Running on Karma

Running on Karma (大隻佬)

Year : 2003

Director : Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai

Cast
Andy Lau as Big(大隻佬、了因)
Cecilia Cheung as Inspector Lee Fung-yee (李鳳儀)
Cheung Siu-fai as Inspector Chung（鍾Sir）

Plot
Big (Andy Lau) was a Buddhist Monk, but he gave up this occupation when he realized he could see a person’s past life, which would mean he would be able to predict what would happen to that person because of Karma. Big then became a bodybuilder and worked in a strip bar when he ran into Lee Fung-yee (Cecilia Cheung). which busted Big in his strip show, but Big became entangled in another police case to catch a murderer when he tried to escape.
Later he saw the past life of Lee, she was a Japanese soldier killing civilians.
In the investigation of a homicide, Big successfully helped the police to arrest the murderer and saved Lee’s life. Thinking that her karma gets broken , but subsequently returned, Big knows he could do nothing, but he stopped Inspector Chung (Cheung Siu-fai)who was beating the murderer by saying to him, “One thought Heaven, One thought Hell”
Lee, now realizing that she was, in her previous life, a Japanese soldier, made efforts to compensate for the atrocities she committed in her previous life. She decided to find Big’s childhood friend’s killer. She went to the mountains where she was hit by a rock in the head, and beheaded by the murderer. Big became enraged and pursued a man, presuming he is Lee’s killer into an underground temple. Big, found his future self, a killer, bloodthirsty and vengeful. They argued and fought and came to terms peacefully in meditation.
Big becomes a monk again and lives on the mountain. After five years, he meets his childhood friend’s killer again, and in forgiveness, escorts him kindly to the police. In the end, at the “place where Big couldn’t jump over,” we see the positive karma that Lee cultivated and radiated ultimately saved Big.