Hou Hsiao-Hsien

AKA:
Hou Xiaoxian Hou Hsiao Hsien
Nationality:
Taiwanese
Birthdate:
04/08/1947
Birthplace:
Meixian, Kuantung Province, China
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biography
Of the ten films that Hou Hsiao-Hsien has directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received 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. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed as "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema."

Hou's birthplace, a county in Kuangtung Province, had been well known as an intellectual center in China. In 1948 his family moved to Taiwan and, like all children raised there, he went through an extremely demanding Continued

Credits
Three Times
Director
2006
Cafe Lumiere
Producer
2004
Cafe Lumiere
Director
2004
Millennium Mambo
Director
2001
The Flowers of Shanghai
Executive Producer
1998
The Flowers of Shanghai
Director
1998
Daughter of the Nile
Director
1987
Dust in the Wind
Director
1986
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Director
1985
Chacun Son Cinema
Director
Laoniang Gou Sao
Actor
Heartbreak Island
Executive Producer
Reflections
Producer
Ming Dai Zhui Zhu
Executive Producer
The Puppetmaster
Director
A City of Sadness
Director
Good Men, Good Women
Director
Erzi De Da Wanou
Director
Dongdong de Jiaqi
Director
1984
Goodbye South, Goodbye
Director
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Director
Meiyou Traiyang de Rizi
Actor
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Screenplay
Raise the Red Lantern
Executive Producer
milestones
Year
Milestone
1948 
Moved with his family to Taiwan
1983 
Feature directorial debut, "Son's Big Doll" a segment of the episodic drama, "Erzi De Da Wanou/The Sandwich Man"
1984 
Solo feature directorial and screenplay debut, "Dongdong de Jiaqi/A Summer at Grandpa's"
1986 
Provided the voice of "The Fence" in "K'ung-pu fen-tzu/The Terrorizer"
1986 
Feature acting debut, "Laoniang Gou Sao/Show"
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