Johnnie To

Johnnie To Kei-Fung (Chinese: 杜琪峯, born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his action and crime movies, which have earned him critical respect and a cult following. His films, often made in collaboration with the same group of actors, screenwriters and cinematographers, frequently explore themes of friendship, fate and the changing face of Hong Kong society. Sometimes described as "multifaceted and chameleonic" due to his ability to switch tones and genres between movies, To is nonetheless seen as having a consistent style, which involves mixing subdued realism and social observation with highly stylized visual and acting elements. To heads the Hong Kong-based production company Milkyway Image with his frequent co-director Wai Ka-Fai.

Works

Expect the Unexpected

In this "cops and robbers" film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go into action at a moment's notice. Working as a unit, they bring law and order to Hong Kong streets, where they must rely on their courage and skills to survive.

Release Date1998-05-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Vote Count35

Three

Realising that he will be defeated in no time during a police showdown, a thug shoots himself to force the cops to cease fire and take him to the hospital. In the hospital, he claims human rights to refuse immediate treatment in order to buy time for his underlings to rescue him. The detective in charge sees through his scheme but decides to play along so as to capture his whole gang once and for all.

Release Date2016-06-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Wong Superintendent (voice)

Vote Count83

The Royal Scoundrel

Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mr. Chow isn't much help, and is more concerned with taking care of his many, many children. On a routine stakeout, Beach Boy and Mr. Chow rescue a lovely Mainland girl named Ah Yuk, who was previously abused by her criminal uncle.

Release Date1991-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Taxi Driver

Vote Count11

The Iron Butterfly II

A Hong Kong homicide detective insists on the same name that his father, Rock Moon, has died and carved it deeply into his heart. In this case her mother is treated in a psychiatric hospital. Have found that their heads are the same in recent drug trafficking and crime-ridden campaigns.

Release Date1990-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

It's No Heaven

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.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Club Patron

Vote Count1

Johnnie Got His Gun!

Johnnie got his gun is a mix of interview snippets with To, these are taken from various sources and are cobbled together with clips from including Breaking news, P.T.U and The Mission amongst others. It seems Montmayeur did do an interview but it's so chopped up and mixed in it feels insignificant. Prominent members of casts and crew also feature in interview form but again from many different times and sources.

Release Date2010-10-30

Charactersd Himself

Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video

Release Date2004-11-11

Charactersd (archive footage)

Golden Horse Awards

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

Release Date1962-10-31

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Boundless

As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world of film. A film student from Beijing and avid Johnnie To fan, Ferris Lin boldly approached To with a proposal to document the master director for his graduation thesis. To agreed immediately and Lin's camera closely followed him for over two years, capturing the man behind the movies and the myths. The result is Boundless, a candid profile of one of Hong Kong's greatest directors and a heartfelt love letter to Hong Kong cinema.

Release Date2013-11-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count10

Hong Kong Superstars

Hong Kong Superstars is a documentary

Release Date2001-01-01

Charactersd Self

The Weaving of a Dream: Johnnie To's Vision and Craft

From the ambitious young filmmaker behind Boundless, The Weaving of a Dream is a short documentary that details the making of Johnnie To's film Three.

Release Date2016-05-01

Charactersd Self

Code Name: Melville

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.

Release Date2010-03-27

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong

Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors who wrote the scenarios and directed the films.

Release Date2001-10-01

Charactersd Self

In the Mood for Melville

Various directors and film critics discuss Jean-Pierre Melville’s importance and influence in the world of cinema.

Release Date2017-12-15

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

The Legend of the Condor Heroes

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1983. The 59 episodes long series is divided into three parts. This 1983 version is considered by many to be a classic television adaptation of the novel and features the breakthrough role of Barbara Yung, who played Huang Rong.

Release Date1983-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count59

Vote Count18

Vengeance

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.

Release Date2009-05-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count198

New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre

New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1986.

Release Date1986-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count40

Vote Count1

The Duke of Mount Deer

The Duke of Mount Deer is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Deer and the Cauldron. It was first aired on TVB in 1984.

