The movie In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai about a Shanghainese community in Hong Kong is notable for its use of a variety of cheongsam worn by female lead Maggie Cheung.
In the movie The World of Suzie Wong, Nancy Kwan made the cheongsam briefly fashionable in the west.
Female characters in anime and manga will often wear the cheongsam. Equally often, the cheongsam will be tight in the bust and slit very high on the thigh, to provide fan service.
The popular Chinese Street Fighter video game character Chun-Li is very well known for her signature blue cheongsam (first seen in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior), worn with white knee-high boots, hair bun covers, and oversized spiked bracelets for a non-traditional style. A male Street Fighter character known as Gen wears the male changshan, as do his students, Yang and Yun Lee.
Tekken video game character Anna Williams is almost always featured wearing a modified, low-cut cheongsam with a peacock design on it.
Dead or Alive character Lei Fang often wears different colored cheongsam.
In the anime and manga Naruto the character Sakura Haruno wears a cheongsam, and the character Tenten wears a pink cheongsam before the timeskip in the series.
In the movie Kill Bill, Sofie Fatale wore a typical male black changshan. The costume department may have mistaken it for a female cheongsam.
In the manga and anime Mahou Sensei Negima, characters Ku Fei and Nagase Kaede both are fond of cheongsams.
In the movie Spider-Man the character Mary Jane Watson played by Kirsten Dunst wears a red cheongsam.
In the ending credits for the anime Ashita no Nadja, the main character Nadja Applefield wears a dark blue cheongsam (among several other outfits) and poses in front of a mirror. However, it suddenly rips and shows a part of her leg, so the embarrassed Nadja covers the rip with her hands and struggles her way off-screen to sew it.
In Lust, Caution, the main actress wears cheongsam for most parts of the film.
In the video game Resident Evil 4 the character Ada Wong wears a modified version of a cheongsam, which is a combination of a 1940s halter top and a cheongsam which is covered in an Asian inspired butterfly, flower and vine motif.
In the video game Fire Emblem, one of the characters, Lyn wears a cheongsam.
In the anime/manga Ranma 1/2, all the female characters wear cheongsams at times, while Shampoo, being the only one actually from China, wears them the most.
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