After his career-defining turn as Mark in the heroic bloodshed classic A Better Tomorrow, Chow Yun-Fat arguably became Hong Kong's biggest actor virtually overnight. Never one to turn down a chance to make a quick buck, writer/director Wong Jing quickly tapped Chow to appear in The Romancing Star, a dopey romantic comedy that coasts by solely on the star power of Chow and, in one of her first starring roles, a young Maggie Cheung.