Release Date1984-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count40

Vote Count4

Election 2

As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Release Date2006-04-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count182

Drug War

A drug cartel boss is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

Release Date2012-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count285

A Moment of Romance

After a young Triad member takes an upper-class girl hostage during his escape from a jewelry heist, the two find themselves falling in love, in spite of the repercussions caused by their forbidden relationship.

Release Date1990-06-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count55

Motorway

Two police pursuit drivers, a hothead rookie and his long-suffering, almost-retired mentor, face off against an escape car driver from the latter's past.

Release Date2012-06-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count89

Election

After losing an election to become chairman of the Wo Lin Shing triad, a gang leader lashes out and tries to seize the dragon-head baton, the official symbol of a chairman's authority.

Release Date2005-10-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count261

Running Out of Time

Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.

Release Date1999-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count157

The Mad Monk

The gods in heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan.

Release Date1993-07-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Exiled

A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.

Release Date2006-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count240

Justice, My Foot!

An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.

Release Date1992-07-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count107

No One is Innocent

Release Date1981-11-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Royal Warriors

When a tough policewoman learns about a group of violent terrorists, she, along with her partner and a Japanese detective, does everything it takes to take them down.

Release Date1986-06-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count55

Breaking News

After a disastrous failure to stop a robber gang, the police attempt to redeem themselves through a series of publicity stunts and shootouts.

Release Date2004-06-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count164

Throw Down

A former Judo champion is given the chance to redeem himself after he befriends a competitor and an aspiring singer.

Release Date2004-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count108

Sparrow

Kei is the experienced leader of a team of pickpockets — also known as "Sparrows" in HK slang. He enjoys a carefree lifestyle taking photos. One day a dashing beauty, Chun-Lei, suddenly appears in Kei's viewfinder. Kei is mesmerized. But behind Chun-Lei's attractive facade lies a mysterious past and a mission to set herself free.

Release Date2008-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count77

Eye in the Sky

The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice and the other on a notorious criminal he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from filmmaking duo Johnnie To and Nai-Hoi Yau. Of course, the criminal knows all along he's being watched. But that doesn't stop him from trying to pull off the biggest score of his career.

Release Date2007-06-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count57

The Vampire Strikes Back

Release Date1989-03-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count20

Running Out of Time 2

Ho Sheung Sang finds himself wrapped up in another cat-and-mouse game, this time against a tricky magician.

Release Date2001-12-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count73

Fulltime Killer

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.

Release Date2001-08-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count152

The Mission

Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection.

Release Date1999-11-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count166

Trivisa

Hong Kong's three notorious thieves who have never met one another before appear in the same restaurant. This leads to a rumour that they are joining forces to pull off something big before the Handover, though this is not something that any of them.

Release Date2016-04-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count94

The Yang's Saga

The Yang's Saga is a 1985 Hong Kong miniseries based on a series of novels and plays titled Generals of the Yang Clan. The series is a grand production by the television station TVB. The original broadcast period on TVB Jade was from 23 to 28 September 1985, within the night time slot for Enjoy Yourself Tonight. Starring the Five Tiger Generals of TVB, the drama also featured the largest star-studded cast in Hong Kong television history, including many of the industry's current top award-winning global and cinematic stars.

Release Date1985-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Tactical Unit - Partners

Rumor has it that “Black Moly”, the Indian head of a gang has returned. His former subordinate Velu is released from prison, he refuses to follow the same path as before. But he is misconstrued by his buddy, Sonu that Velu betrays him. Sonu accepts the task for killing PTU’s Team Head. Sam and May from PTU and Velu can’t easily leave themselves out of account.

Release Date2009-05-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

The Heroic Trio

While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.

Release Date1993-02-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count91

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

In a post-nuclear world, three superpowered women fight an evil genius controlling the government and the water supply.

Release Date1993-09-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count36

PTU

Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.

