Wayne Wong was born on January 12, 1949 in Hong Kong, and this name was given to him in honor of John Wayne by his father, who loved American cinema. He studied film and television at the California College of Arts and Crafts and returned home with the desire to have a say in film. However, only kung fu films flourished at home, and few people were interested in the creative vision of the young director. In 1975, Wayne Wong helped direct the Hong Kong scenes of the American film Golden Needles,
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Wayne Wong was born on January 12, 1949 in Hong Kong, and this name was given to him in honor of John Wayne by his father, who loved American cinema. He studied film and television at the California College of Arts and Crafts and returned home with the desire to have a say in film. However, only kung fu films flourished at home, and few people were interested in the creative vision of the young director. In 1975, Wayne Wong helped direct the Hong Kong scenes of the American film Golden Needles, which led him to San Francisco, where he co-directed Man, Woman and Murderer (1975). In 1982, Wayne Wong received grants and managed to secure the budget (and it was only 22 thousand dollars) of his first independent project “Chang was lost”, acting as a director, producer, co-writer and editor. His first work was "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart" (1984). The film "Slamdance" (1987), made according to the recipes of "popular cinema", caused much less interest than the subsequent film "Eat a Bowl of Tea" (1989), made much more unconventional. Wayne Wong was among the recognized directors of the "mainstream" after the film adaptation of Amy Tan's book "The Joy Luck Club" (1993) - about the conflict of generations and the independent production of "Smoke" (1995), based on the novel by Paul Oster, where the main roles were performed by Harvey Keitel and William Hurt. After releasing the film “Despair in the Face” (1995), where the characters of “Smoke” acted, the director returned to Hong Kong, where he directed the film “Chinese Box” (1997), with Jeremy Irons and Gong Lee. Mixed responses did not cloud the success of the public melodrama Anywhere but Here (1999), in which the roles of mother and daughter were brilliantly performed by Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. In 2002, Wayne Wong's romantic comedy "Maid" was released - with Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes in the lead roles.