Actor: Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Tony Leung Chiu-wai won Best Actor at Cannes for In the Mood for Love, a performance conducted almost entirely in restraint, and he has worked with Wong Kar-wai across seven films.

Infernal Affairs, remade as The Departed, gives him an undercover officer whose identity is dissolving, and Hard Boiled gives him the same situation as action.

Shang-Chi brought him to Western audiences at fifty-nine as the film’s antagonist and its most sympathetic figure. He is generally considered the finest screen actor Hong Kong has produced.