A mermaid (Christy Cheung) loses her magic pearl to a young high school teacher whose life she saved; in trying to get it back she is forced to assume human form and look for the teacher. As a result she must learn how to adapt to modern Hong Kong. She disguises herself as one of his pupils and soon they fall in love.

Donnie Yen plays a carefree troublemaker who is constantly trying to chat up a young posh girl while going against a rival breakdancer. While all this is happening he is also trying to set his sister up with a sugar cane vendor (Yuen Woo Ping). Donnie also comes across a bumbling but tough fighter (Dick Wei) who wants to challenge him.

Andy Lau plays a criminal whose skill as a getaway driver saves him and his partners in the wake of a robbery gone awry. The gang members have taken a female hostage while making their escape, however, and they want her killed. Lau, who is attracted to the innocent woman, flles with her and soon realises that he must eliminate his former crime partners.

Andy Lau is Fei a happy-go-lucky boy from a fishing village is is content with his existence. However, he is unwillingly drawn into the battle between the prince (Kenny Bee) and his evil brother. Promisingly to help the Prince in any way possible Fei is asked to escort his bride to be (Anita Mui) to a safe haven.

Set in Melbourne Australia, a TV chef (Jackie Chan) is inadvertently chased by a drug runners gang. He helps out a young TV reporter who has recorded evidence of a murder. However, when the tape gets mixed up with one of Jackie's cooking videos it is him, not the woman who is their prime target.

In the early days of Republican China, a landowner hires priest Lam Ching Ying to disinter and move his father's corpse: but in the process, the corpse turns into a vampire with a powerful thirst for the living. The situation worsens when one of Lam's disciples falls in love with a beautiful ghost, and the other is turned into a creature of the night himself by a vampire bite.

Jet Li, unbeknownst to his adoring family, is a secret agent for the Chinese government, and is sent to Hong Kong to infiltrate a violent gang. Anita Mui is the tough Hong Kong cop who has a run-in with Li, and travels to the mainland to investigate his background. When Li's wife dies of an illness, Mui takes her young son back to Hong Kong in search of his father.