Favorite actors/directors

[Milkyway]

name you're favorites...

Actors

Simon Yam
Chow Yun Fat
Anthony Wong
Lau Ching Wan
Francis Ng
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Lam Suet
Roy Cheung

Directors

Johnnie To
Derek Yee
Takeshi Kitano
Ringo Lam
John Woo
Wilson Yip

[Morgoth]

Actors-

Donald Sutherland
Vinnie Jones
Terry O'Quinn
Omar Epps
Villain from Undefeatable
Russel Crowe
Stephen Chow
Steve Carell
Denzel Washington
Don Cheadle
Robert Deniro
Tom Noonan
Keith David
Chow Yun Fat
Lau Ching Wan
Ku Feng
Sammo
Ti Lung
Shintaro Katsu
Tomisaburo Wakayama


I am having a tough time thinking of my favorite actresses right now, but for some reason Deannie Yip pops into my mind first. She brightened up every movie she was in.

[Cesare]

Directors:
Tim Burton, Chang Cheh, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Frantisek Vlacil, Terry Gilliam, Jan Svankmajer... There are others, but these are the names that immediately come to mind...

Actors:
Christopher Walken, Vincent Cassel, Willem Dafoe, Benoit Magimel, Conrad Veidt, Geoffrey Rush, Ku Feng, Ti Lung, David Chiang, Johnny Depp, Lance Henriksen, Venoms, Ralph Fiennes... And so on.

Actresses:
Monica Belluci, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Winona Ryder, Sigourney Weaver, Li Ching, Tilda Swinton...

...to name just a few from each category...;-)

[presureworld]

Favorite Actors
Tatsuya Nakadai
Dustin Hoffman
Franco Nero
Charles Bronson
Peter Cushing
Michael Wright
Val Kilmer
Shintaro Katsu

Favorite Actresses
Geneviève Bujold
Meiko Kaji



Favorite Director
Sam Peckinpah
Kinji Fukasaku
Michael Mann
Hideo Gosha
Paul Schrader
Jim Van Bebber

[shaolinblade]

Favourite actors:
Gordon Liu
Lau Kar Leung
Sammo Hung
Yuen Biao
The Venoms
Jack & Mark Long
Robert Deniro
Bruce Lee
Christopher Walken
Jackie Chan
Chow Yun Fat
Tim Roth
Ku Feng
Johnn Wang
Harvery Kietel
Al Pacino
Jet Li
Clint Eastwood
Simon Yuen
Steve Buscemi
Ray Winston
Jack Nicholson
Chen Kua Tai
Hwang Jang Lee

Actresses:
Cheng Pei Pei
Michelle Yeoh
Shih Szu
Uma Thurman
Juliette Lewis
Kara Hui
Angela Mao
Sigourney Weaver
Rosaria Dawson
Monica Bellucci
Drew Barrymore
Aishwarya Rai
Lucy Liu

Directors:
Lau Kar Leung
Chang Cheh
Joseph Kuo
Tso Nam Lee
Sammo Hung
James Cameron
Steven Speilberg
John Woo
Yuen Woo Ping
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Ridley Scott
Alan Clarke
Guy Ritchie
Stanley Kubrick

[teako170]

I'm assuming this is meant to be a "non-martial arts" poll since its in this section of the forum....?

Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Sergio Leone

Cary Grant
Ingrid Bergman
James Stewart

[Stuntman Jules]

Top 10 of each:

Actors:
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Clint Eastwood
Sonny Chiba
Christopher Lee
Chow Yun Fat
Tatsuya Nakadai
Tetsuro Tamba
Klaus Kinski
Peter Cushing

Actresses:
Uma Thurman
Meiko Kaji
Reiko Ike
Monica Bellucci
Shih Szu
Cheng Pei Pei
Angela Mao
Alexandra Maria Lara
Ching Li
Elke Sommer

