He starred in several international productions including Tai-Pan with Joan Chen, Gorillas in the Mist with Sigourney Weaver, and Cocktail with Tom Cruise.
The program discusses both soft issues such as fashion and celebrities, as well as social problems such as divorce, infidelity, and child trafficking; guests on the first episode included American actress Joan Chen, Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, and New Zealand chef Bobby Chinn.
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Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai was the head of jury at this year's film festival along with other jury members such as Chinese-American actress Joan Chen, legendary Danish director Bille August and Israeli stage actress Gila Almagor.
A film adaptation, entitled Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding, Allison Sie as Aurora Crane and Joan Chen as Betty Nguyen.
Several of Yan's works have been adapted for film, including Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, which was directed by Joan Chen, and Siao Yu, directed by Sylvia Chang and screenplay co-written by Ang Lee.
At only seventeen, she starred in her first feature film The Home Song Stories, alongside Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker.
She also worked in close collaboration with the agency's talent department to chart the careers of numerous performers who also became multiple award winning writers, producers and directors: John Cameron Mitchell, Julie Delpy, Mario Van Peebles, Joan Chen, Chad Lowe, Sean Astin, Isaiah Washington, and the legendary Sammo Hung among them.
Pamelyn Chee stars in HBO Asia’s original TV series Serangoon Road, alongside Joan Chen and Chin Han, Don Hany, Maeve Dermody, Michael Dorman and Alaric Tay.
Cinema AZN mixed popular entertainment, informed reporting, and featured some of Asia's biggest stars such as Tony Leung (2046), Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle), Amitabh Bachchan, Zhang Ziyi (Hero, Memoirs of a Geisha) and Joan Chen (Saving Face); and major filmmakers such as Wong Kar-wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Jackie Chan (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3), Zhang Yimou and Im Kwon-Taek.