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Hou Hsiao-hsien ( Chinese: 侯孝賢; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan 's New Wave cinema movement. [1] He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A ...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Producer: The Assassin. Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes.
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May 3, 2024 · Hou Hsiao-hsien (born April 8, 1947, Meixian [now Meizhou], Guangdong province, China) is a Chinese-born Taiwanese director known for his film explorations of Taiwan ’s history and family life, which emphasized realism through their subject matter and measured pace. Hou was born in mainland China, but his family fled the Chinese Civil War ...
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Oct 20, 2015 · The Taiwanese auteur discusses his influences from postwar European cinema to Japanese neorealism in a talk at the New York Film Festival. He also reveals how he creates realistic environments and emotions for his actors and how he depicts reality in his films.
Aug 17, 2015 · A guide to the meditative cinema of Taiwanese New Wave master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who explores Taiwanese history and identity through elliptical narratives and long takes. Learn about his trilogies, his wuxia epic The Assassin, and his best films to watch.
Mar 8, 2024 · M ost accounts of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s early career hinge on a book, the autobiography of the celebrated Chinese author Shen Congwen. Sometime around 1983, the writer Chu T’ien-wen, who would later become one of Hou’s closest and most frequent collaborators, gave the filmmaker a copy, thinking that he shared a certain sensibility with Shen.
May 28, 2020 · May 28, 2020. Through the 1980s and ’90s, American fans of the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien regarded his movies as, essentially, too brilliant to be released: Although his films showed at ...
