Chow Yun Fat

ACTOR CHOW YUN-FAT HONORED WITH
HANDPRINT CEREMONY IN L.A.'s CHINATOWN

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LOS ANGELES, December 1, 1999 ... Actor Chow Yun-Fat, who stars in the new motion picture epic Anna and the King, will be honored by the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce with a special ceremony, in which he will leave his handprints in cement at the Central Plaza in Chinatown in Los Angeles on December 8, at 3:00pm.

After appearing in numerous top Hong Kong television and cinema productions, Chow exploded onto the international cinema scene in 1986 with his electrifying performance as a gangster in the Hong Kong action-thriller A Better Tomorrow. The film marked the first of several

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notable collaborations between Chow and director John Woo, including The Killer and Hard Boiled.

These and other films led to worldwide acclaim. The Los Angeles Times called him The Coolest Actor in the World. His international notoriety eventually spread to the U.S., where he had been a cult hero for several years.

Having made his domestic motion picture debut in the thriller The Replacement Killers, followed by The Corruptor, Chow currently stars with Jodie Foster in Anna and the King. The epic tale, which will be released in theaters nationwide on December 17th, is set in Thailand in the late 19th century. It chronicles the adventures of British governess Anna Leonowens (Foster), who is hired by the King of Siam (Chow) to

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educate his 58 children. Soon after her arrival to this exotic, unfamiliar land, Anna finds herself engaged in a battle of wits and a deepening relationship with the strong-willed ruler.

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