侯孝賢
HOU Hsiao-Hsien
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| Type： | Director , Scriptwriter , Producer , Executive Producer |
| Biography： |
HOU Hsiao-Hsien was born on April 8, 1947 in Mei County, Guangdong Province, China. He moved to Taiwan with his family in 1948 after Taiwan returned to the Chinese rule following the Japanese surrender at the end of Second World War. HOU grew up in southern Taiwan until he served in the military for 2 years. It was during this period that he began to develop his interest in films. After being discharged from the compulsory military service in 1969, HOU was admitted to the Motion Picture Department of National Taiwan Arts Academy in Taipei. After graduation in 1973, he worked briefly as a salesman. Later he began his film career as script supervisor, assistant director and scriptwriter for veteran directors, such as Li Hsing. (李行) In 1978 HOU Hsiao-Hsien began his close collaboration with CHEN Kun-Hou. HOU was scriptwriter, and CHEN the cameraman. In 1980 HOU directed his first feature “Cute Girl,”(就是溜溜的她) which was a box office success. In 1982 his “The Green, Green Grass of Home” was commercially and critically successful. It was nominated for Best Feature Film and Best Director awards in the 19th Golden Horse Awards. It was the same year that Edward Yang (楊德昌) and three other young directors completed their debut omnibus film “In Our Time” (光陰的故事) The critical and commercial success of both “In Our Time” and “Growing Up” (小畢的故事) marked the beginning of Taiwanese New Wave movement. Under the influence of young filmmakers who had received film training in the U.S., HOU began to switch his filmmaking emphasis from commercial success to personal expression. The omnibus film “Sandwich Man” (兒子的大玩偶), which HOU co-directed with TSENG Chuang-Hsiang (曾壯祥) and WAN Jen (萬仁), was a ground-breaking work for Taiwan New Cinema. “The Boys from Fengkuei,” made in the same year, was the first film that HOU began to direct creatively rather than intuitively. This film, together with “A Summer at Grandpa’s,” “The Time to Live, The Time to Die” and “Dust in the Wind,” formed the trilogy of HOU’s autobiographic films. The theme on adolescence experience growing up in rural Taiwan and the unique style of storytelling are important marks of the Taiwan New Cinema, and are influential to the younger filmmakers in Taiwan. Of the ten films HOU Hsiao-Hsien has directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film and/or best director awards from international film festivals, such as Berlin, Venice, Hawaii and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes, France. HOU’s success at international film festival reached its peak in 1989 with “City of Sadness,” which won him the Golden Lion Award at Venice International Film Festival. “City of Sadness,” “The Puppetmaster” and “Good Men, Good Women” formed a trilogy that deals with the troubled history of recent Taiwan. In these films HOU had established his master status in international film circuit with his famous long and stillness takes, as well as his beautifully composed empty shots. He began to experiment with different styles of filmmaking in 1996 with “Goodbye South, Goodbye,” “Flowers of Shanghai” and “Millennium Mambo.” HOU Hsiao-Hsien is considered the leader of the Taiwan New Wave movement. He constantly helped other filmmakers in their works, as executive producer, producer, scriptwriter or actor. HOU likes to collaborate with his staple crew members, such as scriptwriter CHU Tien-Wen and WU Nien-Jen, Cinematographer CHEN Kun-Hou and Lee Pin-Bing, Sound Engineer TU Tu-Chi and Editor LIAO Ching-Sung. In November 1999 HOU established Sinomovie.com, a company specializing in producing and distributing domestic and foreign feature and short films. HOU also set up a website (http://www.sinomovie.com) to encourage the making of digital movies by young filmmakers using small format digital video equipment. In December 2001 HOU was involved in forming Taiwan Film and Culture Association to promote the film culture activities and to encourage the training of young filmmakers. One of the achievements of the Association was the renovation of the residence of former U.S. Ambassadors to Taiwan, which was transformed into Spot Taipei Film House, an art house for exhibiting non-commercial films. Starting from 2003 Taiwan Film and Culture Association is commissioned by the Department of Cultural Affairs of Taipei City Government to run the annual Taipei Film Festival. To celebrate the 100th birthday of Japanese director Yasujiro Osu in 2003 HOU Hsiao-Hsien was invited by Shochiku Co. to make a film “Kohi Jikou”(咖啡時光) in Japan with Japanese cast. HOU’s Spot Taipei Film House also ran a retrospective of all of Ozu’s surviving 37 film works. |
Honor |
| Year | Title | Festivals and Awards |
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| 2024 | Daughter's Daughter | Awards 2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Original Screenplay 2024 Toronto International Film Festival - Special Mention Award Nominations 2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Film Song and Best Makeup & Costume Design 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival - Main Competition Section Selection 2024 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival Closing Film |
| 2023 | Be With Me | Nominations 2024 Best Actor and Best Visual Effects of the 26th Taipei Film Awards Selections 2023 43rd Hawaii International Film Festival, “Spotlight on Taiwan” unit 2023 20th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, “Cineaste Delights” unit |
