Cheng boasts customers such as Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Anita Mui, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau and Shu Qi.

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Hollywood star Michelle Yeoh has visited Aung San Suu Kyi and reportedly discussed plans for a film about the Burmese pro-democracy leader.

BBC: Michelle Yeoh at Rangoon airport, 7 December 2010

Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), probably the least excitable action heroine in modern movies, is given a sword by Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat), for safekeeping.

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But then the teen-age Chiyo (Ziyi Zhang) is rescued by a good fairy, Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), a retired geisha who treats her kindly and teaches her the intricacies of her craft.

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While the Hong Kong Tourism Board, which is behind the initiative, has not released other names yet, they are expected to include martial arts star Jackie Chan, Bond actress Michelle Yeoh and director Wong Kar-wai.

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Tsui Hark, another sometime collaborator with Woo, teamed up again with Jean-Claude Van Damme to make Knock Off (which takes on Hong Kong's twin obsessions: the handover and designer jeans), while Michelle Yeoh became the latest Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies.

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To make "The Matrix" (1999) and its sequels, the Wachowski brothers hired legendary Hong Kong action director Yuen Woo-Ping as a fight choreographer so Michelle Yeoh's scorpion kick from Mr. Yuen's "Tai-Chi Master" (1993) became Carrie-Anne Moss's scorpion kick in "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003).

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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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Yeoh (also known as Michelle Khan and Yeung Chi King) has placed No. 35 in People magazine's annual list of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

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