www.leslielouie.com

[Shah of Persia]

www.leslielouie.com
Dedicated to news about Hong Kong director Leslie Louie, his films, pineapples, and expiration dates
 

 

 

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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.

[Shah of Persia]

Leslie Louie's film project SUPER WOK EXPLOSION crumbles as tales of walk-outs and ineptitude regarding paychecks circulate.

 

A small group of crew members apparently walked out during the filming of a scene in San Fierro last week. According to a source, discontent has been brewing for months after the producer (Leslie Louie) failed to pay the workers on time and allegedly left staff members "with owing payments for more than a month."

 

During the show's development, there were allegations of budgetary and finance issues. With Leslie's cinematographer Sue Doyle supposedly resigning, the film suffers a setback, and it's unclear whether it will be completed at all.

 

We don't know if the payment issues are limited to a few members of the production staff, or if actors, unit production, and the AD have all been affected.

While Leslie Louie was unavailable for comment, a source said "morale has hit rock bottom."

 

SUPER WOK EXPLOSION is Leslie Louie's debut domestic film effort, and it's an avant-garde criminal drama about a gang of American-born Chinese teens in a fictitious Chinatown

Edited May 19, 2022 by Solsroyce