Hou Hsiao-hsien

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.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

100

Birth Date

1947-04-08 00:00:00

Birth Place

Mei County, Guangdong, China

Known For

• 

  The Assassin
• 

  Millennium Mambo
• 

  A City of Sadness
• 

  Café Lumière
• 

  Flowers of Shanghai
• 

  The Puppetmaster

Credits

• production (29 credits)

  • LOMA - Our Home

    executive producer

    production
    2026
  • Mongrel

    executive producer

    production
    2025
  • Daughter's Daughter

    executive producer

    production
    2024
  • Old Fox

    executive producer

    production
    2023
  • Be with Me

    executive producer

    production
    2023
  • Salute

    producer

    production
    2022
  • I Remember

    producer

    production
    2022
  • The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

    producer

    production
    2020
  • Baby

    executive producer

    production
    2018
  • Father to Son

    executive producer

    production
    2018
  • Missing Johnny

    producer

    production
    2017
  • The Assassin

    executive producer

    production
    2015
  • Paradise in Service

    executive producer

    production
    2014
  • Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

    producer

    production
    2013
  • Return Ticket

    executive producer

    production
    2011
  • Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy

    producer

    production
    2011
  • Taipei Exchanges

    producer

    production
    2010
  • One Day

    executive producer

    production
    2010
  • Reflections

    producer

    production
    2007
  • Mirror Image

    executive producer

    production
    2001
  • Flowers of Shanghai

    executive producer

    production
    1998
  • Why Don't We Sing?

    producer

    production
    1996
  • A Borrowed Life

    executive producer

    production
    1995
  • Heartbreak Island

    executive producer

    production
    1995
  • Treasure Island

    supervising producer

    production
    1993
  • Dust of Angels

    producer

    production
    1992
  • Raise the Red Lantern

    executive producer

    production
    1991
  • King of Chess

    producer

    production
    1991
  • All for Tomorrow

    producer

    production
    1988

• actors (26 credits)

  • Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'

    Self - archival

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Keep Rolling

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Dragon Girls!

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Past Present

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • A Special Day

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • I Wish I Knew

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Let the Wind Carry Me

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship

    Voice

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Métro Lumière

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Our Time, Our Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Talking with Ozu

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Sunless Days

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • I Love Mary

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Soul

    Boy-Boy

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Taipei Story

    Lung

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • The Bike & I

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • The Boys from Fengkuei

    Arong's Sister's Boyfriend

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • That Day, on the Beach

    Ah Cai's Executive

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Golden Horse Awards

    - Episode 1 (2015) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 1 (1995) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 1 (1989) ... Self actor actors
    1962

• writing (22 credits)

  • The Assassin

    screenplay

    writing
    2015
  • Flight of the Red Balloon

    writer

    writing
    2007
  • Three Times

    writer

    writing
    2005
  • Café Lumière

    writer

    writing
    2004
  • The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    writer

    writing
    1985
  • Taipei Story

    screenplay

    writing
    1985
  • My Favorite Season

    writer

    writing
    1985
  • A Summer at Grandpa's

    writer

    writing
    1984
  • Out of the Blue

    writer

    writing
    1984
  • Ah Fei

    writer

    writing
    1983
  • Growing Up

    screenplay

    writing
    1983
  • The Green, Green Grass of Home

    writer

    writing
    1982
  • Six Is Company

    writer

    writing
    1982
  • Play While You Play

    writer

    writing
    1981
  • Longing

    writer

    writing
    1981
  • Spring in Autumn

    writer

    writing
    1980
  • Cute Girl

    screenplay

    writing
    1980
  • Chu Lien

    screenplay

    writing
    1979
  • It Was Rainy Last Night

    screenplay

    writing
    1979
  • Good Morning, Taipei

    screenplay

    writing
    1979
  • Lover on the Wave

    screenplay

    writing
    1978
  • The Revenge of Two Exorcists

    screenplay

    writing
    1975

• directing (23 credits)

  • The Assassin

    director

    directing
    2015
  • 10 Plus 10

    director

    directing
    2011
  • In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship

    director

    directing
    2008
  • To Each His Own Cinema

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Flight of the Red Balloon

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Three Times

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Café Lumière

    director

    directing
    2004
  • Millennium Mambo

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Flowers of Shanghai

    director

    directing
    1998
  • Goodbye South, Goodbye

    director

    directing
    1996
  • Good Men, Good Women

    director

    directing
    1995
  • The Puppetmaster

    director

    directing
    1993
  • A City of Sadness

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Daughter of the Nile

    director

    directing
    1987
  • Adult Game

    director

    directing
    1986
  • Dust in the Wind

    director

    directing
    1986
  • The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    director

    directing
    1985
  • A Summer at Grandpa's

    director

    directing
    1984
  • The Sandwich Man

    director

    directing
    1983
  • The Boys from Fengkuei

    director

    directing
    1983
  • The Green, Green Grass of Home

    director

    directing
    1982
  • Play While You Play

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Cute Girl

    director

    directing
    1980