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Hsiao-hsien Hou

Highest Rated: 100% The Puppetmaster (1993)

Lowest Rated: 80% The Assassin (2015)

Birthday: Apr 8, 1947

Birthplace: Meixian, Guangdong, China

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."

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Highest rated movies

100% 76% The Puppetmaster
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100% 80% A Time to Live, a Time to Die
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100% 89% Taipei Story
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100% 90% A City of Sadness
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100% 90% A Summer at Grandpa's
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100% 71% Good Men, Good Women
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100% 83% Goodbye South, Goodbye
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100% 88% Dust in the Wind
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97% 94% Raise the Red Lantern
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93% 78% Flowers of Shanghai
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Old Fox Executive Producer - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keep Rolling Unknown (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Father to Son Executive Producer - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Baby Executive Producer - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Small Talk Executive Producer - 2016
80% 48% The Assassin Director,
Writer
$632.5K 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Young Style Unknown (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 96% Beyond Beauty: Taiwan From Above Executive Producer - 2013
No Score Yet 69% Taipei Exchanges Executive Producer - 2010
82% 60% Flight of the Red Balloon Director,
Writer
$459.4K 2007
86% 71% Three Times Director $151.7K 2005
91% 77% Café Lumière Director,
Writer
- 2003
84% 70% Millennium Mambo Director,
Producer
$14.8K 2001
93% 78% Flowers of Shanghai Director - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien Self - 1997
No Score Yet 83% Yang & Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema Unknown (Character) - 1996
100% 83% Goodbye South, Goodbye Director - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heartbreak Island Executive Producer - 1995
100% 71% Good Men, Good Women Director - 1995
100% 76% The Puppetmaster Director - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hsimeng Jensheng Director - 1993
97% 94% Raise the Red Lantern Executive Producer $22.6K 1991
100% 90% A City of Sadness Director - 1989
100% 88% Dust in the Wind Director - 1987
100% 80% A Time to Live, a Time to Die Director,
Screenwriter
- 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Time to Live and the Time to Die Director,
Writer
- 1986
100% 89% Taipei Story Lung (Character),
Screenwriter
- 1985
100% 90% A Summer at Grandpa's Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Favorite Season Screenwriter - 1985
No Score Yet 94% Feng gui lai de ren (All the Youthful Days) Director - 1983
No Score Yet 62% The Green, Green Grass of Home Director,
Screenwriter
- 1983
No Score Yet 83% The Boys From Fengkuei Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cheerful Wind Director - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cute Girl Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sandwich Man Director - 1966