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Wai Ka-Fai is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Chinois born on 21 september 1962 at Hong Kong (Chine)
Wai Ka-Fai is a Hong Kong screenwriter, producer, film director, and former TV director and producer.
Wai is best known for his frequent collaborations with Johnnie To, another former TV turned film director and producer. In 1996, they formed Milkyway Image, which is now one of the most successful independent film studios in Hong Kong. The films that the two have made together as directors and producers include Needing You..., Fat Choi Spirit, Love on a Diet, Help!!!, Love for All Seasons, Fulltime Killer, Turn Left, Turn Right and Running on Karma.
Two of his films were released in the US theatrically: Fulltime Killer and Mad Detective.
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Wai Ka-Fai
Wai is best known for his frequent collaborations with Johnnie To, another former TV turned film director and producer. In 1996, they formed Milkyway Image, which is now one of the most successful independent film studios in Hong Kong. The films that the two have made together as directors and producers include Needing You..., Fat Choi Spirit, Love on a Diet, Help!!!, Love for All Seasons, Fulltime Killer, Turn Left, Turn Right and Running on Karma.
Two of his films were released in the US theatrically: Fulltime Killer and Mad Detective.
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Blind Detective (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Gao Yuanyuan, Guo Tao, Lo Hoi-pang, Lam Suet
Rating63%
Forced to leave service after turning blind, former detective Johnston Chong See Tun (Andy Lau) ekes out his living by solving cold cases for police rewards. During a case involving the search for the culprit who throws acid off roofs, he meets an attractive hit team inspector Goldie Ho Ka Tung (Sammi Cheng). When Ho notices Johnston's impressive investigative mind despite lack of vision, she enlists his help in a personal case she is unable to solve on her own. The two work together to solve the case as well as other cold cases.
Drug War (2012)
, 1h45Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Louis Koo, Sun Honglei, Wallace Chung, Guo Tao, Li Jing, Lo Hoi-pang
Rating69%
Choi crashes his car into a restaurant and when he revives he is captured by Captain Zhang Lei. Realizing that he will receive the death penalty for his crimes, he bargains information on his colleagues to survive. First, he introduces Captain Zhang Lei as "Uncle Bill", to become a supplier to Haha, who owns a port and can distribute drugs to other countries. Then Captain Zhang Lei poses as Haha to the real "Uncle Bill". Then they go to Choi's factory where they meet the mute brothers. Then they setup the real Haha and catch him. However, an attempt to capture the mute brothers at the factor fails, and they escape through a hidden path. Captain Zhang is livid at Choi for withholding this information at the cost of the lives of several police team members. Choi pleads for a second chance as "Uncle Bill" is really just a front for seven other powerful Hong Kong gangsters whom he did not wish to rat out because 2 of them are his relatives: one is his brother, and another is his godfather. The next day Captain Zhang poses as Haha again and meets with "Uncle Bill". They negotiate a deal to distribute drugs using his port, meanwhile Choi identifies the 7 gangster bosses. Later they discuss terms of the deal at a nightclub, where Captain Zhang, posing as Haha, accuses "Uncle Bill" of being a cop and takes him into custody. The big 7 then confront him in the parking garage, revealing their identities and confirming their business relationship. The next day, Choi leads the big 7 and their entourage to exit 441 and they arrive at a school. Choi removes his wires and reveals to the big 7 that he has ratted them out and they are surrounded by cops. A shootout ensues and nearly everyone is killed except Choi, who escapes in a school bus. However, he crashes into the escaping mute brothers who believe Choi to have ratted them out and another shootout ensues. Captain Zhang, wounded, arrives with several other wounded comrades to stop Choi. They are all killed by Choi, but Captain Zhang is able to handcuff himself to Choi's leg before he dies. Choi is then captured by SWAT reinforcements before he can escape. The film ends with Choi begging for another chance to live by trading more information on other gangsters before he is killed by lethal injection.
