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Needing You...

Needing You... (traditional Chinese: 孤男寡女) is a 2000 Hong Kong romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai and starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng.Needing You... is a comedic love story about Kinki Kwok (Sammi Cheng), a dysfunctional office worker at an electronics firm down on her luck with love. She's just as her name describes, a little out of order, with her refusal to cry when she's upset and preferring to do something more useful like clean the office's washroom or the interior of a car. And it just so happens she's secretly seen her boyfriend with another woman. All she has is her lucky charm inscribed with the words she wants her true love to say, but even that winds up missing.Enter Andy (Wah-Siu) Cheung (Andy Lau), the manager in her department full of gossipy co-workers. Things seem to only to be getting worse for Kinki with Andy around, as she is constantly receiving the blame for the office's misfortunes. However, when Kinki manages to get Andy out of a sticky situation, he discovers some newfound respect for her loyalty and willingness to help, while Kinki thinks she may have deeper feelings for him. Together, they plot to get back at Kinki's double-crossing boyfriend and Andy's feelings for Kinki reciprocate. To further complicate things, Fiona (Fiona Leung), an old flame of Andy's reappears and tries to hook Kinki up with young .com billionaire Roger (Raymond Wong), while Andy has been accused of wasting company money on a failed project.