'very sweet') is a 1996 Hong Kong film starring Leon Lai, Maggie Cheung, Eric Tsang, and Kristy Yang.

[1] The film, spanning years, centres on two Chinese mainlanders who migrate to Hong Kong to make a living, but end up falling in love.

The loneliness of living in the big city inevitably brings the two into a passionate love affair.

Pao, chased by the Hong Kong police, escapes with Li Qiao to the U.S. as illegal immigrants.

The film ends with Xiao-Jun and Li Qiao fatefully meeting each other in front of an electronic store that has a display television playing a music video by Teresa Teng, after news of the singer's death had broken.

In a cameo performance, Christopher Doyle, the internationally known cinematographer famous for his collaboration with Wong Kar-wai, plays an English teacher.

Lai was mostly known as a "pop idol" at the time while Cheung was considered an "established character actress", causing some people who knew Chan to doubt their pairing.

[7] In 2022, American writer and critic Nick Newman placed Comrades: Almost a Love Story on his Sight and Sound list of the greatest films ever made, saying it deserves placement "solely for rendering an image of Maggie Cheung walking under Brooklyn’s J-M-Z line one of the strangest things I've ever seen.