Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: Hóu Xiàoxián; April 8, 1947) is an award-winning film director and leading figure of Taiwan's "New Wave" cinema movement. Born in Meixian, Guangdong, China, Hou and his family moved to Taiwan in 1948. Hou was educated at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts. Seven of his films have been awarded best film and/or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. Hou was voted "Director of the Decade [1990s]" in a poll of American and international film critics, put together by The Village Voice and Film Comment.

Filmography

• Cafe Lumiere (2003)
• Millennium Mambo (2001)
• Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
• Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
• Good Men, Good Women (1995)
• The Puppetmaster (1993)
• City of Sadness (1989)
• Daughter of the Nile (1987)
• Dust in the Wind (1986)
• A Time to Live, A Time to Die (1985)
• Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
• The Sandwich Man (1983)
• The Boys From Fengkuei (1983)
• The Green, Green Grass of Home (1983)
• Cheerful Wind (1981)
• Lovable You (1980)

See also Cinema of Taiwan

External links

• 3H films – Official website
• Director of the Decade: Hou Hsiao-Hsien at Camera-Stylo
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien at Strictly Film School
• Cinema with a Roof Over Its Head: Kent Jones (Film Comment) on the Latterday Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien