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Peace Hotel (Wai Ka-fai, 1995)
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Wai Ka-fai

Peace Hotel (Wai Ka-fai, 1995)

21 Mar 2023 5 min read
Easy Money (Stephen Shin, 1987)
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Easy Money (Stephen Shin, 1987)

14 Mar 2023 7 min read
Detective vs. Sleuths (Wai Ka-fai, 2022)
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Detective vs. Sleuths (Wai Ka-fai, 2022)

30 Jul 2022 4 min read
Wai Ka-fai Capsule Reviews
Wai Ka-fai

Wai Ka-fai Capsule Reviews

Too Many Ways to be №1 (1997) — February 24, 2013 Wai Ka-fai absolutely off the rails. Gangster life is chaos and crazy shit is inevitable, so you might as well act like a badass. Maybe you’ll get lucky and end up the horribly crippled boss of your own Triad.
24 Mar 2018 10 min read
Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2003)
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Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2003)

The first two-thirds play as a fairly typical Johnnie To/Wai Ka-fai cop movie. There are some supernatural elements of course, but it’s very much of a piece with the later Mad Detective and Blind Detective, in which superhuman perception is used to solve crimes long-hidden from the understanding
01 Jan 2018 3 min read
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, 2013)
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Blind Detective (Johnnie To, 2013)

The big draw in Blind Detective is the reunion of Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng. Pop stars and cultural icons, it was the series of romantic comedies they made with To in the early 2000s that essentially saved his Milkyway Image company from collapse. The first few years of the
26 Sep 2013 8 min read
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