Wai Ka-Fai — Playwright (19)
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Gun n' Rose (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
龍騰四海
director: Clarence Ford actor: Alan Tang Kwong-Wing / Andy Lau …
other title: 龍騰四海 / Gun & Rose
Mr Lung, the boss of a criminal family, decides that his adopted son Alan should be his successor. However, this decision doesn’t suit Mr Lung’s biological sons Simon and Bowie, so they intend to get rid of their adopted brother. Alan manages to escape death and flee; he is determined to start new peaceful life. But will he be able to escape his past?
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Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
向左走．向右走
director: Wai Ka-Fai / Johnnie To actor: Takeshi Kaneshiro / Gigi Leung Wing-Kei …
other title: Turn Left Turn Right / Gira a la izquierda, gira a la derecha …
An aspiring violinist and a professional translator live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.
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The Story of My Son (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
愛的世界
director: Johnnie To actor: Damian Lau Chung-Yan / Cheng Pak-Lam …
other title: 愛的世界 / The Story Of My Son
Li Tzu-Liang is returning to Hong Kong with the ashes of his wife. He now has to bring up his two sons on his own. Though he is quite well-off, he his plagued by debts and when he loses a large sum of money betting on horses, he has to turn to dangerous loan-sharks. Here starts a spiral which gets him and his two sons deeper and deeper into trouble.
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It's No Heaven (1988) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
天堂血路
director: 杜琪峰 actor: 郑浩南 / 吴家丽 …
other title: 天堂血路
Lung’s wife was raped and murdered, and the killer escaped justice. Consumed by grief and rage, Lung killed him and fled to Hong Kong, only to fall into the hands of a snakehead gang and be forced into a life of crime as a bank robber.
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Fantasia (2004) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
鬼馬狂想曲
director: Wai Ka-Fai actor: Cecilia Cheung / Sean Lau Ching-wan …
other title: 鬼馬狂想曲
In Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit and the Hong Kong Columbia Radio Night School graduate Pufferfish, he follows the target Lascar Row. The trio stumbles into an antique shop and breaks many antiques in the store. The cheap Man force Kit and Pufferfish to take responsibility. Kit wisely makes Pufferfish take sole responsibility. The dumb Pufferfish helpless buys the pile of shattered antiques with his own money. In the pieces he finds a broken magic lamp...
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The Shopaholics (2006) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
最愛女人購物狂
director: Wai Ka-Fai actor: Sean Lau Ching-Wan / Cecilia Cheung …
other title: Jui oi nui yun kau muk kong
Fong is a super shopaholic who has landed herself into some serious debt. She seeks the help of Choosey, a psychiatrist who has hilarious psychological issues of his own.
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Fat Choi Spirit (2002) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
嚦咕嚦咕新年財
director: Johnnie To / Wai Ka-Fai actor: Andy Lau / Sean Lau Ching-Wan …
other title: 嚦咕嚦咕新年財 / 呖咕呖咕新年财
Follows the adventures of a compulsive Mahjong player named Andy and his aging mother, estranged brother, loyal ex-girlfriend, and a local gang.
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Wu Yen (2001) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
鍾無艷
6.8 (6 ratings) director: Wai Ka-Fai / Johnnie To actor: Sammi Cheng / Anita Mui …
other title: Wu yen / Chung Mou Yim
Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi stumbles across local chief Wu Yen, his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her first.
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Mad Detective (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
神探
8.4 (10 ratings) director: Johnnie To / Wai Ka-Fai actor: Sean Lau Ching-Wan / Andy On …
other title: 神探
Bun, a schizophrenic, former police inspector comes out of retirement to help a rookie detective solve a complex murder case involving a missing colleague and a suspected policeman suffering from a multiple personality disorder.
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Fulltime Killer (2001) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
全職殺手
director: Wai Ka-Fai / Johnnie To actor: Andy Lau / Takashi Sorimachi …
other title: 全職殺手
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
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Vengeance (2009) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
復仇
director: Johnnie To actor: Johnny Hallyday / Anthony Wong Chau-Sang …
other title: Vendicami / Vingança …
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.