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Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Born: April 8, 1947
From: Mei County, Guangdong, China

Also known as

Hau Hau-Yin · Hou Syao-Syan · Hou Li · Hook Li · 侯孝賢 · 허우 샤오시엔 · 侯孝贤 · HHH · 허우샤오셴 · 후효현 · Lai Hou · Hsiao-hsien Hou

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.

Known for

The Assassin

Millennium Mambo

To Each His Own Cinema

A City of Sadness

Dust in the Wind

Flowers of Shanghai

The Time to Live and the Time to Die

Three Times

Filmography

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2025

Production (Executive Producer)

2024

Daughter's Daughter

Production (Executive Producer)

2023

Production (Executive Producer)

Production (Executive Producer)

2022

Production (Producer)

Twisted Strings

Production (Executive Producer) 7 EP

Production (Producer)

2021

Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'

Acting (Self - archival)

2020

Keep Rolling

The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

Production (Producer)

2018

Production (Executive Producer)

Father to Son

Production (Executive Producer)

2017

Missing Johnny

Production (Producer)

2016

Dragon Girls!

Acting (Himself)

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

Acting (Self)

2015

The Assassin

Directing (Director) Writing (Screenplay) Production (Executive Producer)

2014

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

Acting (Self)

Paradise in Service

Production (Executive Producer)

2013

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

Production (Executive Producer) Production (Producer)

Past Present

Acting (Self)

2012

A Special Day

Acting (Self)

2011

Return Ticket

Production (Executive Producer)

Directing (Director)

Hometown Boy

Production (Producer)

2010

I Wish I Knew

Acting (Self)

Taipei Exchanges

Production (Producer)

Production (Executive Producer)

2009

Let the Wind Carry Me

Acting (Self)

2008

In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship

Acting (Voice) Directing (Director)

Flight of the Red Balloon

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

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

Acting (Self)

2007

Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class

Acting (Himself)