Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien
Birthday: 1968-07-03
Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan
Biography: Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, 吳倩蓮, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu Chien-Lien (born July 3, 1968), is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is best remembered by Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990). Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award. Wu has also acted in TV serials in Taiwan, China and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in 2004's Hong Kong movie Jiang Hu.
Movies
Eighteen Springs
In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company....
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Jiang Hu
When Triad leader Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters, a brutal war begins in the worl...
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No Retreat
Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous...
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Treasure Hunt
A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a...
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Beyond Hypothermia
A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime boss...
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A Moment of Romance
After a young Triad member takes an upper-class girl hostage during his escape from a jewelry heist,...
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God of Gamblers' Return
Ko Chun, the God of Gamblers, vows to keep his identity hidden while looking for the gangsters who ...
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Banquet at Hongmen
A retelling of the fateful Feast at Swan Goose Gate, a historical event that involved two rebel lead...
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The Game of Killing
Killing games are quite popular among young people. Seven friends played this game in the bar. Unfor...
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Sorry Baby
The film tells of the attempts made by a Beijing van driver to obtain his wage arrears from travel a...
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Casino Raiders II
Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his so...
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Top Cool
After training in the United States, instructor Yu Da-peng comes back to Taiwan to train the first b...
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A Moment of Romance III
Lau Tin Wai is a fighter pilot in the Chinese airforce who is forced to ditch in a field; he is take...
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Intruder
A mainland Chinese girl is, with her husband, a wanted criminal and they have to get to Hong Kong in...
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A Moment of Romance II
A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. A moment of Rom...
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In Between
Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker...
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Only Fools Fall in Love
Poor girl meets rich boy as they quarrel over a food seller's once a year delicacy. His brother pay...
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The Bare-Footed Kid
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his ...
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To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui
An undercover cop finds himself tortured by his life among the triads. He’s locked into his job with...
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The Returning
Chung has a book project that will make his career in publishing: a collector's edition of the work ...
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Three Summers
Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong K...
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Beginner's Luck
Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the races. They invent a device ...
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Love and the City
A young mobster falls in love with the young head gang's girlfriend....
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Oh! My Three Guys....
Young gay men in Hong Kong. Hoi, Fa, and Kau have been friends since Third Form. They're now young g...
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Dream Lover
Cheung Ka Shing, an inventor who participates in illegal road races in his spare time. Their relatio...
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The Phantom Lover
In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the gr...
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All's Well, Ends Well '97
Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing b...
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The Adventurers
After the murder of his parents and sister at the hands of the villianous gun-running billionaire Ra...
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Peace Hotel
After his wife's murder, Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs prote...
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Mean Street Story
Miu (Ekin Cheng) grew up on Temple Street, where most of the gangsters in the area gathered, but he ...
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The Royal Scoundrel
Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight su...
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Walk In
The "walk in" of the title refers to one person allowing another's soul to take possession of his bo...
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Four Chefs and a Feast
Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to i...
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The Stories of Han Dynasty
Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous...
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How Deep Is Your Love
David's lover has died and his Lovers Sister is coming back from America to tie up loose ends. David...
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Dragon Town Story
A woman works with an assassin to get revenge upon the man who murdered her family nine years earlie...
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Ninth Happiness
Choi Hung village is full of innocents: people sing and work. The town beauty, Chi Wan, sees a stran...
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Eat Drink Man Woman
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive da...
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