Director Dennie Gordon poses at a news conference for her movie "My Lucky Star", starring Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi and actor Leehom Wang. Photo provided to China Daily

The film follows Sophie, an audacious Beijing girl, as she travels to Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore, where she becomes involved in a weapons deal and romance with a handsome government agent played by Taiwan singer Leehom Wang.

The script was written in English and translated into Chinese, with two Chinese writers and Gordon and Zhang in cooperation.

Gordon is confident the film will resonate with young Chinese women, her target audience.

"China is in exciting development stage and women are much freer to make their own choices," she says.

"The message of Sophie's journey is, don't just live inside your head, go and take the risk. You can go to Singapore alone, you can meet the man of your dreams and you can have an adventure. I want all Chinese women to feel free to do that."