Release Date2003-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count164

Blind Detective

A brilliant detective is forced into early retirement after losing eyesight. Making ends meet by solving cold cases for reward money, he teams up with a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past.

Release Date2013-07-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count128

What If

Lok Chak-shun, a man who lives three different destinies shaped by his choices. Born prematurely in 1960s Hong Kong, he grows up passionate about comics. A school prank leads him to a fateful encounter with a mysterious girl, but a broken kite triggers a ripple in time, splitting his life into three divergent paths.

Release Date2025-03-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count12

Vote Count5

A Moment of Romance II

A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. A moment of Romance between them follows after.

Release Date1993-06-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count14

The Longest Nite

Caught in the middle of a fierce gang war in Macau, a corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces. He meets a suspicious bald man named Tony, who keeps following him around and disrupting his personal business. But when Sam finds out he's a suspect in a nightclub owner's murder, he's sure his stalker has something to do with it.

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count73

Magnificent Warriors

A daredevil airplane pilot and spy, who fights against the occupying Japanese forces in China, must rescue the ruler of the city of Kaal from the hands of a ruthless Japanese general and his advancing army.

Release Date1987-04-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count38

Love on a Diet

A depressed, obese woman tries to lose weight in order to win back her ex-boyfriend with the help of a fellow Hong Konger whom she met in Japan.

Release Date2001-06-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count40

A Hero Never Dies

Jack and Martin are gunmen who work for two rival kingpins. Jack and Martin have been fighting on their bosses behalf for close to a year. When a truce is made both Jack and Martin are cut loose. The two men then decide to join forces and take on the gangsters who used them.

Release Date1998-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Office

Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is an earnest young man who naively enters the world of high finance with noble intentions. Kat on the other hand has a secret.

Release Date2015-09-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count29

Second Time Around

A young man goes to Las Vegas with his best friend to prove he can win big bucks. When he loses all of the money, he and his friend get help from a young woman who tells the man the story of some special stones that are part of a legend involving time travel and parallel universes. When the trio get in a car accident, the young gambler is the only survivor. Pursued by a female detective, the two accidentally end up back in time on Christmas Day, where the gambler decides to make the wrong things right, and he also ends up falling in love with the detective.

Release Date2002-01-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count17

Mad Detective

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.

Release Date2007-11-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count208

The Bare-Footed Kid

A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.

Release Date1993-04-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count32

Newsmakers

A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.

Release Date2009-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count21

Tactical Unit: Comrades in Arms

Two tactical unit leaders are forced to put aside their differences to help catch a group of robbers.

Release Date2009-01-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count12

Tactical Unit - No Way Out

After a late-night triad dispute leads to the death of an innocent civilian, PTU officers take action by investigating triad activities in the area.

Release Date2008-05-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count15

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.

Release Date2002-07-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count38

Fat Choi Spirit

Follows the adventures of a compulsive Mahjong player named Andy and his aging mother, estranged brother, loyal ex-girlfriend, and a local gang.

Release Date2002-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count40

Wu Yen

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.

Release Date2001-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count19

Accident

A self-styled accident choreographer, the Brain is a professional hitman who kills his victims by trapping them in well crafted accidents that look like unfortunate mishaps. When the team's next assignment goes disastrously wrong, Brain begins to suspect that someone else has planned an ‘accident’ on them.

Release Date2009-09-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count124

Intruder

A mainland Chinese girl is, with her husband, a wanted criminal and they have to get to Hong Kong in order to stay alive and be free.

Release Date1997-11-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count18

All About Ah-Long

Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend changes the course of their lives.

Release Date1989-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count51

Triangle

Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure is buried under a high-security government building.

Release Date2007-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count59

Yesterday Once More

Mr. and Mrs. To are wealthy, creative jewel thieves who divorce for no apparent reason after a successful diamond heist. A year later, she's engaged to the son of a rich woman who begrudgingly lets her son give his fiancée a family heirloom after she signs a pre-nup.

Release Date2004-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count37

Tactical Unit - The Code

Tensions flare between PTU officers and the Complaints Against Police Officers unit when a security camera captures a triad member being brutalized by PTU officers.

