Mad Detective

Aka: Sun Taam / Godly Detective
Director: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai
Release date: 2007
Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring:
Lau Ching-Wan as Inspector Chan Kwai-Bun
Andy On as Inspector Ho Ka-On
Lam Ka-Tung as Officer Ko Chi-Wai
Kelly Lin as May Cheung
Flora Chan as May Cheung (in Bun's eyes)
Lee Kwok-Lun as Officer Wong Kwok-Chu
Jo Kuk as Cunning Woman/Ho's Inner Personality
Jay Lau as Calculating Woman/Ko's Inner Personality
Lam Suet as Fatso
Cheung Siu-Fai as the Violent Man
Eddy Ko as Retiring Police Chief

Synopsis:
When a missing detective’s gun is implicated in a recent series of heists and murders, a hot shot inspector HO (Andy On) seeks out his former boss, BUN (Lau Ching Wan), a gifted criminal profiler now living in seclusion with his wife MAY (Kelly Lin). Bun has a truly unique gift: he can see the inner personalities of the people he meets. As Bun travels further into the psychosis of a prime suspect his unorthodox approach begins to wear on Hos mind. What begins as a quest for answers has now taken a schizophrenic turn where truth and lies, reality and delusions intertwine…
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Curiosities:
Tagline: I can see a person's inner personality.

Awards:
Asian Film Awards: Best Screenwriter: Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au
Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Screenplay: Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards:
Best Screenplay: Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au
Film of Merit
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Orient Express Award - Special Mention: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai

Award Nominations:
Hong Kong Film Awards:
Best Actor: Ching Wan Lau
Best Cinematography: Siu-keung Cheng
Best Costume Design and Make Up Design: Stanley Cheung
Best Director: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai
Best Film Editing: Tina Baz
Best Picture: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai
Best Visual Effects: Raymond Man
Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion: Johnnie To and Ka-fai Wai

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Fulltime Killer

Aka: Full Time Hitman / Full-Time Employment Murderer / Quan zhi sha shou / You and I / Chuen jik sat sau

Director: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai

Release date: 2001

Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, English

Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring:

Andy Lau as Lok Tok-Wah
Takashi Sorimachi as O
Kelly Lin as Chin
Simon Yam as Albert Lee
Cherrie Ying as Gigi
Lam Suet as Fat Ice
Teddy Lin as C7

Synopsis:

Based on a book by Hong Kong filmmaker Edmond Pang Ho-Cheung, Fulltime Killer protagonist O is a hitman being challenged by new hotshot Tok. 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.
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Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Film Editing: David M. Richardson

Trivia:

The film has two endings. The normal one that appeared in theaters and the special ending for Malaysia where O and Chin end up being caught by police. This was supposedly done as per special request to show that "Crime doesn't Pay".

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Himalaya Singh

Aka: Hei ma lai ah sing

Director: Wai Ka-fai

Release date: 2005

Language: Cantonese

Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring:

Lau Ching-Wan
Ronald Cheng as Singh
Cecilia Cheung
Francis Ng
Cherrie Ying as Tally

Synopsis:

Singh (Ronald Cheng) is born and raised in the Himalayas. A naive yoga master, he is ordered by his parents to join the competition hosted by the King of Yoga to fight for the King’s daughter. On his way, Singh meets Tally (Cherrie Ying) who falls for him because of his Yoga skills. Failing to win his love, Tally wants to convert Singh into a bad guy ¨C if she cannot get him, no one else will. At the same time, two Hong Kong tourists (Francis Ng and Sean Lau) are suffering from amnesia and are instructed to take part in the competition as well. Laughter starts to explode in this most incredible fight for the Indian beauty…
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