Hui Shiu-hung Movies
- 2002
Desperate to keep her job as a proposal for her dismissal is making the rounds, Fong (Miriam Yeung) deliberately lies to her new boss Wu (Edison Chan) and tells him that she is pregnant. Having come from a single-parent home, sympathetic Wu rejects the proposal and Fong seems to be in the clear for the time being. Her relief is short lived however, when office gossip soon begins to fuel speculation as to the identity of the father. With some help from her best friend Ken (Wyman Wong), Fong begins to learn everything there is about pregnancy, but when the time comes to actually give birth, how will Fong handle the true outcome of her deceit? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Miriam Yeung, Edison Chen, (more)
Johnny To and Law Wing-Cheung's sequel to To's popular action film Running out of Time plunges the hostage negotiator hero of that film, Sang (Lau Ching-Wan), into a whole new adventure. In Running out of Time 2 Sang has been promoted to a dull desk job, but when Ken (Ekin Cheng), a suave art thief with talent for magic tricks and an array of heist plots up his sleeve, draws Sang into a hostage situation, the chase is on all over again. The bulk of the film is a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game, with Ken keeping one step ahead of Sang; his bumbling sidekick, Assistant Commissioner Wong Kai Fa (Hui Shiu-hung); and Teresa (Kelly Lin), a beautiful insurance executive with a lot to lose if Ken's most dastardly plan succeeds. ~ Tom Vick, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lau Ching-Wan, Ekin Cheng, (more)
Three dedicated health-care workers try to save a hospital from itself in this satiric comedy. Sir Ho Kau Kei Hospital is an absurdly mismanaged medical facility in Hong Kong where most of the doctors have given up caring about their patients, and the few that still do are frustrated with the endless red tape of the hospital's management team. Three exceptions are doctors Joe (Ekin Cheng) and Jim (Jordan Chang) and nurse Yan (Cecilia Cheung) -- or at least two of them are exceptions, since Joe has quit to become a mechanic with a team of race car drivers. Jim, however, tries to convince Joe to return to the hospital, where he knows he's doing something worthwhile. Yan, meanwhile, was inspired to enter the medical profession when her life was saved by an emergency appendectomy performed at Sir Ho Kau Kei Hospital; Yan has decided she'll marry whoever it was who performed the surgery, but no one is sure if the doctor on call was Jim or Joe. Lat Sau Wui Cheun was created by the same production team responsible for the box-office triumph Gu Nam Gwa Nui, and was screened in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Cheng Yee-kin, Jordan Chan, (more)
- 2000
Hong Kong heartthrob Andy Lau and singing star Sammi Cheng team up for this romantic comedy. Kinki (Cheng) is a high-strung young woman employed by a Hong Kong computer firm who finds herself working alongside straight-laced salesman Andy (Lau). Kinki has just broken up with her boyfriend, while Andy has recently parted ways with his girlfriend (Fiona Leung). Kinki and Andy initially mix as well as oil and water, and Andy goes so far as to warn her that if she can't straighten up within a month, she'll be given her pink slip. But an attraction begins to develop between them during a business trip to China, and while Kinki finds herself attracting the attentions of a wealthy Internet mogul (Raymond Wong) and Andy finds his old girlfriend is showing new interest in him, the two begin to wonder if they might be better off putting their differences aside after working hours. But Andy learns he has more important matters to contend with when he discovers another salesman at the firm wants him out of the way -- and is willing to go to any lengths to be rid of him. Gu Nam Gwa Nui was a major box-office success in Hong Kong, where it was the top-grossing domestic release of 2000 and outperformed every American film released that year except Mission Impossible 2. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andy Lau, Fiona Leung, (more)
Noted Hong Kong action director Johnny To spins this ultra-cool cat and mouse game between a very tenacious cop and a super thief with 72 hours to live. After brilliantly swiping diamonds from an insurance company, a master criminal (Andy Lau) inveigles Inspector Ho (Lau Ching-wan) into being his unwitting accomplice. Later, when the two confront each other, the thief has another trick up his sleeve. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andy Lau, Lau Ching-Wan, (more)
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. Expect the Unexpected is a perfect genre film showing everyday life and reflecting the current situation in Hong Kong after the hand-over to China. "Unexpectedness" is the underlying theme, which also applies to misdirected affections and miscalculations between the cops and the robbers. The favorite line of the film is "You never pay attention to what I say." Expect the Unexpected was screened as part of the International Forum of New Cinema section of the 49th Berlin Film Festival, 1999. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lau Ching-Wan, Simon Yam, (more)
