- Worked as a bellboy, camera salesman and assistant postman before becoming an actor.
- Got his big break in John Woo's 1986 Hong Kong action flick A Better Tomorrow.
- Hailed as "the coolest actor in the world" by the Los Angeles Times in 1995.
- Named Star of the Decade in 1997 by CineAsia.
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