A YouTube commenter pegged the song immediately as a Yutaka Yokokura（横倉豊）creation, and yep, as soon as I heard the intro, the audio signature of the fellow was there.
Actress-singer Tomoko Fujita's（藤田朋子）"Shooting for the Stars" was the coupling song for her 4th single "Run to Him" from February 1991, and it has that romantically sweeping Latin/AOR that rather marks a Yokokura concoction. Indeed, he did compose and arrange the song while Lorraine Feather came up with the lyrics.
Interesting thing about "Shooting for the Stars" is that there is also some feeling of Hollywood captivation in there through the arrangement (and maybe for the title). In fact, as I was listening to it for the second time, I thought that this would be something that could have ended up as an insert song in one of those Disney musical features that were becoming huge at the time. According to kaz-shin at his "Music Avenue" blog, "Shooting for the Stars" was also a track on Fujita's 2nd album "Colors of Love" that was released in September 1990. You can also have a gander at some other Fujita/Yokokura collaborations through her 1989 debut album "The Woman In Me".
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