David Wu Filmography

Son of the Dragon

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: John Reardon, David Carradine, Desiree Siahaan, Rupert Graves

Synopsis: A small time con artist and his loyal companion must fight to prove their innocent when they are accused of attempting to poison a princess in this adventure mini-series directed by David Wu (The Bride with White Hair) and starring David Carradine. D.B. (John Reardon) was abandoned at birth on the Read More

Silent Hill

Crew: Editor

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates

Synopsis: A mother and daughter flee to a strange abandoned town to seek out answers to the daughter's nightly psychological turmoil in Brotherhood of the Wolf director Christophe Gans' adaptation of the popular survival horror video game. Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) is a very sick child, yet rather than Read More

Merlin's Apprentice: The Search for the Holy Grail

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, John Reardon, Christopher Jacot, Andrew Jackson

Synopsis: Directed, acted, and produced in the same mold -- and on the same level -- as its many other family friendly, critically-acclaimed television specials, Hallmark Entertainment presents Merlin's Apprentice: Search for the Holy Grail. Starring screen legend Sam Neill (Dead Calm, A Cry in the Dark) in Read More

Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing

Synopsis: While most casual filmgoers take little note of the editing in a movie, committed fans and filmmakers know that it's the editor who determines the pace and rhythm of a motion picture and that skillful cutting can change the flow of the story, even out inconsistencies in the mood and feel of a Read More

Webs

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Richard Grieco, Richard Yearwood, Jason Jones, Jeff Douglas

Synopsis: While on the job at an abandoned Chicago office building, four electrical workers -- Dean (Richard Grieco), Ray (Richard Yearwood), Junior (Jason Jones), and Sheldon (Jeff Douglas) -- stumble upon a time portal. Instantly, Dean and Junior disappear, rematerializing in a modernistic alternate Read More

The Snow Queen

Crew: Director

Actors: Bridget Fonda

Synopsis: Originally conceived as a TV miniseries (but generally shown in a single three-hour installment), this lavish adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen stars Bridget Fonda as the icy-hearted title character. Arriving incognito at the alpine inn run by a man named Wolfgang (Robert Wisden Read More

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Crew: Editor, Montage

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the violent deaths of over 100 persons in the mid-18th century, and this horror fantasy blends the lore of this fabled beast with a story of two men who set out to capture it. Read More

Bride of Chucky

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: This horror film, directed by Ronnie Yu, marked a return (after an eight-year lapse) of Chucky and the Child's Play series that began in 1988. At the moment of his death, the spirit of former serial killer Charles Lee Ray was mystically relocated in the doll Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif). After Read More

Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother

Crew: Director

Actors: Ivan Sergei, Sandrine Holt, Nicholas Lea

Synopsis: Originally shown on The Movie Channel, Once a Thief: Family Business is a re-edited compilation of two episodes of the Once a Thief TV series: "Family Reunion" and "Endgame." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Opium War

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The events leading up to Great Britain's take-over of Hong Kong provide the basis of this epic Chinese historical drama that distinguishes itself from similarly themed films by presenting a relatively balanced view of each side's position during the war, though China ends up looking a little Read More

Warriors of Virtue

Crew: Editor

Actors: Angus MacFadyen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton, Chao-Li Chi, Dennis Dun

Synopsis: A children's fantasy adventure, Warriors of Virtue features five superheroes, dressed in kangaroo-like outfits, who are known as the Roos. The Roos inhabit a magical underground world which is threatened by the foppish villain Komodo (Angus Macfayden), who is mining a life-enhancing mineral from Read More

Once a Thief [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei, Nicholas Lea, Jennifer Dale, Howard G. H. Dell

Synopsis: This Canadian action-adventure series debuted in its home country as a two-hour pilot on September 29, 1996, before settling into its weekly, 60-minute time slot on September 15, 1997. The action fluctuated between Vancouver and Hong Kong, focusing on a pair of daring and sexy professional Read More

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This Hong Kong melodrama shares only the title Robert Wise's 1956 film biography of American middleweight champion Rocky Graziano. The story begins as a luminescent beauty watches two men fighting in the ring. Suddenly the story jumps back 10 months when Gloria, the girl first fell in love with Read More

Crying Freeman

Crew: Editor

Actors: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tchéky Karyo, Masaya Kato

Synopsis: Based on a popular Japanese comic, this stylish, romantic French-Canadian actioner features many exciting pyrotechnic effects, elegantly executed murders, and some nifty-doodle gadgets, but very little on-screen bloodshed as it follows the adventures of Yo, one of the world's greatest hit men. Yo Read More

The Phantom Lover

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The third filmization of the Chinese version of Phantom of the Opera, this Hong Kong operatic melodrama is set in the fatastical burned-out husk of a once glorious opera house located near 1937 Beijing. The tale begins as a homeless theater troupe arrives there and listens to the caretaker Read More

Treasure Hunt

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Jeff Lau directs this action flick cum romantic comedy. The film centers on CIA agent Jeff Chang (Chow Yun-fat) who is assigned to steal a Chinese national treasure, even though he is not told what this treasure might be. He meets his contact Tong Ling (Chin Han) who instructs him to hold up in a Read More

