In 1996, Shu Qi moved from Taiwan to Hong Kong for development, and was discovered by Wong Jing, starring in "Red Light District" and "The Jade Pope's Jade Lady".On June 25, 2001, the Asian edition of Time magazine in the U.S. approached Shu Qi as a cover character and interviewed her.In 2002, for the filming of the U.S. action movie "Playing for Keeps", which was supervised and produced by Luc Besson, Shu Qi stayed in France for 3 more than a month. In August of the same year, Shu Qi starred in "Sunset Angel", which was released in theaters.

In 2003, she starred with Liu Ye in Beauty Grass, a romance film set in the seventies against the backdrop of the life of young intellectuals in the Yunnan Production and Construction Corps, adapted from the novel First Love by the famous Chinese-American writer Shi Xiaoke. On April 03 of the same year, the comedy film "Strange Encounters with Enemies", sunshine, beaches, beautiful women, fierce men, stupid thieves, stupid secret agents, looking for love and illegal transactions entangled, a "Strange Encounters with Enemies" by Lin Lingdong to make a hilarious and extraordinary. Compared to Hong Kong comedy films, the film is not like Zhao Chongji's "stingy money family" focus on reality, not about Xinhui's "Mr. Bastard" borrowed the theme of didactic, very few Ma Weihao's "Hedong Lion Roar" deliberately sensational, even less than Johnnie To's "I see ghosts in the left eye" cleverly conceived, but winning in love, funny, action, detective, gunfight, blimp a variety of genre elements *** Metallurgy a furnace, breakthrough of the popular low-budget comedy skit! The pattern. The cartoon-style cartoon interpretation of "The Enemy" is reminiscent of the Hong Kong-style comedy of the golden age of the 1980s.

In 2004, Shu Qi starred in the Thai-Chinese collaborative movie "Ghosts 2", the "Ghosts series" is a movie dream created by Chan Ho-Sun and the Pang Brothers***. Seeing Ghosts" is known as the scariest movie in Hong Kong in more than ten years, and has successfully broken the cultural divide. It attracted audiences outside of Hong Kong; the Pang brothers are well known in the Hong Kong film industry, with Pang Shun being one of the best colorists in all of Asia, and Pang Fat being one of the top editors in Hong Kong. Both are based in Thailand and gained international notoriety for their movie Silent Fire. This Ghost 2 has a tighter story and a more organized pulse compared to the first film, and it also has a better sense of suspense.