Hou Hsiao-hsien
Known for: Directing
Born: April 8, 1947
Place of birth: Mei County, Guangdong, China
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.
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Filmography
86 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Mongrel
2025
7.9
Daughter's Daughter
2024
7.6
Old Fox
2023
4.2
Be with Me
2023
8.8
Salute
2022
7.0
Twisted Strings
2022
NR
I Remember
2022
8.0
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
2021
8.0
Keep Rolling
2020
8.0
The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams
2020
5.9
Baby
2018
6.1
Father to Son
2018
5.6
Missing Johnny
2017
6.8
Dragon Girls!
2016
NR
The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
2016
6.4
The Assassin
2015
7.1
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
6.8
Paradise in Service
2014
7.7
Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
2013
6.3
Past Present
2013
5.3
A Special Day
2012
6.8
Return Ticket
2011
5.7
10 Plus 10
2011
8.0
Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy
2011
6.6
I Wish I Knew
2010
6.7
Taipei Exchanges
2010
7.1
One Day
2010
7.0
Let the Wind Carry Me
2009
NR
In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship
2008
NR
My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story
2008
NR
Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class
2007
6.4
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
NR
the electric princess house
2007
6.3
Flight of the Red Balloon
2007
4.0
Reflections
2007
7.0
Three Times
2005
7.0
Métro Lumière
2004
6.8
Café Lumière
2004
6.0
Our Time, Our Story
2002
7.0
Millennium Mambo
2001
6.8
Mirror Image
2001
7.9
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1999
6.9
Flowers of Shanghai
1998
5.5
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
1998
7.0
Goodbye South, Goodbye
1996
NR
Why Don't We Sing?
1996
7.1
A Borrowed Life
1995
7.0
Good Men, Good Women
1995
6.5
Heartbreak Island
1995
6.6
The Puppetmaster
1993
6.5
Talking with Ozu
1993
6.7
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
6.2
Treasure Island
1993
7.7
Dust of Angels
1992
7.9
Raise the Red Lantern
1991
6.9
King of Chess
1991
7.0
Sunless Days
1990
7.5
A City of Sadness
1989
NR
All for Tomorrow
1988
10.0
I Love Mary
1988
7.2
Daughter of the Nile
1987
NR
Adult Game
1986
5.0
Soul
1986
7.6
Dust in the Wind
1986
7.2
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
1985
7.5
Taipei Story
1985
10.0
My Favorite Season
1985
7.5
A Summer at Grandpa's
1984
8.0
Out of the Blue
1984
NR
The Bike & I
1984
7.1
The Sandwich Man
1983
7.3
The Boys from Fengkuei
1983
7.6
That Day, on the Beach
1983
6.3
Ah Fei
1983
7.2
Growing Up
1983
6.4
The Green, Green Grass of Home
1982
10.0
Six Is Company
1982
6.3
Play While You Play
1981
NR
Longing
1981
6.7
Spring in Autumn
1980
6.1
Cute Girl
1980
7.5
Chu Lien
1979
7.0
It Was Rainy Last Night
1979
7.0
Good Morning, Taipei
1979
8.0
Lover on the Wave
1978
NR
The Revenge of Two Exorcists
1975
9.0
Golden Horse Awards
1962NR
LOMA - Our Home
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