Ann Hui - Filmography

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Contribution	Notes
1979	The Secret	Director	Hui's first feature film. The suspense drama about a real-life double murder.
1980	The Spooky Bunch	Director	A satiric film about a Cantonese opera company that must go to Cheung Chau to perform for a wealthy man. However, the company soon learns that the man is being haunted by a ghost.
1981	The Story of Woo Viet	Director	Starring Chow Yun-fat, the film is Hui's second part to her "Vietnam trilogy," which follows the story of a South Vietnamese refugee in Hong Kong. This film was one of first political Hong Kong-made dramas. It was screened at the Director's Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival.
1981	Boat People	Director	The third installment of Hui's "Vietnam trilogy." Andy Lau plays one of several Vietnam refugees, who are forced to flee to Hong Kong. The film was an Official Selection at Cannes and Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Awards
1984	Love in a Fallen City	Director	Taking place just before the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, a young man pursues an introverted divorcee.
1986	The Romance of Book and Sword	Director/Writer	The first part of Hui's Qing Dynasty epic. The film is based on a novel from an old folk's tale. Unlike most of Hui's films, this film falls under the genre of martial-arts and action/adventure.
1987	Princess Fragrance	Director	The second part of Hui's Qing Dynasty epic. The film journeys through the final half of the Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword.
1988	Starry is the Night	Director	A school counselor has an affair with a young student and parallels a past affair the counselor had with her professor.
1990	Song of the Exile	Director	A film loosely based on Hui's experience of returning to Hong Kong after her time in London. The film also reflects the female protagonist's relationship with her Japanese mother.
1990	The Swordsman (uncredited)	Director
1990	My American Grandson	Director	An elderly Chinese man becomes the caretaker of his 12-year-old grandson. The film compares the differences of Eastern and Western culture, and analyzes how American born Chinese disassociates themselves their native culture.
1991	Zodiac Killer	Director	Also starring Andy Lau, the crime and drama filled film takes place in Tokyo with a documentary style.
1993	Boy and His Hero	Director
1995	Summer Snow	Director	A comedy-drama about a working woman and her husband and son. The woman must care for her father-in-law, whom she had never gotten along with. The film centers around the woman's situation and how she copes with her father-in-laws Alzheimer's. The film has received several awards.
1996	The Stunt Woman	Director	The melodrama about a stunt woman (Michelle Yeoh), who is struggling in Hong Kong's film industry. The film is most famous for Yeoh's brush with death, as she misjudged an 18-foot leap from a bridge to a truck.
1997	Eighteen Springs	Director	A period film of 1930s Shanghai, where a young woman falls in love with a factory worker. However, things get complicated when the factory worker's parents have arranged a marriage for him.
1997	As Time Goes By	Director/Writer	A man regrets his wish for time to speed up when it comes true. He begins to quickly realize the pitfall of rushing through life.
1999	Ordinary Heroes	Director/Producer	The film revolves around the lives of social reform activists in Hong Kong. It competed at the 49th International Berlin Film Festival in 1999.
2001	Visible Secret	Director/Producer	A horror-comedy film, in which a woman, June, believes she can see ghosts.
2002	July Rhapsody	Director/Producer	The film follows the story of a high school teacher with a good life and family. However, the film shows the deterioration of relationships and marriages when a young student falls in love with the teacher.
2003	Jade Goddess of Mercy	Director	The film is an adaptation of a popular book that describes the lives of everyday police men. The protagonist is a female police officer, who must deal with choices between three men in her life and her career.
2006	The Postmodern Life of My Aunt	Director/Writer	A woman in her sixties discovers she is falling behind in the times, as she loses her job as an English tutor. Throughout the film, several people (including her own nephew) take advantage of her naiveté, which leaves her penniless.
2008	The Way We Are	Director	This drama tells the story of a working woman, Kwai, who must take care of her teenage son and ailing mother. Kwai befriends an older woman, and the two learn to help each other during a time where employment is scarce and any kind of assistance is highly appreciated.
2009	Night and Fog	Director/Producer	A family struggles in Tin Shui Wai, while marriage between husband and wife turns fatal. There is no social, physical, or emotional escape for the wife, who is an immigrant to Hong Kong, of an abusive husband.
2010	All About Love	Director/Producer	The film portrays the difficulty and challenges in which lesbians in Hong Kong must face. It also explores the idea of the queer women starting families using non-traditional methods.
2011	A Simple Life	Director/Producer	A story about an elderly female servant, who has watched over a family for many generations. Andy Lau is the only family member left in Hong Kong, and the film follows the relationship between servant and master.
2012	Beautiful 2012	Director