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Hou Hsiao-Hsien
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Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1947)
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Hou Hsiao-Hsien is a male actor, film director, singer, and screenwriter born on April 8, 1947. He was born in Meixian District or Mei County, Guangdong, China. He holds citizenship in Taiwan and speaks Chinese. His professional work in film direction began in 1980. He was educated at the National Taiwan University of Arts.
Hou has received several awards, including the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and the Order of Brilliant Star. He was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He is associated with the category of films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.
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Film & TV
Mei County, Guangdong, China
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
- Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai' — Self - archival2021
- Keep Rolling2020
- Dragon Girls! — Himself2016
- The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse — Self2016
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema — Self2014
- Past Present — Self2013
- A Special Day — Self2012
- I Wish I Knew — Self2010
- Let the Wind Carry Me — Self2009
- In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship — Voice2008
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 136
- Total plays
- 332
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-04-08 ) 8 April 1947 (age 79) , Meixian County , Guangdong , Republic of China
- Occupations
- Film director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor
- Spouse
- Tsao Pao-feng
- Traditional chinese
- 侯孝賢
- Simplified chinese
- 侯孝贤
- Hanyu pinyin
- Hóu Xiàoxián
- Wade giles
- Hou Hsiao -hsien
- Ipa
- [xo ̌ ʊ ɕja ̂ ʊ.ɕjɛ ̌ n]
- Yale romanization
- Hàuh Haau-Yìhn
- Jyutping
- Hau4 Haau3 Jin4
- Hokkien poj
- Hâu Hàu-hiân
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Hou
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Place of birth
- Meixian District
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- National Taiwan University of Arts
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Field of work
- film direction
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- 侯孝賢獲第42屆金馬「年度最佳臺灣電影工作者獎」.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1947-04-08
- Commons category
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- described at URL
- www.tatlerasia.com/people/hsiao-hsien-hou-eng
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Encyclopedic overview
Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: Hóu Xiàoxián; born 8 April 1947) 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).
Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by The Village Voice and Film Comment. In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." A City of Sadness ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Metacritic ranked Hsiao-hsien 16th on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century.
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