Ka-Fai Wai

Ka-Fai Wai
Country: Hong Kong
Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Director), 30 (Writer), 2 (Creator)
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Fulltime Killer
For many years professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness, which only becomes worse after the death of his love, Nancy. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin. 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. (imdb)
Running on Karma
Exotic dancer Dai Jet Lo (brawny man) has a gift to see through "cause and consequence". He meets a female cop and uses his gift to help her capture an extremely dangerous murderer. The female cop learns that Dai Jet Lo was once a monk who, due to the murder of a friend, left the monastery to find the killer. The female cop also has a inevitable "karma" that dooms her to die an unnatural death. The duo decide to oppose "cause and consequence" and change what cannot be changed. (imdb)
Mad Detective
A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer. (imdb)
Needing You...
Andy (Andy Lau) and Kinki (Sammi Cheng) are from two different worlds, he a successful dot-com entrepreneur but clueless when it comes to girls, she a dutiful secretary but hopeless in the subject of guys. Sparks fly when Kinki gets transferred to work under Andy, but both have to contend with the gossiping among their co-workers. (www.cityonfire.com)
Fat Choi Spirit
Andy Lau plays the Mahjong Warrior, who seem not to be able to lose. Rich as he may be, life is not so simple: by chance he finds his lost mother who now has Alzheimer's, a brother who lost his riches in the dot com bubble, and a girlfriend intent on getting back with him. Add this to a gangster rap of a underground mahjong circle (as underground as the local comedy burger bar, mind you), mix thoroughly and you have a kaleidoscope of humour that will tickle you for an hour and a half. (imdb)
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
After a car accident, a woman can see ghosts.
Peace Hotel
After causing a notorious massacre, a mysterious and dangerous man known only as "The Killer" sets up the Peace Hotel to protect strangers from their pasts; and, perhaps, to atone for his own past sins. But their idyll is broken with Shau Siu Man's arrival, along with the posse out to kill her. And as violence inevitably ensues, all their secrets will be revealed...
Vengeance
A French assassin-turned-chef travels to Hong Kong in order to avenge a murder. (imdb)
Too Many Ways to Be No. 1
This is the story of an inept group of gangsters and Kau, a poor sap who gets mixed up with them. (imdb)
Joi sun ho
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel. (imdb)
Jui oi nui yun kau muk kong
A shopaholic is stuck in a love triangle between two men--one, a psychologist trying to help her and the other, a male counterpart. (imdb)
Turn Left, Turn Right
This is a movie about two people (Gigi Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro), who are destined to be together but by some twist of circumstances they never find each other.
Help!!!
A trio of idealistic young doctors take on a corrupt, ineffective hospital management more interested in saving dollars than lives. Sub-plots crop up in the form of a love triangle, an electrical blackout, and a major car accident. (imdb)
Love on a Diet
Mimi Mo is a young exchange student to Japan who meets and falls in love with a budding pianist, Kurokawa. Kurokawa eventually leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a famous musician. Meanwhile, Mimi has dealt with her depression by eating and weights over 300lbs and Kurokawa doesn't recognize her. Mimi eventually meets Fatty who helps her lose the weight so she can fulfill her promise of meeting Kurokawa made 10 years earlier. But then they fall in love... (imdb)
Daan gyun naam yu
An original twist on an eternal triangle, where secret crush and unrequited love take on altogether newfangled meanings of their own. (imdb)
Love For All Seasons
A man famous for breaking hearts, travels to China seeking a cure for a dysfunctional illness. His doctor, the leading martial arts student of the Omei sect, ends up needing his help to understand her late master's sword technique. To unlock the secret she must experience a broken heart for herself. (mubi.com)
Gun \
Gun 'n Rose is about a Triad family whose leader is implicated in some serious crimes, including murder. He is forced to leave the family and go into hiding. The family "business" is left in the hands of his two brothers: one crazy, and the other spineless. While Simon plots to whack his older brother Bowie, Alan is hiding out in a fishing village, where he befriends a likable rogue and his annoying sister. Simon learns about Alan's whereabouts and decides to make Alan's life very uncomfortable. (rottentomatoes.com)
Easy Money
Michelle Yeoh stars in this breezy caper yarn loosely adapted from The Thomas Crown Affair as Michelle Yeung, a bored millionaire who at the film's opening stages an armored car heist of $HK 33 million of horse race receipts for the fun of it. Insurance investigator Lam (George Lam) immediately suspects Michelle as the mastermind of the crime. (allrovi.com)
Romancing in Thin Air
Like a scene straight out of a movie, on the day superstar Michael (Louis Khoo) is to marry his actress sweetheart Yuan Yuan, a coal miner shows up and runs off with the bride. While dodging the paparazzi, Michael inadvertently boards a truck driven by Sue (Sammi Cheng) and ends up in Shangri-la. (incinema.sg)
The Odd One Dies
The ODD ONE DIES is the story of a "rascal" (Takeshi Kaneshiro) that offers to kill somebody for money. With the money he receives, he gambles and winds up winning. After getting the money he needs, he decides that he no longer wants to do the murder so he arranges for somebody else to do it. That other person is actually a hitwoman. The two become attached and they leave who will do the hit up to chance. (loveandbullets.com)
Where a Good Man Goes
Fresh from a prison term, a former Triad boss resides in a hotel in Macau, where he befriends its owner and her young son. (imdb)
Wu Yen
Cheung Wu Yen (Sammi Cheng) can battle with the best of warriors, men or women, but she's saddled with a birthmark on her face that makes her feel self-conscious. Never mind that the prophets say she is, in fact, a goddess who brings luck and protection to her husband, the emperor -- who's smitten with another woman, Xia (Cecilia Cheung). Can Wu Yen cope with her spouse's wandering ways even as he implores her for help with his kingdom? (flixter)
Himalaya Singh
A hodgepodge of movie parodies, vaguely meaningful Hindu mythology, and over-the-top everything else, this Lunar New Year film echoes last year's Fantasia in that it takes a cast of pretty big stars, has them act silly, and supposes that it all means something. Both films are completely weightless, and both feature a pronounced manic tone that could leave you exhausted. However, Himalaya Singh is much worse than Fantasia - which is mystifying because really, the two films are quite alike. (lovehkfilm.com)
Blind Detective
A cop is forced into early retirement due to retinal damage. But after witnessing a bank robbery along with a female inspector - who believes he has acute senses - they team up in hope to solve the case. (imdb)
Drug War
A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation. (imdb)
Don\
Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To indulges his silly side with this hilariously inventive sequel to his hit romantic comedy, about two former lovers who find themselves irresistibly drawn back together -- despite the fact that each of them is engaged to someone else.
Office
Stylish, glamorous, and fast-paced, Office sees Hong Kong master Johnnie To branching out into yet another genre, rendering Sylvia Chang's hit play Design For Living as a spectacular movie musical about high-level corporate intrigue. (tiff.net)
Fantasia
A wizard faces ridicule when she is magically summoned in 1960s Hong Kong by a trio of bumbling detectives. (imdb)
Brotherhood
Brotherhood (2002) - TV Series
A top joint-production blockbuster helmed by Wai Kar Fai and starring top talents from Hongkong, Singapore and China, this story tells of the differing fates of two twin brothers with very different looks and personalities. Filmed in Shanghai and Singapore, this story stars Hongkong's Jordan Chan, Singapore's Fann Wong and Christopher Lee, and mainland Chinese star newcomers Huang Yi and Hao Lei. (imdb)
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 is 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 that gets him and his two sons deeper and deeper into trouble.