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English Books

This is a handful of books on Tony Leung the actor, with a number of well-known directors he had the opportunity to work with, and several published essays on Hong Kong cinematic history in perspectives. Please note: this is not an all inclusive list. Search worldcat.org (library catalogs), or yesasia.com (commerical vendor) for more.

Title Author(s) Year Published Additional Information
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

(pdf)		 Wikipedia 2013 Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow 2011 Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong film actor and former TVB actor. A major film star since the 1990s, Leung has won the 'Hong Kong Film Awards' five times and the 'Golden Horse Best Actor awards' three times (in 1994, 2003 and 2007). Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Wong Kar Wai Jean-Marc Lalanne 1997 With films such as 'As Tears Go By', 'Days of Being Wild', 'Chungking Express' and 'Ashes of Time', Kar-Wai has been at the forefront of Hong Kong cinema.
Wong Kar-Wai: World directors series Stephen Teo 2005 This is the first book-length study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai, providing an overview of his career and in-depth analyses of all of his eight feature films to date including '2046'.
Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time - New Hong Kong cinema Wimal Dissanayake, Dorothy Wong Hong Kong University Press, 2003 This book presents the nature and significance of 'Ashes of Time', and the reasons for its being regarded as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema.
Don't Try for me Argentina

(html, pdf)		 Christopher Doyle 1997 A Journal of the Shooting of Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together in Argentina
A city of sadness British Film Institute 2002 Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1989, director Hou Hsiao-Hsien: 'A city of sadness' introduced Western audiences to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema.  'A city of sadness' revisits a painful episode in recent Taiwanese history...
Sex and Zen & a bullet in the head Stefan Hammond; Mike Wilkins 1996 Though underappreciated in contemporary film criticism, Bullet in the Head is a landmark in John Woo's career as a film director. Featuring strong early work by Hong Kong stars such as Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Simon Yam...
Hong Kong cinema: the extra dimensions Stephen Teo, British Film Institute 1997 This is the first full-length, English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas.
Planet Hong Kong: popular cinema and the art of entertainment David Bordwell Harvard University Press, 2000 Since the 1970s, Hong Kong has been home to arguably the world's most energetic, imaginative mass-market film industry. At its peak it surpassed nearly all Western countries in number of films released, ruled the East Asian market, and produced movies...
Hong Kong cinema since 1997: the post-nostalgic imagination Vivian P. Y. Lee Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics -- the post-nostalgic imagination -- in Hong Kong cinema since 1997.
Hong Kong cinema : a cross-cultural view Law Kar; Frank Bren 2004 This cross cultural study of Hong Kong cinema looks at Eastern and Western influences upon the medium and examines its development compared to film industries of mainland China and Southeast Asia.
The Cinema of Hong Kong : history, arts, identity Poshek Fu; David Desser Cambridge University Press, 2000 The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural, and political contexts.