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Chow Yun-Fat Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
AA Best Picture Nom
2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
1999
Anna and the King (1999)
1989
The Killer (1989)
1986
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
1992
Hard Boiled (1992)
2006
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
1987
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
2010
Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
1998
The Replacement Killers (1998)
1999
The Corruptor (1999)
2012
The Last Tycoon (2012)
2018
Project Gutenberg (2018)
2008
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
2016
Cold War II (2016)
2003
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
2016
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins (2016)
2015
Design For Living (2015)
1989
A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (1989)
2014
The Monkey King (2014)
2014
The Man From Macau (2014)
2010
Shanghai (2010)
2015
From Vegas to Macau II (2015)
2009
Dragonball: Evolution (2009)
2011
Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
Chow Yun-Fat Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Chow Yun-Fat movies by his co-stars
- Sort Chow Yun-Fat movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Chow Yun-Fat movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Chow Yun-Fat movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Chow Yun-Fat movie received.
- Sort Chow Yun-Fat movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Worldwide Box Office Numbers Were Not Available For All The Movies
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) AA Best Picture Nom |
Michelle Yeoh & Directed by Ang Elee |
128.10 | 256.2 | 427.1 | 12 | 80 | 10 / 04 | 99.5 | |
| 2 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) | Johnny Depp & Orlando Bloom |
309.40 | 484.8 | 1,509.5 | 4 | 57 | 02 / 00 | 92.0 | |
| 3 | Anna and the King (1999) | Jodie Foster & Tom Felton |
39.30 | 83.6 | 83.6 | 51 | 60 | 02 / 00 | 75.9 | |
| 4 | The Killer (1989) | Directed by John Woo | 0.10 | 0.1 | 49.0 | 225 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 71.9 | |
| 5 | A Better Tomorrow (1986) | Directed by John Woo | 4.80 | 13.9 | 114.8 | 108 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 70.6 | |
| 6 | Hard Boiled (1992) | Directed by John Woo | 0.10 | 0.1 | 51.3 | 233 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 67.4 | |
| 7 | Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) | Li Gong | 6.60 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 180 | 75 | 01 / 00 | 65.8 | |
| 9 | A Better Tomorrow II (1987) | Directed by John Woo | 0.10 | 0.1 | 62.7 | 256 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 55.2 | |
| 8 | Let the Bullets Fly (2010) | Wen Jiang | 0.10 | 0.1 | 142.6 | 267 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 54.5 | |
| 12 | The Replacement Killers (1998) | Mira Sorvino | 19.20 | 44.1 | 44.1 | 85 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 47.2 | |
| 12 | The Corruptor (1999) | Mark Wahlberg | 15.20 | 32.3 | 52.2 | 98 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 46.6 | |
| 10 | The Last Tycoon (2012) | Xiaoming Huang | 0.10 | 0.1 | 33.9 | 315 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 46.2 | |
| 11 | Project Gutenberg (2018) | Aaron Kwok | 0.10 | 0.1 | 222.7 | 418 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 44.1 | |
| 13 | The Children of Huang Shi (2008) | Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Radha Mitchell |
1.00 | 1.5 | 13.2 | 205 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 37.3 | |
| 14 | Cold War II (2016) | Aaron Kwok | 0.60 | 0.7 | 128.6 | 219 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 36.9 | |
| 15 | Bulletproof Monk (2003) | Seann William Scott | 23.40 | 41.8 | 41.8 | 99 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 36.0 | |
| 16 | The Monkey King: The Legend Begins (2016) | Donnie Yen | 0.70 | 0.9 | 241.4 | 213 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 31.5 | |
| 17 | Design For Living (2015) | Sylvia Chang | 0.10 | 0.1 | 10.6 | 239 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 21.6 | |
| 18 | A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (1989) | Tony Ka Fai Leung | 0.10 | 0.1 | 50.3 | 214 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 21.4 | |
| 19 | The Monkey King (2014) | Donnie Yen | 0.10 | 0.1 | 240.5 | 306 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 14.8 | |
| 20 | The Man From Macau (2014) | Nicholas Tse | 0.10 | 0.1 | 123.9 | 338 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 13.6 | |
| 22 | Shanghai (2010) | John Cusack & Li Gong |
0.00 | 0.1 | 12.7 | 353 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.9 | |
| 22 | From Vegas to Macau II (2015) | Pak-Cheung Chan | 0.10 | 0.1 | 209.6 | 339 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 6.6 | |
| 23 | Dragonball: Evolution (2009) | Justin Chatwin | 9.40 | 13.5 | 82.6 | 141 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 5.5 | |
| 24 | Beginning of the Great Revival (2011) | Daniel Wu | 0.20 | 0.2 | 153.5 | 229 | 31 | 00 / 00 | 0.9 |
Fui -On Shing, yes only the biggies, appeared in 16 films with Chow.
Hey Dan. Thanks for the information on Fui -On Shing and his 16 movies with Chow Yun-Fat. Not thinking many of those 16 are in our database.
HI STEVE: You seem to know a lot about Chow. I have seen 3 of his movies: Crouching Tiger, The Replacement Killers, and 1989’s The Killer which you mention but which is not listed above. For me The Killer [aka Di p Huet Seung Hung] was his best of those 3, quite a heart-warming story in a way despite its title and the violence. Accordingly as you are a Chow ‘specialist’ I would not argue with you that The Killer is his greatest film overall.