Release Date2008-04-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count11

Running on Karma

A monk turned body-builder, with the gift to see into people's lives, befriends a female cop, and uses his gift to change the force of Karma and her destiny.

Release Date2003-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count95

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

A typical story of the classic romantic triangle, where one person ends up having to choose between two others. This time, it is set against a backdrop of offices in Hong Kong, with a focus on architecture and its designers.

Release Date2011-03-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count56

Love for All Seasons

May is a martial artist and Chinese medicine practitioner who resides in a temple in Omei mountain. Under the threat of her lovelorn master, Misery, she decides to seek the help of infamous womanizer, Tiger Hung, who she had helped earlier, in order to experience heartbreak and master the "Heartbroken Sword" technique to defeat her.

Release Date2003-01-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

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.

Release Date2000-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

Two former lovers find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each of them is engaged to someone else.

Release Date2014-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Life Without Principle

A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.

Release Date2011-10-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count81

Happy Ghost III

A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.

Release Date1986-07-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Needing You...

Wah and Kinki both work at a computer company. Despite not getting on too well initially, their friendship develops into romance when they get to know each other after a while.

Release Date2000-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count31

Love Under the Sun

On a splendid night, as elegant individuals lose themselves in dance in a ballroom, a rumor is born that one of the guests is HIV positive. Unprecedented fear and suspicion follow, with fallacies about HIV infection close up on its heels.

Release Date2003-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

A or B

A young business elite, Zhong, was imprisoned in a house! Everyday, a mysterious man will reveal one of his darkest secrets to the world. At the same time, his wife, friends and business partners were all been dragged into this incident one after another. Being imprisoned, how will Zhong combat this challenging situation? How will he escape from the house and fight the mysterious man and complete the salvation?

Release Date2018-04-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count15

Punished

Real estate tycoon Wong Ho-Chiu (Anthony Wong Chau-Sang) suffers great pain when his daughter Daisy (Janice Man) is kidnapped and killed. Wong Ho-Chiu turns to his trusted bodyguard Chor (Richie Ren) to seek out the perpetrators and exact revenge. Wong Ho-Chiu goes one step further and orders Chor to videotape each of their executions. Once Chor tracks down the final perpetrator Wong Ho-Chiu decides to kill that person himself. When Wong Ho-Chiu learns about the perpetrator’s past, he has second thoughts …

Release Date2011-05-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count36

Casino Raiders II

Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his son Kit. Having previously tried to shut down the gambling den and take over by paralyzing Fan and framing Kit for another man's murder, ruthless local Triad boss, James goes a step further by murdering Fan. Driven only by money and the pursuit of two valuable 'Jade stones', James kidnaps Kit's daughter so he will surrender gambling in order for James to win the upcoming Championship.

Release Date1991-06-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Lifeline

A heroic but cocky firefighter pays no regard to the dangers of the job but lacks the courage to face his personal demons. When faced with a giant and volatile inferno, he must put aside personal differences with his boss if they are both to survive.

Release Date1997-01-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

The Eighth Happiness

Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in the way!

Release Date1988-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Hooked on You

Hong Kong actress and pop star Miriam Yeung stars as an eligible bachelorette who reluctantly takes a job as a fishmonger to pay off her father's debts. But her stinky job gets stinkier when a brutish rival fisherman enters the scene.

Release Date2007-06-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count16

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.

Release Date1990-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Turn Left, Turn Right

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.

Release Date2003-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count33

Loving You

A man re-evaluates his life after being given a second chance. When seedy cop Liu Chen-hai is shot, he is forced to do some soul-searching about his old life.

Release Date1995-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

Tactical Unit - Human Nature

CID officer Tong gets himself entangled with a gang of killers from mainland China, who are out killing criminals to rob them of their money, and using an ideological basis to justify the killings as protecting mainland China from the criminal scum of Hong Kong.

Release Date2008-08-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.