Directors:
Sergio Leone
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Sam Peckinpah
Kinji Fukasaku
Brian De Palma
Mario Bava
Quentin Tarantino
John Carpenter
Sun Chung

[Barsader]

Actors:

Robert De niro
Harrison Ford
Tim robbins
Jack nicholson
Dustin Hoffman
Ben Kingsley
Philip Seymour hoffman
Ryan Phillipe
Leonardo Di Caprio
Billy bob Thornton(mostly for Slingblade)
Kevin Spacey

Actresses:

Jennifer Connelly
Kate hudson
Susan Sarandon
Laura Dern
Charlize Theron

Directors-don't really have any non-MA faves

Martial arts(Keep it to 5 each)

Actors:

Ku Feng
Ti lung
Yueh yua
Fan mei Sheng
David Chiang

Actresses:

Shih Szu
Chang pei pei
Ching Li
Wen-su erh
Hui ying hung

directors:

Chang Cheh
Chu Yuan
Sun Chung
Ho- meng Hua
Tang Chia(w/ only 3 great movies to boot!)

[Winfred]

Favorite actresses :
Ivy Ling Po
Lily Ho
Li Ching
Favourite actors :
Yang Fan
Ling Yun
Liu Yung
Favourite directors :
Ho Meng Hua
Chu Yuan
Kuei Chi Hung

[CrazyFrog]

Actors:
Eric Bana
Clive Owen
Bruno Ganz
Andy Dick (just checking)
Chow Yun Fat
Tony Leung
Stellan Skarsgard
Nicholas Cage..that's right
Sammo Hung
Heath Ledger
Gene Hackman
it can go on and on...

Directors:
The Coen Brothers..solid track list
Guillermo Del Toro..great and getting better
Alexander Payne...good source material
Stevie Spielberg..classics
I'm liking Christopher Nolan these days
Hayao Miyazaki..awesome artist
Richard Linklater...Slackers, D&C, A Scanner Darkly
Danny Boyle...good track so far
Peter Jackson...just a genius
John Carpenter..old school DIY
Judd Apatow...the new master of comedy

Actresses:
The problem here is that I just start listing who I think is hot, ie. Monica Bellucci, Salma Hayek, etc. Even Meryl Streep has a whiff of milf about her!

[TheGrimReaper]

Favorite Actors

Jackie Chan
Sammo Hung
Yuen Biao
Jet Li
Donnie Yen
Gordon Liu
Stephen Chow
Daniel Craig
Yu Ronguang
John Cleese
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Willis
Harrison Ford
Yuen Wah
Chow Yun Fat
Ken Low
Karl Maka
Colin Chou
and many more..

Actress

Vicky Zao
Shu Qi
Zhan Zi Yi
Michelle Yeoh
Salma Hayek

Directors

Lau Kar Leung
Jackie Chan
Sammo Hung
Terry Gilliam
Sam Raimi
Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
John Woo
Yuen Woo Ping
Wilson Yip
Guilermo del Torro
Quentin Tarantino
and many more too..

[quixote64]

Actors/Actresses: Bruce Campbell, Sonny Chiba, Keith David, Lee Van Cleef, Ku Feng, Sammo Hung, Chiaki Kuriyama, Simon Yam, Francis Ng, Kara Hui, Lawrence Tierney, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Monica Bellucci, Chow Yun Fat, Ti Lung, Gordon Liu, Lam Ching Ying, Stephen Chow and of course Bruce Lee.

Directors: Lau Kar Leung, Takashi Miike, Sergio Leone, Sam Raimi, Sammo Hung, George A. Romero, John Woo, Seijun Suzuki, Sam Peckinpah, Tsui Hark, George Lucas, Lucio Fulci, Lloyd Kaufman, and Godfrey Ho(his movies may not be "good", but they sure as hell are entertaining.)

[Barsader]

I must have been tired to not include the great Lo lieh.

