Leung Ming-kai

Also known as: Kai

Biography

As a cinematographer, Kai has shot numerous features in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. He won Best Cinematography at the 2025 Taipei Golden Horse Awards for Mother Bhumi, won Best Cinematography at the 2026 Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers Awards for Ciao UFO, and is also nominated for Best Cinematography at the upcoming 2026 Hong Kong Film Awards for Ciao UFO. In 2025, two of the Best Film nominees at the Hong Kong Film Awards were shot by Kai. They are Berlin Teddy-Award winner All Shall Be Well and NYAFF Audience Award winner The Way We Talk. He also shot the opening film of the 2025 Hong Kong International Film Festival, Pavane for an Infant. Kai’s other feature works include The Sunny Side of the Street; Drifting; Krabi, 2562; Suk Suk; Old Stone; Ek Hazarachi Note; Murmur of the Hearts; By the Time It Gets Dark; and Mundane History. Festivals including Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, and New Directors/New Films have selected features he shot. Kai has previously been n...

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Leung Ming-kai

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Live For Real

Old Stone

My Good Man's Gone

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire

The Sunny Side of the Street

Off Season

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

Mutual Friends

All Shall Be Well

The Black Wall

Far Far Away

A Light Never Goes Out

By the Time It Gets Dark

Drifting

Pavane For An Infant

Everyphone Everywhere

Ciao UFO

Lifting

Krabi, 2562

What Isn't There

Murmur of the Hearts

Mundane History

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

Twilight's Kiss

Invisible Spaces

Keep the Change

Come Here

Eugenia and John

The Way We Talk

Leung Ming-kai