Release Date2022-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Chasing Dream

A young man and woman meet each other and forge a special connection due to violent circumstances and debt issues. He is a prize fighter who wants to be champion of the world, she is a talented singer who dreams of major success. Both will do anything to achieve their dreams, fighting with everything they can in this life so there’s no regrets in the next.

Release Date2019-11-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon

Lam Bo Sun, the richest man in Hong Kong, is expected to marry the ditziest of socialites in a matter of weeks. On a whim, he leaves everything behind and gets a job as a lowly busboy at a noodle restaurant, and finds the girl of his dreams.

Release Date1990-01-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Mad Fate

A fortune teller fails to help a prostitute who is facing a deadly calamity. When he meets a young boss of a tea restaurant, he predicts that his bloodthirsty tendencies will lead him to a prison sentence for murder.

Release Date2023-04-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count29

The Big Heat

A cop is losing the control of his right hand and cannot pull the trigger on time anymore. Before any accident happens, he decides to resign. Meanwhile his friend and informer is brutally murdered in Malaysia. Before leaving the force, he decides to find the killers with the help of his buddy, a young cop and an inspector from Kuala Lumpur.

Release Date1988-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count26

The Odd One Dies

A failure of a Triad who is desperate for money decides to accept an assassination mission. With his advance in money he decides to risk it in gambling, he becomes lucky and wins a fortune. With all this money he is not so sure that he wishes to do the murder anymore, he looks for a hitman to take his place. He finds a women willing to take the job but she ends up more trouble than he expected.

Release Date1997-05-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count20

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.

Release Date1999-05-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Looking for Mr. Perfect

A policewoman has always had the worst luck in love. On a trip to Malaysia, she finally meets the man of her dreams. However, her Perfect Man might not be all he appears to be.

Release Date2003-04-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

A Moment of Romance III

Lau Tin Wai is a fighter pilot in the Chinese airforce who is forced to ditch in a field; he is taken in by the remote community of farmers who nurse him back to health, here he meets Ting Siu Wo, a young woman who falls in love with him.

Release Date1996-03-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Only Fools Fall in Love

Poor girl meets rich boy as they quarrel over a food seller's once a year delicacy. His brother pays her to marry the brother so he can stage an assassination attempt. The attempt doesn't succeed but the man is reduced to the level of an idiot child and the girl looks after him because of her guilt. She nurses him back to health so that he can resume his place as head of the family.

Release Date1995-09-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count12

Lucky Encounter

Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncle who was responsible for his untimely death. However, the inventors are warned by a spiritual master that humans and ghosts cannot co-exist in the same room at the same time. Doing so would cause a drainage of humans' life force.

Release Date1992-06-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Final Justice

Father Lee (Sean Lau) is young and unconventional. He fell into temptation and was sued by Donna (Almen Wong), who accuses him of rape. Lee faces a lawsuit and abandonment by his church and his followers. Gangster Mr. Gum (Eric Tsang) is willing to help and has hired Ku (Carman Lee) as his defending lawyer. Mr. Gum believes in silence by violence, while Ku would rather try false witnesses. But Lee refuses to attack Donna in court for fear of hurting her again. In the end, Lee proved to Mr. Gum and Ku that conscience does in fact exist in this corrupt world ruled by power and material desire.

Release Date1997-03-08

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JobProducer

Vote Count1

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1

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.

Release Date1997-03-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count25

The Enigmatic Case

An imprisoned swordsman is accused of killing three men. He probably would have already been executed for his crimes but is kept alive because he knows the whereabouts of hidden gold.

Release Date1980-06-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Beyond Hypothermia

A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man's bodyguard is out for revenge.

