Hou Hsiao-hsien

1947 (79) • Directing

Born: 4/8/1947 (79) in Mei County, Guangdong, China

Known for: Directing

Hou Hsiao-hsien

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.

Known For

Raise the Red Lantern

79%

Executive Producer

1991

The Assassin

64%

Director

2015

Millennium Mambo

70%

Director

2001

To Each His Own Cinema

64%

Director

2007

A City of Sadness

75%

Director

1989

Taipei Story

75%

Lung

1985

Flowers of Shanghai

69%

Director

1998

Dust in the Wind

76%

Director

1986

Mongrel

80%

Executive Producer

2025

Daughter's Daughter

79%

Executive Producer

2024

Old Fox

76%

Executive Producer

2023

Be with Me

42%

Executive Producer

2023

Salute

88%

Producer

2022

Twisted Strings

70%

Executive Producer

2022

I Remember

Producer

2022

Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'

80%

Self - archival

2021

Keep Rolling

80%

2020

The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

80%

Producer

2020

Baby

59%

Executive Producer

2018

Father to Son

61%

Executive Producer

2018

Missing Johnny

56%

Producer

2017

Dragon Girls!

68%

Himself

2016

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

Self

2016

The Assassin

64%

Director

2015

The Assassin

64%

Screenplay

2015

The Assassin

64%

Executive Producer

2015

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

71%

Self

2014

Paradise in Service

68%

Executive Producer

2014

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

77%

Executive Producer

2013

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

77%

Producer

2013

Past Present

63%

Self

2013

A Special Day

53%

Self

2012

Return Ticket

68%

Executive Producer

2011

10 Plus 10

57%

Director

2011

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy

80%

Producer

2011

I Wish I Knew

66%

Self

2010