VINCENT SZE / 施祖男 JOINS THE HK POLICE FORCE IN A NEW JOHNNIE TO MOVIE

Two days ago, “Hong Kong Frenchy Boy” Vincent Sze / 施祖男 started to play beside veteran actor Simon Yam /任達華, in a new movie, directed and produced by Johnnie To / 杜琪峰.

Vincent Sze and Simon Yam (Cannes - 2006)

Vincent Sze is a Hong Kong actor who lived 20 years in France and Noumea (New Caledonia) before moving back to Hong Kong in 1997, and started in the film business the same year in Task Force /熱血最強, directed by Patrick Leung / 梁柏堅.

Vincent Sze and Simon Yam (Hong Kong - 2005)

The last few years, Vincent  played in two movies directed by Wilson Yip / 葉偉信 : first,  as an undercover cop in

SPL / 殺破狼(2005), then as a vicious bad guy in Dragon Tiger Gate / 龍虎門 (2006).

Left : Vincent, on the set of Dragon Tiger Gate (2006) / Right : his character in the movie.

He also appeared briefly in the romantic comedy Drink, Drank, Drunk /  千杯不醉 (2005) directed by Derek Yee, and  the action movie Dragon Squad /  猛龍(2005) directed by Daniel Lee / 李仁港. In 2007, he was one of the main villains in Benny Chan's Invisible Target /男兒本色 (2007), beside Andy On /安志杰and Wu Jing /吳京.

Vincent Sze on the set of   Invisible Target

A few months ago, he finished the shooting of his first feature as the lead actor. It's an English movie named Bodyguard - A New Beginning, directed by a young new director, Cheung Chi-keung.

Vincent Sze, during the shooting of Bodyguard – A New Beginning (2007)

There was an article about this movie last month, written by Hong Kong movie expert Mike Leeder, in the English magazine Impact. I also had the opportunity to interview Vincent several times since October 2004, just after the end of SPL’s shooting (the first interview was published a few years ago for the French website DVDrama, and the last one, about

Invisible Target, will be in the next issue of  the magazine “ Score Asia” (also named simply “ Asia”). .

Vincent, cover boy on Impactmagazine (January 2008)

He’s also in two of my documentaries, SPL : Polar Martial (a 26 minutes documentary also featuring Simon Yam,

Donnie Yen / 甄子丹, Sammo Hung /洪金寶, Wilson Yip,

Wu Jing, Paco Wong /黃柏高, Comfort Chan Kwong-wing / 陳光榮 and Ken Chan /陳嘉業)  and Hong Kong Frenchy Boy (20 minutes interview with Vincent, released on Dragon Tiger Gate French DVD).

Vincent Sze and Sammo Hung in SPL (2005)

After Johnnie To's movie, Vincent will probably act in Stephane Guenin's Truth, a French-American co-production. To be continued...

Frederic Ambroisine (February 5th, 2008)