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Wayne Wang

Highest Rated: 96% Chan Is Missing (1982)

Lowest Rated: 17% Slamdance (1987)

Birthday: Jan 12, 1949

Birthplace: Hong Kong

Born in Hong Kong and based in America, director Wayne Wang studied photography, film, TV and painting in the US before landing several directorial assignments in his homeland (these included the Chinese episodes of Robert Clouse's "The Golden Needles" in 1974 and a popular TV show based on "All in the Family"). He returned to the US and scraped together $22,000 to complete "Chan is Missing" (1982), a hip, Zen-inspired San Francisco detective story. This landmark independent film became a critical and commercial success for its rare, authentic slice of Asian-American life in a sometimes wildly comic narrative that straddled genres. The film remains an inspirational touchstone for Asian-American filmmakers attempting to get their voices heard in the American cinema.

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Highest-Rated Movies

96% 75% Chan Is Missing
Watchlist 92% 83% Coming Home Again Watchlist
90% 50% Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
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88% 89% Smoke
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86% 89% The Joy Luck Club
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79% 55% A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
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67% 54% Chinese Box
Watchlist 63% 54% Anywhere but Here Watchlist 56% 67% Last Holiday Watchlist
55% 63% Because of Winn-Dixie
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Wayne Wang

Wayne Wang CHAN IS MISSING, Wayne Wang, 1982, (c)New Yorker Films ANYWHERE BUT HERE, Susan Sarandon, Wayne Wang, 1999, actor and director on set ANYWHERE BUT HERE, Susan Sarandon, Wayne Wang, 1999, actor and director on set A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, from left: director Wayne Wang, Vida Ghahremani, on set, 2007. ©Magnolia Pictures A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, director Wayne Wang, on set, 2007. ©Magnolia Pictures LAST HOLIDAY, Director Wayne Wang, Producers Laurence Mark, Jack Rapke, on set, 2006, (c) Paramount LAST HOLIDAY, Director Wayne Wang, on set, 2006, (c) Paramount SMOKE, director Wayne Wang, on set, 1995. ©Miramax BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE, director Wayne Wang on set, 2005, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. View more photos

Filmography

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Coming Home Again 92% 83% 2019 Director, Screenwriter While the Women Are Sleeping 2016 Director Soul of a Banquet 33% 2014 Director, Producer Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 22% 48% 2011 Director The Princess of Nebraska 25% 2007 Director A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 79% 55% 2007 Director, Producer Last Holiday 56% 67% 2006 Director Because of Winn-Dixie 55% 63% 2005 Director Maid in Manhattan 38% 44% 2002 Director The Center of the World 34% 40% 2001 Director, Writer, Producer Anywhere but Here 63% 54% 1999 Director Chinese Box 67% 54% 1997 Director Blue in the Face 43% 76% 1995 Director, Writer Smoke 88% 89% 1995 Director The Joy Luck Club 86% 89% 1993 Director Eat a Bowl of Tea 49% 1989 Director Life Is Cheap ... but Toilet Paper Is Expensive 50% 1989 Director, Executive Producer Life Is Cheap 1989 Director Slamdance 17% 52% 1987 Director Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart 90% 50% 1985 Director, Producer Chan Is Missing 96% 75% 1982 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing A Man, a Woman, and a Killer 1975 Director, Screenwriter
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