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.
Filmography (84 movies)
8.8
8.8
Salute
2022
Producer
8.0
8.0
Keep Rolling
2020
8.0
8.0
Mongrel
2025
Executive Producer
8.0
8.0
Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy
2011
Producer
7.9
7.9
Raise the Red Lantern
1991
Executive Producer
7.8
7.8
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1999
7.8
7.8
Dust of Angels
1992
Producer
7.7
7.7
Daughter's Daughter
2024
Executive Producer
7.7
7.7
Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
2013
Executive Producer
7.6
7.6
Dust in the Wind
1986
Director
7.6
7.6
Old Fox
2023
Executive Producer
7.6
7.6
That Day, on the Beach
1983
as Ah Cai's Executive
7.5
7.5
Dragon Girls!
2016
as Himself
7.5
7.5
Taipei Story
1985
Screenplay
7.5
7.5
Chu Lien
1979
Screenplay
7.5
7.5
A City of Sadness
1989
Director
7.4
7.4
A Summer at Grandpa's
1984
Writer
7.3
7.3
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
1985
Director
7.2
7.2
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
as Self
7.2
7.2
Good Men, Good Women
1995
Director
7.1
7.1
The Boys from Fengkuei
1983
Director
7.1
7.1
One Day
2010
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Let the Wind Carry Me
2009
as Self
7.0
7.0
The Sandwich Man
1983
Director
7.0
7.0
Return Ticket
2011
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Growing Up
1983
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
Millennium Mambo
2001
Director
7.0
7.0
Daughter of the Nile
1987
Director
6.9
6.9
Flowers of Shanghai
1998
Director
6.9
6.9
Three Times
2005
Writer
6.9
6.9
A Borrowed Life
1995
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Goodbye South, Goodbye
1996
Director
6.8
6.8
Mirror Image
2001
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Paradise in Service
2014
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
I Wish I Knew
2010
as Self
6.7
6.7
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
as Self
6.7
6.7
Café Lumière
2004
Director
6.6
6.6
Taipei Exchanges
2010
Producer
6.5
6.5
Talking with Ozu
1993
as Self
6.5
6.5
The Green, Green Grass of Home
1982
Writer
6.5
6.5
The Puppetmaster
1993
Director
6.5
6.5
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Director
6.5
6.5
King of Chess
1991
Producer
6.4
6.4
The Assassin
2015
Screenplay
6.3
6.3
Past Present
2013
as Self
6.2
6.2
Flight of the Red Balloon
2007
Director
6.2
6.2
Cute Girl
1980
Director
6.1
6.1
Play While You Play
1981
Director
6.1
6.1
Father to Son
2018
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
A Special Day
2012
as Self
6.0
6.0
Sunless Days
1990
6.0
6.0
Métro Lumière
2004
as Self
6.0
6.0
Our Time, Our Story
2002
as Self
6.0
6.0
Good Morning, Taipei
1979
Screenplay
5.9
5.9
Ah Fei
1983
Writer
5.7
5.7
10 Plus 10
2011
Director
5.6
5.6
Missing Johnny
2017
Producer
5.6
5.6
Baby
2018
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
Spring in Autumn
1980
Writer
5.0
5.0
Heartbreak Island
1995
Executive Producer
4.9
4.9
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
1998
as Self
4.3
4.3
Be With Me
2023
Executive Producer
2.5
2.5
Reflections
2007
Producer
The Bike & I
1984
The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
2016
as Self
I Love Mary
1988
Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class
2007
as Himself
Soul
1986
as Boy-Boy
In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship
2008
Director
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
2021
as Self - archival
My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story