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011)
, 1h55Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Gao Yuanyuan, Lam Suet, Terence Yin, Selena Li
Rating64%
Chi-yan (Gao Yuanyuan) is an analyst who just broke up with her boyfriend (Terence Yin) as he was having a baby with another woman (Selena Li). Sean (Louis Koo), a CEO of a broker firm, knew Chi-yan as her office is just opposite of his. He liked Chi-yan all the while, but knew that she was in a relationship and did not want to interfere, and started to take action as he saw what happened in the bus between Chi-yan, her ex, and his current wife. However, Kevin (Daniel Wu), an architect, who dressed shabbily, and an alcoholic, helped Chi-yan out when she was heartbroken by her ex. With Chi Yan's support and, Kevin decided to pick up designing again, and dated her to meet up again a week later. Chi-yan totally forgot about it as she was starting out with Sean, but it did not work out as Sean had a one-night stand with Angelina which started with a misunderstanding and ended his relationship with Chi-yan. Sean later shifted his office as the economy crisis caused him to lose a big sum of money and went over to US. Three years later, Sean comes back into her life as her boss. He tries to win her heart again, but she is put off, because he would be easily seduced by women. Chi-yan becomes disappointed him and right around this time, Kevin also comes back into her life. Subsequent their last meeting, he successfully started an architecture firm and moves to where Sean's old office was located. Both guys court her and she must choose between the aggressive "flower-hearted" Sean or the sincere Kevin.
Written By (2009)
Directed by Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Sean Lau, Jo Kuk
Rating60%
"Lau Ching-Wan plays a lawyer who dies in a car wreck just before answering his daughters question about ghosts, leaving behind his wife, daughter and son. To console herself, his daughter (blind from the crash) writes a novel where she, her mother and brother have died in a car wreck but her father(but blind) has survived. To her surprise, the character of her father in her book decides that HE needs to write a novel to console himself and in his novel he has died but his wife and daughter have lived...and on and on in an endlessly recursive loop, as wounded characters desperately apply fiction to try and dull the sharp edges of their grief.
Mad Detective (2007)
, 1h29Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Sean Lau, Andy On, Gordon Lam, Jo Kuk, Lam Suet, Cheung Siu-fai
Rating70%
Chan Kwai-Bun (Sean Lau) is a brilliant detective with a supernatural gift seeing a person's "inner personalities," or hidden ghosts. However, he is forced into retirement after severing his ear and presenting it to his retiring boss.
The Shopaholics (2006)
Directed by Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cecilia Cheung, Sean Lau, Jordan Chan, Maggie Shiu, Dennis Law, Paula Tsui
Rating53%
Himalaya Singh (2005)
, 1h33Directed by Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy
Actors Sean Lau, Francis Ng, Cecilia Cheung, Cherrie Ying, Gauri Karnik, Lee Siu-kei
Rating43%
The story centers around yoga master Singh (Cheng) who wants to go in search of Indian Beauty (Karnik). On his way, he meets Tally (Ying), a beautiful female gangster head. Because she doesn't want the Indian Beauty to have a good husband, Tally tried her best to make Singh a bad person.
Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)
, 1h36Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gigi Leung, Hui Shiu-hung, Lam Suet, James Hiroyuki Liao, Angela Tong
Rating67%
The story tells of two people who live in buildings right next to each other, separated only by a wall, and are always near each other but can't seem to find one another.
Running on Karma (2003)
, 1h33Directed by Sammo Hung, Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Martial arts films, Films about Buddhism, Kung fu films
Actors Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Cheung Siu-fai
Rating65%
Big (Andy Lau) was a Buddhist Monk, but he gave up this occupation when he realized he could see a person's past life, which would mean he would be able to predict what would happen to that person because of Karma. Big then became a bodybuilder and worked in a strip bar when he ran into Lee Fung-yee (Cecilia Cheung). Lee was working as an undercover cop in the CID which busted Big in his strip show, but Big became entangled in another police case to catch a murderer when he tried to escape.
