Johnnie To

Johnnie To

Country: Hong Kong

Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Director), 2 (Writer)

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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)
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    Breaking News
    In this fast-moving action drama, a highly televised police bust of a Hong Kong bank heist end with the criminals getting away and a lot of cops getting killed. In an effort to save face with the public, the police arrange to broadcast the pursuit and capture of the crooks. However, things get more complicated when the bank robbers contact the media with their own version of events. (Palm Pictures)
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    Election
    A drama-thriller centered on a democratic election within an organized crime society (imdb)
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    The Heroic Trio
    The all-female Heroic Trio are Tung (Wonder Woman), Chat (Thief Catcher), a mercenary, and Ching (Invisible Woman)... (imdb)
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    Running Out of Time
    Dying Wah has nothing to be afraid of anymore when he realizes that he has only 4 weeks to live, and he's determined to get revenge for his father. Later, when Wah successfully gets away in a robbery, detective San makes up his mind and chases after Wah and arrests him. But, we can only have one winner in a game, who's gonna win? (imdb)
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    The Mission
    Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assasination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung orders Curtis to kill Shin in punishment for his affair with Mrs. Lung. (imdb)
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    PTU: Police Tactical Unit
    Over the course of one night, a team of cops frantically search for their colleague's missing gun. (imdb)
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    Exiled
    Set just around the time of Macau's reversion to the Chinese government, it concerns a group of hit men who come together when their boss orders a hit on one of them... (IMDB Comments)
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    Throw Down
    A former judo champion quits the tournament cirucit and runs a nightclub. However, when a new challenger appears as well as an old rival and a judo master in need of reviving his school, the young man must go back in training and prepare for the ultimate challenge. (imdb)
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    Running Out of Time 2
    Essentially a remake of the original, only this time Ekin Cheng steps into the role left by Andy Lau (whose character, supposedly, died at the end of the first). As Lau did, Cheng manuevers the same clever cop into his game. Also getting involved is Kelly Lin as a straight laced businesswoman whose important merger is threatened by the thief's games. (IMDB Comments)
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    Triad Election
    As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China. (imdb)
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    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)
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    Mad Monk
    Up in the Heavens, Dragon Fighter Lo Han and his brother Tiger Fighter are reprimanded for their misdeeds. To earn forgiveness they are sent down to Earth to get three individuals - a whore who likes her job too much, a boil-infected beggar and a villain - to repent of their ways. (moria.co.nz)
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    Triangle
    Told in three 30-minute segments, three friends seek out the buried treasure of a mysterious stranger. (imdb)
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    Mad Detective
    A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer. (imdb)
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    Sparrow
    A gang of pickpockets roam the streets of Hong Kong. (imdb)
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    Hu die fei
    The film begins with Dong (Vic Zhou) dying in a car accident during a quarrel with his college sweetheart, Yan (Bingbing Li). The tragedy leaves Yan a psychological wreck who is barely able to cope, even with the help of Prozac. Three years pass and when Yan's psychologist suggests that she comes off the medication, Dong's ghost appears, full of anger and regret over his death. (AsianMediaWiki)
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    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)
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    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)
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    My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
    After a car accident, a woman can see ghosts.
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    Executioners
    Set some time after the original 'Heroic Trio' the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both a popular leader and a militarist colonel. The trio of Chat the Thief catcher, Ching and Wonder Woman (along with her young daughter) have to avert a military takeover and find clean headwaters to save the city. (imdb)
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    A Hero Never Dies
    Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Both of their gang leaders like to get advice from a fortune teller living in Thailand. On one such trip, Martin's gang ambushes Jack's at a Thai hotel. (imdb)
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    The Big Heat
    Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more sinister than they originally anticipated. (imdb)
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    Vengeance
    A French assassin-turned-chef travels to Hong Kong in order to avenge a murder. (imdb)
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    Justice, My Foot!
    Stephen Chow plays another lawyer, and has MORE bad luck! Battling corrupt officials he must now save a woman from being framed. (imdb)
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    In the Nick of Love
    Sammi and Andy are a pair of successful thieves. Happily married, they've been stealing together since their teens. One day, as they were splitting up the gems, Andy suddenly announce he wants a divorce. Without an explanation, he leaves. To years later, you find a business tycoon named Steven proposing to Sammi but she only agrees if she is given a piece of the family jewels... (imdb)
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    Bi shui han shan duo ming jin
    A mystery surrounding a stolen shipment of gold unravels when a wandering swordsman framed for the theft escapes from prison and seeks to prove his innocence. (kungfucinema)
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    The Bare-Footed Kid
    A poor young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father, a manager at a dyeing workshop who is trained in Kung-Fu but has retired form the world of martial arts. The dye shop is owned by a kind woman who is being pressured by a local strongman who is trying to steal her family secrets for his own workshop. When the workshop is burnt down the barefoot kid decides to fight back using his impressive kung-fu skills, but just invites further trouble. (imdb)
