Chi-yan (Gao Yuanyuan) is an analyst who has recently broken up with her boyfriend and is holding onto many of his belongings, including his pet frog.

Now walking, she drops papers in the road and an alcoholic passerby (Daniel Wu) helps her pick them up.

That week, Chi-yan flirts with Cheung Shen Ran (Louis Koo), an investment firm CEO who works in a neighboring building, by pantomiming through her office window.

She is furious and threatens to quit; he responds by taking her out to buy a Maserati sportscar and a high-rise apartment.

I've worked with all the big directors in Hong Kong except for him and Wong Kar-wai, and now I can tick Johnnie off my list.

[4] Don't Go Breaking My Heart had its world premiere at the 5th Osaka Asian Film Festival on March 10, 2011.

[8] The Hollywood Reporter opined that "To dazzles with non-stop filmmaking tricks, so many will be happy to forget the disingenuity of the creative premise".

[9] Variety referred to the film as "tightly plotted and frequently funny, with suave lead perfs and glossy production design and lensing" while noting that "this mainstream, mostly Mandarin-language pic is squarely aimed at mainland audiences and will do midrange biz in the region, but won't travel much elsewhere.