Needing You...

Needing You...
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	孤男寡女
Simplified Chinese	孤男寡女
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gū Nán Guǎ Nǚ Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Gu1 Naam4 Gwaa2 Neoi2
Directed by	Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai
Screenplay by	Wai Ka-fai Yau Nai-hoi
Story by	Cindy Tang
Produced by	Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai
Starring	Andy Lau Sammi Cheng
Cinematography	Cheng Siu-Keung
Edited by	Law Wing-cheung
Music by	Cacine Wong
Production companies	One Hundred Years of Film Milkyway Image
Distributed by	China Star Entertainment Group
Release date	22 June 2000 (2000-06-22)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$35,214,661

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... 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.

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

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.

External links

• Needing You at IMDb