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Hou Hsiao-hsien is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Born
Tuesday, 08 April 1947
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Keep Rolling | 2020 | |
| The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse | Himself | 2016 |
| Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema | Self | 2015 |
| Past Present | Self | 2013 |
| Young Style | 2013 | |
| Une journée particulière | Himself / Self | 2012 |
| I Wish I Knew | Self | 2010 |
| Let the Wind Carry Me | Himself / Self | 2009 |
| Soul | Boy-Boy | 1986 |
| Taipei Story | Lung | 1985 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Keep Rolling | 2020 | |
| The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse | Himself | 2016 |
| Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema | Self | 2015 |
| Past Present | Self | 2013 |
| Young Style | 2013 | |
| Une journée particulière | Himself / Self | 2012 |
| I Wish I Knew | Self | 2010 |
| Let the Wind Carry Me | Himself / Self | 2009 |
| Soul | Boy-Boy | 1986 |
| Taipei Story | Lung | 1985 |
| The Boys from Fengkuei | Arong's Sister's Boyfriend | 1983 |
| That Day, on the Beach | Ah Cai's Executive | 1983 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Assassin | 2015 |
| 10+10 | 2011 |
| Flight of the Red Balloon | 2007 |
| To Each His Own Cinema | 2007 |
| Three Times | 2005 |
| Café Lumière | 2004 |
| Millennium Mambo | 2001 |
| Flowers of Shanghai | 1998 |
| Goodbye, South, Goodbye | 1996 |
| Good Men, Good Women | 1995 |
| The Puppetmaster | 1993 |
| The Boys from Fengkuei | 1990 |
| A City of Sadness | 1989 |
| Daughter of the Nile | 1987 |
| Dust in the Wind | 1986 |
| A Time to Live, a Time to Die | 1985 |
| A Summer at Grandpa's | 1984 |
| The Sandwich Man | 1983 |
| The Boys from Fengkuei | 1983 |
| The Green, Green Grass of Home | 1982 |
| Cheerful Wind | 1981 |
| Cute Girl | 1980 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Twisted Strings | 2022 |
| Baby | 2018 |
| Father to Son | 2018 |
| Missing Johnny | 2017 |
| Small Talk | 2017 |
| The Assassin | 2015 |
| Paradise in Service | 2014 |
| Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above | 2013 |
| Return Ticket | 2011 |
| Hometown Boy | 2011 |
| One Day | 2010 |
| Taipei Exchanges | 2010 |
| Millennium Mambo | 2001 |
| Mirror Image | 2001 |
| Flowers of Shanghai | 1998 |
| A Borrowed Life | 1995 |
| Heartbreak Island | 1995 |
| Dust of Angels | 1992 |
| Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 |
| King of Chess | 1991 |
| Growing Up | 1983 |
