Hou Hsiao-hsien Movies

  • 2016
    The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

    The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

    The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

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    In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a...

    The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
  • 2010
    I Wish I Knew

    I Wish I Knew

    I Wish I Knew

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    Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

    I Wish I Knew
  • 1993
    The Puppetmaster

    The Puppetmaster

    The Puppetmaster

    6.71993HD

    Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.

    The Puppetmaster
  • 1981
    Play While You Play

    Play While You Play

    Play While You Play

    6.11981HD

    A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter...

    Play While You Play
  • 2023
    Old Fox

    Old Fox

    Old Fox

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    Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to...

    Old Fox
  • 1983
    Growing Up

    Growing Up

    Growing Up

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    The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally,...

    Growing Up
  • 1982
    The Green, Green Grass of Home

    The Green, Green Grass of Home

    The Green, Green Grass of Home

    6.51982HD

    A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country...

    The Green, Green Grass of Home
  • 2007
    Flight of the Red Balloon

    Flight of the Red Balloon

    Flight of the Red Balloon

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    The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen...

    Flight of the Red Balloon
  • 1998
    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    5.41998HD

    An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
  • 2024
    Daughter's Daughter

    Daughter's Daughter

    Daughter's Daughter

    7.52024HD

    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...

    Daughter's Daughter
  • 2010
    One Day

    One Day

    One Day

    7.12010HD

    A woman is transported into a world as strange and beautiful as her dreams in this fantasy. Singing, who comes from a family of poor shopkeepers,...

    One Day
  • 2014
    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    7.12014HD

    With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through...

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
  • 1995
    A Borrowed Life

    A Borrowed Life

    A Borrowed Life

    6.91995HD

    Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule...

    A Borrowed Life
  • 1995
    Heartbreak Island

    Heartbreak Island

    Heartbreak Island

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    In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief...

    Heartbreak Island
  • 1980
    Cute Girl

    Cute Girl

    Cute Girl

    6.21980HD

    The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies...

    Cute Girl
  • 2009
    Let the Wind Carry Me

    Let the Wind Carry Me

    Let the Wind Carry Me

    6.6252009HD

    Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply...

    Let the Wind Carry Me
  • 2022
    Salute

    Salute

    Salute

    8.82022HD

    Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. ...

    Salute
  • 2010
    Taipei Exchanges

    Taipei Exchanges

    Taipei Exchanges

    6.752010HD

    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...

    Taipei Exchanges
  • 2013
    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

    7.62013HD

    Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and...

    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
  • 2018
    Baby

    Baby

    Baby

    5.22018HD

    When a woman who was abandoned at birth because of a genetic disorder sees a child facing the same fate, she finds herself trying to persuade their...

    Baby