New M.A. actors list-

Ku Feng
Lo Lieh
Ti Lung
Yueh Hua
David Chiang

[Cujo Jenkens]

Favorite Martial Art Actors:
Yuen Biao
Jackie Chan
Sonny Chiba
Sammo Hung
Tony Jaa
Shintaro Katsu
Bruce Lee
Jet Li
Gordon Liu
Jason Statham
Yuen Wah
Tomisaburo Wakayama
Donnie Yen

and ...Steven Seagal(Because his movies are so funny LOL :D)


Favorite Actors:
Jack Black
Bruce Campbell
Stephen Chow
Ng Man Tat
Chow Yun Fat
Lau Ching Wan


I have alot of favorite Actress's,I just can't think of their names right now.


Favorite Martial Art Actress:
Cheng Pei Pei
Michelle Yeoh




Favorite Actress:
Gong Li
Lucy Liu
Zhang Zi Yi

Favorite Martial Art Directors
:

Jackie Chan
Sammo Hung
Lau Kar Leung
Yuen Woo Ping

Favorite Directors
:
Luc Besson
Stephen Chow
Peter Jackson
Ringo Lam
Sergio Leone
Sam Raimi
Robert Rodriguez
Takashi Miike
Quentin Tarantino
John Woo
Wilson Yip

[jaywong]

Favorites

Actresses:
Ha Ji Won
Ching Li
Li Ching
Chin Ping
Lily Ho
Shih Szu
Ling Po
Gong Li
Ge Lan
Im Soo-Jeong
Bae Doo Na
Moon Geum Young
Brigitte Lin
Yeong-ae Lee
Soo-ae
Jenny Hu
Li Hua Li
Lily Li Li
Betty Loh Ti
Fang Yin
Faye Wong
Mao Ying
Jeanette Lin Tsui
Joey Wong
Hsu Feng
Kang Hye-Jeong



Actors:
Yueh Hua
Lo Lieh
Ti Lung
Ling Yun
Lee Byung-Hun
Jet Li
Jang Dong-Dun
Jeong Woo-Seong
Derek Yee
Peter Chen Ho
Kwan Shan

Directors:

Tsui Hark
Zhang Yimou
Wong Kar-wai
Li Han Hsiang
King Hu
Chu Yan
Ching Gong
Inoue Umetsugu
Lo Wei
Chui Chang Wang
Park Chan-Wook
Kim Ji-woon
Kao Li
Evan Yang
Wong Tin Lam

[Drunken Cat]

Actors

Song Kang-Ho
Lee Byung-Hun
Tadanobu Asano
Toshiro Mifune
Takashi Shimura
Chow Yun Fat
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai


Directors

Juzo Itami
Wong Kar Wai
Sergio Leone
Kim Jee Woon
Park Chan Wook
Akira Kurosawa
John Woo
Chang Cheh
Lau Kar Leung
Sam Peckinpah
Alfred Hitchcock
Guillermo Del Toro
Johnnie To

[JazzandZen]

Actors
Jackie Chan
Will Smith
Denzel Washington
Taye Diggs
Tony Leung
Jet Li
George Clooney

Actresses
Michelle Yeoh
Vivica Fox
Vanessa Williams
Kyoka Suzuki
Monica Belucci
Maggie Cheung
Joan Chen
Tang Wei

Directors
Spike Lee
Quinton Terrantino
Ang Lee
Zhang Yimao

[miklaras]

Directors:

Chang Cheh
Chor Yuan
John Woo
Hua Shan
Lau Kar Leung

Actors:
Ti Lung
David Chiang
Ling Yun
Fu Sheng
Wang Lung Wei
Raymond Lam

[Masked Avenger]

Directors:
Wu Ma
Chang Cheh
Lau Kar Leung
Lau Kar Wing
Sammo Hung
Jakie Chan
Wilson Yip
Wong Jing
Kent Cheng
Karl Maka
Eric Tsang
Danny Lee

