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Joan Chen

Joan Chen

Chinese-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and producer
April 26, 1961 (63 years old)
U.S. 2024. Comedy by Sean Wang with Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, Joan Chen. In 2008, during the last month of summer, an impressionable Taiwanese-American teenager learns to skate, flirt with girls and love his mother.
Runtime: 91 min.
Chin. 2023. Drama by Ang Xu with Feng Xiaogang, Joan Chen, Bai Jugang. Ten years after the death of his master, a dog continues to wait for his return.
Runtime: 120 min.

Hero

V.O.: Shi jian you ta
Runtime: 117 min.
Aust. 2009. Biography by Bruce Beresford with Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan. The life of Li Cunxin, a Chinese dancer from the countryside, who defected in 1981 during one of the first student exchanges with the United States.
Runtime: 117 min.

Lust, Caution

V.O.: Se, Jie
H.-K. 2007. Thriller by Ang Lee with Tony Leung, Tang Wei, Joan Chen. During World War II, an aspiring actress is assigned by a group of students to frame the head of the Japanese secret service in China.
Runtime: 156 min.
Aust. 2007. Drama by Tony Ayres with Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Irene Chen. In the 1970s, the chaotic destiny of a psychologically fragile Hong Kong woman who emigrated to Australia with her two children.

Sunflower

V.O.: Xiang ri kui
Chin. 2005. Chronicle by Zhang Yang with Sun Haiying, Joan Chen, Gao Ge. The tribulations of a Chinese family, from the mid-1970s to the beginning of the new century.
Runtime: 129 min.
U.S. 2004. Sentimental comedy by Alice Wu with Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen. The mother and grandparents of a young Chinese-American lesbian despair over her ever finding a husband.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2000. Sentimental drama by Joan Chen with Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia. An inveterate heartthrob falls in love with a young designer who turns out to have an incurable disease.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2000. Mores comedy by Gurinder Chadha with Dennis Haysbert, Mercedes Ruehl, Joan Chen. Four Los Angeles families of different ethnic backgrounds prepare to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
Runtime: 109 min.
Chin. 1998. Drama by Joan Chen with Lu Lu, Lopsang, Gao Jie. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a teenage girl is confined to a remote area to learn how to train horses.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1996. Science-fiction by Philippe Mora with Rutger Hauer, Harold Pruett, Joan Chen.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1995. Crime drama by Jonathan F. Lawton with Christophe Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1994. Drama by Steven Seagal with Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1993. Drama by John Madden with Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby. An FBI agent falls in love with the daughter of a Chinese laundry person whom he once had imprisoned for falsely accusing him of being a communist.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1993. Chronicle by Oliver Stone with Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen. The tribulations of a Vietnamese woman whose life is turned upside down by the war.
Runtime: 136 min.

Temptation of a Monk

V.O.: You Seng
H.-K. 1993. Drama by Clara Law with Wu Hsin-Kuo, Joan Chen, Zhang Fengyi. After being dragged into a plot, a Chinese general takes refuge in a monastery where he pretends to be a monk to escape his enemies.
Runtime: 118 min.
Aust. 1992. Social drama by Stephen Wallace with Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson. During a report in Malaysia, a journalist finds a Vietnamese exile obsessed with the upcoming arrival of her three children.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1992. Crime drama by Richard Friedman with Emma Samms, Parker Stevenson, Joan Chen. A model's vacation turns into a nightmare when she and her husband take in a couple whose sailboat is wrecked.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1991. Science-fiction by Lewis Teague with Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen. Two prison escapees are fitted with electronic collars programmed to explode if they move away from each other.
Runtime: 101 min.
Aust. 1989. Science-fiction by David Webb Peoples with Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio. In the future, a fighter who engages in a violent, cruel game seeks revenge on a powerful team from which he was once driven.
Runtime: 90 min.
It. 1987. Biography by Bernardo Bertolucci with John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole. The story of Pu Yi, the last emperor to rule China.
Runtime: 163 min.
U.S. 1986. Adventures by Daryl Duke with Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton. In the middle of the 19th century, an influential merchant maneuvers to have Great Britain take over the island of Hong Kong, where he then sets out to build a financial empire.
Runtime: 127 min.

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