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Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting

Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting

Mabel Cheung (Chinese: 張婉婷, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema. Elected "Freshman's Queen" when she was studying undergrad at the University of Hong Kong, she was also an avid sportswoman representing Lady Ho Tung Hall and HKU. Cheung is known for working with the migration issues of Hongkongers and overseas Chinese, especially before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.

Her films include the "migration trilogy": Illegal Immigrant (1985), An Autumn's Tale (1987) and Eight Taels of Gold (1989). The Soong Sisters (1997) marks another peak of her filming career. All four films were made in collaboration with writer Alex Law.

She has been in the relationship with teammate Alex Law since 1986. The couple first met as classmates in New York University.

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Movies Made By Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting (15)

To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self (2022)

Sparked by the demolition and reconstruction of its century-old campus, Ying Wa Girls' School embarks on a project to chronicle the transformation of its students through the camera of director Mabel Cheung, its distinguished alumna. Following a group of y ...

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A Tale of Three Cities (2015)

A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution. ...

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You And Me (2013)

What could possibly turn a shy, quiet nerd into a voyeur? A long, lazy summer coupled with endless boredom? Sometimes through his binoculars and other times loitering on campus, a secondary student seeks to get an early taste of what university life has in ...

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Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)

Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is e ...

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Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family (2003)

A surprising look at the past of movie star Jackie Chan and the difficulties of Chinese families during the Culture Revolution. ...

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1:99 Shorts (2003)

Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the Information Service Departement of the Government of HK SAR. The aim was to bring back confidence to the HK ...

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Beijing Rocks (2001)

A rock and roll story that portrays the decay of political and cultural lacunae that have separated China and Hong Kong for so long. ...

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City of Glass (1998)

The story of man and ex-girlfriend found dead after a car crash and how their children come together to retell the story. ...

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The Soong Sisters (1997)

Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their bril ...

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Moon Warriors (1992)

A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother. ...

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Now You See Love... Now You Don't (1992)

This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a tiny village in Hong Kong. The plot revolves around his love interest who has run off to work in downtown Hong Kong and many culture clashes between the peasa ...

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Eight Taels of Gold (1989)

An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl. ...

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Painted Faces (1988)

This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as young men. The story is about their teacher Master Yu and his school. ...

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An Autumn's Tale (1987)

Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her. ...

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The Illegal Immigrant (1985)

The lead, arrested and processed after a police raid on a Canal St. clothing workshop. He has no status in HK, where he'd swam, or the US, where he arrived as a stowaway, to avoid metal detectors which would pick up the bullets still in his body. ...

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Movies Starring Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting (3)

Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong (2001)

Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors who wrote the scenarios and directed the films. ...

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Twin Dragons (1992)

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds. ...

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The Banquet (1991)

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels. ...

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