Release Date1996-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count33

The Lone Sabre

In the late Qing Dynasty, the policeman Wang Wu (played by Zheng Haonan) was dedicated to arresting imperial criminals for the court. He was called the "Wang Wu of the Big Sword" because of his good use of a big knife. An Xiaoren, the imperial censor of the time, spoke bluntly, impeaching the eunuch Li Lianying for interfering in the government, which angered Cixi. Xi ordered Wu to suppress and kill Ren's family, and Wu to avoid killing Zhongliang by mistake, but he openly disobeyed the order, thus incurring the disaster of exterminating the family. Wu's wife Ao Xue (played by Lan Jieying) was brutally murdered, and Wu Sui and her young son wandered around the world. Sado (played by Yin Yangming), the governor of the imperial court, was ordered to hunt down the five fathers and sons. Although the five and many cherished each other, the two still could not escape a life-and-death battle in the end...

Release Date1994-11-14

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JobProducer

Memory of the Youth

Fang, a lively and lovely girl from Qingdao, finds a violet which belongs to a little gentleman Yao. A true friendship starts to develop between them after this destined enounter. They grow together along with their friendship. However, Fang's mother wants Fang to get married and in order to escape, Fang decides to elude to Europe. Before her departure, the two young people finally realise love has already blossomed between them long time ago...

Release Date2003-09-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Seven Years Itch

An introverted businessman who doesn't get out much, Willie Ng recently celebrated his seventh anniversary, but his marriage seems to be hitting a slump. His wife is a Cantonese opera aficionado who often complains that her husband is boring and doesn't appreciate the arts. Willie himself is also eager for some action to break the monotony. When he goes to Singapore on a business trip, he encounters cute pickpocket Siu Hung at the airport, triggering off a series of events that puts his marriage in jeopardy.

Release Date1987-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Spacked Out

In the god-forsaken satellite city of Tuen Mun, 13-year-old Cookie suspects she's pregnant. Lately things have not been going her way. Her mother left; her father ignores her; her best friend is in reform school; and her boyfriend is off selling bootleg VCDs in bustling Mong Kok. Flanked by her ride-or-dies Banana, Sissy, and Bean-Curd, she journeys into town to find an abortionist.

Release Date2000-05-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Romancing in Thin Air

After his new bride dumps him at their wedding reception, a heartbroken actor winds up in the mountains, where he meets and falls in love with a widowed fan.

Release Date2012-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

Edge of Justice

In British-ruled Hong Kong, a powerful British prosecutor attempts rape, leading to the victim’s death. Maggie Chan, the lawyer seeking justice, faces bribery and corruption that jeopardize the case. She takes a daring risk in court to uncover the truth.

Release Date1993-04-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Comeuppance

Michael is a cop chasing uncommon serial killer Sung Ping, who one day kills off a scummy triad on almost a whim. Liking the aftermath, he proceeds to plan his next few killings much to the dismay of the local triads. Meanwhile, reporter Hak makes the real-life crime drama the fodder for his crime fiction serial. Before long, Ping begins using the fiction to fuel his own plans, and soon Hak is concerned that he may be responsible.

Release Date2000-11-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

The Good, the Bad and the Beauties

Release Date1978-12-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Linger

A woman is revisited by the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, three years after a car crash took his life.

Release Date2008-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

1:99 Shorts

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 Departement of the Government of HK SAR. The aim was to bring back confidence to the HK popuation. The running-time is 1 to 2 minutes for each short.12 Short films: 1-"Rhapsody", director: Johnny To and Wai Ka-fai; 2-"My Sow Is Not Feeling Well", director: Fruit Chan; 3-"Smile", director: Teddy Chen; 4-"Of a Cause" (Animation) director: Tsui Hark; 5-"Hong Kong - A Winner", director: Stephen Chow; 6-"Who's Miss Hong Kong?", director: Joe Ma; 7-"Family of Heroes", director: Alex Law and Mabel Cheung; 8-"Until Then", director: Gordon Chan and Dante Lam; 9- "McDull 1:99" director: Brian Tse; 10-"Spring, 2003", director: Peter Chan; 11-"A Glorious Future", director: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak; 12-"Making of 1:99", director: Wong Shou-Ping.

Release Date2003-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

A Complicated Story

Needing money for her brother’s medical treatment, Liu Yazi agrees to become a surrogate mother for a mysterious benefactor. But when the contract is suddenly terminated, she disappears in a whirlwind, taking the unborn child and leaving former acquaintances, spurned lovers and secret admirers seeking her desperately.