Actors:
Chen Kwan Tai
Gordon Liu
Lau Kar Leung
Yuen Biao
Sammo Hung
Danny Lee
Kent Cheng
Lam Chin Ying
David Chiang
Sun Chien
Lu Feng
Wu Ma

Actresses
Cheng Pei Pei
Lily Li
Kara Hui
Cyntia Khan
Yukari Oshima
Dodo Cheng
Sandra Ng
Lydhia Shum
Sylvia Chang
Teresa Mo


Non Asian Actors:
Chuck Norris
Hulk Hogan
Chevy Chase
Dan Aykroyd
JC Van Damme
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Leslie Nielsen
Simon Pegg
Sylvester Stallone
Jean Reno
Dolph Lungren

[CatNap]

Favorite Actresses:

Anita Mui
Brigitte Lin
Carina Lau
Ruby Wong Cheuk-Ling
Maggie Siu
Gong Li
He Cai Fei
Cheng Pei Pei
Kara Hui
Jinglei Xu
Maggie Cheung
Sylvia Chang

Favorite Directors:

Wong Kar Wai
Johnnie To
Tsui Hark
Jing Wong
Peter Chan
Ronny Yu
John Woo
Ringo Lam
Jinglei Xu

Favorite Actors:
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Eric Tsang
Alexander Fu Sheng
Simon Yam
Chow Yun Fat
Leslie Cheung
Danny Lee
Anthony Wong
Tony Leung Chu Wai
Sean Lau
Andy Lau

[mbuddy]

Directors
Quentin Tarantino
Michael Mann
Terry Gilliam
Tony Scott
Chang Cheh
John Woo

Actors
Ti Lung
Denzel Washington
Chow Yun Fat
Edward Norton

[Fightingfist]

To name a few.

Directors:

Yuen Woo Ping
John Woo

Actors:

Jackie Chan
Donnie Yen
Will Smith

[BlackLamaFaction]

Directors:
Sam Pekinpah
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Cronenburg
David Lynch
These are directors who have made little or no films I do not love.

[Fightingfist]

Directors:
Sam Pekinpah
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Cronenburg
David Lynch
These are directors who have made little or no films I do not love.

This thread is about your favourites not any that you don't like.

[BlackLamaFaction]

Sorry if my wording was not clear, I meant to say those directors have not made any films I do not love.Meaning they are absolutely my favorite directors.

[masterofoneinchpunch]

A post I previously did on this subject naming my top 10 directors (all genres):

Imprimis:
I will use a self-imposed limit of 9 films in a director's oeuvre. There are many directors that I have not seen enough (or any) to rank them including Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Andrei Tarkovsky, Krzysztof Kie_lowski, Pedro Almodóvar, Otto Preminger, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Satyajit Ray, Werner Herzog, Fritz Lang to name a few. And there are a few directors that I love that are not quite up to my cutoff point like Federico Fellini (7), Wong Kar-wai (7), Kenji Mizoguichi (6).

Akira Kurosawa (1910, Japan): An entertaining director for most of his career yet it was always done with superlative style. His films helped pushed my interest into cinema and I still enjoy rewatching most of them. His movies are critic canon fodder and I constantly refer to them and, of course, lend them out.

Buster Keaton (1895, US): Brilliant comedian who would risk his life to entertain. His film aesthetics at the time were more advanced than many realized and helped keep his work diverse and always interesting.

Charles Chaplin (1889, US): Certainly the most popular figure in the 20s, but also one of the most important filmmakers of all time. His perfection was the result of take after take. I love his Mutuals and his later full length features which are among the best and most endearing cinema. He is funny and poignant.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899, England/US): The more you get to know a director the more you see his early works and his flawed works, but the core classics like Vertigo and Psycho are amongst my favorite films. Warning to those new to Hitchcock: do not watch too many of his later films all in a row.

Yasujiro Ozu (1903, Japan): One of the most humanistic of directors whose sublime characterization comes in the smallest of details while eschewing melodramatic tendencies and, later in his career, camera movement.