Fat Choi Spirit (2002)
, 1h36Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy
Actors Andy Lau, Angela Tong, Louis Koo, Gigi Leung, Sean Lau, Cherrie Ying
Rating66%
Andy is an extremely compulsive Mahjong player. Thrown out of the house by his mother and ignored by his more academically gifted and successful younger brother, Louis, he had a hard time running away from debt collectors until one day he met a young girl named Gigi after a run-in with some of the debt collectors' men. Gigi started out as a thief, but because she fell for him and gave him immense luck, Andy gained great success with his extreme good luck in mahjong games and became very rich. However he refused to marry Gigi because she, though a nice woman when with him, was in reality quite a sore loser who threw temper tantrums while on the verge of losing mahjong games. She could not understand that he couldn't stand the way she behaved. As Andy said, her behaviour could be revealed by just playing a game of mahjong where when she lost, she would throw the tables. He promised her that he would marry her if she could play a game of mahjong without such a bad temper. She couldn't and so he couldn't marry her though he loved her. In the meantime, Andy found his mother who was now suffering from Alzheimer's disease and his brother who faced bankruptcy and moved in with Andy, who coincidentally lived in a bungalow. Not wanting to lose out in finding a job, Louis who had excellent luck in Mahjong but zero skill, was conned out of all his money and even his clothes by a skilled, yet devious mahjong player, Sean, portrayed by Lau Ching-wan. But being a kind hearted simpleton, a woman on the con team, (Cherrie) fell for him and decided to mend her ways.
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors Sammi Cheng, Sean Lau, Cherrie Ying, Simon Yam, Wong Tin-Lam, Lam Suet
Rating66%
May Ho (Sammi Cheng) is a woman who inherits a vast fortune when her rich husband drowns in a scuba diving accident in the Caribbean. May told several joking lies to win her Stanford-educated, extremely successful husband, and his mother and sister are less than pleased when they find out, especially since they still harbor suspicions about her motives in marrying her husband after knowing him for only seven days. Nonetheless, the house, fortune, and a portion of the family fashion company are hers. Depressed, alone, and deeply missing her husband (feelings further exacerbated when her husband's dog, Whisky, dies), May goes on a binge of eating, drinking, smoking, watching television, and stealing from her own company's stores, culminating in a drunken car ride and near-fatal car accident.
Wu Yen (2001)
, 2h3Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Actors Anita Mui, Cecilia Cheung, Sammi Cheng, Joe Cheng, Wong Tin-Lam, Hui Shiu-hung
Rating61%
Une légende célèbre raconte qu’un empereur un peu idiot eut la mauvaise idée de libérer un esprit maléfique alors qu’il avait perdu son armée dans la forêt. Cet esprit se transforma alors en une belle jeune femme et vint s’immiscer entre l’empereur et sa nouvelle femme, Wu Yen.
Love on a Diet (2001)
, 1h35Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Lam Suet, Wong Tin-Lam
Rating64%
Mini Mo (Sammi Cheng) is a Hong Kong resident living in Japan. She suffers from depression, low self-esteem and a binge eating disorder – the result which sees her suffers from extreme obesity. A failed suicide attempt causes her to meet Fatso (Andy Lau), a Hong Kong salesman working in Japan who is also obese.
Fulltime Killer (2001)
, 1h42Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Takashi Sorimachi, Andy Lau, Simon Yam, Cherrie Ying, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Lam Suet
Rating67%
Based on a book by Hong Kong filmmaker Pang Ho-cheung, Fulltime Killer protagonist O is a hitman being challenged by new hotshot Lok Tok-wah. O has lived a life of seclusion as the number one hitman in Asia. The woman living at his contact address is captured after O foils a set-up by his boss. He then goes on the run whilst trying to fend off his adversary. The last part of the movie focuses on an Interpol detective's attempt to write the story of Tok and O.
Needing You... (2000)
, 1h41Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Hui Shiu-hung, Lam Suet
Rating67%
Kinki Kwok (Sammi Cheng) is a somewhat scatter-brained office worker at an electronics firm, who is down on her luck with love. Her boyfriend Dan (Gabriel Harrison) cheats on her and treats her like a doormat. She is given to fits of pathological cleaning under emotional stress. Her workplace is full of gossip-mongers perpetually looking to shirk work.