)

Justice My Foot

Royal Tramp 1 and 2

King of Beggars (recommend)

1993

Fight Back to School 3

Flirting Scholar

The Mad Monk

1994

Love on Delivery (recommend)

Hail the Judge

From Beijing with Love (recommend)

1995

A Chinese Odyssey 1 and 2 (recommend)

Out of the Dark

Sixty Million Dollar Man

Some of his other movies are Savior of the Soul, Fong Sai Yuk, and the Stephen Chow movies Fist of Fury 1991, its sequel, Out of the Dark, and A Chinese Odyssey. He also co wrote the Wong Kar Wai films As Tears Go By and Days of Being Wild and produced Chungking Express and is said to have codirected Chinese Odyssey 2002 with WKW though WKW is not credited

With Wong Kar Wai, Jeff Lau co-wrote Flaming Brothers, Haunted Cop Shop, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Saviour of the Soul. Lau also produced Wong's Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, and Ashes of Time and is said to have lent Wong Manuel Puig's novels that Wong used as inspiration for his own writing (multiple points of view) and Happy Together.

Wong has also produced some of Lau's movies, Eagle Shooting Heroes (a spoof of Ashes), A Chinese Odyssey 2002 (which is said both took turns directing).

If you watch Lau's ghost-directed Saviour of the Soul (with story by WKW), Chinese Odyssey and Chinese Odyssey 2002, East Meets West 2011, the traits attributed to Wong are present: the existentialism, romantic longing, the obsessive observation of numbers, nutshell psychology, voiceover, heavy use of infectious pop music, characters talking to house objects, etc.

*In Saviour of the Soul, there's a shot of Andy Lau looking out a window flooding with rain as in Chungking Express and Fallen Angels. There's also a tracking shot with an emotional Anita Mui giving us her thoughts in voiceover as in Ashes of Time.

With Stephen Chow, Lau cast him in his breakthrough megahit, All for the Winner, and it is together that "mo lei tau" or Chow's famous nonsensical Hong Kong humor was invented. Lau later said of Stephen's later movies that they were just remaking All for the Winners. They further collaborated, with Lau directing and Chow starring, in Fist of Fury 1991, Out of the Dark and the Chinese Odyssey movies, and Lau produced Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and Chow later went on to remake Chinese Odyssey. If you watch Lau movies such as East Meets West or really any, you'll see mo lei tau humor with an emphasis on nonsensical surprise behavior.

There's an excellent article that details Jeff's hand and influence in WKW and Stephen Chow's careers here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/kaiju-shakedown-jeff-lau-stephen-chow-wong-kar-wai/

Finally, Lau co-wrote one of Jet Li's most well-known movie series, The Legend I and II aka Fong Sai Yuk.

*Another great write up on Lau

https://www.moviexclusive.com/article/kingofcomedyjefflau/kingofcomedyjefflau.html

With Wong Kar Wai, Jeff Lau co-wrote Flaming Brothers, Haunted Cop Shop, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Saviour of the Soul. Lau also produced Wong's Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, and Ashes of Time and is said to have lent Wong Manuel Puig's novels that Wong used as inspiration for his own writing (multiple points of view) and Happy Together.

Wong has also produced some of Lau's movies, Eagle Shooting Heroes (a spoof of Ashes), A Chinese Odyssey 2002 (which is said both took turns directing).

If you watch Lau's ghost-directed Saviour of the Soul (with story by WKW), Chinese Odyssey and Chinese Odyssey 2002, East Meets West 2011, the traits attributed to Wong are present: the existentialism, romantic longing, the obsessive observation of numbers, nutshell psychology, voiceover, heavy use of infectious pop music, characters talking to house objects, etc.

*In Saviour of the Soul, there's a shot of Andy Lau looking out a window flooding with rain as in Chungking Express and Fallen Angels. There's also a tracking shot with an emotional Anita Mui giving us her thoughts in voiceover as in Ashes of Time.

With Stephen Chow, Lau cast him in his breakthrough megahit, All for the Winner, and it is together that "mo lei tau" or Chow's famous nonsensical Hong Kong humor was invented. Lau later said of Stephen's later movies that they were just remaking All for the Winners. They further collaborated, with Lau directing and Chow starring, in Fist of Fury 1991, Out of the Dark and the Chinese Odyssey movies, and Lau produced Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and Chow later went on to remake Chinese Odyssey. If you watch Lau movies such as East Meets West or really any, you'll see mo lei tau humor with an emphasis on nonsensical surprise behavior.

