Needing You...

Needing You... is a 2000 Hong Kong romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng.

Needing You...
Traditional孤男寡女
Simplified孤男寡女
MandarinGū Nán Guǎ Nǚ
CantoneseGu1 Naam4 Gwaa2 Neoi2
Directed byJohnnie To
Wai Ka-fai
Produced byJohnnie To
Wai Ka-fai
Screenplay byWai Ka-fai
Yau Nai-hoi
Story byCindy Tang
StarringAndy Lau
Sammi Cheng
Music byCacine Wong
CinematographyCheng Siu-Keung
Edited byLaw Wing-cheung
Production
company
One Hundred Years of Film
Milkyway Image
Distributed byChina Star Entertainment Group
Release date
  • 22 June 2000 (2000-06-22)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$35,214,661

Needing You... is the first film produced by One Hundred Years of Film, a subsidiary of China Star Entertainment Group.

Plot

Kinki Kwok (Sammi Cheng) is a somewhat scatter-brained office worker at an electronics firm, who is down on her luck with love. Her boyfriend, Dan (Gabriel Harrison), cheats on her and treats her like a doormat. She is given to fits of pathological cleaning under emotional stress. Her workplace is full of gossip-mongers perpetually looking to shirk work.

Andy Lau plays Andy Cheung, her department manager. A womanizing bachelor who has to fight office politicking at the top, he comes to appreciate Kinki's work ethic and good-naturedness as something of a rarity in the company.

After Kinki helped Andy defuse a sticky work situation, Andy offers to help his subordinate in her private love life. He plots with Kinki to get back at Dan, her philandering boyfriend. In the process, the two realize they may harbor romantic feelings for each other.

Andy's old flame, Fiona (Fiona Leung) attempts to intervene, trying to hook Kinki up with young internet billionaire Roger (Raymond Wong). Although Kinki does not fancy Roger, she realizes that Andy is showing fits of unease and jealousy that is pleasing her.

Reception

Box office

During the slump in the Hong Kong film industry of the late 1990s, Needing You... raked in HK$6.5 million during its first three days of release in Hong Kong, and amassed a total of HK$35 million in Hong Kong alone, rivaling John Woo's American film, Mission: Impossible 2, which screened during the same period in Hong Kong and triumphing all other Hong Kong films screened for the past few years. In the same year, Summer Holiday earned HK$21 million, which was ranked 2nd best-selling local film after Needing You... in Hong Kong.

Cast
  • Andy Lau as Andy Cheung
  • Sammi Cheng as Kinki Kwok
  • Fiona Leung as Fiona Yu
  • Raymond Wong as Roger Young
  • Hui Shiu-hung as Ronald
  • Florence Kwok as Kitty
  • Lam Suet as Martin
  • Henry Yu as Roger's father
  • Sylvia Lai as Roger's mother
  • Gabriel Harrison as Dan
  • Andy Tse as Mr. Fu
  • May Fu as Grace
  • Englie Kwok
  • Vanessa Chu as Kinki's sister
  • Terence Lam
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