Born in Hong Kong in 1949. After moving to San Francisco, Wang made his feature debut with Chan Is Missing (1982), which won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. He went on to direct The Joy Luck Club (1993), depicting a Chinese immigrant family in the United States, and Smoke (1995), which won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. His other directorial works include While the Women Are Sleeping (2016) and Coming Home Again (2019).
