Joan Chen

Joan Chen

Born: April 26, 1961
in Shanghai, China
Joan Chong Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.

Movies for Joan Chen...

Dìdi (弟弟)
Title: Dìdi (弟弟)
Character: Chungsing Wang
Released: July 26, 2024
Type: Movie
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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Title: A Murder at the End of the World
Character: Lu Mei
Released: November 14, 2023
Type: TV
Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use her skills to prove it was murder before the killer takes another life.
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Under the Light
Title: Under the Light
Character: He Xiuli
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Su Jianming, the son of Deputy Mayor Zheng Gang of Jinjiang City, defies his father's counsel and attends a cunning dinner invitation from the wealthiest man in Jinjiang City, Li Zhitian (played by Yu Hewei). To his astonishment, he becomes an unwilling witness to a shocking incident where someone is coerced into thrusting their hand into a simmering hotpot. As past mysteries resurface, hidden factions from various quarters plot and scheme, employing intricate strategies, scrutiny, and suspicion. Amidst the web of conflicting desires, the pressing question remains: who will ultimately unveil the final mask?
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Hachiko
Title: Hachiko
Character: Li Jiazhen
Released: March 31, 2023
Type: Movie
This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko (/Batong) is a cute Chinese pastoral dog. He met his destined owner Chen Jingxiu in the vast crowd and became a member of the Chen family. With the passage of time, the once beautiful home is no longer there, but Batong is still waiting where it is, and its fate is closely tied to its family. This film is adapted from the original script "Hachiko" by Kaneto Shindo.
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Breathe
Title: Breathe
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
With the outbreak of the new corona virus epidemic, Kelly, a 17-year-old Chinese girl, followed her mother back to the hot and humid Shanghai. What traps her is not the long isolation, but a dilemma of family and love. Can she grow up in such a suffocating predicament?
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Ava
Title: Ava
Character: Toni
Released: July 2, 2020
Type: Movie
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
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Title: The Way to World Culture
Released: April 22, 2020
Type: TV
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Tigertail
Title: Tigertail
Character: Yuan
Released: April 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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Sheep Without a Shepherd
Title: Sheep Without a Shepherd
Character: La Wen
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently assaulted, blackmailed and left traumatised by another student, her parents intervene, leading to a dead body which needs to be hidden, and every trace of the boy buried to cover up the accident.
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Title: 影响:改革开放40年的中国电影
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: TV
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The House That Never Dies II
Title: The House That Never Dies II
Character: 医生
Released: July 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A cultural relic restorer discovers the skeletons of babies while working in an old mansion. The bloody events of the past drags everyone working on the project into a dark abyss.
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The One
Title: The One
Character: 汤母·柯露思
Released: June 26, 2017
Type: Movie
Funny scramble of an esoteric book of cooking between a guy without feeling, a tough girl, a master out of date, a dark-minded rich man, a emotion-manipulating woman and a OCD-suffering samurai.
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Critical Lifeline
Title: Critical Lifeline
Character: Xin Zhou
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Kai (Leehom Wang) awakens on his Shanghai houseboat––alone. His girlfriend Emma (Olivia Munn) has suddenly disappeared, leaving behind the one thing that could lead to her whereabouts: her smartphone. Deeply disturbed, Kai seeks to uncover where she went, with whom she's connected, and what she took with her. Is Emma really who she says she is? Or is there something more sinister at play?
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Title: Nature Is Speaking
Character: Sky / Tiankong
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: TV
Nature is given a voice to raise awareness that people need nature in order to survive.
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Lady of the Dynasty
Title: Lady of the Dynasty
Character: Consort Wu
Released: July 30, 2015
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.
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Title: Marco Polo
Character: Empress Chabi
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: TV
An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a trusted companion to the Khan in his violent quest to become the Emperor of the World.
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Xu's mother
Released: November 7, 2014
Type: Movie
"For Love or Money" is based on a novel by Zhang Xiaoxian, which tells the moving story between a fallen noble lady and a rich heir to a large company. She’s broken and has lost the direction in life, whereas he chooses a life of poverty and freedom to pursue his passion as a painter. Together, will they be able to find themselves in this world of twists and turns before it’s too late?
