Born inc it will follow secondary studies to England. Of return to the country, it first of all gains a significant success in the music in 1976, then begins with the cinema in 1978 in Erotic dream of the beholder. But it is thanks to John Woo that it will become famous with the cinema, in particular with the cycle the trade unions of the crime (Better tomorrow) 1 and 2 in 1986 and 1987, and Ounce has thief published in France in video under the title the Associates (Zong heng if hai/Once has Thief) (1991) in 1990. Success will follow it henceforth good liking since it connects with Histoires of Chinese phantoms (A Chinese ghosts story) in 1987, which will make known it on the international level. It also was done noticed in films of Tsui Hark, The banquet in 1991 and the feast Chinese (The chinese feast) in 1995, of Wong Kar-Wai, Our years wild (Days of being wild) in 1990, ashes of time (Ashes of time) in 1994 and especially Happy Together (Cheun gwong tsa sit) (1997) in 1997, and of Chen Kaige in Adieu my concubine (Farewell my concubine) in 1992 and Lune temptatrice (Temptress moon) in 1995. Throughout its career, it turned an about sixty films, its last film, Inner

carried out in 2002 by Lo Chi-leung, enabling him to interpret the role of a psychiatrist. In spite of its immense celebrity and by fidelity with her country, it never tried an international career. It committed suicide by defenestration on April 1 2003 of a de luxe hotel of the town of Hong-Kong.