Direction: Wai Ka-Fai

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Wai Ka-Fai. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Needing You (Goo naam gwa neui)

2000 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

6.8

28 votes

6.8

28 votes

Fulltime Killer

2001 · Movie · 100 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To · Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Andy Lau · Teddy Lin · Takashi Sorimachi · Cherrie Ying

Plot 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...

6.6

840 votes

6.6

840 votes

Fat Choi Spirit

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · Hong Kong

6.6

30 votes

6.6

30 votes

Mad detective

2007 · Movie · 89 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Johnnie To · Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Lau Ching-Wan · Andy On · Gordon Lam · Kelly Lin

Plot Cinematic action masters Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai return with the explosive MAD DETECTIVE, an incendiary adventure full of delightfully off-kilter events and a fascinating journey into the human psyche....

6.5

725 votes

6.5

725 votes

Running on Karma

2003 · Movie · 93 min. · Hong Kong

6.3

117 votes

6.3

117 votes

Turn Left, Turn Right

2003 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong

6.2

87 votes

6.2

87 votes

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

2002 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

5.9

35 votes

Detective vs Sleuths

2022 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Lau Ching-Wan · Charlene Choi · Raymond Lam · Jeana Ho

Plot When Hong Kong is rocked by multiple gruesome murders, the police forms a task force to investigate. Jun (Sean Lau), once a brilliant detective who suffered a mental breakdown, begins...

5.7

39 votes

5.7

39 votes

Peace Hotel

1995 · Movie · 89 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Cecilia Yip · Chin Ho · Lau Shun

Plot Set circa 1930, "The King of Killers", a one-man killing machine who, after his wife's murder, has decided to set up the "Peace Hotel", a sanctuary where anyone can stay...

4.8

54 votes

4.8

54 votes

Wu Yen (Chung mo yim)

2001 · Movie · 123 min. · Hong Kong

Not rated

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1:99 Shorts (TV)

2003 · Movie · 70 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Fruit Chan · Teddy Chan · Stephen Chow · Andrew Lau

Cast Sammi Cheng · Lam Suet · Andy Lau · Lau Ching-Wan

Plot Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the Information Service...

Not rated

Not rated

Love for All Seasons

2003 · Movie · 96 min. · Hong Kong

Not rated

Not rated

Himalaya Singh

2005 · Movie · 93 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Lau Ching-Wan · Ronald Cheng · Francis Ng · Cecilia Cheung

Plot Ronald has lived in the Himalayas since he was young and has grown up to become a clean-living yoga master who will soon marry an Indian beauty. But things change...

Not rated

Not rated

Help!!! (Lat sau wui cheun)

2000 · Movie · 92 min. · Hong Kong

Not rated

Not rated

Written By

2009 · Movie · 85 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Lau Ching-Wan · Kelly Lin · Mia Yam · Jo Kuk

Plot Lau Ching-wan plays a lawyer who dies in a car accident, leaving his daughter, Melody, blind and making his wife a widow. To cheer up her mom, Melody writes a...

Not rated

Not rated

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1

1997 · Movie · 90 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Lau Ching-Wan · Carman Lee · Francis Ng · Ruby Wong

Plot When Ah-Gou, a smalltime Hong Kong street rascal, visits a fortune teller and hears that soon he will face a life-changing choice, he surely can't imagine that his life reached...

Not rated

Not rated

Fantasia

2004 · Movie · 103 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Cecilia Cheung · Lau Ching-Wan · Louis Koo · Jordan Chan

Plot A wizard faces ridicule when she is magically summoned in 1960s Hong Kong by a trio of bumbling detectives.

Not rated

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The Shopaholics

2006 · Movie · 92 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wai Ka-Fai

Cast Cecilia Cheung · Lau Ching-Wan · Jordan Chan · Ella Koon

Plot A shopaholic is stuck in a love triangle between two men--one, a psychologist trying to help her and the other, a male counterpart.

Not rated

Not rated