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Title: Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Character: Josie Packard
Released: July 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
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Title: Meng's Palace
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Serangoon Road
Character: Patricia Cheng
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: TV
1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom out from street stalls; the Rolling Stones are in town along with tourists and American sailors fresh from Vietnam. They join British and Australian soldiers checking out the prostitutes and gambling dens en route to their own war in Borneo. This is the city of Sam Callaghan, Patricia Cheng, the CIA’s Conrad Harrison and the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency. The agency’s cases range from the usual (straying spouses and petty fraudsters) to events with international implications and complications. Sam’s contacts from his military days are useful - but they start to drag him back into a dark world that he would prefer to leave behind.
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Swordsman
Title: Swordsman
Character: Yue Lingshan
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: Movie
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, producer is based in Jin Yong's famous novel "Swordsman" on March 24 at the first national 4A-class tourist destination Zhejiang Xiandu boot. Joe Chen unassailable modeling exposure, following Wallace (Linghu), Yuan Shanshan (Ren Yingying), such as modeling exposure, the highly anticipated and controversial Joe Chen (Swordsman) modeling has finally surfaced. In addition, Leung Kar Yan (Feng Qingyang), Han Dong (Tian Boguang), Lv Jiarong (Blue Phoenix), Zhang Tianyang (total no Shi) Dingzhuang Zhao also be exposed April 5
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Swordsman
Title: Swordsman
Character: Dongfang Bubai
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: Movie
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, producer is based in Jin Yong's famous novel "Swordsman" on March 24 at the first national 4A-class tourist destination Zhejiang Xiandu boot. Joe Chen unassailable modeling exposure, following Wallace (Linghu), Yuan Shanshan (Ren Yingying), such as modeling exposure, the highly anticipated and controversial Joe Chen (Swordsman) modeling has finally surfaced. In addition, Leung Kar Yan (Feng Qingyang), Han Dong (Tian Boguang), Lv Jiarong (Blue Phoenix), Zhang Tianyang (total no Shi) Dingzhuang Zhao also be exposed April 5
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Title: Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties
Character: Empress Wenxian of Sui
Released: December 3, 2012
Type: TV
Heroes emerged in large numbers during the tumultuous and short-lived Sui to early Tang dynasty period. Most famous among them are Qin Qiong, Luo Cheng, Cheng Yao Jin, Shan Xiong Xin and Wei Chi Gong, known as the "Five Tigers of Sui and Tang", who would help Li Shi Min defeat rebels and rivals and pacify the land. The drama will start with the establishment of the Sui dynasty and end with Li Shi Min's ascension to the throne.
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Double Xposure
Title: Double Xposure
Character: Dr. Hao
Released: September 29, 2012
Type: Movie
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twisted journey into her past and the very depths of her own mind
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Passion Island
Title: Passion Island
Character: Joanna
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
The comedy of the year. This wannabe magical romance-drama is one of the most illogical films ever and the actors, if not director Kam Kwok-Leung, may be aware of it. Featuring CGI tears and paintings of corn-eating monkeys. The highlight: Chang Chen pretending to be Korean.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Title: Hemingway & Gellhorn
Character: Madame Chiang Kai Shek
Released: August 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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White Frog
Title: White Frog
Character: Irene Young
Released: March 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family.
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Kiss, His First
Title: Kiss, His First
Released: October 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Shanghai, two months ago... What would you risk to help a loved one?
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1911
Title: 1911
Character: Longyu
Released: July 3, 2011
Type: Movie
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
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Color Me Love
Title: Color Me Love
Released: October 28, 2010
Type: Movie
The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor who has to deal with her female boss and boyfriend, an arrogant young painter who has a chaotic past with other girls.
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Love in Disguise
Title: Love in Disguise
Character: Joan
Released: August 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Famous from an incredibly young age, DMH (Wang Lee Hom) has only ever known a celebrity pop star existence. Yet, despite all the glamour, there is still something lacking in his charmed life - true love. With the help of fellow musician and friend WZB, DMH disguised himself as a regular Joe in the hope of finding true love. While incognito, DMH and WZB stumble across the performance of a classical Chinese orchestra and DMH is immediately captivated by the melodies of the guzheng soloist, LMQ (Crystal Liu Yi-Fei), a student at the Shanghai Conservatory, whose affections lie with the accomplished but arrogant virtuoso, ZXZ. In his attempt to spend more time with LQM, DMH promises to help LQM get together with ZXZ. As DMH and LQM grow closer, it becomes increasingly difficult to conceal his identity.
