Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1947–, Taiwanese film director, b. Guangdong, China. His first feature film,Cute Girl(1980), and subsequent ones were generally saccharine romances until the semibiographicalA Time to Live, A Time to Die(1985), which he cowrote, and the stylishDust in the Wind(1986). ...
Hou Hsiao-Hsien - DirectorNationality: Taiwanese. Born: Hour Shiaw-shyan (name in pinyin, Hou Xiaoxian) in Meixian, Kuangtung (Canton) province, 8 April 1947; moved to Hualien, Taiwan, 1948. Education: Attended the film program of the Taiwan National Academy of the Arts, 1969–72. ...
Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Producer: Cike nie yin niang. 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 Festiv
Hou Hsiao-hsien is the most important and influential Taiwanese filmmaker, and his sensuous, richly nuanced work is at the heart of everything that is vigorous and genuine in contemporary film culture. An heir to the great modernist legacy—with its use of elegantly staged long takes, the perf...
Hou Hsiao-hsien / Favourite Films Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)Werner Herzog, Amarcord (1973)Federico Fellini, Breathless (1960)Jean-Luc Godard, Distant Thunder (1973)Satyajit Ray, Fear Eats the Soul (1974)Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Floating Clouds (1955)Mikio Naruse, The Godfather (1972)Fr...
Hou Hsiao Hsien is undeniably an iconic figure amongst contemporary filmmakers: a legendary auteur who, for over three decades, has created timeless cinematic classics such as the Golden Lion-winning A City of Sadness (1989), The Cannes Jury-prize winnin
used to enhance the verisimilitude and overall beauty of the fable. This makes it a seemingly strange choice of genre for a meticulous director like Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose films are both remarkably modest in terms of emotion, and specifically attuned to the concrete details of very specific poin...
Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,”“The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,”“Goodbye, Dragon Inn”) are attached to “Twisted Strings,” a TV anthology series backed by HBO Asia and streamer Catchplay. The seven-part series is written and directed by ...
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film in eight years was also his first foray into thewuxiagenre. WithThe Assassin, he joins other top-tier auteurs like John Woo, Wong Kar Wai, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, and Jia Zhangke in revisiting the Chinese tradition of swordplay and knight-errantry, popularised...
women in cinemaMany scholars in the fields of cultural studies, film studies, historical studies and gender studies have discussed Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, as it is one of the most important films in Taiwanese history. It engages with the February 28 Incident,...