Meanwhile, Woo's favorite leading man, Chow Yun-fat, was shooting The Replacement Killers, which will hit cinemas soon.

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When I see Chow Yun-fat, for example, I see Alain Delon, so I let him hold the gun the way Delon did.

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Earlier, Sorvino played in The Replacement Killers with Hong Kong's Chow Yun-fat.

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His acting career took off in 1986 when he starred opposite Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat in John Woo's gangster movie A Better Tomorrow.

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Granted, the tale of the aristocratic Jen (played by Zhang Ziyi), her tangles with martial-arts masters Li Mubai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shulien (Michelle Yeoh, fresh from her recent successful turn as a Bond girl), and her torrid romance with rough-hewn Lo (Chang Chen) is not that gripping.

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