Age: 71
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Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
3 rich men, John Yen, Pep Cruz and Michael Middleton, meet in a hotel bar. Owns the strongest companies in the transport market. They bet 100M$, each will build a crew of 3 people who must sail through all stations and be the 1st to reach New York for the owner to win all 300M$. The Yen crew is Jack Wong, Sam Ling and Tommy Lee. Cruz's is Jorge Alonso, Xabi Telles and Mario Rodriguez. Middleton's is Jack White, Luke Farnsworth and Axel Donovan. 10 ports have been selected where each crew must anchor and report to a person who oversees it and reports everything to the trio in San Diego. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai/Bombay, Alexandria, Marseille, Casablanca, Recife, San Juan, New York. 3 men watch everything every day at a bar in San Diego, where they are served by bartender Nur Rimberg (Bruneian mom, German Dad). After ships leave, Yen and others receive letter, from secret sender Cobra, saying that he knows about the bet and he wants to join and if he makes that neither ship reaches New York, then he wins. They have to include him or he will kill them. Cobra hires 7 men, their task is to liquidate the ships, even at the cosi of killing the crew. They attack the ship from the start, destroying Cruz's crew at Alexandria, only Telles survived and boarded Middleton's ship. Both destroyed ships sail to Recife, where Yen's ship is also sunk, Sam Ling was killed and the others got on Middleton's ship, which finally sailed to San Diego. The Cobra was Nur Rimberg.
