Hou Hsiao-hsien Movies

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gong Li

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shu Qi

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shu Qi

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shu Qi

Chu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chu Hsi-ning

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Juliette Binoche

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pegah Ahangarani

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fong Fei-fei

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jin is a singer in a rock...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Nikki Hsieh

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

“I Remember” tells the story of sister writers Chu Tien-wen and Chu Tien-xin, from co-founding the San-san magazine to their respective...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chu Tʽien-hsin

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chien-wen Wang

An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu An-Shun

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Hitoto

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nikki Hsieh

The essence of progress in civilization has always been handiwork. In traditional Chinese civilization, the emperor was supreme. Vested with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hou Hsiao-hsien

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wong Kai-Gwong

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Li Tian-Lu

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenny Bee

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenny Bee

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Annie Shizuka Inoh

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yang Lin

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fong Fei-fei

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doze Niu Cheng-Tse

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,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Kao

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kenny Bee

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsai Chen-Nan

Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Leung Ka-Fai

Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chen Bo-zheng

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shu Qi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryan Kou

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Qin Hailu

This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it’s a story of time and space,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariel Lin

The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ko I-chen

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wu Nien-jen

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wu Nien-jen

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Juliette Binoche

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheu Fang-Yi

Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service"...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ethan Juan

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bai Run-yin

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shu Qi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Chang

Longing. A taiwanese film directed by Kun-Hou Chen and written by Hsiao-Hsien Hou.

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Cast: Kenny Bee

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Cast: Lin Feng-jiao

Kenny Bee plays a saxophonist who works in a night club. Fang Hui-jang is the oldest sister in a four-child family whose father is working abroad....

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Cast: Kenny Bee

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wanlop Rungkamjad

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fanny Chang Chun-Fang

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Hitoto

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wong Kai-Gwong

Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lin Feng-jiao

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kenny Bee

An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu An-Shun

A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy...

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Cast: Lim Giong

In June, 1993 , the gravestone of Hsu Ching-Lan was finally found in Liuchangli by his brother after 40 years of searching. Hsu was killed by the KMT...

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kuei Chang

Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylvia Chang

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shu Qi

Zhijie, in her bid to find a wife for her mentally-challenged son, found Chu Lien to become her daughter-in-law. From then, Chu Lien's life becomes...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Fong Fei-fei

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yen Cheng-kuo

Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi's landlady, who tries to free himself from his protective...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rima Zeidan

On his 60th birthday, Van is told that he is seriously ill. But instead of going to Taipei for treatment, his illness leads him to Japan. Together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Huang

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yang Mi

A romance about a girl who falls in love and marries a music teacher. The couple struggle through life as the man does not want to accept money from...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lin Feng-jiao

A loose youth passes the time freely until he comes across a young, female broadcaster who works at a radio station.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lin Feng-jiao

Teenagers Jielong and Tangmi secretly love each other, but Tangmi vanishes after they spend a night out together. Jielong has to turn back to focus...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yang Chieh-mei

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liu Xiaodong

Tung-Ching’s life has changed since a car accident three months ago. The lifeline on his right hand was scratched off in this incident. A nurse...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chun-chieh Lee

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gwei Lun-Mei

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chin Tsai

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vicky Wei

Direct-to-video music film co-directed by three major figures of the Taiwanese New Cinema featuring song by Edward Yang’s then wife Tsai Chin.

Genre: Music

Cast: Chin Tsai

Key players of the Taiwanese New Cinema jointly produced this MTV-style propaganda short for recruitment to the military school. It caused great...

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