Vivian Wu Filmography

Shanghai Red

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vivian Wu, Richard Burgi, Sun Hong-Lei, You Ge, Roger Yuan

Synopsis: Vivian Wu stars as an unlikely femme fatale in this suspenseful murder mystery from writer/director Oscar Luis Costo. In the wake of her husband's murder, Mei Li (Wu) takes on a vengeful alter-ego, carrying out hits at the direction of her husband's confidant. Meanwhile, she meets an American man Read More

Eve and the Fire Horse

Actors: Phoebe Jojo Kut, Hollie Lo, Lester "Chit-Man" Chan, Vivian Wu, Ping Sung Wong

Synopsis: Two impressionable young sisters find their fledgling religious beliefs leading them toward opposite ends of the spectrum following a series of family misfortunes in this drama from Canadian filmmaker Julia Kwan. Eve (Phoebe Jojo Kut) and her sister Karena (Hollie Lo) were raised by Buddhist Read More

Chinaman

Crew: Co-producer

Blindness

Actors: Vivian Wu, Joe Lando, Lisa Lu, Chin Han

Synopsis: Anna Chi directed this drama about a middle-class Hong family during a single night. Doctor Daniel Hong (Chin Han) armors himself against the intense emotions radiating from his mother, blind Mrs. Hong (Lisa Lu), and his wife, angry Natalie (Vivian Wu). They are interrupted by the arrival of Read More

Encrypt

Actors: Grant Show, Vivian Wu, Steve Bacic, Naomi Gaskin, Matthew Taylor

Synopsis: In the year 2068, the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms (the byproduct, of course, of the destruction of the Ozone Layer). A few hardy souls have dedicated themselves to preserving and protecting what is left of mankind; among Read More

AV:X.06 - Mixmasters, Episode 3

Synopsis: Each edition in this series of releases contains ambient music combined with interesting visuals that combine to make for an original viewing experience. This edition has visual images created by some of the country's most recognized video artists. There six songs on this collection are titled Read More

Dinner Rush

Actors: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Music may be the food of love, but a group of gangsters are singing a very different tune at a fancy New York dining room in this dark comedy. Louis (Danny Aiello) is the owner of an upscale restaurant in New York's Tribeca district where his son Udo (Edoardo Ballerini) has become the head chef. Read More

8 1/2 Women

Actors: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Shizuka Inoh, Barbara Sarafian, Toni Collette, Amanda Plummer, Polly Walker

Synopsis: From Peter Greenaway, one of Britain's most controversial directors, 8 1/2 Women is a laconic black comedy that examines the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and consequences. A rich businessman from Geneva acquires eight and a half pachinko parlors in Kyoto, Japan. They are Read More

ER: Flight of Fancy

Synopsis: Greene (Anthony Edwards) confronts unforeseen perils as he flies to Indiana and back with a heart-transplant patient. Carter (Noah Wyle) treats teenaged patient Trent Larson (Blake Heron), whose parents have not informed him that he is HIV-positive. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) tries to learn the Read More

Strange World

Actors: Tim Guinee, Kristin Lehman, Saundra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: A science-fiction drama produced for ABC, Strange World concerns Paul Turner (Tim Guinee), a one-time Army scientist who was one of a battalion exposed to a dangerous but unidentified chemical while serving in the Gulf War in 1991. While the other members of his platoon died, Turner has instead Read More

A Bright Shining Lie

Actors: Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: Adapted from Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, this $14-million TV docudrama, re-creating the Vietnam War with convincing combat footage, was the most expensive two-hour movie ever produced by HBO Pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton) spends ten years Read More

The Soong Sisters

Synopsis: "Once upon a time in distant China, there were three sisters. One loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country." So opens this historical, melodramatic chronicle of the influential lives of three daughters from one of pre-Communist China's wealthiest families. Two of the Soong sisters Read More

The Pillow Book

Actors: Barbara Lott, Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis: Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Kendo Kill

Synopsis: This episode takes place in Osaka, Japan, where a wealthy motor-company executive has promised his daughter in marriage to the son of a business associate. An American race-car driver (Rick Walsh) dares to defy tradition by romancing the girl himself--and when the girl's husand-to-be is killed Read More

Vanishing Son

Actors: Russell Wong

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie spawned several sequels and eventually an adventure TV-series of the same name. Russell Wong and Chi Moui Lo star as brothers Jian-Wa and Wago Chang, respectively, who escape from China's political unrest and take up in the United States. Both try and find new lives Read More

Vanishing Son 4

Vanishing Son 3

Vanishing Son 2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Actors: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Vivian Wu, Sab Shimono

Synopsis: This third film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series finds the amphibian ninjas traveling back in time to 17th-century Japan in order to save April O'Neil (Paige Turco). Once there, they also use their skills to help a rebel army battle an evil leader. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Death in Hong Kong

Synopsis: The tenth season of Murder, She Wrote begins as Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) travels to Hong Kong, where she attends a banquet honoring a high-profile American businessman. With Jessica in attendance, a murder is a foregone conclusion--and sure enough, the businessman is poisoned to death. Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Message From Nam'

Synopsis: Another of several made-for-TV movies based on the best-selling novels of Danielle Steel, this one stars Jenny Robertson as Paxton Andrews, a sheltered Southern belle who falls for law student Peter Wilson (Steven Eckholdt) on the campus of Berkeley in the late '60s. After Peter is drafted and Read More

Heaven & Earth

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: With Heaven and Earth -- cobbled together from two autobiographical reminiscences (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip -- Oliver Stone completes his self-declared "Vietnam Trilogy" (the other films being Platoon and Born On the Fourth of July) of Read More

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

The Shadow of China

Actors: John Lone, Koichi Sato, Sammi Davis, Vivian Wu, Roy Chiao

Synopsis: John Lone, the star of the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (89), portrays a Chinese revolutionary in Shadow of China. Pursued by the Communists, Lone escapes to Hong Kong, where he builds up a multimillion dollar business enterprise. He hopes to use his international clout to effect changes in Read More

The Guyver

Actors: Mark Hamill, Vivian Wu, Jack "Wildman" Armstrong, David Gale, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Based on the Japanese comic-book character created by Toshiki Takaya, this hyper-kinetic science fiction fantasy plays like a live-action cartoon. The title initially refers to a mysterious piece of technology capable of generating a powerful bio-mechanical exoskeleton around the body of its Read More

Iron and Silk

Actors: Mark Salzman, Pan Qingfu, Jeanette Lin Tsui, Vivian Wu, Sun Xudong

Synopsis: Shirley Sun directed this charming martial arts movie based on Mark Salzman's book on his experiences teaching in China. Salzman plays a thinly disguised version of himself as Mark Franklin, a Western kung fu film-fanatic who travels to China to find spiritual enlightenment. Mark graduates from Read More

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