Born in Guangdong, China, in 1947 and raised in Taiwan, Hou is a leading figure of Taiwan New Cinema. His films use long takes, distant camera positions and elliptical stories to portray memory, family and the history of Taiwan. A City of Sadness won the Golden Lion at Venice and The Assassin won him the Best Director prize at Cannes.
Filmography
- Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
- A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985)
- Dust in the Wind (1986)
- A City of Sadness (1989)
- The Puppetmaster (1993)
- Good Men, Good Women (1995)
- Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
- Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
- Millennium Mambo (2001)
- Café Lumière (2003)
- Three Times (2005)
- Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
- The Assassin (2015)