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Title: Journey to the West
Character: Guanyin
Released: February 14, 2010
Type: TV
A Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title.
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To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
Title: To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong captured the hearts and minds of cinemagoers around the world in her stunning motion picture debut in THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG (1960). Nancy Kwan's story is both fairytale and poignant as it takes its audience on a personal journey, a woman's journey, which is as equally compelling as it is inspiring.
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Mao's Last Dancer
Title: Mao's Last Dancer
Character: Niang
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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Title: 人到中年
Released: August 29, 2009
Type: TV
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All God's Children Can Dance
Title: All God's Children Can Dance
Character: Evelyn
Released: November 6, 2008
Type: Movie
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend until, one day, he sees a one-eared man who could be his father and decides to follow him around Los Angeles.
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24 City
Title: 24 City
Character: Xiao Hua
Released: September 27, 2008
Type: Movie
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.
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Title: Fringe
Character: Reiko
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: TV
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
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The Leap Years
Title: The Leap Years
Character: Li-Ann (age 48)
Released: February 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Li-ann, a dreamer, is a strong believer of the soul mate theory and rejects all men, especially her best friend KS, till she falls in love with Jeremy, at first sight. They tour Chinatown, Singapore, together on February 29 1980. Unfortunately, she is heartbroken when he tells her he is engaged. He decides to make up to her by meeting her same time, same place, every leap year. Their love spans twenty years, as they realize the pain of love until they take the leap of faith...and the leap of love...
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Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Title: Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly popular show.
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Lust, Caution
Title: Lust, Caution
Character: Mrs. Yee
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: Movie
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
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The Sun Also Rises
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Character: Dr. Lin
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
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Hollywood Chinese
Title: Hollywood Chinese
Character: Self
Released: March 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues, and treasures. It weaves together a wondrous portrait of actors, directors, writers, and movie icons who have defined American feature films, from the silent era to the current new wave of Asian American cinema. At once entertaining and enlightening, Hollywood Chinese reveals long-untold stories behind the Asian faces that have graced the silver screen, and weaves a rich and complicated tapestry, one marked by unforgettable performances and groundbreaking films, but also by a tangled history of race and representation.
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The Home Song Stories
Title: The Home Song Stories
Character: Rose Hong / Hong Meigui
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older sister May to head for Melbourne. The marriage just as quickly breaks up and Rose moves with the kids to Sydney. After a succession of male friends and little success, in 1971 Rose moves back to Melbourne, in an uncomfortable arrangement living again with Bill – and his mother. With Bill called away to sea, Rose takes up with young Chinese cook Joe, but despair and conflicts over May's relationship with Joe tear the family further apart. Little Tom is deeply hurt, but May's ongoing conflict with her mother takes a respite when Rose tells her daughter about her traumatic teenage years.
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Americanese
Title: Americanese
Character: Betty Nguyen
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other
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Sunflower
Title: Sunflower
Character: Zhang Xiuqing
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son. Nine-year-old Xiangyang is having the time of his life, free of adult supervision until the day he meets the father he can hardly remember. Having spent years away, he returns with strong ideas about his son learning to draw. But Xiangyang chafes under his father's constant rules and soon stages his own revolution against the lessons enforced.
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Saving Face
Title: Saving Face
Character: Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma
Released: May 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
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Cyber Wars
Title: Cyber Wars
Character: Madame Ong
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose
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Jasmine Women
Title: Jasmine Women
Character: Elder Mo
Released: June 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.
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What's Cooking?
Title: What's Cooking?
Character: Trinh Nguyen
Released: January 20, 2000
Type: Movie
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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Purple Storm
Title: Purple Storm
Character: Shirley Kwan
Released: November 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, sustains a serious head wound. Now a total amnesiac, Todd wakes from a coma to find he's been given a new life, one that may be the death of him. With the help of psychiatrist Shirley Kwan, anti-terrorist officer Mark Chan tries to convince Todd that he is actually an undercover cop sent to infiltrate Chow's group. As fragments of his shattered memory return, Todd is forced to choose between his dark past and this one shot at redemption
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In a Class of His Own
Title: In a Class of His Own
Character: Linda Ching
Released: October 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is looked up to by the kids who often seek his advice. There is only one problem. He doesn't have a high school diploma. The school board tells him that he must get his GED in 30 days or he will lose his job. He tries taking the test on his own, but fails. His wife rallies the community to help Rich pass the test. Now that Rich has help from teachers and students, there is nothing he can't do.
