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Johnnie To Filmography
Complete filmography of Johnnie To: 43 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Three | 2,016 | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6 | 86 | CN | Realising 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 buy 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. |
| Office | 2,015 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 30 | Chinese | 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 of high finance with noble intentions. Kat on the other hand has a secret. |
| Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 | 2,014 | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 | 28 | CN | Two former lovers find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each of them is engaged to someone else. |
| Blind Detective | 2,013 | Action, Crime, Comedy, Thriller | 6.2 | 137 | CN | 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 a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past. |
| Drug War | 2,012 | Action, Drama, Crime | 6.9 | 303 | CN | 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 | 2,012 | Romance, Drama | 5.1 | 19 | CN | 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 widowed fan. |
| Life Without Principle | 2,011 | Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 86 | CN | A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis. |
| Don't Go Breaking My Heart | 2,011 | Romance, Comedy | 6.4 | 62 | CN | 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 backdrop of offices in Hong Kong, with a focus on architecture and its designers. |
| Vengeance | 2,009 | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 | 202 | CN | 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 help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia. |
| Sparrow | 2,008 | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.3 | 81 | CN | Kei is the experienced leader of a team of pickpockets — also known as "Sparrows" in HK slang. He enjoys a carefree lifestyle taking photos. One day a dashing beauty, Chun-Lei, suddenly appears in Kei's viewfinder. Kei is mesmerized. But behind Chun-Lei's attractive facade lies a mysterious past and a mission to set herself free. |
| Exiled | 2,006 | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.2 | 255 | CN | A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him. |
| Election 2 | 2,006 | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 | 200 | CN | As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy looks to increase his business relations with mainland China. |
| Election | 2,005 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 283 | CN | After losing an election to become chairman of the Wo Lin Shing triad, a gang leader lashes out and tries to seize the dragon-head baton, the official symbol of a chairman's authority. |
| Breaking News | 2,004 | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 | 169 | CN | After a disastrous failure to stop a robber gang, the police attempt to redeem themselves through a series of publicity stunts and shootouts. |
| Throw Down | 2,004 | Drama, Action | 6.7 | 113 | CN | A former Judo champion is given the chance to redeem himself after he befriends a competitor and an aspiring singer. |
| Yesterday Once More | 2,004 | Comedy, Romance, Crime | 6.4 | 39 | CN | Mr. and Mrs. To are wealthy, creative jewel thieves who divorce for no apparent reason after a successful diamond heist. A year later, she's engaged to the son of a rich woman who begrudgingly lets her son give his fiancée a family heirloom after she signs a pre-nup. |
| PTU | 2,003 | Crime, Thriller | 7 | 170 | CN | Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes. |
| Running on Karma | 2,003 | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 96 | CN | 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 destiny. |
| Turn Left, Turn Right | 2,003 | Romance, Drama | 7.2 | 35 | CN | 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 apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right. |
| Love for All Seasons | 2,003 | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 14 | CN | 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, she decides to seek the help of infamous womanizer, Tiger Hung, who she had helped earlier, in order to experience heartbreak and master the "Heartbroken Sword" technique to defeat her. |
| Fat Choi Spirit | 2,002 | Comedy | 6.2 | 44 | CN | Follows the adventures of a compulsive Mahjong player named Andy and his aging mother, estranged brother, loyal ex-girlfriend, and a local gang. |
| My Left Eye Sees Ghosts | 2,002 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.1 | 43 | CN | A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate. |
| Fulltime Killer | 2,001 | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 154 | CN | 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; 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. |
| Running Out of Time 2 | 2,001 | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 | 77 | CN | Ho Sheung Sang finds himself wrapped up in another cat-and-mouse game, this time against a tricky magician. |
| Love on a Diet | 2,001 | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 45 | CN | 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 | 2,001 | Fantasy, Comedy | 6.2 | 21 | CN | 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 promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her first. |
| Needing You... | 2,000 | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 35 | CN | 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 each other after a while. |
| The Mission | 1,999 | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 175 | CN | Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection. |
| Running Out of Time | 1,999 | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.3 | 168 | CN | Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates. |
| A Hero Never Dies | 1,998 | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.8 | 57 | CN | 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 truce is made both Jack and Martin are cut loose. The two men then decide to join forces and take on the gangsters who used them. |
| Lifeline | 1,997 | Action, Thriller | 7.1 | 23 | CN | A heroic but cocky firefighter pays no regard to the dangers of the job but lacks the courage to face his personal demons. When faced with a giant and volatile inferno, he must put aside personal differences with his boss if they are both to survive. |
| A Moment of Romance III | 1,996 | Action, Romance, War | 5.1 | 13 | CN | Lau Tin Wai is a fighter pilot in the Chinese airforce who is forced to ditch in a field; he is taken in by the remote community of farmers who nurse him back to health, here he meets Ting Siu Wo, a young woman who falls in love with him. |
| Loving You | 1,995 | Drama, Crime, Action | 5.8 | 28 | CN | A man re-evaluates his life after being given a second chance. When seedy cop Liu Chen-hai is shot, he is forced to do some soul-searching about his old life. |
| The Heroic Trio | 1,993 | Action, Fantasy, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction | 6.7 | 101 | CN | While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her. |
| The Mad Monk | 1,993 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.8 | 62 | CN | The gods in heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan. |
| The Bare-Footed Kid | 1,993 | Action, Drama | 6.2 | 33 | CN | A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father. |
| Justice, My Foot! | 1,992 | Comedy, Action, Crime | 6.7 | 114 | CN | An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court. |
| Casino Raiders II | 1,991 | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 | 15 | CN | Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his son Kit. Having previously tried to shut down the gambling den and take over by paralyzing Fan and framing Kit for another man's murder, ruthless local Triad boss, James goes a step further by murdering Fan. Driven only by money and the pursuit of two valuable 'Jade stones', James kidnaps Kit's daughter so he will surrender gambling in order for James to win the upcoming Championship. |
| The Royal Scoundrel | 1,991 | Comedy, Crime | 5.2 | 11 | CN | Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mr. Chow isn't much help, and is more concerned with taking care of his many, many children. On a routine stakeout, Beach Boy and Mr. Chow rescue a lovely Mainland girl named Ah Yuk, who was previously abused by her criminal uncle. |
| The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon | 1,990 | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 13 | CN | Lam Bo Sun, the richest man in Hong Kong, is expected to marry the ditziest of socialites in a matter of weeks. On a whim, he leaves everything behind and gets a job as a lowly busboy at a noodle restaurant, and finds the girl of his dreams. |
| All About Ah-Long | 1,989 | Drama | 7.3 | 53 | CN | Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend changes the course of their lives. |
| The Eighth Happiness | 1,988 | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 13 | CN | Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in the way! |
| Happy Ghost III | 1,986 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.9 | 26 | CN | 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 as she has one last chance to be born. |
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