The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to James S.C. Chao ( Zhào Xīchéng), a Shanghainese entrepreneur, and Ruth Mu-lan Chu (Zhū Mùlán), a historian. Her parents had fled to Taiwan from mainland China after the Chinese Communists took over as… [Read More]

Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the Jiang Shi (hopping vampire) genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong… [Read More]

Yune, a Korean American, was born in Seoul, Korea, and emigrated to US in 1972. He is the older brother of actor Karl Yune. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He appeared in Snow Falling on Cedars, The Fast and the Furious, and the James… [Read More]