Hou Hsiao-hsien Movies

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are...

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the...

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her...

French-made documentary, "Métro Lumière", which actually does help provide some of the context for Hsiao-hsien's approach to the film....

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other...

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick,...

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three...

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of...

THE REVENGE OF THE TWO EXORCISTS (1975) is another rarity; this one from Lai Sheng Ying, a cinematographer turned director. Based on a Chinese folk...

All the way, Cao Li has come alone. From Fuyang to Shenzhen. From Shenzhen to Shanghai. From Shanghai to home? Leaving hometown is her choice, the...

Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from...

Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news...

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school,...