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Wild Side
Title: Wild Side
Character: Virginia Chow
Released: July 17, 1996
Type: Movie
A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his bodyguard.
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Precious Find
Title: Precious Find
Character: Camilla Jones
Released: June 26, 1996
Type: Movie
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors.
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Judge Dredd
Title: Judge Dredd
Character: Dr. Ilsa Hayden
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
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Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
Title: Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
Character: Herself
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of the 1995 film 'Judge Dredd.'
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Major Dara Talif
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Princess Jade (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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The Hunted
Title: The Hunted
Character: Kirina
Released: February 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are the targets of assassins hired by the ruthless Kinjo. To survive, Racine must join forces with a powerful samurai and together they will fight the force of evil in an awesome battle rooted in centuries of brutal conflict.
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Red Rose White Rose
Title: Red Rose White Rose
Character: Wang Jiaohui
Released: December 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background. Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.
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On Deadly Ground
Title: On Deadly Ground
Character: Masu
Released: February 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.
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Golden Gate
Title: Golden Gate
Character: Marilyn Song
Released: January 28, 1994
Type: Movie
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man and his teenage daughter.
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Heaven & Earth
Title: Heaven & Earth
Character: Mama
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.
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Temptation of a Monk
Title: Temptation of a Monk
Character: Princess Hong-e - Scarlet / Qing-shou - Violet
Released: September 15, 1993
Type: Movie
Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked into leaving the crown prince unguarded. The crown prince is murdered by one of his brothers who then becomes emperor. Shi retreats to a monastery, perhaps to hide, perhaps to plan a coup. When his loyal troops as well as the princess he desires are slain, he seeks refuge in a remote, abandoned monastery where an aged abbot schools him with practical, earthy teachings. The emperor's forces pursue Shi: first a woman, then a general seek to overpower him with lust and might. Over the course of the film, the reds of battle give way to blues of meditation.
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Title: Homicide: Life on the Street
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: TV
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
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Shadow of a Stranger
Title: Shadow of a Stranger
Character: Vanessa
Released: December 7, 1992
Type: Movie
Ted and Sarah Clinton notice a boat being violently hurled around by a storm just off their beach-house and go out to help the occupants, a young teacher called Vanessa and her boyfriend Shawn. But when it turns out that the boat belongs to an old couple who have just mysteriously disappeared, they find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue and murder.
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Steel Justice
Title: Steel Justice
Character: Nicole Loa
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his Robosaurus toy ! A mythical figure will help Nash to turn the Robosaurus into a real creature in order to avenge his son's death.
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Title: Children of the Dragon
Character: Jin-Juan
Released: August 18, 1992
Type: TV
Children of the Dragon is a 1992 Australian mini series set against the background of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. It was shot at the ABC Frenchs Forest Studios and at the Sydney Showground.
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Strangers
Title: Strangers
Character: The Girl (Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows)
Released: May 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Three provocative short stories. An American in Paris seduces a young man only to have the tables turned; a tourist recovering from an accident is alone but far from lonely; and an exchange student decides to intervene when he sees the woman in the opposite apartment being tied, gagged and beaten by her lover.
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Turtle Beach
Title: Turtle Beach
Character: Minou
Released: March 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to land secretly in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
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Title: Nightmare Cafe
Character: Cafe Customer
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: TV
Nightmare Cafe is a short-lived American telefantasy program which aired on NBC for an abridged first season from January to April 1992. While the overall tone of the program was that of a mystical fantasy, it frequently incorporated elements of dark humor, horror, and even outright comedy. A total of six episodes were produced before low ratings led to its cancellation. The series has subsequently been shown on the Sci Fi Channel as part of their Series Collection. The series began showing on NBC Universal's horror and suspense-themed cable channel, Chiller in March 2009.
