# Needing You... > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Needing_You... > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Needing_You....md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needing_You... > Source revision: 1349936781 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 2000 Hong Kong film by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Needing You..." – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) 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](/source/Romantic_comedy) film, produced and directed by [Johnnie To](/source/Johnnie_To) and [Wai Ka-fai](/source/Wai_Ka-fai), starring [Andy Lau](/source/Andy_Lau) and [Sammi Cheng](/source/Sammi_Cheng).[1] *Needing You...* is the first film produced by [One Hundred Years of Film](/source/One_Hundred_Years_of_Film), a [subsidiary](/source/Subsidiary) of [China Star Entertainment Group](/source/China_Star_Entertainment_Group). ## Plot Kinki Kwok ([Sammi Cheng](/source/Sammi_Cheng)) is a somewhat scatter-brained office worker at an [electronics](/source/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](/source/Pathology) cleaning under emotional stress. Her workplace is full of gossip-mongers perpetually looking to shirk work. [Andy Lau](/source/Andy_Lau) plays Andy Cheung, her department manager. A womanizing [bachelor](/source/Bachelor) who has to fight [office politicking](/source/Office_politics) at the top, he comes to appreciate Kinki's [work ethic](/source/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](/source/Internet) [billionaire](/source/Billionaire) Roger ([Raymond Wong](/source/Raymond_Wong_Ho-yin)). Although Kinki does not fancy Roger, she realizes that Andy is showing fits of unease and jealousy that is pleasing her. ## Cast - [Andy Lau](/source/Andy_Lau) as Andy Cheung - [Sammi Cheng](/source/Sammi_Cheng) as Kinki Kwok - Fiona Leung as Fiona Yu - [Raymond Wong](/source/Raymond_Wong_Ho-yin) as Roger Young - [Hui Shiu-hung](/source/Benz_Hui) as Ronald - [Florence Kwok](/source/Florence_Kwok) as Kitty - [Lam Suet](/source/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](/source/Cinema_of_Hong_Kong) 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](/source/John_Woo)'s [American film](/source/Cinema_of_the_United_States) *[Mission: Impossible 2](/source/Mission%3A_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](/source/Summer_Holiday_(2000_film))* earned HK$21 million, which was ranked 2nd-best-selling local film after *Needing You...* in Hong Kong. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-HK01-20200707_1-0)** 沈洛嘉 (7 July 2020). ["孤男寡女20年｜鄭秀文剖白愛Kinki的原因 「人生不用太多估算」"](https://www.hk01.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1/494931/%E5%AD%A4%E7%94%B7%E5%AF%A1%E5%A5%B320%E5%B9%B4-%E9%84%AD%E7%A7%80%E6%96%87%E5%89%96%E7%99%BD%E6%84%9Bkinki%E7%9A%84%E5%8E%9F%E5%9B%A0-%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F%E4%B8%8D%E7%94%A8%E5%A4%AA%E5%A4%9A%E4%BC%B0%E7%AE%97). Retrieved 18 November 2020. ## External links - [*Needing You*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244092/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Johnnie To Films Happy Ghost III (1986) The Eighth Happiness (1988) The Big Heat (1988) All About Ah-Long (1989) The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon (1990) The Royal Scoundrel (1991) Casino Raiders II (1991) Justice, My Foot! (1992) The Heroic Trio (1993) The Bare-Footed Kid (1993) The Mad Monk (1993) Executioners (1993) A Moment of Romance III (1996) Lifeline (1997) A Hero Never Dies (1998) Running Out of Time (1999) The Mission (1999) Needing You... (2000) Wu yen (2001) Love on a Diet (2001) Fulltime Killer (2001) Running Out of Time 2 (2001) Fat Choi Spirit (2002) My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) Love for All Seasons (2003) PTU (2003) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Running on Karma (2003) Breaking News (2004) Throw Down (2004) Yesterday Once More (2004) Election (2005) Election 2 (2006) Exiled (2006) Mad Detective (2007) Triangle (2007) Linger (2008) Sparrow (2008) Vengeance (2009) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Life Without Principle (2011) Romancing in Thin Air (2012) Drug War (2012) Blind Detective (2013) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014) Office (2015) Three (2016) Chasing Dream (2019) Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020) See also Milkyway Image Filmography Awards and honors Tactical Unit series v t e Films directed by Wai Ka-fai Peace Hotel (1995) Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997) Needing You... (2000) Love on a Diet (2001) Fulltime Killer (2001) Fat Choi Spirit (2002) My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) Love for All Seasons (2003) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Running on Karma (2003) Fantasia (2004) Himalaya Singh (2005) The Shopaholics (2006) Mad Detective (2007) Written By (2009) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Detective vs Sleuths (2022) v t e Milkyway Image Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai Films Beyond Hypothermia (1996) Intruder (1997) Final Justice (1996) Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997) The Longest Nite (1998) Expect the Unexpected (1998) A Hero Never Dies (1998) Running Out of Time (1999) The Mission (1999) Needing You... (2000) Love on a Diet (2001) Fulltime Killer (2001) Running Out of Time 2 (2001) Wu yen (2001) Second Time Around (2001) Fat Choi Spirit (2002) My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) PTU (2003) Looking for Mister Perfect (2003) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Running on Karma (2003) Breaking News (2004) Throw Down (2004) Yesterday Once More (2004) Election (2005) 2 Become 1 (2006) Election 2 (2006) Exiled (2006) Eye in the Sky (2007) Triangle (2007) Hooked on You (2007) Mad Detective (2007) Linger (2008) Sparrow (2008) Tactical Unit – Comrades in Arms (2009) Accident (2009) Vengeance (2009) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Punished (2011) Life Without Principle (2011) Drug War (2012) Blind Detective (2013) A Complicated Story (2014) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014) Office (2015) Trivisa (2016) Three (2016) Chasing Dream (2019) Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020) Mad Fate (2023) Television What If (2025) See also Tactical Unit series --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Needing You...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needing_You...) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needing_You...?action=history)). 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