Hou Hsiao-hsien
Birthday: 1947-04-08
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.
Movies
Past Present
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwa...
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Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring b...
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Taipei Story
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hope...
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HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temp...
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In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship
The essence of progress in civilization has always been handiwork. In traditional Chinese civilizati...
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Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film arg...
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Métro Lumière
French-made documentary, "Métro Lumière", which actually does help provide some of the context for H...
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Soul
Ip Cheung and her husband, a senior police inspector, had been happily married for 18 years. One day...
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country se...
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I Wish I Knew
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was...
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Talking with Ozu
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay An...
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Let the Wind Carry Me
Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the m...
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Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class
Chinese film school students and the professors from the Greater China Region gathered together at H...
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A Special Day
At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera....
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Our Time, Our Story
Richly illustrated with film clips and interviews, OUR TIME, OUR STORY tells the still-evolving stor...
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Dragon Girls!
Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new ...
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The Boys from Fengkuei
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend mo...
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The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture com...
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My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story
Pascal Lamorisse is the son of filmmaker Albert Lamorisse. He is also the little hero of some of his...
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That Day, on the Beach
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pian...
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When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a comp...
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Keep Rolling
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man ...
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Sunless Days
Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiana...
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