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    Eighth Happiness
    Three brothers try to make ends meet when they concoct plans to be one big family of eight. Cooking expert Mr. Fong goes through high and low to court Opera performer Wu Hsiu-Fang, Gigolo wanna-be "Handsome" Lung has one girlfriend too many and Yuppie San just wants to be happy with girlfriend Ying-Ying. (imdb)
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    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.
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    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)
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    The Longest Nite
    While a gang war is developing, Macao cop Sam (Tong Leung Chiu-wai) takes on a gunman in a restaurant where bald Tony (Lau Ching-wan) is eating. After Sam goes to a mobster's restaurant where an informant is tortured, he finds a headless corpse in his apartment. Then a nightclub owner is murdered, and Sam moves fast to find the killer in an effort to prevent the gang war from escalating. However, he gets a full dose of action after he pins the crime on Tony. (allmovie.com)
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    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)
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    Casino Raiders II
    The love and animosities of three men... who will win in the end? (imdb)
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    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)
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    Life Without Principle
    A suspenseful drama starring Denise Ho, Lau Ching Wan and Ritchie Yen, that takes a hard look at Hong Kong's money obsessed culture through three characters whose destinies will cross over one fateful day. (tiff.net)
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    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)
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    All About Ah-Long
    A father's ex-girlfriend resurfaces after a 10-year absence wanting to take her son away from him. With his world shattered, he must decide between what is best for his son and his own future happiness. (imdb)
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    The Fun, the Luck and the Tycoon
    Chow Yun Fat was a famous, clever, rich and spoiled playboy in town living in his father's luxury house. His wealthy grandmother had a rich twin sister. Both of them had their own family and kids. The twin grannies wished to match up their grand children so that their legacy would not fall into the hands of outsiders. Unfortunately, the two grandchildren were not fond of each other.    One month before his marriage with Li, Chow met Cheung Ai Ka in a "Cannoeing Charity Competition" (hkcinemagic.com)
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    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)
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    Loving You
    Lau stars as a cop who is dedicated to his job, but is a pretty rotten human being. He cheats on his wife, and doesn't show any sympathy or kindness to those around him. This all changes when he is shot in the head by a rather vicious drug-dealer. (imdb)
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    Lifeline
    :Following the lives of firefighters as they deal with joys and hardships, both on the job and with their own personal lives. (imdb)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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... (imdb)
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    A Moment of Romance III
    It is the year 1938. Tension is in the air as China is in the throes of an impending war with Japan. Lau Tin Wai (Andy Lau) comes from a well-to-do family who is earmarked for a high-level job in the government. But before he embarks into this job, he is with the 24th Aero Squadron to fight the war against the Japanese. On one mission, his plane is shot down and he ends up in the cornfields in a remote area. Luckily for Wai, a local girl Ting Siu Wo has spied his crash and saves him. (hkmdb.com)
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    The Royal Scoundrel
    Beach Boy (Tong Leung) and Mrs. Chow (Ng Mang Tat) have been partners in police force for years. While investigating a case involving fake money, Beach Boy met Ah Yuk (Wu Chien Lien) whose step-father was one of the members and was arrested by him. Ah Yuk was alone in Hong Kong and Beach boy fell in love with her. Beach Boy's superior, Inspector Lee Nam (Lee Chi Hung) who appears to be honest is actually one of the Taiwanese group. He set up Beach Boy and Mrs Chow. He also courted Ah Yuk... (imdb)
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    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.
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    Seven Years Itch
    Raymond (Raymond Wong) is a introverted office clerk with the dreaded Seven Year Itch. Endlessly badgered by his live-in "wife", Sylvia (Sylvia Chang), who is obsessed with Chinese opera, by his busy-body mother-in-law, and by his reckless brother-in-law John (Eric Tsang), Raymond spends much of his day ogling girls in the street and in the office and listening to his colleagues' stories of their sexual conquests. (imdb)
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    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)
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    Legend of the Condor Heroes
    This is the first chapter of Jin Yong (Louis Cha)'s famous trilogy which also includes "Return of the Condor Heroes" (Shen Diao Xia Lu) and "Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre" (Yi Tian Tu Long Ji). (imdb)
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    Lucky Encounter
    A villain Chan, kidnaps his little nephew Bou, but eventually kills the little boy, leaving both his spirit and the ransom in the house. After failing to get the ransom out of the house several times, which is installed with advanced alert system, Chan hires Wong, who used to be a thief king, to make it for him. Wong then dispatches his son Fatty and Wai, both of whom are interested in electronic science and technology, to go to the house, but they are fooled by Bou. (hkcinemagic.com)
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    Three
    Realizing 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 bide 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.
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    The Iron Butterfly II - See No Daylight
    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. (cine21)
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    Chihuo Quan Wang
    A young man and woman are meeting each other and establishes a special relationship due to debt problems. Him, finds that her have a singing talent and help her develop a singing career. For its part, he also strives to become the champion of the boxing championship. Both have the same state of mind and fight for their dream. Even if they burn their lives, they will have no regrets in this life. (imdb)
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    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.
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