Victor WongFilmography

Born:: July 31, 1927 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Yee Keung Victor Wong
Biography:: A longtime character actor most recognized for his roles as wise grandfatherly figures in such popular films as Big Trouble in Little China and Disney's 3 Ninja series, Victor Wong was also a founding figure of Chicago's enduring Second City comedy troupe and a noted Beat Generation artist. A...Read More

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3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain

Actors: Hulk Hogan, Loni Anderson, Jim Varney, Mathew Botuchis, Michael J. O'Laskey II, J.P. Roeske II

Synopsis: This is the fourth in the 3 Ninjas action-adventure series with retired ninja Grandpa Mori (Victor Wong) as the connective device linking all four films. Following the low-rent 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (a 1992 production which went unreleased until 1995), the fourth boosts the budget and features three Read More

1998
Seven Years in Tibet

Actors: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe

Synopsis: Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to Read More

1997
The Adventurers

Actors: Andy Lau

Synopsis: Following up on his two-fisted Hong Kong action thriller Full Contact, ace director Ringo Lam spins this hard-boiled revenge drama. After the murder of his parents and only sister at the hands of the villianous gun-running billionaire Ray Lui (Paul Chun Pui) in 1975, crack jet pilot Yan (Andy Lau Read More

1996
Paper Dragons

Synopsis: Small time criminal Paul Marcos is given a second chance at a life of integrity when he double crosses a Chinese drug kingpin and is left for dead. Under the tutelage of Master Tsai and Master Chang, who find him and nurse him back to health, Paul sees the true path in life for the first time. But Read More

1996
Jade

Actors: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Biehn, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: An investigator seeking the truth behind the death of a noted art dealer uncovers a web of sexual deception in this erotic thriller. David Caruso plays David Corelli, a San Francisco District Attorney who faces a potential conflict of interest when he learns that the prime suspect in the murder is Read More

1995
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up

Actors: Victor Wong, Charles Napier, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade, Chad Power, Crystle Lightning

Synopsis: In yet another sequel to the surprise family hit 3 Ninjas, the three young Ninja brothers, Rocky (Michael Treanor), Colt (Max Elliott Slade), and Tum Tum (Chad Power), are spending the summer with their grandfather (Victor Wong), who is tutoring them in the martial arts. However, there are foul Read More

1995
3 Ninjas Kick Back

Actors: Dustin Nguyen, Sean Fox, Max Elliott Slade, Evan Bonifant, Victor Wong, Caroline Junko King

Synopsis: The heroes of the family adventure comedy 3 Ninjas return in this sequel (though not all of them are played by the same actors). Rocky (Sean Fox), Colt (Max Elliott Slade), and Tum Tum (Evan Bonifant) are three brothers whose Grandfather (Victor Wong) is a ninja master teaching them martial arts Read More

1994
Due South: Chinatown

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Hoping to stop Chinatown restauranteur Henry Lee (Yu Kun Lu) from exhorting his fellow tradesmen to rise up against the tyranny of gang boss Charlie Wong (Joel de la Fuente), Wong orders his minions to kidnap Henry's son David (Michael Hong). Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) make it Read More

1994
The Joy Luck Club

Actors: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of late-middle-aged Read More

1993
The Ice Runner

Actors: Edward Albert, Olga Kabo, Yevgeny Lazarev, Alexander Kuznitsov

Synopsis: Edward Albert stars as American spy Jeremy West, who is sentenced to twelve years in a Soviet prison as a result of U.S. government duplicity. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Lung Min

Synopsis: Housing has always been in short supply and consequently very expensive in Hong Kong. In this story, one group of people who have managed in their way to circumvent the high cost of living in that city are the "cagemen." These are men who live in tiny cubicles made of wire mesh and stacked three Read More

1993
3 Ninjas

Actors: Victor Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade, Chad Power, Rand Kingsley

Synopsis: This youth-oriented martial arts comedy concerns three children (Colt, Rocky, and Tum Tum) who are instructed in the art of ninjitsu by their grandfather, Ninja Master Mori (Victor Wong). Another of Mori's former pupils grew up to be notorious underworld figure Hugo Snyder (Rand Kingsley) Read More

8/7/92
Mystery Date

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, B.D. Wong, Tony Rosato

Synopsis: In this black teen comedy, a young man is thrilled that his kindly older brother has arranged for him to date the bombshell next door. To further impress her, little brother takes his sibling's shiny sports car. If he had known that there were a pair of corpses in the trunk though, the youth may Read More

