Au Kin-Yee

Writing

Au Kin-Yee

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Known for

Writing

Credits

24 titles

Au Kin-Yee is an award-winning Hong Kong screenwriter best known for her collaborations with filmmakers Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai and Soi Cheang.

Known for

Behind the camera

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In poster
7.0

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

2024

Limbo poster
7.2

Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...

Limbo

2021

Running on Karma poster
6.5

A monk turned body-builder, with the gift to see into people's lives, befriends a female cop, and uses his gift to change the force of Karma and her destiny.

Running on Karma

2003

PTU poster
7.0

Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.

PTU

2003

Running Out of Time 2 poster
6.1

Ho Sheung Sang finds himself wrapped up in another cat-and-mouse game, this time against a tricky magician.

Running Out of Time 2

2001

Throw Down poster
6.8

A former Judo champion is given the chance to redeem himself after he befriends a competitor and an aspiring singer.

Throw Down

2004

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts poster
6.3

A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts

2002

Fat Choi Spirit poster
6.4

Follows the adventures of a compulsive Mahjong player named Andy and his aging mother, estranged brother, loyal ex-girlfriend, and a local gang.

Fat Choi Spirit

2002

Yesterday Once More poster
6.5

Mr. and Mrs. To are wealthy, creative jewel thieves who divorce for no apparent reason after a successful diamond heist. A year later, she's engaged to the son of a rich woman who begrudgingly lets her son give his fiancée a family heirloom after she signs a pre-nup.

Yesterday Once More

2004

Mad Detective poster
7.1

Bun, a schizophrenic, former police inspector comes out of retirement to help a rookie detective solve a complex murder case involving a missing colleague and a suspected policeman suffering from a multiple personality disorder.

Mad Detective

2007

The Shopaholics poster
6.4

Fong is a super shopaholic who has landed herself into some serious debt. She seeks the help of Choosey, a psychiatrist who has hilarious psychological issues of his own.

The Shopaholics

2006

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong poster
6.9

A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.

Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

2022

Eye in the Sky poster
6.7

The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice and the other on a notorious criminal he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from filmmaking duo Johnnie To and Nai-Hoi Yau. Of course, the criminal knows all along he's being watched. But that doesn't stop him from trying to pull off the biggest score of his career.

Eye in the Sky

2007

Triangle poster
6.5

Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening when a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure buried under a high-security government building.

Triangle

2007

Life Without Principle poster
6.7

A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.

Life Without Principle

2011

Himalaya Singh poster
4.6

Ronald has lived in the Himalayas since he was young and has grown up to become a clean-living yoga master who will soon marry an Indian beauty. But things change when an absent-minded tourist guide accidentally leads him onto her bus.

Himalaya Singh

2005

Fantasia poster
6.6

In Hong Kong 1969, private investigation agency boss Man is investigating an extra marital case. With his two employees, the smart looking idiot Kit and the Hong Kong Columbia Radio Night School graduate Pufferfish, he follows the target Lascar Row. The trio stumbles into an antique shop and breaks many antiques in the store. The cheap Man force Kit and Pufferfish to take responsibility. Kit wisely makes Pufferfish take sole responsibility. The dumb Pufferfish helpless buys the pile of shattered antiques with his own money. In the pieces he finds a broken magic lamp...

Fantasia

2004

Tactical Unit: Comrades in Arms poster
6.5

Two tactical unit leaders are forced to put aside their differences to help catch a group of robbers.

Tactical Unit: Comrades in Arms

2009

Love for All Seasons poster
6.9

May is a martial artist and Chinese medicine practitioner who resides in a temple in Omei mountain. Under the threat of her lovelorn master, Misery, she decides to seek the help of infamous womanizer, Tiger Hung, who she had helped earlier, in order to experience heartbreak and master the "Heartbroken Sword" technique to defeat her.

Love for All Seasons

2003

Turn Left, Turn Right poster
7.2

An aspiring violinist and a professional translator live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.

Turn Left, Turn Right

2003

Written By poster
5.4

A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.

Written By

2009

Sisterhood poster
5.1

Love intertwines at the wrong time. Sei and Ling, former masseuses in Macau, in retrospect, had the best time together. Decades after, Sei learns that her late best friend has kept a secret she never knew...

Sisterhood

2017

Diamond Hill poster
7.0

May and her brother are inseparable as children. When May becomes an adolescent, she can't seem to let go of memories of her childhood, which seem to sustain her in her cold, loveless middle class home in Diamond Hill.

Diamond Hill

2000

危情共舞 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

危情共舞

1991