Billy Wilder (1906, US): While I still need to see many of his movies there are several of his films like Stalag 17 which I have seen over and over. I love the characters and the writing in his movies.

Hayao Miyazaki (1941, Japan): While I wait for Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea to be released this year I ponder the beautiful animation, storytelling, characters that populate the wonderful world of Miyazaki-san.

Johnnie To (1955, Hong Kong): Everything that needed to be said was written at the following link (and more will come henceforth): http://www.criterionforums.com/forums/inde...p?showtopic=657.

Mel Brooks (1926, US): If you count the amount of times I have seen his films he would be the director I have seen the most. His work in the 1970s is amongst the best material for comedies of all time. His humor rises below vulgarity. "For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius."

Jackie Chan (1954, Hong Kong): He has only directed 11 films, but amongst them include some of the greatest action cinema of all time with Project A, Police Story being two of the most important films for HK action cinema. His style of direction would be so involved in his projects that he would constantly be over budget, over time and never be satisfied with his takes (it has been stated that a few times he has gone over a thousand takes for a single scene.

[Fightingfist]

Sorry if my wording was not clear, I meant to say those directors have not made any films I do not love.Meaning they are absolutely my favorite directors.

Oh right dont worry and thanks for clearing it up.

[DiP]

Directors:

Johnnie To
Alfred Hitchcock
Takeshi Kitano

Actors:

Donnie Yen
Lau Ching-Wan
Bruce Lee

[Juon 408]

Actors:
Bruce Campbell
Robert Englund
Clint Eastwood
Christian Bale
Bruce Lee
Sammo Hung
Sho Aikawa
Riki Takeuchi
Jackie Chan
Chow Yun-Fat
Gordan Liu
Johnny Depp
Boris Karloff
Taku Sakaguchi
the Pythons

Actresses:
Scarlett Johansson
Natalie Portman
Ziyi Zhang
Meiko Kaji
Kat Dennings
Kristen Stewart (just because she's a stoner) :crossedlips:
Aya Ueto
Angelina Jolie
Rosario Dawson
Keira Knightley
Chiaki Kuriyama
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Anne Hathaway
Asia Argento

Directors:
Kinji Fukasaku
Takashi Miike
George A. Romero
Sam Raimi
Ryuhei Kitamura
Ishiro Honda
Akira & Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Hideo Nakata
Shinya Tsukamoto
Christopher Nolan
Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
Tim Burton
Edgar Wright
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Dario Argento
Sergio Leone
James Whale (cause of Frankenstein & Bride)
Steven Spielberg

[Zalfira]

My favourite actor is Bruce Lee!!!!!!!!!!!

[shukocarl]

Favourite Actors (In No particular order):

Timothy Dalton
Clint Eastwood
Bruce Lee
Lee Van Cleef
Bruce Li
Sonny Chiba
Peter Cushing
Christopher Lee
Patrick McGoohan
Roy Scheider
Ti Lung
Lo Lieh
David Chiang
Wang Yu
Sean Connery

Favourite Actresses:

Amanda Redman
Carey Lowell
Freema Agyeman
Angela Mao
Malisa Longo!
Sue Shiomi
Beverly Callard!!!

Favourite Directors:

Sergio Leone
Chang Cheh
Terence Fisher
Terence Young
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Speilberg (before he went soft)
Lucio Fulci!
Richard Donner

[ekisha]

Favourite Actors:
Dan Aykroyd
Bill Murray
Chevy Chase
Clint Eastwood
Lee Van Cleef
Eddie Murphy
Charles Grodin
Terence Hill
Bud Spencer
Chuck Norris
Mark Wahlberg
Jean Claude Van Damme
John Candy
John Ashton
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bruce Campbell

