Shot in Los Angeles except for its final scenes , the film , starring Gong Li , below , Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe , is to be released in North America and Japan in the last quarter of the year ... Three years and 3,000 costume changes after it began , Cher 's '' Farewell Tour -LRB- Never Can Say Goodbye -RRB- '' is finally going to end , and so is her life on the road , The Associated Press reported . ''