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Hsiao-hsien Hou

Director | Writer | Producer

Of the ten films that Hsiao-hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed as "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." Hou's birthplace... See full bio »

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in Meixian, Guangdong, China
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2007 Flight of the Red Balloon
 
2005 Three Times
 
2003 Café Lumière (screenplay)
 
1995 Heartbreak Island
 
1985 Tong nien wang shi
 
1985 Qing mei zhu ma
 
1985 My Favorite Season
 
1984 A Summer at Grandpa's (screenplay)
 
1984 Out of the Blue
 
1983 Xiao Bi de gu shi (writer)
 
1983 Cabaret Tears (script consultant)
 
1983 Ah Fei (writer)
 
1983 Zai na he pan qing cao qing (writer)
 
1982 Six Is Company
 
1979 Good Morning, Taipei (writer)
 
1976 Cui hu han (uncredited)
 
Show ShowProducer (11 titles)
2010 Taipei Exchanges (executive producer)
 
2010 One Day (executive producer)
 
2010 Return Ticket (executive producer)
 
2001 Mirror Image (co-executive producer)
 
1999 Borderline (documentary) (producer)
 
1995 Heartbreak Island (executive producer)
 
1994 Duo sang (executive producer)
 
1992 Shao nian ye, an la! (executive producer)
 
1991 Raise the Red Lantern (executive producer)
 
1991 Qi wang (associate producer)
 
1983 Xiao Bi de gu shi (producer)
 
1980 Spring in Autumn (assistant director)
 
1977 Ai you ming tian (assistant director)
 
1974 Jin shui lou tai (deputy director)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1986 Lao niang gou sao
Boy-Boy
 
1985 Qing mei zhu ma
Lung
 
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1973 The Heart with Million Knots (script supervisor)
 
Show ShowSelf (8 titles)
2010 I Wish I Knew (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Paraskinio (TV series documentary)
Himself
– 46o Festival Thessalonikis - Eikosi okto kinimatografistes (2006) … Himself
 
2004 Métro Lumière: Hou Hsiao-Hsien à la rencontre de Yasujirô Ozu (TV documentary)
 
1999 Jam Session (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (documentary)
 
1997 Cinéma, de notre temps (TV series documentary)
Himself
– HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997) … Himself
 
1990 Meiyou taiyang de rizi (documentary)
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Personal Details

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Alternate Names:

Xiao Xian Hou | Xiao-Xian Hou | Hou Hao Yin
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Personal Quote:

Art movies and commercial movies are [in Taiwan considered] opposites ... it's like they hate each other. See more »

Trivia:

He is the 25th generation of his family. He still sends money to maintain a family temple in China. See more »

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