''Fulltime Killer'' () is a 2001
Hong Kong action film
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. Action films from Hong Kong have roots in Chinese culture, Chinese and Culture of Hong Kong, Hong Kong cultures including Chinese opera, storytelling an ...
produced and directed by
Johnnie To
Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in ...
, and also written, produced and directed by
Wai Ka-fai
Wai Ka-Fai (born 21 September 1962) is a Hong Kong screenwriter, producer, film director, and former TV screenwriter and producer.
Wai is best known for his frequent collaborations with Johnnie To, another former TV turned film director and pr ...
, and also produced by and starring
Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maint ...
. The film was released on 3 August 2001.
The film is based on
Pang Ho-cheung's novel of the same name. It is informally known by Hong Kong English title ''You & I''.
Plot
Based on a book by
Hong Kong
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filmmaker
Pang Ho-cheung, ''Fulltime Killer'' protagonist O is a
hitman
Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...
being challenged by new hotshot Lok Tok-wah. O has lived a life of seclusion as the number one hitman in
Asia
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. The woman living at his contact address is captured after O foils a set-up by his boss. He then goes on the run while trying to fend off his adversary. The last part of the movie focuses on an Interpol detective's attempt to write the story of Tok and O.
Alternate ending
The film has two endings. The normal one that appeared in theaters and the special ending for Malaysia where O and Chin end up being caught by police. This was supposedly done as per special request to show that "Crime doesn't pay".
Cast
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Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maint ...
as Lok Tok-wah
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Takashi Sorimachi
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is mostly famous for having portrayed Eikichi Onizuka in the 1998 live-action drama adaptation of the popular manga series ''Great Teacher Onizuka'', and the assassin O in Hong Kong action film ''Fulltime Kill ...
as O
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Simon Yam
Simon Yam Tat-wah (; born 19 March 1955) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He received international acclaim for his performances in international film festival and box office hits such as ''Naked Killer'', '' SPL: Sha Po Lang'', ''Election' ...
as Albert Lee
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Kelly Lin
Kelly Lin or Lin Hsi-Lei () is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.
Biography
Lin was born in Taiwan in 1973. She moved to Santa Barbara, California with her family at the age of 12. She graduated from the U ...
as Ms. Chin
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Cherrie Ying
Cherrie Ying Choi-yi (born 20 June 1983), better known as Ting Yim-yi or Ting Man, is a Taiwan-born Hong Kong actress. She moved to New York City at a young age, and later to Hong Kong. Her nickname is "Dingding" (丁丁), and she is often credit ...
as Gigi
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Lam Suet
Lam Suet (; born 1964), or Lin Xue, is a Hong Kong film actor.
Life and career
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 squander ...
as Fat Ice
* Rocky Lai as Bald thug
* Liu Chun-hung as Man in Bangkok Jail
* Teddy Li as C7
* Ernest Mauser as
Priest
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* Wong Chi-wai as
Policeman
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in
Singapore
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* Lam Chung-kei as
Cop
Home media
On 29 March 2004, DVD was released by Tartan Asia Extreme at the
United Kingdom
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in
Region 2.
Reception
''Fulltime Killer'' has a rating of 56% on
Rotten Tomatoes
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.
See also
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Andy Lau filmography
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Johnnie To filmography
Johnnie To is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and producer. He has contributed to many projects, as a producer, director or a combination of the two. He made his directorial debut in 1980, when he directed ''The Enigmatic Case'', a fil ...
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List of Hong Kong films of 2001
A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 2001:
2001
Highest-grossing films
The highest-grossing Hong Kong films released in 2001 by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:
References
External links
IMDB list of Hong Kong f ...
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List of Hong Kong films
This is a list of films produced in Hong Kong ordered by decade and year of release in separate pages. For film set in Hong Kong and produced elsewhere see ''List of films set in Hong Kong''.
1909–1949
*List of Hong Kong films before 1950
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References
External links
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