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Vivian Wu

Vivian Wu


Filmography

Vivian Wu - filmography


  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
    Starring: Bingbing Li,  Gianna Jun,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 20 members
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  • Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Gianna Jun,  Li Bingbing,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The descendants of two 19th century spiritual sisters struggle to maintain their enduring bond by exploring their ancestral connection in modern-day Shanghai. Connected as 'laotong' (old sames) at the tender age of seven, Snow Flower and Lily grow up in isolation and develop a language all their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 4 members
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  • Encrypt (2003)
    Starring: Grant Show,  Vivian Wu,  Steve Bacic
    Director: Oscar Luis Costo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 2068 Earth is in the grip of environmental disaster. The leader of a camp of survivors, Thomas Garth, is offered food and medicine in return for him leading a team of warriors. This team is to break into an estate containing many of the world's treasures, but is guarded by a dangerous ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 827 members
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  • Dinner Rush on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Edoardo Ballerini,  Danny Aiello,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Bob Giraldi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bob Giraldi, award-winning director of commercials and music videos (Michael Jackson's "Beat It"), uses his own restaurant--Gigino's Trattoria--as the starting point for his debut feature, DINNER RUSH. The film is about one lively night at a trendy restaurant in the TriBeCa area of New York City. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,253 member
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  • 8.1/2 Women on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Standing,  Matthew Delamere,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Another erotic comedy from Peter Greenaway, 8 1/2 WOMEN takes its inspiration from one of cinema's greatest films. After a businessman (John Standing) tragically loses his wife, his son (Matthew Delamere) returns to Geneva from managing a series of Pachinko Parlors in Kyoto, Japan. When the pair ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 999 members
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  • Blindness (1998)
    Starring: Vivian Wu,  Joe Lando,  Lisa Lu
    Director: Anna Chi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A woman, her ineffectual husband and her hostile mother-in-law are taken captive by a stranger looking to avenge the death of his parents.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 19 members
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  • A Bright Shining Lie on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Bill Paxton,  Amy Madigan,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Terry George
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on Neil Sheehan's controversial book about the making of the Vietnam war, this film is told from the perspective of Lt. Colonel John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton), a battle-ready and enthusiastic military advisor. Upon his arrival, Vann quickly learns that political and social pressures are causing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 68 members
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  • The Pillow Book on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Vivian Wu,  Ken Ogata,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 Yoshida) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,235 members
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  • The Pillow Book - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Vivian Wu,  Ken Ogata,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 79 members
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  • Shanghai Red
    Starring: Vivian Wu,  Richard Burgi,  Kenny Bee
    Director: Oscar L. Costo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Centers around the journey of a young and modern Shanghai mother named Mei Li Zhu, who suffers the loss of her husband, and how she comes to terms with her state of depression. In her murderous journey of revenge, Mei Li meets Michael Johnson, an expatriate American from Chicago escaping his own ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 3 members
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Vivian Wu facts

5 most recent films

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 3.5 stars
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Encrypt - 2.0 stars
Dinner Rush - 3.0 stars
8.1/2 Women - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dinner Rush - 3.0 stars
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 - 3.0 stars
A Bright Shining Lie - 3.0 stars
The Pillow Book - 2.5 stars
The Pillow Book - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Shanghai Red - 1.0 stars
Blindness - 2.0 stars
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 3.5 stars
Encrypt - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Archie Kao - 2 times - show films
Ken Ogata - 2 times - show films
Wu Jiang - 2 times - show films
Hideko Yoshida - 2 times - show films
Angela Evans - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Greenaway - 3 times - show films
Wayne Wang - 2 times - show films
Anna Chi - 1 times - show films
Michael Pressman - 1 times - show films
Oscar L. Costo - 1 times - show films