{"id":51295,"date":"2026-05-10T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51295"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:10:36","slug":"lau-ching-wans-best-mid-1990s-hong-kong-films-from-loving-you-to-big-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51295","title":{"rendered":"Lau Ching-wan\u2019s best mid-1990s Hong Kong films, from Loving You to Big Bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/08\/75491b08-56c8-41be-af86-ceedc8dfa5e5_755062d3.jpg?itok=xpzmiys2&amp;v=1778225102\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lau Ching-wan is easily one of Hong Kong\u2019s finest dramatic actors, winning four best actor trophies at the Hong Kong Film Awards over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Several of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Lau<\/span>\u2019s mid-1990s roles strongly hinted at the greatness to come. Below, we revisit some of his best performances from this period after he first hit the big time with <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Derek Yee Tung-sing<\/span>\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">C\u2019est La Vie, Mon Cheri<\/em><\/span> in 1993.<\/div>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Loving You (1995)<\/h3>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">This action romance was a turning point for director <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Johnnie To Kei-fung<\/span>, marking a move from commercial fare to what would become his crime works of the late 1990s. Although <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Loving You<\/em> still plays to the crowd, To allows some of his offbeat ideas to surface.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the first of numerous leading roles for To, Lau\u2019s performance in this film also foreshadows the stage presence, idiosyncrasies and superior technique that would turn him into one of Hong Kong\u2019s top actors in the years that followed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He plays Lau Chun-hoi, a grumpy police inspector known for being mean to friend and foe alike. The first half of the film plays out like a procedural, with Chun-hoi getting drunk after a botched surveillance job and having sex with a prostitute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3352841\/lau-ching-wans-best-mid-1990s-hong-kong-films-loving-you-big-bullet?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lau Ching-wan is easily one of Hong Kong\u2019s finest dramatic actors, winning four best actor trophies at the Hong Kong Film Awards over the past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[577,22402,22400,4921,3569,5231,311,9075,22401],"class_list":["post-51295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-big","tag-bullet","tag-chingwans","tag-films","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-lau","tag-loving","tag-mid1990s","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}