The Legend of Ah Fei is a 1990 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai and performed by a number of Hong Kong film superstars, including Cheung Kwok Wing, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Lau Ka Ling, Jacky Cheung, Pan DiHua and Leung Chao Wai; filmed in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Won five awards at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, Cheung Won the only Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for this film. In 2005, it was voted by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association as the third place in "100 Best Chinese Films".
In the early 1960s in Hong Kong, the handsome Xu Tsai (Ah Fei) (Zhang Guorong) is a Shanghai immigrant, he has never met his birth mother, raised by his adoptive mother (Pan Dihua) since childhood, so when he grows up, he is ruthless to every woman he meets in his life. Uninhibited, he lives with Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), a conductor at the South China Sports Club, and Mimi (Liu Jialing), a dancer, but later abandons them one after another. Asahi is determined to find his birth mother, so he travels to the Philippines alone, but his birth mother refuses to see him, and Asahi leaves with resentment. Before leaving Hong Kong, Xu Tsai gives the car to Crooked Boy (Jacky Cheung). Mimi finds out that Asahi is gone, and asks Crooked Boy if he knows where he is, and Crooked Boy tells her that Asahi has gone to the Philippines, sells Asahi's car, and gives her the money to go to the Philippines to find Asahi.
Policeman Chao Tsai (Andy Lau), who has always had a crush on Su Lizhen, witnesses Su Lizhen's break with Xu Zai and decides to switch to running boats after his mother's death. Chao Tsai meets Asahi again in Chinatown, Philippines, but he pretends not to know him. Soon, Xu Tsai was seriously injured in a fight for buying and selling fake passports, Chao Tsai asked him if he remembered what he was doing at 3 p.m. on April 16 of a certain year, Xu Tsai said that he would always remember what he wanted to remember, but he asked Chao Tsai to tell Su Lizhen that he did not remember. In the end, ChaoZai guards Asahi Tsai, who died on an exotic train.
At the end of the film, Zhou Muyun (Liang Chaowei) is ready to go and embark on his own path.