Wu Chien-Lien

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Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu (born July 3, 1968), is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is best remembered by Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990). Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award. Wu has also acted in TV serials in Taiwan, China and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in 2004's Hong Kong movie Jiang Hu. Born : 3rd-Jul-1968

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Eat Drink Man Woman

A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
Released : 3rd-Aug-1994

Eighteen Springs

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.
Released : 12th-Sep-1997

Triad Underworld

When Triad leader Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters, a brutal war begins in the world of jiang-hu. Meanwhile, an internal conflict begins between Hung and his best man, Left-Hand.
Released : 26th-May-2004

No Retreat

Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while this historical figure's loyal concubine is played by the Hong Kong beauty Kristy Yang.
Released : 15th-Jun-2005

Treasure Hunt

A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China.
Released : 29th-Jan-1994

Beyond Hypothermia

A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man's bodyguard is out for revenge.
Released : 20th-Sep-1996

A Moment of Romance

After a young Triad member takes an upper-class girl hostage during his escape from a jewelry heist, the two find themselves falling in love, in spite of the repercussions caused by their forbidden relationship.
Released : 14th-Jun-1990

God of Gamblers' Return

Chow returns to play Ko Chun, a skilled gambler who now lives in retirement in France. Wu Xingguo plays an evil gangster who forces Ko out of retirement by killing his pregnant wife. Ko is forced to team up with a variety of other people to win out in the end. Wu Chien-lien plays Chow's romantic interest, Chingmy Yau plays a Taiwanese femme fatale, and Tony Leung provides much of the laughs.
Released : 24th-Dec-1994

Banquet at Hongmen

A retelling of the fateful Feast at Swan Goose Gate, a historical event that involved two rebel leaders opposing the Qin dynasty.
Released : 11th-Apr-2005

The Game of Killing

Killing games are quite popular among young people. Seven friends played this game in the bar. Unfortunately, the fake came true, and the game became a reality - they found that the person who was killed in the game every night must really die that night. This made everyone panic, and they became the wronged soul of the fake play at any time.
Released : 1st-Apr-2004

Sorry Baby

The film tells of the attempts made by a Beijing van driver to obtain his wage arrears from travel agency boss even to the point of kidnapping the latter's Singaporean girlfriend (Jacklyn Wu).
Released : 9th-Feb-1999

Casino Raiders II

Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his son Kit. Having previously tried to shut down the gambling den and take over by paralyzing Fan and framing Kit for another man's murder, ruthless local Triad boss, James goes a step further by murdering Fan. Driven only by money and the pursuit of two valuable 'Jade stones', James kidnaps Kit's daughter so he will surrender gambling in order for James to win the upcoming Championship.
Released : 13th-Jun-1991

Top Cool

plot is unknown
Released : 1st-Jan-1993

A Moment of Romance III

Lau Tin-Wai is a fighter pilot in the Chinese airforce who is forced to ditch in a field; he is taken in by the remote community of farmers who nurse him back to health, here he meets Ting Siu-Wo, a young woman who falls in love with him.
Released : 28th-Mar-1996

Intruder

A mainland Chinese girl is, with her husband, a wanted criminal and they have to get to Hong Kong in order to stay alive and be free.
Released : 29th-Nov-1997

A Moment of Romance II

A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. A moment of Romance between them follows after.
Released : 11th-Jun-1993

In Between

Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant lady unsure over the identity of the baby's father.
Released : 6th-Jan-1994

Only Fools Fall in Love

Poor girl meets rich boy as they quarrel over a food seller's once a year delicacy. His brother pays her to marry the brother so he can stage an assassination attempt. The attempt doesn't succeed but the man is reduced to the level of an idiot child and the girl looks after him because of her guilt. She nurses him back to health so that he can resume his place as head of the family.
Released : 28th-Sep-1995

The Bare-Footed Kid

A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1993

To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui

An undercover cop finds himself tortured by his life among the triads. He’s locked into his job with no way out, and he’s starting to find the triad guys more honorable than his supremely despicable superior officer.
Released : 13th-Aug-1994

