Michael Wong’s early films in Hong Kong saw the Chinese-American actor treated like a foreigner, and typecast as a cop after starring as one in the Michelle Yeoh vehicle Royal Warriors.
It was in the mid-1990s that Hong Kong actor Lau Ching Wan became a member of the unofficial stock company at director Johnnie To Kei Fung's innovative Milkyway Image production house. "In a city that often pigeon-holes its performers, Lau Ching Wan has become noted for his versatility. "Action, drama, romance, comedy, he has done the lot," effused the Post.