The best David Wu Dai-Wai’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best David Wu Dai-Wai’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about David Wu Dai-Wai.
Devils on the Doorstep
8.2/10
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
Let's Go Slam Dunk
5.8/10
To save her father's basketball franchise, daughter KK recruits a team of misfits, each with inner demons to overcome, to challenge an American team.
I Have a Date with Spring
7.1/10
On the night of the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots, Butterfly Yiu was given an accidental chance to perform the final show when the original and star performer, Pak Long, was stranded at another venue. This started a chain of events that will change the four character's lives forever.
Full Throttle
6.5/10
Joe is a champion motorcycle racer who is forced to question his entire lifestyle after he and some close friends are seriously injured in motorcycle accidents. He subsequently struggles to maintain his identity as a risk-taker; and fights to maintain and redefine his relationships with his fiancée, his friends, and his estranged father.
Temptress Moon
6.7/10
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
Return Engagement
6.4/10
A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.
Hu-Du-Men
7/10
The "Hu-Du-Men" (loosely translated as "stage door") is an imaginary line separating the stage from reality, and a line that must be crossed each and every night by Sum (Josephine Siao), the aging star of a Cantonese Opera troupe. Nearing the twilight of a storied career, Sum must face a variety of challenging new obstacles, including the possible emigration of her family come 1997, the appearance of a promising young actress (Anita Yuen), the hiring of a Western-schooled stage director (David Wu), the surprising revelation of her daughter's sexuality, and finally the reappearance of a shocking secret from her past. Through it all, Sum must retain her professionalism and dignity, as the "Hu-Du-Men" between the stage and her life begins to blur. Emotional, intimate direction and Raymond To's intelligent, relevant screenplay make Hu-Du-Men worthwhile cinema, but it's Josephine Siao's brilliant, emotionally dynamic performance that sets this film above the rest.
Looking for Mr. Perfect
5.8/10
A policewoman has always had the worst luck in love. On a trip to Malaysia, she finally meets the man of her dreams. However, her Perfect Man might not be all he appears to be.
Shadow Cop
4.5/10
Hsiong, a young narcotics officer, hooks up through comic accidents with a party girl named Witty. She shops, plays mahjongg, and charges him for every kiss, and they are in love. When he dies in the line of duty, his ghost stays around for a few weeks, hoping to get Witty's attention, trying futilely face to face and by phone, and then through a relative of hers who claims to have occult powers. Through this shadow cop's investigations, it comes to light how he died and where $10 million is that was the cause of his death. Before he disappears into the void, they leave each other final messages. Can their last wishes come true?
Sisters of the World Unite
6.7/10
Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men.
Cohabitation
4.7/10
Two couples unmarried and uncommitted experience the wonders of love, romance and desire. A lighthearted taste of "Love Hong Kong Style".
When I Fall in Love... with Both
7.1/10
From Singapore to Hong Kong to Macau, 3 different women with different lives experience the same situation of falling in love with 2 men and how they deal with the dilemma. In Singapore, meet Joy who's torn between her boss and an idealistic baker. In Hong Kong, Cherry dreams of the strong, macho type but also wants the sweet, sensitive New-Age guy. In Macau, Cecilia and Chun-Nam have been an item since high school. The passion dies, as it always does, and while working in Macau, Cecilia meets old schoolmate Tung. One night, Cecilia sleeps with both Chun-Nam and Tung, and gets pregnant.
Immortal Story
6.3/10
Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. They met when both were young and pretty and again many years later when he had became a drug addict and she a fallen woman.
Goodbye Hero
5.8/10
Frustration and recovery of a stunt man after his partner's accident.
Lover at Large
Sheila returns to Hong Kong for a summer reunion with her parents. However, she is distressed by her parents' quarrels. From their quarrels, Sheila soon finds out that her mother's, Myunt, love affair with an actor, Ho, in the past. Ho loved Myunt dearly. He even killed himself to protect her reputation. Sheila arranges a seance meeting between Ho and her mother. Something goes wrong and Ho is stranded in the human world. Gradually, Sheila falls in love with Ho. To her great dismay, Ho shows his love to Myunt only. Sheila thus helps him to be with Myunt again. Sheila's father is outraged. He calls on all celestial powers to send Ho back to the other world. Sheila throws herself to protect him. She is killed. In order to give Sheila a new life, Ho promises to return to ghost land and gives up any chance of a new incarnation, then Sheila revives.
One of the Lucky Ones
6.7/10
This is apparently a true story about Ching Man Fei, played by the very pretty Alice Lau, who has been blind since six months old and lives with her family in Canton, China. She is about 17 in the role, though Ms. Lau looks older. Ching wants to study, to learn, but her family does not really want that. Throughout the first part of this film, people say to and about her that she is a burden, that she had to do something evil in a past life etc. The family maid Wo becomes the one person who truly believes in her, taking her around the city and answering her questions about everything and eventually being instrumental in her being able to study. The scenes together of Ching and Wo are terrific, you feel the love and trust between them. There are people who pass by in Ching's life, a blind beggar street girl named Jade and a radio actor, who helps her, but their characters are underdeveloped, as if they really were blips in this person's life (perhaps they were).
We Are Champions
7.1/10
Bonded by blood but divided by basketball, two brothers become rivals on the court. This exciting sports film balances drama on and off the court.
Hi Frank!
7.3/10
Lu Hao, a fishing village in the coastal area of Shandong, flew to Los Angeles to visit the daughter-in-law of the immigrant American. Lu Hao, who couldn’t understand English, was introduced to an American man named Frank at the airport by a serviceman because the address of his daughter on the badge of Lu’s badge was separated from the address of Frank’s address. As her daughter-in-law was blocked on the way to the airport, Frank, who arrived at the airport, received Lu Hao from a cafe on the beachfront.
The One Man Olympics
6.5/10
The story of Liu Changchun, China's first Olympic athlete, and his journey from Japanese occupied China to the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games. One man representing 400 million people.
