The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon

Lam Po-Sang (Chow Yun-fat The Replacement Killers, Tiger On Beat) is the richest man in Hong Kong - wealthy enough to build his own space station. Faced with an arranged marriage to a shallow socialite he can't stand, he slips away in disguise and talks his way into a job as a lowly busboy at a noodle restaurant, where he falls for the boss's practical, unsentimental sister (Sylvia Chang, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Red Violen). Johnnie To's (The Big Heat, Eighth Happiness) loose riff on Coming to America is a breezy delight, powered entirely by the effortless chemistry of its two leads.