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Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. [1]
Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Producer: The Assassin. Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes.
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Sep 12, 2024 · Hou Hsiao-hsien (born April 8, 1947, Meixian [now Meizhou], Guangdong province, China) is a Chinese-born Taiwanese director known for his film explorations of Taiwan’s history and family life, which emphasized realism through their subject matter and measured pace.
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Producer: The Assassin. Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes.
- April 8, 1947
Aug 17, 2015 · Hou has made 18 features since his debut with Cute Girl (1980), which makes it difficult for newcomers to know where to begin. He has realised three trilogies – ‘Coming of Age’, ‘Taiwan History’, and ‘Urban Female Youth’ – but overlaps in time, space and theme have lead some critics to make the case for quartets or even quintets.
Oct 20, 2015 · Tackling a historical swordplay film may have been a departure for Hou, who’s best known for his beautifully observant portraits of everyday life, but that didn’t stop him from taking on the tradition and making it his own.
May 28, 2020 · Through the 1980s and ’90s, American fans of the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien regarded his movies as, essentially, too brilliant to be released: Although his films showed at festivals and...