The Returning

Chung has a book project that will make his career in publishing: a collector's edition of the work of Siu Lau, a reclusive woman who died mysteriously in 1949. An anonymous benefactor has maintained her house since her death; it's rumored to be haunted. Chung moves into the house with his girlfriend Elaine. While he works long hours at his office, she experiences strange events in the house.
Released : 30th-Jul-1994

Beginner's Luck

Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the races. They invent a device that allows them to eavesdrop on jockeys in training for tips. When they lost at the races, Lau's girlfriend threatens to leave, and Chow is stalked by the loan sharks. Will they bet it all on one last race?
Released : 29th-Sep-1994

Three Summers

Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of his youth. Against the backdrop of that locale, his young sister has recently befriended a group of adolescents who visit the isle perennially - every summer - and who share their individual stories with her. One tale at a time, she begins to experience life vicariously through the others' recollections.
Released : 18th-Sep-1992

Love and the City

A young mobster falls in love with the young head gang's girlfriend.
Released : 9th-Jun-1994

Oh! My Three Guys....

Young gay men in Hong Kong. Hoi, Fa, and Kau have been friends since Third Form. They're now young gay adults sharing an apartment. Fa, who writes film scripts, has recently been jilted and is heart-broken. Hoi, who works at an ad agency where he's in the closet, is pursued by Fok May, a female colleague. Kau, effeminate and outgoing, is humiliated in public by his father in front of his brother and sister. He goes on TV to make a plea for acceptance. Under the shadow of AIDS and of prejudice, May and the three guys live out their friendships.
Released : 1st-Dec-1994

Dream Lover

Popular Hong Kong actress Sharla Cheung actually produced two versions of this romantic seriocomedy -- starring in the second one, Romantic Dream -- and they both played theaters in the same month. Jacklyn Wu stars as Kitty, a beautiful and wealthy woman who becomes the ideal love of Cheung Kar-shing (Tony Leung), an inventor who participates in illegal road races in his spare time. Their relationship blossoms into romance, but when Kitty's father goes into hiding and leaves behind over ten million dollars in unpaid debt, she leaves Hong Kong without telling Cheung where she's going. Shortly thereafter, Cheung strikes it rich when he is paid ten million dollars by a Japanese computer firm for a chip he has invented, but money does little to relieve his aching despair in Kitty's absence.
Released : 17th-Jun-1995

The Phantom Lover

In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the great actor Song Danping was killed. One of the actors, Wei Qing, starts seeing strange apparitions that could revive his troupe and deliver him to the same fate as Song Danping.
Released : 22nd-Jul-1995

All's Well, Ends Well '97

Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very annoyed about this. The relationship between father and son is thus affected. So on Kung's birthday, his two brothers decide to play a joke on him. They trick him into believing he has won the lottery. Kung is so happy that he spends a tremendous amount of money. When he realizes he is in huge debt, he pretends to go insane and the whole family believes him.
Released : 6th-Feb-1997

The Adventurers

After the murder of his parents and sister at the hands of the villianous gun-running billionaire Ray Lui, crack fighter pilot Yan vows revenge.
Released : 2nd-Aug-1995

Peace Hotel

After his wife's murder, widow Wong A Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs protecting. One day a mysterious woman shows up who seeks shelter from a gang hunting her. Vowing to never turn anyone away, Wong A Ping must decide whether to help the women or risk confronting the gang.
Released : 12th-Apr-1995

Mean Street Story

Miu (Ekin Cheng) grew up on Temple Street, where most of the gangsters in the area gathered, but he never hung around with them. When he accidentally kills a mobster he is imprisoned, and his life is changed forever. Upon his release, everything around him is different. He is now stuck in the sinking pit of the triad influence, and can neither escape from the merciless killings of the underworld, nor run away from the traps of the ordinary world. The only thing in his life that stays the same, is his love Sue. But is that enough to keep him from going over the edge?
Released : 6th-May-1995

