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Ann Hui
Director 79 years old

Ann Hui

Anshan, Liaoning Province, China

Ann Hui On-wah (born 23 May 1947 to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother) is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

17 titles
Huang jin shi dai

Huang jin shi dai

Ann Hui 2014 2h 57m

Hong Kong master Ann Hui recreates the life of the pioneering and prodigiously talented 20th-century female novelist Xiao Hong.

Tao jie

Tao jie

Ann Hui 2011 1h 58m

The relationship between a middle-aged man (Andy Lau) and the elderly woman (Deanie Ip), who has been the family's helper for sixty years.

Tin shui wai dik yat yu ye

Tin shui wai dik yat yu ye

Ann Hui 2008 1h 31m

The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.

Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo

Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo

Ann Hui 2007 1h 51m

Ye Rutang, a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai.

Nam yan sei sap

Nam yan sei sap

Ann Hui 2002 1h 43m

Outwardly, Lam takes pride in his job teaching Chinese literature at an elite school and in his caring wife and two sons. But deep down, the forty-year-old wrestles with unfulfilled desires stoked by jealousy over his friends’ professional successes and the advances of a flirtatious student.

You ling ren jian

You ling ren jian

Ann Hui 2001 1h 43m

A man develops a relationship with a woman who has mysterious supernatural abilities.

Ban sheng yuan

Ban sheng yuan

Ann Hui 1997 2h 6m

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.

Ah Kam

Ah Kam

Ann Hui 1996 1h 35m

After moving to Hong Kong from China, a young martial artist starts a promising career as a stuntwoman. She begins to feel accepted in the business, but a passionate affair with a playboy ends up breaking her heart and unleashing her wild side.

Nu ren si shi

Nu ren si shi

Ann Hui 1995 1h 41m

Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.

Ke tu qiu hen

Ke tu qiu hen

Ann Hui 1990 1h 40m

Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begin to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.

Shu jian en chou lu

Shu jian en chou lu

Ann Hui 1987 1h 28m

The story is based on the popular novel developed from folk legend. It goes that the Manchurian emperor Qianlong of China (circa 18th Century) was actually the son of a Han Chinese, the subject ethnicity. His brother of blood, Chen Jialuo just happened to be the chief of the Red Flower Society, an anti-Manchu secret society.

Qing cheng zhi lian

Qing cheng zhi lian

Ann Hui 1984 1h 33m

Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan.

Tau ban no hoi

Tau ban no hoi

Ann Hui 1982 1h 49m

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".

Woo Yuet dik goo si

Woo Yuet dik goo si

Ann Hui 1981 1h 32m

The Story of Woo Viet, seven years before they traded wistful looks in An Autumn's Tale. Chow, in one of his earliest and meatiest film roles, plays the title role of Woo Viet, a Vietnamese refugee who hopes to immigrate to the United States.

Zhuang dao zheng

Zhuang dao zheng

Ann Hui 1980 1h 37m

A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company's actresses and a young man.

Fung gip

Fung gip

Ann Hui 1979 1h 25m

A real murder case which was complicated by the minage ' trois relationship of the victim and the main suspects. As different witnesses narrated their conflicting stories, the case seemed set to lead to nowhere; especially when the real identity of the dead person was finally discovered.

Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam

Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam

Ann Hui 1978 49m

Following Ah Man’s arrival in Hong Kong as a stowaway, the Vietnamese teenager seeks out his cousin for help to earn a living. Thereafter he becomes an apprentice with a compatriot Vietnamese painter. One day, Ah Man accidentally discovers his cousin’s disgraceful secret, while the painter faces deportation for his own illegal residency status.

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