Joan Chen
Birthday: 1961-04-26
Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
Biography: 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.
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Wedlock
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner....
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The Last Emperor
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
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Lust, Caution
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japane...
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The Blood of Heroes
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal g...
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Heaven & Earth
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before dec...
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Judge Dredd
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is c...
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The Hunted
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of dange...
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Wild Side
A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a mone...
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On Deadly Ground
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's co...
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Cyber Wars
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast Cyb...
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Mao’s Last Dancer
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and ...
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In a Class of His Own
Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is looked up to by the kids who ...
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Breathe
With the outbreak of the new corona virus epidemic, Kelly, a 17-year-old Chinese girl, followed her ...
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Tai-Pan
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. A...
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24 City
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...
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Hachiko
This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko i...
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Sunflower
Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, c...
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Golden Gate
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist-spying against a Chinese laundryman. 10...
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Precious Find
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers...
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Jasmine Women
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen p...
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Love in Disguise
Famous from an incredibly young age, DMH (Wang Lee Hom) has only ever known a celebrity pop star exi...
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Temptation of a Monk
Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked into ...
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Color Me Love
The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor who ha...
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The Sun Also Rises
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a ...
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Saving Face
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret love...
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1911
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang...
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What's Cooking?
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner....
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Hollywood Chinese
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American e...
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The Leap Years
Li-Ann, a dreamer, is a strong believer of the soul mate theory and rejects all men, especially her ...
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Passion Island
The comedy of the year. This wannabe magical romance-drama is one of the most illogical films ever a...
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to...
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White Frog
Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy h...
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Swordsman
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, prod...
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Swordsman
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, prod...
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Americanese
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let g...
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Red Rose White Rose
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the sau...
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Double Xposure
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts fall...
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The Night Stalker
A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes....
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Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the...
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The Home Song Stories
A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia....
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Lady of the Dynasty
The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong....
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Turtle Beach
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the s...
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For Love or Money
"For Love or Money" is based on a novel by Zhang Xiaoxian, which tells the moving story between a fa...
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Goodbye My Hero
Lindy Ng (Joan Chen) and her younger brother and sister eke out an impoverished life together, livin...
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Purple Storm
Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, C...
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Shadow of a Stranger
Ted and Sarah Clinton notice a boat being violently hurled around by a storm, just off their beach-h...
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Dìdi (弟弟)
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Ta...
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Dim Sum Take-Out
Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be era...
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Awakening
A disillusioned and lonely young man working for a foreign trade company finds his enthusiasm for li...
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The Little Flower
This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is des...
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The Wedding Banquet
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal:...
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Oh. What. Fun.
Claire Clauster is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together at the holidays. But thi...
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Critical Lifeline
Kai (Leehom Wang) awakens on his Shanghai houseboat––alone. His girlfriend Emma (Olivia Munn) has su...
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn....
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Steel Justice
David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his ...
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Twin Peaks
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic t...
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David...
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To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan Ka-Shen, who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kon...
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The House That Never Dies II
A cultural relic restorer discovers the skeletons of babies while working in an old mansion. The blo...
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The One
Funny scramble of an esoteric book of cooking between a guy without feeling, a tough girl, a master ...
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All God's Children Can Dance
In Koreatown, Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother...
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Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
Documentary on the making of the 1995 film 'Judge Dredd.'...
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Ava
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong....
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Strangers
Three provocative short stories. An American in Paris seduces a young man only to have the tables tu...
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Tonight at Noon
Lee and Mae are a couple trying to work out their differences. As Mae struggles with memories of a f...
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Sheep Without a Shepherd
Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two dau...
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Tigertail
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he b...
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Under the Light
Officers Su Jianming and Li Huilin investigate a crime involving wealthy businessman Li Zhitian. As ...
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Youth
After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is a...
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Peking Encounter
Syndicated TV movie about an American who falls in love in China, shot in Peking....
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Montreal, My Beautiful
Feng Xia (52), a Chinese immigrant, lives in Montreal with her husband and their children. The coupl...
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
A lonely elderly widow named Tova forms an unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly cephalopod octopu...
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The Evil Inside
Ho Jen-Jen, once Taiwan’s beloved showbiz icon “Golden Phoenix,” disappeared after gambling debts ov...
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Shi Qi
When Seventeen was two, his father abandoned him at a hotel and died that same night. The boy was ta...
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Wonderland
A young girl struggles to fix her family while stranded in Vegas over Christmas....
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Logic Paralyzes the Heart
Cyborg #1, a sentient being who adopts the guise of a human through actress Joan Chen, engages in an...
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No Other Love
A disillusioned horticulturist Zi Ning starts a passionate, all-consuming romance with the middle-ag...
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