The Bride with White Hair

Crew: Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Nam Kit-Ying

Synopsis: Following on the success of 1987's Chinese Ghost Story, Hong Kong was inundated with romantically themed tales of the supernatural. Most were awful, but Ronny Yu's The Bride With White Hair has become a classic of the genre. Based on a two-volumed 1954 novel written by Leung Yu-Sang, the film Read More

The Bride with White Hair 2

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Editor and co-writer of the original, David Wu Tai-wai directs this follow-up to the wildly popular romantic fantasy-horror masterwork Bride With White Hair. The last film ended with Cho (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing), following the defeat of the Wu Tang clan, waiting atop the snowy peak of mount Shing Read More

Hard-Boiled

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Bowie Lam, Philip Chan, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kwan Hoi-Shan

Synopsis: Hard-Boiled is the last film directed by Hong Kong action auteur John Woo before his arrival in the U.S. This 1992 thriller, along with The Killer, is widely seen as one of his best from his Hong Kong days. Every ingredient of the quintessential Woo thriller is present, including his ever-present Read More

Once a Thief

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kenneth Tsang, Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung

Synopsis: For this 1991 action comedy from Hong Kong, director John Woo took a break from his ultraviolent thrillers; it was made a year after Bullet in the Head, and a year before Hard-Boiled. Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung portray a trio of orphans who have grown to become art thieves. When Read More

Bullet in the Head

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam, Fennie Yuen

Synopsis: Following up on his 1989 masterpiece The Killer, superstar action director John Woo directs this emotionally wrenching look at three friends waylaid in war-torn Vietnam. Set in 1967, when clashes between leftists protesting British rule and the police were tearing the colony apart, the film opens Read More

The Killer

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kenneth Tsang, Chu Kong

Synopsis: Though John Woo's lifelong admiration of Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick are also evident in this stylish actioner, the film is essentially a tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville and his cult thriller Le Samouraï. During a restaurant shoot-out, hitman Jeff (Chow Read More

A Better Tomorrow II

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu, Waise Lee

Synopsis: Following the bloody climax of the previous film, A Better Tomorrow -- again directed by John Woo -- opens with Sung Chi-hi (spelled Tse-ho in the first film though still played by Ti Lung) getting released from jail on the condition that he rat out his gangland associate and a shipyard owner Read More

Gunmen

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this stylish Hong Kong thriller, Tony Leung stars as a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. His department is overrun with corruption, while gangsters rule the city via the opium trade. The young cop recruits the aid of some rickshaw drivers who turn out to be men he served with during the war Read More

A Chinese Ghost Story

Crew: Editor

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Wong Tsu Hsien, Wu Ma

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong producer/director Tsui Hark and filmmaker Ching Siutung combine forces in this high-flying supernatural romance classic. Ning Caichen (Leslie Cheung) is a lowly tax collector who takes refuge for the night at the spooky Lam Ro temple. There he encounters and promptly falls in Read More

Seven Years Itch

Crew: Editor

Actors: Raymond Wong, Sylvia Chang, Eric Tsang

Synopsis: The businessman in this film has been in a committed relationship with a woman for over seven years, and in all that time he hasn't dallied with anyone else. He is not married to her, but he may as well be, except for the fact that he is deeply moved by the sight of beautiful women. One day, while Read More

Heartbeat 100

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lui Fong, Maggie Cheung, Bonnie Law, Mark Cheng

Synopsis: When a news writer begins digging into village affairs even more deeply than the police did, she runs afoul of a multiple murderer. She was only looking for some local color and inspiration and is accompanied by her sister and a friend known as "weeny eyes." ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

A Better Tomorrow

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung, Young Pao I

Synopsis: John Woo established himself as one of Hong Kong's premiere action directors with this ultra-hip, ultra-violent action classic. The film centers around the complex relationship between two brothers: Sung Tse-kit (Leslie Cheung) is a recent graduate of the police academy while Tse-ho (Ti Lung) runs Read More

Peking Opera Blues

Crew: Editor

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy drama stars three of Hong Kong's most attractive and popular actresses of their time: Brigitte Lin is the daughter of a general, Cherie Chung is a petty thief, and Sally Yip is the daughter of the manager of the Beijing Opera theater. The story is set in 1911 when the Chinese Read More

Working Class

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sam Hui, Tsui Hark, Wong Joe Yin

Synopsis: Future action auteur Tsui Hark directs this amiable romantic comedy about a perpetually unemployed loser named Yan (Sam Hui Koon-kit), who would much rather hang out with his layabout buddies, Hing (Teddy Robin Kwan) and Sunny (Tsui), than look for gainful employment. One day, he happens upon a Read More

The Club

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John Howard

Synopsis: Bruce Beresford directed this adaptation of David Williamson's play (Williamson also scripted) about the ever-widening gap between professional sport and its boardroom intrigues. Jack Thompson is Laurie, a once popular ball player on the Australian Rules football circuit, but now an ineffective Read More