For those who are curious, the actress is the famous Gong Li in her rare comedic roles (she had another film with Stephen Chow called God of Gamblers III).
Try this, it's a highlight reel a fan made (the others were taken down) of his popular movies. It starts with a decent action sequence, but you'll get the idea very, very quickly.
1:21:20, when he made her taking the pill, and saying that she would die if she take a step or smile, it's the same thing it's happening in the novel the nine godhead.....
His stuff has been parodied everywhere. Despite of his movies in Hong Kong Cantonese, they were enormously popular in China, Thailand, Vietnam and Korea. The very start of "Long Live Summons!" had a quote from his movie Pandora's Box. I don't know how to describe the influence of his movies, he is to HK comedy like how Jackie Chan is for HK action movies.