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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Believer 2
2023
Original Film Writer
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
2022
Producer, Writer, Director
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
2019
Producer, Writer
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
2018
Original Film Writer
After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterio...

Office
2015
Writer
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
2014
Screenplay, Producer
Two former lovers find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each of them is engaged to someone else.

Boundless
2013
as Self
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
2013
Producer, Writer
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
2012
Writer, Producer
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
2012
Screenplay
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
2011
Producer, Writer
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
2009
Director, Writer, Producer
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.

Vengeance
2009
Screenplay, Producer
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
2007
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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
2006
Writer, Director, Producer
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
2005
Writer, Director
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
2004
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2003
Writer, Director, Producer
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
2003
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2003
Director
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
2003
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2002
Writer, Director, Producer
A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.

Fat Choi Spirit
2002
Writer, Director, Producer
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
2001
Screenplay, Producer, Director
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
2001
Writer, Director, Producer
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
2001
Producer, Director, Writer
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!!!
2000
Writer, Director, Producer
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...
2000
Director, Writer, Producer
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
1999
Story, Producer
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
1998
Producer
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
1998
Producer
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
1998
Producer
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
1997
Producer
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
1997
Writer, Producer
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
1997
Writer, Director
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
1995
Writer, Director
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
1993
Producer
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
1992
Writer
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
1990
Writer
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
1988
Writer
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
1987
Writer
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
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