Hou Hsiao-hsien
Directing·April 8, 1947 — 79 years old·Mei County, Guangdong, China
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
Raise the Red Lantern
1991·7.9
The Assassin
2015·6.4
Millennium Mambo
2001·7.0
To Each His Own Cinema
2007·6.5
A City of Sadness
1989·7.5
Taipei Story
1985·7.4
Dust in the Wind
1986·7.6
Flowers of Shanghai
1998·6.9
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
1985·7.2
Three Times
2005·7.0
The Boys from Fengkuei
1983·7.2
Flight of the Red Balloon
2007·6.3
Filmography · 88
—LOMA - Our HomeExecutive Producer2025MongrelExecutive Producer2024Daughter's DaughterExecutive Producer2023Old FoxExecutive Producer2023Be with MeExecutive Producer2022SaluteProducer2022Twisted StringsTVExecutive Producer2022I RememberProducer2021Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'Self - archival2020Keep Rolling2020The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled DreamsProducer2018BabyExecutive Producer2018Father to SonExecutive Producer2017Missing JohnnyProducer2016Dragon Girls!Himself2016The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden HorseSelf2015The AssassinDirector · Screenplay · Executive Producer2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New CinemaSelf2014Paradise in ServiceExecutive Producer2013Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from AboveProducer · Executive Producer2013Past PresentSelf2012A Special DaySelf2011Return TicketExecutive Producer201110 Plus 10Director2011Liu Xiaodong: Hometown BoyProducer2010I Wish I KnewSelf2010Taipei ExchangesProducer2010One DayExecutive Producer2009Let the Wind Carry MeSelf2008In the Golden Age of Chinese CraftsmanshipVoice · Director2008My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life StorySelf2007Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master ClassHimself2007To Each His Own CinemaDirector2007the electric princess houseDirector2007Flight of the Red BalloonDirector · Writer2007ReflectionsProducer2005Three TimesDirector · Writer2004Métro LumièreSelf2004Café LumièreDirector · Writer2002Our Time, Our StorySelf2001Millennium MamboDirector2001Mirror ImageExecutive Producer1999HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien1998Flowers of ShanghaiDirector · Executive Producer1998Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese CinemaSelf1996Goodbye South, GoodbyeDirector1996Why Don't We Sing?Producer1995A Borrowed LifeExecutive Producer1995Good Men, Good WomenDirector1995Heartbreak IslandExecutive Producer1993The PuppetmasterDirector1993Talking with OzuSelf1993When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward YangSelf1993Treasure IslandSupervising Producer1992Dust of AngelsProducer1991Raise the Red LanternExecutive Producer1991King of ChessProducer1990Sunless Days1989A City of SadnessDirector1988All for TomorrowProducer1988I Love Mary1987Daughter of the NileDirector1986Adult GameDirector1986SoulBoy-Boy1986Dust in the WindDirector1985The Time to Live and the Time to DieDirector · Writer1985Taipei StoryLung · Screenplay1985My Favorite SeasonWriter1984A Summer at Grandpa'sDirector · Writer1984Out of the BlueWriter1984The Bike & I1983The Sandwich ManDirector1983The Boys from FengkueiArong's Sister's Boyfriend · Director1983That Day, on the BeachAh Cai's Executive1983Ah FeiWriter1983Growing UpScreenplay1982The Green, Green Grass of HomeDirector · Writer1982Six Is CompanyWriter1981Play While You PlayWriter · Director1981LongingWriter1980Spring in AutumnWriter1980Cute GirlDirector · Screenplay1979Chu LienScreenplay1979It Was Rainy Last NightScreenplay1979Good Morning, TaipeiScreenplay1978Lover on the WaveScreenplay1975The Revenge of Two ExorcistsScreenplay1962Golden Horse AwardsTVSelf