''What Women Want'' is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong

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film remake of the 2000 American film of the same name. The film stars

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and

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. ''What Women Want'' was released in China on 3 February 2011, the first day of

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. The plot is a very close remake of the American version with some minor changes. The plot takes place mostly in an advertising company in Beijing, in which Lau plays a slick ad agency creative director who gets acquainted with his new talented competition, played by Gong. He is helped when he gets the ability to hear women's thoughts due to a freak accident.

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as Sun Zigang *

as Li Yilong * Yuan Li as Yanni * Banny Chen as Xiao Fei * Hu Jing as Zhao Hung *

Zhu Zhu Zhu Zhu (; born 19 July 1984) is a Chinese actress and singer. She rose to fame as a VJ on MTV China. Early life Zhu was born in a military family in Beijing on July 19, 1984, with her ancestral home in Linhai, Zhejiang, the daughter of Zhu Han ...

as Xiao Wu * Li Chengru as CEO Dong *

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as Dong's wife *

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as Chen Erdong * Wang Deshun as Sun Meisheng * Chen Daming as Young Sun Meisheng * Mavis Pan as Pan's secretary *

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as Peter *

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as Girl in Lotto Commercial * Ping Wong as Foo Ping Pong

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