8/16/91
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

Actors: Spencer Nakasako, Cora Miao, Victor Wong, John K. Chan, Chan Kim Wan

Synopsis: Asian-American filmmaker Wayne Wang returns to the city of his birth for this surreal, violent, and darkly comic look at the seamy underside of life in Hong Kong. A young man of Chinese/Japanese heritage (Spencer Nakasako) working at a racetrack in San Francisco is hired by gangsters to deliver a Read More

1991
Tremors

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: Tremors is actually two movies in one. On its own terms, it's an enjoyable modern sci-fi horror-thriller, with good pacing and a sense of humor; but it's also a loving tribute to such 1950s low-budget desert-based sci-fi-horror films like Them!, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, and The Monolith Monsters Read More

1/19/90
Forbidden Nights

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Robin Shou

Synopsis: Forbidden Nights is set in the Red China of 1979. Robin Shou plays a Chinese radical, working on behalf of bringing political reform to his homeland. Melissa Gilbert costars as an American teacher who falls in love with Shou. The dramatic thrust of the story is Ms. Gilbert's willingness to put her Read More

1990
Fatal Vacation

Synopsis: This outrageous jungle-set actioner from Hong Kong filmmaker Eric Tsang brings to mind such campy spectacles as Ernst von Theumer's cult favorite Jungle Warriors in its straight-faced melding of naive politics and ludicrously unconvincing gunplay. Taking place in 1985, the film posits a group of Read More

1990
Eat a Bowl of Tea

Actors: Law Lan, Cora Miao, Russell Wong, Victor Wong, Lee Sau Kee, Eric Tsang

Synopsis: Eat a Bowl of Tea is set in New York's Chinatown during the immediate postwar years. After a seeming eternity of separation, Chinese immigrants are finally allowed to bring their spouses to the U.S. thanks to looser immigration laws. Those husbands and wives no longer able to procreate fully Read More

7/21/89
Bloodsport

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in the aptly titled Bloodsport. An American soldier at large in Hong Kong, Van Damme becomes involved in the Kumite (also spelled Kumatai), a highly illegal kickboxing competition. Whoever survives the bout will be crowned Kumite champion of the Read More

2/26/88
The Last Emperor

Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though Read More

11/20/87
Prince of Darkness

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount, Dennis Dun

Synopsis: Proving that you can never guess what you'll find when you clean out the basement, a man of the cloth discovers that ultimate evil has made a hiding place in his cellar in this tale of terror. Father Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is a priest who discovers a strange object in a church basement -- a Read More

10/23/87
The Golden Child

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, J.L. Reate

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy followed up his Beverly Hills Cop success with this fantasy adventure that plops him right into the land of Ray Harryhausen and Indiana Jones. The plot revolves around a God-like youngster (J.L. Reate) known as a "golden child," who has been sent to Tibet to bring the gift of Read More

12/12/86
Shanghai Surprise

Actors: Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths, Philip Sayer

Synopsis: Madonna and Sean Penn, who were husband and wife at the time, starred in this notorious box-office bomb that one critic termed "Flop Suey." The film takes place in 1937, during the Japanese occupation of China. Drug runner Walter Faraday (Paul Freeman) is trying to leave the country with a large Read More

8/29/86
Big Trouble in Little China

Actors: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong

Synopsis: Playing in a manner that can be conservatively described as larger than life, Kurt Russell plays a macho truck driver who agrees to go to the San Francisco airport and pick up his friend's (Dennis Dun) fiancee (Suzee Pai, freshly arrived from China. Suddenly, a gang of Chinatown toughs kidnap the Read More

7/2/86
Year of the Dragon

Actors: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Leonard Termo, Ray Barry

Synopsis: Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven's Gate, director Michael Cimino turned to this fast-paced actioner set in an authentic (back lot) Chinatown. This thriller stars a rogue Polish-American cop (Mickey Rourke) out to not only keep Chinatown safe for Read More

1985
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

Actors: Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong, Ida F.O. Chung, Cora Miao

Synopsis: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his low-budget success Chan Is Missing is a gentle, slice-of-life comedy about the shifting relationship between a widowed mother and her thirty-year-old unmarried daughter in San Francisco's Chinatown. Mrs. Tam (Kim Chew) lives with her youngest daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew Read More

1985
Nightsongs

Actors: Mabel Kwong, David Lee, Victor Wong, Ida F.O. Chung, Rose Lee

Synopsis: Filmed over a five-year period, this interesting drama is about challenges to poor, minority immigrants in the U.S. and starts with the arrival of a Chinese Vietnamese woman (Mabel Kwong), living with a host family in New York while she tries to adjust to the changes in her life. She is a poet Read More

1984