| 2023 | Old Fox | Awards 2024 Best Feature, Best Director, Best Makeup & Costume Design, and Best Cinematography of the 26th Taipei Film Awards 2023 Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Makeup & Costume Design and Best Original Film Score of the 60th Golden Horse Awards Nominations 2024 Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Art Design and Best Makeup & Costume Design of the 26th Taipei Film Awards 2023 Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Makeup & Costume Design, Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song of the 60th Golden Horse Awards Selections 2023 Tokyo Film World Focus section-Taiwan Cinema Renaissance 2023 |
| 2022 | Salute | Award 2022 Best Action Choreography at the 59th Golden Horse Awards Nominations 2023 Best Director, Best Art Design, Best Cinematography, and Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution( Action Choreography) at the 25th Taipei Film Awards 2022 Best Cinematography and Best Original Film Score at the 59th Golden Horse Awards |
| 2021 | Unfulfilled Dreams | |
| 2021 | I Remember | |
| 2018 | The Boys From Fengkuei (Digital Restoration) | 1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents: grand prize 1984 Cannes Intl. Film Fest. 1984 Hawaii Film Fest. 1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents 1984 London Film Fest. 1984 Asian Pacific Film Fest. 1985 Rotterdam Film Fest. 1985 San Francisco Film Fest. 1985 PIA Film Fesitval, Japan 1987 Amiens Marche Intl du Film 1988 Pesaro Film Fest. 1988 La Rochelle Interntioanl Film Festival, France 1988 Vancouver Intl. Film Fest. 1989 Boston Film Fest. 1991 Toronto Intl. Film Fest. |
| 2018 | 5x1 | |
| 2018 | Father to Son | 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Official Selection 2018 The 18th Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival - Competition 2018 The 25th Titanic Budapest International Film Festival - Asian Winds 2018 Taipei Film Festival - Opening Film |
| 2018 | Father | |
| 2018 | Mirror Image (Digital Restoration) | 2000 Taipei Film Festival Best Feature 2001 The South Taiwan Film & Video Festival 2001 The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2001 The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival, Dragons and Tigers Section, Best New Director Award 2001 The 54th Cannes International Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight Section 2001 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Best Director Award, Best Artistic Achievement Award 2002 The 25th Goteborg Film Festival 2002 The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2002 The 3rd Jeonju International Film Festival 2002 Aurora Asia Film Festival |
| 2017 | Small Talk | 2018 Academy Award - Taiwan Entry for Best Foreign Language Film 2017 Teddy Award, Best Documentary 2017 Nashville Film Festival, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Filmmaking 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Audience Awards 2016 Golden Horse Nominee, Best Documentary Film 2016 Golden Horse Nominee, Best Editing |
| 2017 | Taipei Story (Digital Restoration) | |
| 2017 | Missing Johnny | 2017 Golden Horse Awards Best New Performer(Winning),Best New Director(Nomination),Best Original Film Score(Nomination) 2017 Shanghai International Film Festival-Asian New Talent Award: Best Actress (nominated) 2017 Taipei Film Awards-Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Suppporting Actor, Best New Talent 2017 Xining First International Film Festival-Nominated for Best Film and Best Director 2017 Busan International Film Festival-A Window On Asian Cinema 2017 Sao Paulo International Film Festival–New Filmmakers Competition |
| 2015 | The Assassin | 2015 Busan International Film Festival -Gala Presentation |
| 2014 | Hometown Boy | |
| 2013 | The Sandwich Man (Digital Restoration) | |
| 2013 | A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Digital Restoration) | 1987 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Best Non-American/ Non-European Film |
| 2013 | Dust In The Wind (Digital Restoration) | 1987 Festival des 3 Continents-Best Cinematography, Best Score |
| 2013 | Beyond Beauty - Taiwan From Above | |
| 2011 | Ten Plus Ten | 2011 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Opening Film 2012 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Panorama Platinum Remi Award for Art Direction in the category of Film & Video Production at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in 2013 (winner) |
| 2010 | One Day | 2010 Berlinale-Forum |
| 2010 | Taipei Exchanges | 2010 Taipei Film Festival-Best Music, Audience´s Choice Award |
| 2008 | Le Voyage du ballon rouge | 2007 Cannes Film Festival |
| 2006 | Reflections | |
| 2005 | THREE TIMES | |
| 2001 | MILLENNIUM MAMBO | 2001 The 6th Pusan International Film Festival, A Window on Asian Cinema Section, A Window on Asian Cinema Award |
| 1998 | FLOWER OF SHANGHAI | 1998 Asia-Pacific Film Festival |
| 1997 | HHH PORTRAIT OF HOU HSIAO－HSIEN | |
| 1996 | GOODBYE SOUTH,GOODBYE | |
| 1995 | ||
| 1994 | A Borrowed Life | |
| 1993 | GROWING UP | |
| 1993 | THE PUPPETMASTER | |
| 1992 | Dust of Angels | |
| 1989 | A City of Sadness | |
| 1987 | Daughter of the Nile | 2016 Berlin International Film Festival-Retrospective - Berlinale Classics |
| 1986 | Dust in The Wind | 1987 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents, Best cinematography, Best score. |
| 1985 | A Time to Live and a Time to Die | |
| 1985 | My Favorite Season | |
| 1985 | Taipei Story | |
| 1984 | AH FEI | |
| 1984 | A SUMMER AT GRANDPAS | |
| 1984 | ||
| 1983 | The Sandwich Man | |
| 1983 | The Boys From Fengkuei | 1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents: grand prize |
| 1982 | Six Is Company | |
| 1981 | Cheerful Wind | |
| 1980 | CUTE GIRLS | 2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam |
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| 1978 | 煙波江上 |
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