Wai Ka-Fai

Wai Ka-Fai

1962-09-21 Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China] 43 Credits

Biography

Wai Ka-Fai is a Hong Kong writer, filmmaker, producer 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...

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Believer 2

Believer 2

2023

Original Film Writer

6.7
Writing

A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with...

Detective vs. Sleuths

Detective vs. Sleuths

2022

Producer, Writer, Director

6.7
Producing Writing Directing

When Hong Kong is rocked by multiple gruesome murders, the police forms a task force to investigate. Jun, once a brilliant detective who suffered a me...

Chasing Dream

Chasing Dream

2019

Producer, Writer

6.8
Producing Writing

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 ...

Believer

Believer

2018

Original Film Writer

7.2
Writing

After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterio...

Office

Office

2015

Writer

5.9
Writing

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 o...

Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

2014

Screenplay, Producer

5.7
Writing Producing

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

Boundless

Boundless

2013

as Self

7.5
Acting

As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world of...

Blind Detective

Blind Detective

2013

Producer, Writer

6.1
Producing Writing

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...

Drug War

Drug War

2012

Writer, Producer

6.9
Writing Producing

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

Romancing in Thin Air

Romancing in Thin Air

2012

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

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 widow...

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

2011

Producer, Writer

6.3
Producing Writing

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 backdro...

Written By

Written By

2009

Director, Writer, Producer

5.4
Directing Writing Producing

A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.

Vengeance

Vengeance

2009

Screenplay, Producer

6.6
Writing Producing

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 ...

Mad Detective

Mad Detective

2007

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Producing Writing

Bun, a schizophrenic, former police inspector comes out of retirement to help a rookie detective solve a complex murder case involving a missing colle...

The Shopaholics

The Shopaholics

2006

Writer, Director, Producer

5.9
Writing Directing Producing

Fong is a super shopaholic who has landed herself into some serious debt. She seeks the help of Choosey, a psychiatrist who has hilarious psychologica...

Himalaya Singh

Himalaya Singh

2005

Writer, Director

3.8
Writing Directing

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 t...

Fantasia

Fantasia

2004

Director, Writer, Producer

6.3
Directing Writing Producing

In Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit a...

Running on Karma

Running on Karma

2003

Writer, Director, Producer

6.5
Writing Directing Producing

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 d...

Turn Left, Turn Right

Turn Left, Turn Right

2003

Director, Writer, Producer

7.3
Directing Writing Producing

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 a...

1:99 Shorts

1:99 Shorts

2003

Director

6.3
Directing

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 I...

Love for All Seasons

Love for All Seasons

2003

Director, Writer, Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

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, s...

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

2002

Writer, Director, Producer

6.1
Writing Directing Producing

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

Fat Choi Spirit

Fat Choi Spirit

2002

Writer, Director, Producer

6.2
Writing Directing Producing

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

Fulltime Killer

Fulltime Killer

2001

Screenplay, Producer, Director

6.8
Writing Producing Directing

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; hir...

Love on a Diet

Love on a Diet

2001

Writer, Director, Producer

5.9
Writing Directing Producing

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.

Wu Yen

Wu Yen

2001

Producer, Director, Writer

6.1
Producing Directing Writing

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 pro...

Help!!!

Help!!!

2000

Writer, Director, Producer

5.2
Writing Directing Producing

A trio of idealistic young doctors take on a corrupt, ineffective hospital management more interested in saving dollars than lives. Sub-plots crop up ...

Needing You...

Needing You...

2000

Director, Writer, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

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...

Where a Good Man Goes

Where a Good Man Goes

1999

Story, Producer

6.6
Writing Producing

Fresh from a prison term, a former Triad boss resides in a hotel in Macau, where he befriends its owner and her young son.

A Hero Never Dies

A Hero Never Dies

1998

Producer

6.8
Producing

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 truc...

Expect the Unexpected

Expect the Unexpected

1998

Producer

6.6
Producing

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. Th...

The Longest Nite

The Longest Nite

1998

Producer

6.8
Producing

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...

Intruder

Intruder

1997

Producer

5.8
Producing

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.

The Odd One Dies

The Odd One Dies

1997

Writer, Producer

6.3
Writing Producing

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 gamblin...

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1

Too Many Ways to Be No. 1

1997

Writer, Director

6.8
Writing Directing

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 ultim...

Peace Hotel

Peace Hotel

1995

Writer, Director

5.8
Writing Directing

After his wife's murder, Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs protecting. One day, a mysterious woman shows up who se...

Justice Is Blind

Justice Is Blind

1993

Producer

Producing

In December 1974, a 16-year-old girl was murdered after borrowing a phone at an ice cream shop. The next day, her naked body was found hidden in a TV ...

Gun n' Rose

Gun n' Rose

1992

Writer

4.6
Writing

Mr Lung, the boss of a criminal family, decides that his adopted son Alan should be his successor. However, this decision doesn’t suit Mr Lung’s biolo...

The Story of My Son

The Story of My Son

1990

Writer

6.0
Writing

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...

It's No Heaven

It's No Heaven

1988

Writer

5.0
Writing

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 in...

Easy Money

Easy Money

1987

Writer

5.0
Writing

Millionaire playgirl Ling Young (Michelle Yeoh) spends her free time staging elaborate heists -- not for the money but for the thrill of getting away ...

Young Cops

1985

Writer

2.0
Writing

A typical Hong Kong comedy about young inexperienced cops that get into a lot of silly antics. The film is notable for featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai a...

Detective vs. Sleuths 2

N/A

Producer, Writer, Director

Producing Writing Directing