Needing You... is a 2000

Hong Kong films of 2000

A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 2000:.-2000:-External links:* * Hong Kong films of 2000 at...

 Hong Kong

Cinema of Hong Kong

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 romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

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, produced and directed by Johnnie To

Johnnie To

Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas...

 and Wai Ka-Fai

Wai Ka-Fai

Wai Ka-Fai is a Hong Kong writer, filmmaker, producer and former TV director and producer.Wai is best known for his frequent collaborations with Johnnie To, another former TV turned film director and producer. In 1996, they formed Milkyway Image, which is now one of the most successful independent...

, starring Andy Lau

Andy Lau

Andy Lau MH, JP is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time...

 and Sammi Cheng

Sammi Cheng

Sammi Cheng Sau-Man is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Having enjoyed much success in the Hong Kong music industry, Sammi has been known as a diva and has been one of the most successful female singer in Hong Kong since the 1990s. Her albums have sold more than 25 million copies through...

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Needing You... is the first film produced by One Hundred Years of Film Co. Ltd.

One Hundred Years of Film Co. Ltd.

One Hundred Years of Film Co. Ltd. is a Hong Kong film production company. It is a subsidiary for Hong Kong film distributor China Star Entertainment Group. The company was formed by Charles Heung in 1999.-Company:...

, a subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 of China Star Entertainment Group

China Star Entertainment Group

China Star Entertainment Group is a Hong Kong film production company and film distributor. It was established in 1992 by film producer Charles Heung, and has been known as a huge distributor and film producer of films made mostly in Cantonese dialect....

.

Plot

Kinki Kwok (Sammi Cheng

Sammi Cheng

Sammi Cheng Sau-Man is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Having enjoyed much success in the Hong Kong music industry, Sammi has been known as a diva and has been one of the most successful female singer in Hong Kong since the 1990s. Her albums have sold more than 25 million copies through...

) is a somewhat scatter-brained office worker at an electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

 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

Pathology

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 cleaning under emotional stress. Her workplace is full of gossip-mongers perpetually looking to shirk work.

Andy Lau

Andy Lau

Andy Lau MH, JP is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time...

 plays Andy (Wah-Siu) Cheung, her department manager. A womanizing bachelor

Bachelor

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 who has to fight office politicking

Office politics

Workplace politics, sometimes referred to as Office politics is "the use of one's individual or assigned power within an employing organization for the purpose of obtaining advantages beyond one's legitimate authority...

 at the top, he comes to appreciate Kinki's work ethic

Work ethic

Work ethic is a set of values based on hard work and diligence. It is also a belief in the moral benefit of work and its ability to enhance character. An example would be the Protestant 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

Internet

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 billionaire

Billionaire

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 Roger (Raymond Wong

Raymond Wong Ho-Yin

Raymond Wong Ho-Yin , is a Hong Kong TVB actor.-Early life:Wong completed his secondary education in Hong Kong Tang King Po College and obtained a degree issued by the City University of Hong Kong...

). Although Kinki does not fancy Roger, she realize that Andy is showing fits of unease and jealousy that is pleasing her.

Box office

During the slump in the Hong Kong film industry

Cinema of Hong Kong

The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan...

 of the late 1990s, Needing You... raked in HKD 6.5 million during its 1st 3 days of opening in Hong Kong, and amassed a total of HKD 35 million in Hong Kong alone, rivaling John Woo

John Woo

John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...

's American film

Cinema of the United States

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 Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II is a 2000 action film directed by John Woo, and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer...

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

Summer Holiday (2000 film)

Summer Holiday is a Hong Kong film released in 2000, directed by Jingle Ma and starring Richie Ren and Sammi Cheng.It earned HKD 21 million, which was ranked 2nd best-selling local film after Needing You... in Hong Kong....

earned HKD 21 million, which was ranked 2nd best-selling local film after Needing You... in Hong Kong.

Cast

• Andy Lau
  Andy Lau
  Andy Lau MH, JP is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time...
  
   - Andy Cheung
• Sammi Cheng
  Sammi Cheng
  Sammi Cheng Sau-Man is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Having enjoyed much success in the Hong Kong music industry, Sammi has been known as a diva and has been one of the most successful female singer in Hong Kong since the 1990s. Her albums have sold more than 25 million copies through...
  
   - Kinki Kwok
• Fiona Leung - Fiona Yu
• Raymond Wong
  Raymond Wong Ho-Yin
  Raymond Wong Ho-Yin , is a Hong Kong TVB actor.-Early life:Wong completed his secondary education in Hong Kong Tang King Po College and obtained a degree issued by the City University of Hong Kong...
  
   - Roger Young
• Hui Shiu-Hung
  Benz Hui
  Benz Hui Shiu-hung is a Hong Kong actor who currently works on the TV station TVB. He used to work on ATV before switching over to TVB.-Family background:...
  
   - Ronald
• Florence Kwok
  Florence Kwok
  Florence Kwok Siu-Wan, born 25 August 1970 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong film and voice actress. She entered TVB after participating in Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1992....
  
  
• Lam Suet
  Lam Suet
  Lam Suet is a Hong Kong actor.-Biography:Lam was born in Tianjin, and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after all the money had been squandered and Lam had to work various odd jobs to make a living.In the mid-eighties he got employment...
  
   - Martin
• Kenny Kung
• Sylvia Lai
• Gabriel Harrison
• Andy Tse
• May Fu
• Englie Kwok
• Vanessa Chu
• Terence Lam