Chinese Box (1997)
Drama | Romance
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades, Jared Harris
Director: Wayne Wang
While the Women Are Sleeping / Onna ga Nemuru Toki (2016)
Drama
While vacationing with his wife, a writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) begins following another man (Takeshi Kitano) and woman (Shiori Kutsuna) who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada, Shiori Kutsuna, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Watanabe
Director: Wayne Wang
The Center of the World (2001)
Drama | Romance
What should have been a simple cash-for-sex arrangement sends a young computer genius and a beautiful stripper on an emotionally shattering journey into their deepest erotic fantasies.
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Pat Morita, Balthazar Getty
Director: Wayne Wang
Smoke (1995)
Comedy | Drama
The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. This film tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie's New York smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. Paul Benjamin, a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. Finally, it's Auggie's turn to spin a tale….
Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Jose Zuniga, Stephen Gevedon, Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Jared Harris
Director: Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Fed up with her small-town Bay City existence, Adele August leaves her family and second husband and heads for Beverley Hills with her daughter. The teenager resents the move and her mother's always flamboyant behaviour and in turns plans to get away to university on the east coast. Mum's plans are different – she wants a movie star for a daughter.
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Hart Bochner
Director: Wayne Wang
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son (Tyler Posey). One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes) meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eigeman, Ralph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson
Director: Wayne Wang
The Joy Luck Club / Xi fu hui (1993)
Drama
The Joy Luck Club tells the uplifting story of four remarkable friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak. Their Lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the startling events and conditions that have shaped their lives – and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
Starring: France Nuyen, Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, Chao Li Chi, Victor Wong
Director: Wayne Wang
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan / Xuehua yu Mishan (2011)
Drama | History
In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – or "old sames" – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong's descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai.
Starring: Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun, Vivian Wu, Russell Wong, Archie Kao, Coco Chiang, Hu Qing Yun, Shi Ping Cao, Ruijia Zhang
Director: Wayne Wang
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