Longman Leung

Longman Leung Lok-man (; born 1972) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Beginning his career as a set designer, he served as an art director for the films Bug Me Not!, Connected (2008), and The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010). He made his directorial debut with with Cold War (2012), for which they won both Best Director and Best Screenplay in the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards. The duo continued to co-direct and co-write the action thrillers Helios (2015) and Cold War 2 (2016), before they broke their partnership. Leung made his solo directorial debut with Anita (2021), which earned him another nomination for Best Director in the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards. Cold War 2 and Anita are currently the eighth and ninth highest-grossing domestic films of all time in Hong Kong.

Biography Leung was born in 1972. He graduated from Ying Wa College, where he attended the Oxford Road campus. In the 1990s, he studied design. His first job was as a set designer for the 1996 film Lost and Found. In 2008, he and , an assistant director he befriended on the set of The Twins Effect and both aspiring to become directors, came up with the story that eventually evolved into Cold War. They chose to produce a police film because it was a genre they were most familiar with, and completed the screenplay in 2010 when producer Bill Kong joined the project. winning both Best Director and Best Screenplay in the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards. while James Marsh of ScreenAnarchy commended the film's visual quality as "fantastic", which "benefits greatly from Leung's previous experience as an Art Director".

Leung and Luk continued their collaboration and co-directed another action thriller Helios in 2015. They then co-directed and co-wrote Cold War 2, the sequel to Cold War, in 2016, but James Marsh of Screen International considered the film as "somewhat naive in Hong Kong's current climate" as the duo "tread incredibly carefully to avoid mentioning China". The film became the then highest-grossing domestic film of all time in Hong Kong, and is currently the eighth highest-grossing. After producing Helios and Cold War 2, Leung and Luk decided to end their partnership due to creative differences and they did not want this to affect their friendship, where they resigned from all joint directing contracts to pursue individual projects. Leung was approached by Bill Kong on the anniversary of Anita Mui's death in 2015 to make a biographical film about Mui. and the film marked his solo directorial debut. Richard Kuipers of Variety praised his direction as having "the gloss and nostalgic appeal to become a hit"; while Kevin Chen of HK01 praised his creative approach as "brilliant". He received another nomination for Best Director in the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards,

Hong Kong Bronx 2012 Cold War Co-directed and written with 2021 Anita 2026 Cold War 1994 2027 Best Screenplay 50th Golden Horse Awards Best New Director 2017 36th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay Cold War 2

40th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director

35th Golden Rooster Awards Best Director