Directing • AGE 79
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.


Mongrel
Executive Producer
2025

Daughter's Daughter
Executive Producer
2024

Old Fox
Executive Producer
2023

Be with Me
Executive Producer
2023

Salute
Producer
2022

Twisted Strings
Executive Producer
2022

I Remember
Producer
2022

Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
Self - archival
2021

Keep Rolling
2020

The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams
Producer
2020

Baby
Executive Producer
2018

Father to Son
Executive Producer
2018

Missing Johnny
Producer
2017

Dragon Girls!
Himself
2016

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
Self
2016

The Assassin
Director
2015

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
2014

Paradise in Service
Executive Producer
2014

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
Producer
2013

Past Present
Self
2013

A Special Day
Self
2012

Return Ticket
Executive Producer
2011

10 Plus 10
Director
2011

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy
Producer
2011

I Wish I Knew
Self
2010

Taipei Exchanges
Producer
2010

One Day
Executive Producer
2010

Let the Wind Carry Me
Self
2009

In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship
Voice
2008

My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story
Self
2008

Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class
Himself
2007

To Each His Own Cinema
Director
2007

the electric princess house
Director
2007

Flight of the Red Balloon
Director
2007

Reflections
Producer
2007

Three Times
Director
2005

Métro Lumière
Self
2004

Café Lumière
Director
2004

Our Time, Our Story
Self
2002

Millennium Mambo
Director
2001

Mirror Image
Executive Producer
2001

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1999

Flowers of Shanghai
Director
1998

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Self
1998

Goodbye South, Goodbye
Director
1996

Why Don't We Sing?
Producer
1996

A Borrowed Life
Executive Producer
1995

Good Men, Good Women
Director
1995

Heartbreak Island
Executive Producer
1995

The Puppetmaster
Director
1993

Talking with Ozu
Self
1993

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
Self
1993

Treasure Island
Supervising Producer
1993

Dust of Angels
Producer
1992

Raise the Red Lantern
Executive Producer
1991

King of Chess
Producer
1991

Sunless Days
1990

A City of Sadness
Director
1989

All for Tomorrow
Producer
1988

I Love Mary
1988

Daughter of the Nile
Director
1987

Adult Game
Director
1986

Soul
Boy-Boy
1986

Dust in the Wind
Director
1986

The Time to Live and the Time to Die
Director
1985

Taipei Story
Lung
1985

My Favorite Season
Writer
1985

A Summer at Grandpa's
Director
1984

Out of the Blue
Writer
1984

The Bike & I
1984

The Sandwich Man
Director
1983

The Boys from Fengkuei
Arong's Sister's Boyfriend
1983

That Day, on the Beach
Ah Cai's Executive
1983

Ah Fei
Writer
1983

Growing Up
Screenplay
1983

The Green, Green Grass of Home
Director
1982

Six Is Company
Writer
1982

Play While You Play
Writer
1981

Longing
Writer
1981

Spring in Autumn
Writer
1980

Cute Girl
Director
1980

Chu Lien
Screenplay
1979

It Was Rainy Last Night
Screenplay
1979

Good Morning, Taipei
Screenplay
1979

Lover on the Wave
Screenplay
1978

The Revenge of Two Exorcists
Screenplay
1975

Golden Horse Awards
Self
1962