Release Date2013-03-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count6

The Open Road

An inspirational short film by Johnnie To.

Release Date2005-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

It's a Drink! It's a Bomb!

An illegal dealing of a soda-canned bomb between a crooked Hong Kong cop and two Japanese traffickers goes bad after an associate decides to go against their plans...

Release Date1985-12-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count3

Story of Nam

Nam was originally a Vietnamese soldier, yet because he hated the cruelty of war, he fled to Hong Kong and was placed in a refugee camp. Anan reunites with his long-lost brother in the camp. The two hope to immigrate to France and have a new life. In the refugee camp, the two gangs headed by big bully Kei and Kuen, who often fight openly and secretly for power.

Release Date1989-12-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Sealed with a Kiss

Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Chiu directs this quiet romance that recalls the gentle style of Francois Truffaut. Young and attractive Mandy (Yo Yo Mung) flees the hustle of Hong Kong proper and a failed relationship for the bucolic quiet of Peng Chau, one of several dozen communities located on the former colony's outlying islands. There she stays in a rooming house with the mute and slightly slow Kam Shui (Louis Koo). In spite of herself, she falls for the misfit, much to the consternation of Angel (Siu Au), Kam Shui's tomboyish best friend who also harbors feelings for him. Chiu masterfully brings out the nuances of life on the island in this simple tale, simply told.

Release Date1999-11-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Gimme Gimme

Lobo and Skid are very close friends. They study in the same class and often play in a band and play skateboards with their classmates. Soda, one of their classmates, has many girlfriends concurrently, and Suki is his closest girlfriend. Fion is another classmate. She is addicted to chat in phone with friends and strangers every day. She always thinks she will find a true love from playing line.

Release Date2001-05-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

The Betrayal

The film tells the story of Chen Baili's father, the director of the Shanghai Police Department, who was bizarrely murdered for investigating the theft of state secrets. In order to find out the truth, Cha Li and his assistant Ai Li returned to Shanghai from the United States for investigation.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Iron Butterfly

The police feel the case is serious, then send Shan, Hui even hand investigation, two at first did not and, as understanding deepens, emotional surge; and Ling-hui is the subordinate Li Jian fell in love. Hui Shan and strengthen business gang raids, thereby forcing each gang leader to surrender Aberdeen, against being next use, health and more were killed.

Release Date1989-06-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

2 Become 1

Bingo leads a carefree city life that revolves around work, friends and dating. Her yuppie life is turned upside down one passionate night when her hot date Dr. V discovers a lump on her left breast.

Release Date2006-03-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Dead End

Wong Tat Lung was hunted down by the triads in Hong Kong twenty years ago and became a resident of the black market in Toronto, where he stayed for twenty years without an identity card. He joined a gang and made a lot of money by working as a black market gambler. He has not returned to Hong Kong for 20 years and has not fulfilled his fatherly duties. His daughter, Wong Siu Ming, hates him, but because she is entrusted by her late mother, she has to go to Toronto to see her father. In order to meet his daughter, Lung buys a big house and participates in a coke deal in order to give her some money, but the deal goes bad and is busted by the police. Lung even betrays Tony, a gangster, and is hunted down by him. When Lung meets his daughter for the first time, he is killed by Tony, but there is video evidence of Tony's murder. Tony then hunts down and kills Sau Ming and Lung's henchman, Fu Chai, and Fu Chai and Sau Ming are forced to flee for their lives and fight with Tony.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Fatal Assignment

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Behind Bars

A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.

Release Date1990-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Iron Butterfly III: Tomorrow

Tomorrow is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Release Date1992-11-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

In the Qing Dynasty

Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Untitled Johnnie To Gangster Film

Revolves around the conflict of Hong Kong gangs in Japan.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Banquet

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

Release Date1991-11-30

Vote Count14

Sisters of the World Unite

Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men.

Release Date1991-12-05