There's an excellent article that details Jeff's hand and influence in WKW and Stephen Chow's careers here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/kaiju-shakedown-jeff-lau-stephen-chow-wong-kar-wai/

Finally, Lau co-wrote one of Jet Li's most well-known movie series, The Legend I and II aka Fong Sai Yuk.

*Another great write up on Lau

https://www.moviexclusive.com/article/kingofcomedyjefflau/kingofcomedyjefflau.html

With Wong Kar Wai, Jeff Lau co-wrote Flaming Brothers, Haunted Cop Shop, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Saviour of the Soul. Lau also produced Wong's Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, and Ashes of Time and is said to have lent Wong Manuel Puig's novels that Wong used as inspiration for his own writing (multiple points of view) and Happy Together.

Wong has also produced some of Lau's movies, Eagle Shooting Heroes (a spoof of Ashes), A Chinese Odyssey 2002 (which is said both took turns directing).

If you watch Lau's ghost-directed Saviour of the Soul (with story by WKW), Chinese Odyssey and Chinese Odyssey 2002, East Meets West 2011, the traits attributed to Wong are present: the existentialism, romantic longing, the obsessive observation of numbers, nutshell psychology, voiceover, heavy use of infectious pop music, characters talking to house objects, etc.

*In Saviour of the Soul, there's a shot of Andy Lau looking out a window flooding with rain as in Chungking Express and Fallen Angels. There's also a tracking shot with an emotional Anita Mui giving us her thoughts in voiceover as in Ashes of Time.

With Stephen Chow, Lau cast him in his breakthrough megahit, All for the Winner, and it is together that "mo lei tau" or Chow's famous nonsensical Hong Kong humor was invented. Lau later said of Stephen's later movies that they were just remaking All for the Winners. They further collaborated, with Lau directing and Chow starring, in Fist of Fury 1991, Out of the Dark and the Chinese Odyssey movies, and Lau produced Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and Chow later went on to remake Chinese Odyssey. If you watch Lau movies such as East Meets West or really any, you'll see mo lei tau humor with an emphasis on nonsensical surprise behavior.

There's an excellent article that details Jeff's hand and influence in WKW and Stephen Chow's careers here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/kaiju-shakedown-jeff-lau-stephen-chow-wong-kar-wai/

Finally, Lau co-wrote one of Jet Li's most well-known movie series, The Legend I and II aka Fong Sai Yuk.

*Another great write up on Lau

https://www.moviexclusive.com/article/kingofcomedyjefflau/kingofcomedyjefflau.html

With Wong Kar Wai, Jeff Lau co-wrote Flaming Brothers, Haunted Cop Shop, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Saviour of the Soul. Lau also produced Wong's Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, and Ashes of Time and is said to have lent Wong Manuel Puig's novels that Wong used as inspiration for his own writing (multiple points of view) and Happy Together.

Wong has also produced some of Lau's movies, Eagle Shooting Heroes (a spoof of Ashes), A Chinese Odyssey 2002 (which is said both took turns directing).

If you watch Lau's ghost-directed Saviour of the Soul (with story by WKW), Chinese Odyssey and Chinese Odyssey 2002, East Meets West 2011, the traits attributed to Wong are present: the existentialism, romantic longing, the obsessive observation of numbers, nutshell psychology, voiceover, heavy use of infectious pop music, characters talking to house objects, etc.

*In Saviour of the Soul, there's a shot of Andy Lau looking out a window flooding with rain as in Chungking Express and Fallen Angel. There's also a tracking shot with an emotional Anita Mui giving us her thoughts in voiceover as in Ashes of Time.

With Stephen Chow, Lau cast him in his breakthrough megahit, All for the Winner, and it is together that "mo lei tau" or Chow's famous nonsensical Hong Kong humor was invented. Lau later said of Stephen's later movies that they were just remaking All for the Winners. They further collaborated, with Lau directing and Chow starring, in Fist of Fury 1991, Out of the Dark and the Chinese Odyssey movies, and Lau produced Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and Chow later went on to remake Chinese Odyssey. If you watch Lau movies such as East Meets West or really any, you'll see mo lei tau humor with an emphasis on nonsensical surprise behavior.

There's an excellent article that details Jeff's hand and influence in WKW and Stephen Chow's careers here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/kaiju-shakedown-jeff-lau-stephen-chow-wong-kar-wai/

Finally, Lau co-wrote one of Jet Li's most well-known movie series, The Legend I and II aka Fong Sai Yuk.

*Another great write up on Lau

https://www.moviexclusive.com/article/kingofcomedyjefflau/kingofcomedyjefflau.html