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Hou Hsiao-hsien

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
26

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 8, 1947 (79 years old)

Place of Birth
Mei County, Guangdong, China

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Biography

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: Hóu Xiàoxián) (born April 8, 1947) is a retired award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.

Known For

Production

2025Mongrel...Executive Producer
2024Daughter's Daughter...Executive Producer
2023Old Fox...Executive Producer
2023Be with Me...Executive Producer
2022Salute...Producer
2022Twisted Strings...Executive Producer
2022I Remember...Producer
2020The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams...Producer
2018Baby...Executive Producer
2018Father to Son...Executive Producer
2017Missing Johnny...Producer
2015The Assassin...Executive Producer
2014Paradise in Service...Executive Producer
2013Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above...Producer
2013Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above...Executive Producer
2011Return Ticket...Executive Producer
2011Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy...Producer
2010Taipei Exchanges...Producer
2010One Day...Executive Producer
2007Reflections...Producer
2001Mirror Image...Executive Producer
1998Flowers of Shanghai...Executive Producer
1996Why Don't We Sing?...Producer
1995A Borrowed Life...Executive Producer
1995Heartbreak Island...Executive Producer
1993Treasure Island...Supervising Producer
1992Dust of Angels...Producer
1991Raise the Red Lantern...Executive Producer
1991King of Chess...Producer
1988All for Tomorrow...Producer
LOMA - Our Home...Executive Producer

Directing

2015The Assassin...Director
201110 Plus 10...Director
2008In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship...Director
2007To Each His Own Cinema...Director
2007the electric princess house...Director
2007Flight of the Red Balloon...Director
2005Three Times...Director
2004Café Lumière...Director
2001Millennium Mambo...Director
1998Flowers of Shanghai...Director
1996Goodbye South, Goodbye...Director
1995Good Men, Good Women...Director
1993The Puppetmaster...Director
1989A City of Sadness...Director
1987Daughter of the Nile...Director
1986Adult Game...Director
1986Dust in the Wind...Director
1985The Time to Live and the Time to Die...Director
1984A Summer at Grandpa's...Director
1983The Sandwich Man...Director
1983The Boys from Fengkuei...Director
1982The Green, Green Grass of Home...Director
1981Play While You Play...Director
1980Cute Girl...Director

Writing

2015The Assassin...Screenplay
2007Flight of the Red Balloon...Writer
2005Three Times...Writer
2004Café Lumière...Writer
1985The Time to Live and the Time to Die...Writer
1985Taipei Story...Screenplay
1985My Favorite Season...Writer
1984A Summer at Grandpa's...Writer
1984Out of the Blue...Writer
1983Ah Fei...Writer
1983Growing Up...Screenplay
1982The Green, Green Grass of Home...Writer
1982Six Is Company...Writer
1981Play While You Play...Writer
1981Longing...Writer
1980Spring in Autumn...Writer
1980Cute Girl...Screenplay
1979Chu Lien...Screenplay
1979It Was Rainy Last Night...Screenplay
1979Good Morning, Taipei...Screenplay
1978Lover on the Wave...Screenplay
1975The Revenge of Two Exorcists...Screenplay

Acting

2021Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'as Self - archival
2020Keep Rollingas
2016Dragon Girls!as Himself
2016The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horseas Self
2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinemaas Self
2013Past Presentas Self
2012A Special Dayas Self
2010I Wish I Knewas Self
2009Let the Wind Carry Meas Self
2008In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanshipas Voice
2008My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Storyas Self
2007Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Classas Himself
2004Métro Lumièreas Self
2002Our Time, Our Storyas Self
1999HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsienas
1998Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinemaas Self
1993Talking with Ozuas Self
1993When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yangas Self
1990Sunless Daysas
1988I Love Maryas
1986Soulas Boy-Boy
1985Taipei Storyas Lung
1984The Bike & Ias
1983The Boys from Fengkueias Arong's Sister's Boyfriend
1983That Day, on the Beachas Ah Cai's Executive
1962Golden Horse Awardsas Self