Biography
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a retired Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
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Awards & recognition
- Asia's Most Influential Taiwan · 2021
- Golden Horse Award — Best Director · 2015
- Order of Brilliant Star · 2015
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · 2008
- Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize · 1999
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- Golden Horse Award — Best Director · 1995
- Golden Horse Award — Best Director · 1989
- Asian Film Award — Best Director
- National Cultural Award
- European Film Award — Best Non-European Film · 2001 · nominated
Filmography20 titles
Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy
Daughter's Daughter
Old Fox
Taipei Story
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Daughter of the Nile
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
The Boys from Fengkuei
Mirror Image
Millennium Mambo
Flowers of Shanghai
Paradise in Service
Taipei Exchanges
I Wish I Knew
The Green, Green Grass of Home
The Assassin
Flight of the Red Balloon
Cute Girl
Father to Son
Be with Me