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

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It's Hong Kong film star and Hollywood hopeful Chow Yun Fat striking what appears to be a kung fu pose, a matchstick clenched between his teeth, presumably for extra threat value.

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Others stars picked by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association are movie maker Raymond Chow and the director Chor Yun.

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In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.

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