Name
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1947-04-08 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Mei County, Guangdong, China
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
7.5
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-co...
7.9
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced ...
6.4
9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who...
6.996
In 2011, Vicky looks back on her life a decade earlier, recalling her turbulent relationsh...
6.9
At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In t...
6.4
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Ci...
7.5
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future...
5.5
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which th...
7.2
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his you...
6.8
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s ge...
- 2013 Past Present as Self
- 2021 Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai' as Self - archival
- 1985 Taipei Story as Lung
- 1999 HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- 2008 In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship as Voice
- 1998 Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema as Self
- 2004 Métro Lumière as Self
- 1986 Soul as Boy-Boy
- 1988 I Love Mary
- 2014 Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- 2010 I Wish I Knew as Self
- 1984 The Bike & I
- 1993 Talking with Ozu as Self
- 2009 Let the Wind Carry Me as Self
- 2007 Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class as Himself
- 2012 A Special Day as Self
- 2002 Our Time, Our Story as Self
- 2016 Dragon Girls! as Himself
- 1983 The Boys from Fengkuei as Arong's Sister's Boyfriend
- 2016 The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse as Self
- 2008 My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story as Self
- 1983 That Day, on the Beach as Ah Cai's Executive
- 1993 When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang as Self
- 2020 Keep Rolling
- 1990 Sunless Days
- 1962 Golden Horse Awards ( 3 episodes ) as Self
