Hou Hsiao Hsien

A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)

Along with Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien was the leading figure of a new wave of…

Hou Hsiao-hsien in Austin

This weekend the Austin Asian American Film Festival kicks off a month-long retrospective on Taiwanese filmmaker…

Hou Hsiao-hsien Capsule Reviews

Cute Girl — March 18, 2015

The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest, his first film since 2007’s Flight of the Red Balloon, is set in the…

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003)

Café Lumière was supposed to be one part of an anthology made to honor the 100th anniversary of…

Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)

Millennium Mambo, released in 2001 and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first to be theatrically…

Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998)

Flowers of Shanghai is based on an 1892 novel by Han Bangqing, considered a…

Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986)

The fourth in the series of coming-of-age films that marked Hou Hsiao-hsien’s transition…

The Time to Live, The Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)