The sounds of silence reverberate loudest in The Assassin, Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first feature in eight years. The film’s opening image, of a donkey quietly grazing in a field, immediately suggests an acute awareness of natural ambience. This impression manifests itself as the mo...
Leading Taiwan cinema namesHou Hsiao-hsien(“The Assassin,”“The Puppetmaster”) andLee 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 Golden ...
In the seven years sinceHou Hsiao-hsienbegan working on a ninth-century wuxia epic, his admirers have been madly curious about how the Taiwanese auteur known for such refined historical panoramas as “Flowers of Shanghai” and minor-key urban portraits like “Cafe Lumiere” would handle his rit...
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...
"Pure image is a rare thing nowadays," says Hou Hsiao-Hsien, who, alongside the late, lionised...Wise, Damon
The Assassin (2015) Director, Executive Producer (as Hsiao-hsien Hou), Producer (as Hsiao-hsien Hou), Writer (screenplay) (as Hsiao-hsien Hou) $15MM $48K $633K $12MM After Lasik (2014) (Short) - Dean (Golden Horse Film Academy) Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013) Exec...
Hou Hsiao-hsien 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 th...
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
Hou is also a singer, having contributed two songs to the 1992 soundtrack of Dust of Angels, a movie he also produced. Selected Filmography of Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1980 Cute Girls 就是溜溜的她 1981 Cheerful Wind 风儿踢踏踩 1982 The Green, Green Grass of Home 在那河畔青草青 ...
Hou is also a singer, having contributed two songs to the 1992 soundtrack of Dust of Angels, a movie he also produced. Selected Filmography of Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1980 Cute Girls 就是溜溜的她 1981 Cheerful Wind 风儿踢踏踩 1982 The Green, Green Grass of Home 在那河畔青草青 ...