Steve Wang (Chinese: 王孫杰) is a make-up artist and filmmaker. Born in Taiwan, he and his parents moved to the US when he was nine. His greatest inspirations were the tokusatsu superhero TV shows Ultraman and Kamen Rider, as well as Hong Kong kung fu films including Master of the Flying Guillotine. As a veteran makeup artist and creature designer, Steve has worked with fellow veterans before him including Stan Winston, Rick Baker and Dick Smith. He has received great praise for his film adaptation of the manga superhero Guyver in 1994 called Guyver: Dark Hero.[citation needed] Another project which drew attention to him was the direct to video movie, Drive, which starred Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison. He also made independent films such as Kung Fu Rascals, based on a series of 8 mm short films he did years before. He and his brother Michael Wang, an award-winning commercials director, have recently been hired to work on Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki), a second attempt at reviving the Kamen Rider Series in the United States, after Saban's Masked Rider of 1995. They write, produce, and direct as "The Wang Brothers". Steve Wang designed a sculpture depicting Sarah Kerrigan (The Queen of Blades), a character from the Starcraft Universe in 2012. The sculpture was placed at the Blizzard Entertainment Office in Versailles, France the same year. He has also made statues of Tryndamere and Ryze, two champions from League of Legends, for Riot Games that same year.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Taiwan
- Director, actor, writer, editor and producer
- 11 on MovieCove · 21 credits in all
What are Steve Wang's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 2 · Wry 2 · Earnest 2
Light 5 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 1 · Stylized 4 · Heightened 1
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 2
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 2
Casual 3 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Heroas Chen Chow Mein in Kung Fu Rascals (1992)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Steve Wang's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (7).
- Beast Wishes (2012) · producer · free
- Drive (1997) · director · free
- Kung Fu Rascals (1992) · actor, director, writer, producer · free
- Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) · creature design · free
- Arena (1989) · actor · free
- Guyver (1991) · director · free
- Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here (1988) · actor · free
Subscription and free streaming for Steve Wang's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
21 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page; 3 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
The Shape of Water(2017)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Beast Wishes(2012)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Drive: The Force Behind The Storm (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Beauty (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Sirens of the Deep (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Alien: Resurrection(1997)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Drive(1997)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
The Great Muta: The Origin Of The Demon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Terror of Blood Gym (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Guyver: Dark Hero(1994)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
Kung Fu Rascals(1992)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Guyver(1991)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Full Moon in New York (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Code 9 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Arena(1989)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Game of Survival (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Hell Comes to Frogtown(1988)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
The Monster Squad(1987)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
Kung Fu Rascals (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Career shape
A full career of 20 titles from 1985 to 2017.
Film career
- 1989Screen debut· Arena
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Steve Wang's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 46th percentile, the median of all 11; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 48th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 11 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the atmosphere 54/100 and the pacing 39/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Steve Wang work with?
People who share at least 2 of Steve Wang's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Yoshiki Takaya shares the most, 2.
Writers
- Yoshiki TakayaShared titles: Guyver: Dark Hero (1994), Guyver (1991)See all 2 shared titles with Yoshiki Takaya
Actors
- Johnnie SaikoShared titles: Kung Fu Rascals (1992), Guyver (1991)See all 2 shared titles with Johnnie Saiko
Cinematographers
- Michael G. WojciechowskiShared titles: Drive (1997), Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)See all 2 shared titles with Michael G. Wojciechowski
Mixed roles
- Wyatt WeedShared titles: Guyver: Dark Hero (1994), Kung Fu Rascals (1992)See all 2 shared titles with Wyatt Weed