Saviour of the Soul (1991)
The first film to emerge from Lau's Teamwork Productions, Jeff Lau Chun-wai's action comedy has Lau as a righteous assassin who teams up with fellow killers (Anita Mui Yim-fong and Kenny Bee) against the evil Silver Fox (Aaron Kwok Fu-shing). An over-the-top farce, it nevertheless redeems itself with brilliant cinematography and production design (by Peter Pau Tak-hei and Yee Chung-man, respectively).
Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Alarm bells had been ringing at Teamwork in the years after Saviour, when its productions were either critically panned (the horrific Gameboy Kid) or underachieved at the box office (the Days of Being Wild-aping Days of Tomorrow). It would take a small-budget, sans-Lau production to get the company back in gear again. Fruit Chan Kuo's Made in Hong Kong was made on film stock donated by Lau and would herald a new wave of independent filmmaking in Hong Kong.
A Fighter's Blues (2000)
The movie that announces the arrival of Andy Lau, the serious actor. Although Lau sees his award-winning turn in Johnnie To Kei-fung's caper Running Out of Time as his artistic watershed, it's his performance as a washed-up boxer in Daniel Lee Yan-kong's film that marks his departure from the romantic comedy roles he took on throughout the 1990s. Blues also sees his return to form as producer, followed swiftly by yet another remarkable actor-cum-producer turn in To's Fulltime Killer.