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AKA:
Hou Xiaoxian
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Birthplace:
Meixian, Kuantung Province, China
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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
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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