Fat Choi Spirit
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
Andy Lau’s mahjong master gets both lucky and cursed—and romantically clobbered by a gloriously volatile Gigi Leung—in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s tile-drunk comedy of bad hands and worse habits.
Showtimes
Wed, July 22
Bundle tickets with Mahjong Night Event, co-presented by Green Tile Social Club, are now sold out. Following the screening, bundle ticket holders are invited to the Furman Gallery for a spirited game of mahjong, food, and open bar.
One of the great hidden pleasures in the Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai catalogue, Fat Choi Spirit turns mahjong into a blend of combat sport, romantic trial, and pure Lunar New Year delirium. Andy Lau is all charm as a legendary player whose clean table manners conceal a life in shambles: a mountain of debts and family trouble, and a love affair with a gloriously volatile Gigi Leung, whose affection brings him miraculous luck… until the tiles begin exposing what love cannot quite forgive. But then Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, and Cherrie Ying crowd the table with schemes and grudges, bad hands, and bad behavior. As the tiles crack down, To and Wai stage their games like shootouts at a triad negotiation.
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