Teaming him with Jodie in Anna and the King was I understand a bid to make him a Hollywood star and momentarily it seemed to work because of the massive box office of Crouching Tiger the following year, but after that Hollywood appeared to take little interest in him.
However he won’t care too much, I’m sure, because as you say he is a legend in his own country and that has earned him a massive net fortune of $100 million according to the Celebrity Net Worth site and such wealth places him among the richest actors in history.
IMDB credits him with 11 acting awards and 31 nominations which I think is excellent for a ‘foreigner’ from his part of the world, so I agree with your “Vote Up” as Chow certainly deserves a Cogerson page as much as many others who have received one.
Hey Bob. Thanks for the thoughts on Chow. It is strange….for a big movie star….there is some serious confusion about his name. Some places have Chow first, and others have Chow last. I actually think his last name is Chow….but more places put Chow first…so I went with that. I have seen 2 of the 3 you have seen. I have not seen The Killer yet….but after doing this page….that is on my list of movies to watch. I agree…Steve is certainly the expert on this subject. I would say UMR Hall of Famer, George is a close second…this page was actually his suggestion. I agree again (that does not happen much…lol)….his net worth probably lets him get over the fact that he did not become a massive star in America. He will have to settle for being a rich well known actor instead. Good stuff as always.
Thanks for the feedback.
We always find ‘foreign’ names awkward and during the Cold War western citizens used to make fun of Russian names which we saw as “jawbreakers” We forget that to people in other countries WE are the ‘foreigners’.
So to paraphrase a cartoon in the English newspaper the Guardian back in those Cold War days- two Russians are standing in the snow talking in front of the Kremlin and one says to the other “Isn’t Archibald Alexander Leach a funny name?”
Hi Bob, I’m shocked you saw John Woo’s The Killer! I thought you avoided action movies, especially violent action movies. You really did stray out of your comfort zone here. [wink]
The Killer is a loose remake of one of your favorite Douglas Sirk films – Magnificent Obsession, maybe that’s what attracted you to it? 🙂
HI STEVE It’s just the mindless action movies that the likes of The Rock and Jace make, and the endless repetitive action/superhero franchises that bore me.
Examples of other action movies that I have liked are Lee Marvin’s Point Blank, Bronson’s Death Wish and Gene Hackman’s Narrow Margin. I also liked the early Lethal Weapon and Die Hard movies before they became too as I say repetitive.
As we have both agreed The Killer is a class act of a movie. I didn’t know that it was a remake of Magnificent Obsession. I did say that The Killer was “heartwarming” so now that I think about it I can see the strong connection.
Thanks for drawing my attention to that association; but you know “what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”: I am surprised that YOU didn’t stray away from an action movie whose foundations were in “mush”!
But whoa!-we’ll have to start being more tolerant of each other’s tastes that are contrasting and cease this habitual point-scoring. I think that at times WH feels we are seriously squabbling and he becomes alarmed because –
“There were once 2 cats of Kilkenny.
Each thought there was one cat too many,
So they fought and they hit, and they scratched and they bit,
Until at last there wasn’t any!
Bruce, the gamble in making a stats chart on a Hong Kong movie legend like Chow Yun Fat is that you risk not including the films that made him a legend in the first place.
Missing from the chart is Chow’s greatest film – The Killer (1989), closely followed by his 2nd greatest film, Hard Boiled (1992), which is than followed by the two classics that kickstarted Hong Kong’s popular ‘Heroic Bloodshed’ genre – A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2 (1986-1987).
Those 4 action classics I watched over and over again back in the 1990s, aaah memories.
There is also God of Gamblers which was a massive hit in the Far East, and spawned many sequels, remakes and parodies.
Looking at the chart I’ve seen 8 of the 19 films listed, favorites are – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Corruptor and The Replacement Killers.
This page is missing the greats but it gets a vote up for giving Chow a UMR page.
Btw Bruce, Ben Gazzara is lurking around somewhere on the page.
Hey Steve.
1. Thanks for the tally, visit and comment
2. As for that pesky Ben Gazzara hanging around…he was asked to leave….and after some initial fusing he did so….thanks for the headsup.
3. As for the missing classic movies….they are being added to the table…hopefully…they will be included in the next few minutes. Some of the website updates take awhile.
4. Overall…I added in 5 more movies….the 4 you mentioned and the 3rd movie in the Better Tomorrow franchise. I used the box office numbers at wiki…not my favorite…but it gets the movies on the table.
5. Those movies mainly played in festivals in the United States…and thus numbers rarely get reported.
6. I have seen 6 of the movies…your adjusted total would be 12 for sure….and probably 13…because I would shocked if you had not seen the third chapter of A Better Tomorrow.
7. I did not find much information on God of Gamblers…..but I will continue to look.
Good stuff as always.
Hi Bruce, thanks for adding in those films, the chart is a lot more impressive now.
I saw A Better Tomorrow 3 but I didn’t like it as much as the first two. I own the first two on DVD along with The Killer and Hard Boiled.
Looking at my files I have 305 Hong Kong movies in various formats in my collection. 45 are doubles (and trebles) which leaves 260 different Chinese titles dating from 1967 to 2016.
So to upgrade my tally I’ve seen 13 films from the 24 on the chart. I have yet to see Anna and the King for some reason. Probably because there’s only one King of Siam – no not Rex Harrison – Yul Brynner! 🙂