The Royal Scoundrel

Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mr. Chow isn't much help, and is more concerned with taking care of his many, many children. On a routine stakeout, Beach Boy and Mr. Chow rescue a lovely Mainland girl named Ah Yuk, who was previously abused by her criminal uncle.
Released : 10th-Jan-1991

Walk In

The "walk in" of the title refers to one person allowing another's soul to take possession of his body at the time of death.
Released : 19th-Apr-1997

Four Chefs and a Feast

Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to its glory.
Released : 1st-May-1999

Dragon Town Story

A woman works with an assassin to get revenge upon the man who murdered her family nine years earlier.
Released : 13th-Nov-1997

The Stories of Han Dynasty

Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while this historical figure's loyal concubine is played by the Hong Kong beauty Kristy Yang. Actors playing the leader in the rivaling camp is no less captivating - the film features Xiao Rong Sheng and Jacklyn Wu Chien Lien as King and Queen. State-of-the-art technology is employed to visualize the grandiose scenarios in an epic war in which 30 thousand soldiers defeated a troop with as many as 200 thousand men. Accompanied by a tender and pretty lady, the ancient Conqueror boosts up the morale of his small force and triumphs over his cunning enemies. You will be stunned by the reconstruction of the fiercest battle scenes in Chinese history!
Released : 1st-Jan-2003

How Deep Is Your Love

David's lover has died and his Lovers Sister is coming back from America to tie up loose ends. David who is gay soon finds he is in love with his exes sister. Marie (Peta-maree) and Selina share a room and it soon becomes obvious they have a drug problem.
Released : 6th-Oct-1994

Ninth Happiness

Choi Hung village is full of innocents: people sing and work. The town beauty, Chi Wan, sees a stranger in the woods and falls in love, believing he's a fairy. He pursues her, keeping his real name secret, seeking advice from her sister, Heung, who suggests he buy Chi Wan a fan. Chi Wan and Heung's boyfriend, Dup, think the stranger and Heung are romantically involved, so mistaken jealousies erupt. Also new in town are two brothers, the new town official and his coarse enforcer; they can't believe there's no graft and corruption to profit from, so they try to establish a whorehouse. They also pursue Chi Wan. Can it all be sorted out? Will innocence prevail? And who is this stranger?
Released : 14th-Feb-1998

TV Credits

秋水长天

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Released : 1st-Jan-2004

京港爱情线

方明 -
Released : 1st-Jan-1997

濟公傳奇

- China's Southern Song Dynasty was troubled by external troubles and internal troubles, and people's hearts were unstable. At this time, a monk called Ji Lu appeared in Lin'an City, and later generations were even more regarded as Ji Gong. Jigong acts insanely and does not obey the Buddhist precepts, but he is brilliant in magic and heals people everywhere, but he does not know how to deal with emotional disputes. In order to experience love, Jigong bravely broke through the love barrier and caused bruises all over his body ...
Released : 23rd-Jun-2001

北魏冯太后

Empress Dowager Feng - The story of Empress Dowager Feng, who ruled during the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Released : 11th-Feb-2006

現代愛情戀曲

- A collection of different love stories starring the most famous singers and stars from Hong Kong of the 90's.
Released : 6th-Jun-1992

阮玲玉

阮玲玉 - Life story of Chinese silent film star Ruang Ling Yu.
Released : 27th-Nov-2005

唐朝浪漫英雄

Ye Tian Lian/Shu Qing - A suspenseful and heroic tale set in the Tang Empire.
Released : 21st-Jan-2013

楚汉风云

Lü Zhi - The Story of Han Dynasty is a Chinese television series based on the events in the late Qin Dynasty and Chu–Han Contention period of Chinese history. The series was first broadcast on CCTV in China in 2003. Directed by Wei Handao, the series starred Hu Jun, Xiao Rongsheng, Jacklyn Wu, Kristy Yang, Wang Gang and Li Li-chun.
Released : 13th-May-2005

神鵰俠侶

Hsiao Lung Nu - The Return of the Condor Heroes is a Taiwanese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It was first broadcast on TTV in 1998 in Taiwan.
Released : 25th-Aug-1998

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