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Needing You...
Directed byJohnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai
Written byWai Ka-Fai
Yau Nai-Hoi
Original Story:
Cindy Tang
Produced byJohnnie To
Wai Ka-Fai
StarringAndy Lau
Sammi Cheng
CinematographyCheng Siu-Keung
Edited byLaw Wing-Cheong
Music byCacine Wong
Production
companies
Distributed byHong Kong:
China Star Entertainment Group
Release date
  • 22 June 2000 (2000-06-22)
Running time
101 min.
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$35,214,661

Needing You... (Chinese: 孤男寡女; pinyin: Gū Nán Guǎ Nǚ) 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 Co. Ltd., 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 (Wah-Siu) 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 realize 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 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's American film Mission: Impossible II 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 HKD 21 million, which was ranked 2nd best-selling local film after Needing You... in Hong Kong.

Cast