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About Leslie Louie
Born in Seattle and of Hong Kong-Taiwanese descent, Leslie Louie moved to Mong Kok, Hong Kong to become a domestic star by accident. At the age of nineteen, he wrote plays for his grandfather’s theater in an age when being a playwright or screenwriter paid like the local grocery stores. B-films and amateur films were screened in the streets of Mong Kok, which Leslie frequented every evening. Here he discovered the art of film with his grandfather and fell in love. In 1979, when Ridley Scott’s Alien just hit the big screen, he landed the impossible opportunity to collaborate with a senior screenwriter at Three Mountains Studio. In 1984, during the peak of Hong Kong gangster cinema, the romantic wrote A Night Apart (1986) in a wave of avant-garde gangster films about triads, tongs and martial arts. Fatigued from a streak of gangster screenplays, he wrote and directed his magnum opus Songbird (1997). It became a domestic hit during Hong Kong new wave and he went on to influence many young and old directors internationally. Leslie Louie’s work is found in film enthusiast collections all over the world now.
Filmography
Wild Devotion (1999)
Two misfits fall in love and will do anything to stick together in this dreamworld.
Lovely Contemplations (1998)
A story based on a 1920 Cantonese poem following three Chinese couples in Madrid through the impatience of love.
Songbird (1997)
A teenage girl falls in love during summer break and wants to change something in life. She roams the streets of Hong Kong in the weeks of a lifetime.
Brother Number Three (1996)
During the Hong Kong handover a martial arts grandmaster unites the Hong Kong triads.
Moon over Sham Shui Po (1992)
A young man meets a girl at a party and the viewer follows them on a night roaming the streets of Sham Shui Po doing drugs, drinking pineapple juice and dancing.
Lost in Kowloon (1990)
A witty young man from Kowloon is fed up with the rules and traditions of the local triad and goes on to topple the old generation and establish a new one.
Trouble in Mong-kok (1989)
A coming-of-age tale about a young teenager at a kung fu school that rebels against his dai lo for better or for worse.
Shanghai Superfly (1988)
Moses Siu-por is a gambling ace from Shanghai. When he is invited to an exclusive underground poker game in Macau, he is cheated by his agent and he must escape the clasp of the triads.
A Night Apart (1986)
A Wo Shing Wo gangster falls in love with his beautiful distant cousin. When the situation forces him to choose sides, he must break free from the triad and protect his love interest.