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Wedlock
Title: Wedlock
Character: Noelle
Released: May 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Josie Packard
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Josie Packard (archive footage)
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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The Blood of Heroes
Title: The Blood of Heroes
Character: Kidda
Released: October 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory
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Twin Peaks
Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Jocelyn Packard
Released: September 3, 1989
Type: Movie
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Connie
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Dim Sum Take-Out
Title: Dim Sum Take-Out
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that was shot for Dim Sum, which was conceived as a film about the ways in which five women of the Chinese diaspora—three American-born, a naturalized citizen, and a recent immigrant—try to balance their personal goals and the expectations of the Chinese American community in which they live. The original story line was thought to be too complicated and ambitious, and, ultimately, significant portions of Dim Sum were rewritten and reshot to focus on Geraldine, a second-generation Chinese American woman, and her relationship with her immigrant mother. However, footage that had already been shot for the film was edited together to create Dim Sum Take-Out, an eleven-minute film made up of narrative segments intercut with music video style segments, set to English- and Chinese-language versions of the song "My Boyfriend's Back."
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The Last Emperor
Title: The Last Emperor
Character: Wan Jung
Released: October 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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Title: Wiseguy
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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Tai-Pan
Title: Tai-Pan
Character: May-May
Released: November 7, 1986
Type: Movie
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
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The Night Stalker
Title: The Night Stalker
Character: Mai Wing
Released: September 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
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Goodbye My Hero
Title: Goodbye My Hero
Released: July 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Lindy Ng (Joan Chen) and her younger brother and sister eke out an impoverished life together, living in a rundown apartment. When Lindy is diagnosed with terminal leukemia, her first thoughts are her siblings. Who will take care of them after she passes away? With her apartment too dangerous to continue living in, Lindy is forced to move to another location where she encounters the worst of flatmates, hot-tempered petty criminal Morrie (Frankie Chan).
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Lin
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
Title: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
Character: Young M.J. Player
Released: August 9, 1985
Type: Movie
San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors. A fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine's boyfriend lives in Los Angeles and she's not sure she's ready for marriage, nor does she want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law, Uncle Tam, tries to help out.
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Title: Miami Vice
Character: May Ying
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Title: Matt Houston
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Title: Knight Rider
Character: Su-Lin
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
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Awakening
Title: Awakening
Character: Su Xiaomei
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A disillusioned and lonely young man working for a foreign trade company finds his enthusiasm for life revived when he meets a young woman who seems to reflect the ideals and ambitions he once had.
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The Little Flower
Title: The Little Flower
Character: 赵小花
Released: November 24, 1979
Type: Movie
This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is deserted by her poor family. He Xiangdong, a woodworker, adopts her and rename her He Cuigu. To steer clear of arrest by the enemy, Dong Hongguo, offspring of a revolutionary family, is renamed Xiao Hua so as to be adopted by her adopter. Later, Zhao Yongsheng's parents are killed by the enemy, he joins the Liberation Army. In 1947, when Zhao Yongsheng returns to his own village Tongbai, his sister Xiao Hua happens to find her brother. Doctor Zhou who works in the hospital of the army, adopts Xiao Hua without knowing she is her own daughter. He Cuigu has become a well-known guerrilla hero after she grows up. She doesn't recognize her brother Zhao Yongsheng when she carries him on the stretcher. After the war, Zhao Yongsheng, Xiao Hua and Cuigu meet each other happily; Dong Xiangkun and Doctor Zhou also feel happy to reunite with their own daughter after 17 years of departure.
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A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family
Title: A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family
Character: 黄思华
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Youth
Title: Youth
Character: Shen Yamei
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her inexperience with even such simple tasks as answering a telephone lead her supervisor to conclude she is incompetent, and try to have her reassigned. However, a courageous action by another soldier leads him to reevaluate his judgment.
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Title: Golden Horse Awards
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 1962
Type: TV
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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The Wedding Banquet
Title: The Wedding Banquet
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After his boyfriend rejects his marriage proposal, Min convinces his best friend Angela to marry him for his green card and offers to pay for her partner's IVF treatment in return. Their lives are turned upside down when the former's grandmother arrives in Seattle to throw them an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
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Flayer
Title: Flayer
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Tonight at Noon
Title: Tonight at Noon
Character: Joan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Lee and Mae are a couple trying to work out their differences. As Mae struggles with memories of a former flame, Lee, who is a writer, works through his frustration by forming his problems into a story in his mind. And that's when everything starts shifting back and forth from reality to Lee's imagination.