Too Many Ways To Be No. 1 (1997)
May 28, 1999Alternate Timelines/Hong Kong Gangsters
Predating Sliding Doors, this hard-boiled Hong Kong gangster film from Wong Kar-wai did the whole alternate timelines theme first
Wai Ka Fai
Wu Yen (2001)
Apr 14, 2001Mischievous Fairy
Frenetic Hong Kong comedy about fairy enchantments involving all the cast undergoing gender reversals
Running on Karma (2003)
Nov 19, 2025Man Who Can See Past Lives
The collaboration of Hong Kong directors Wai Ka Fai and Johnnie To have resulted in some utterly deranged films. This is a madcap one with Andy Lau as a bodybuilding Buddhist monk who can see people’s past lives
Mad Detective (2007)
May 29, 2010Detective That Can See People's Inner Personalities
Quite the maddest Hong Kong film once has ever seen featuring a detective who can see people's inner personalities. No film in recent memory has led such a delirious dance with an audience
Written By (2009)
May 19, 2010Meta-Fiction
Unique venture into meta-fiction by Wai Ka Fai that creates fascinatingly wound layers of fiction and reality that eventually become so complex that one gets lost