Favourite Actress:
Geena Davis

Favourite Directors:
John Carpenter
Guy Ritchie
Ivan Reitman
Clint Eastwood
Harold Ramis
Tim Burton
Martin Brest
Sergio Corbucci
Bruno Corbucci
Sergio Leone
Dan O'Bannon

Favourite Asian Actors:
Danny Lee
Kent Cheng
Stanley Fung
Parkman Wong
Frankie Chan
Richard Ng
Yuen Biao
Sammo Hung
Lam Ching Ying
Lau Ching Wan
Anthony Wong
Jackie Chan

Favourite Asian Actresses:
Sandra Ng
Carol Cheng
Amanda Lee
Kristy Yeung
Theresa Mo

Favourite Asian Directors:
Johnnie To
Danny Lee
Frankie Chan
Kent Cheng
Lau Kar Leung
Chang Cheh
Herman Yau
Ringo Lam
Wong Chung
Kirk Wong

[jamec9869]

Directors
Quentin Tarantino
Michael Mann
Terry Gilliam
Tony Scott
Chang Cheh
John Woo

Actors
Ti Lung
Denzel Washington
Chow Yun Fat
Edward Norton

[AndyWayne84]

Favorite Actors Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Mark Dacascos, Gary Daniels, Tony Jaa, Sammy Hung, Kane Kosugi, Sho Kosugi, Chow Yun Fat, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu, Ekin Cheng, Andy On. Vaness Wu, Don Johnson, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke.

Favorite Directors Jonnie To. John Woo.

[pratty]

In no order:

Actors:
Jackie Chan
Francis Ng
Johnny Depp
Christian Bale
Brad Pitt
Guy Pearce
George Clooney
Al Pacino
Sean Bean
Jodie Foster
Anthony Wong

Directors:
Christopher Nolan
Johnnie To
Tsui Hark
John Woo
Steven Spielberg

[Killer Meteor]

My faves (and fave films!)

ACTORS

Peter Cushing
Bela Lugosi
Bruce Lee
Lon Chaney
Peter Lorre
Boris Karloff
Vincent Price
Jackie Chan
Clint Eastwood
Chen Sing


ACTRESSES

Angela Mao
Sissy Spacek
Fay Wray
Nora Miao
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Steele
Simone Simon
Julie Newmar
Ingrid Bergman
Sigourney Weaver


DIRECTORS

Tim Burton
Sergio Leone
Akira Kurosawa
King Hu
Chang Cheh
Mario Bava
George A Romero
Sammo Hung
Ishiro Honda
Jesus Franco

[CatNap]

Directors – HK

Wong Kar Wai
Johnnie To
Peter Chan
Tsui Hark
Ann Hui
Xu Jingli
John Woo
Sammo Hung


Actors - HK

Leslie Cheung
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Lau Ching Wan
Chow Yun Fat
Simon Yam
Anthony Wong
Francis Ng
Eric Tsang
Chapman To
Danny Lee

Actresses - HK

Anita Mui
Carina Lau
Brigitte Lin
Ruby Wong Cheuk-ling
Maggie Siu
Xu Jingli
He Caifei
Sandra Ng
Gong Li
Maggie Cheung
Sylvia Chang
Michelle Yeoh
Ya-lei Kuei

Western Actors

Jeff Daniels
Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman
Michael Cain
Ed Asner
Charles Durning
Luis Guzmán
John Goodman
John Candy
Terence Stamp
Roy Scheider
Sidney Poitier
Howard Rowland
Carroll O’Connor
Ricardo Darin
Gerard Depardieu


Western Actresses

Helen Mirren
Gena Rowlands
Stephanie Beacham
Cecilia Roth
Norma Alejandro
Lana Parrilla
Rita Moreno
Judi Denchi
Joan Plowright
Jeanne Moreau
Sophia Loren
Claudia Cardinale
Emma Thompson
Pam Grier
Debbie Allen

Directors – Western

Alfred Hitchock
Woody Allen
Giuseppe Tornatore
Federico Fellini
Clint Eastward