Wai Ka-Fai — Playwright (16)
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It's No Heaven (1988) [Movie] NeoDB 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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Young Cops (1985) [Movie] Douban IMDb
青春差館
director: Yau Kar-Hung actor: Tony Leung Chiu-wai / Anita Mui …
other title: 青春差館
A typical Hong Kong comedy about young inexperienced cops that get into a lot of silly antics. The film is notable for featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Anita Mui in early roles.
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Fat Choi Spirit (2002) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
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 IMDb Douban TMDB
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 (9 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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Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
一個字頭的誕生
7.9 (9 ratings) director: Wai Ka-Fai actor: Sean Lau Ching-Wan / Carman Lee Yeuk-Tung …
A small-time triad must make a fateful decision to discover who he is. With that decision, his life can diverge in two paths, each leading to an ultimate fate.
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Fulltime Killer (2001) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
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.