Direction: Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Raymond Chen · Wou Yi Fang · Nakamura Ikuyo · Tianlu Li

Plot First part of the trilogy in the history of Taiwan by Hou Hsiao-hsien. These deliveries would be "The Puppetmaster" (1993) and "Good Men, Good Women" (1995).

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Carina Lau · Michelle Reis · Michiko Hada

Plot Based on an 1894 novel by Han Ziyun, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI explores the lavish, elegant, and decadent world of late 19th century Shanghai brothels. Master Wang (played by Hong Kong...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Chi-Kuang Wang · Yang Li-Yin · Shu-Chen Li · Mei-Feng

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Mei-Feng · Yang Li-Yin · Hsin Shu-Fen · Chen Chih-Chen

Plot This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker's own boyhood. Like many of their compatriots, Hou's family moved from the mainland to Taiwan in 1948 and was...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Annie Yi · Lim Giong · Jack Kao · Hsi Hsiang

Plot The final chapter of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's trilogy on Taiwanese history (that also includes A City of Sadness and The Puppetmaster), Good Men, Good Women provides a poignant, harrowing, and thematically...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Hsin Shu-Fen · Yang Li-Yin · Lawrence Ko · Tianlu Li

Plot A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Doze Niu · Chang Shih · Yang Li-Yin · Tou Chung-hua

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Jack Kao · Lin Yang · Grace Chen · Tianlu Li

Plot A wistful schoolgirl who is peripherally involved in a teen-aged crime ring. She escapes from the harshness of her surrounding reality by reading her favorite comic book, Daughter of the...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Tianlu Li · Lim Giong · Ming Hwa Bai · Kuei-Chung Cheng

Plot Famous Taiwanese puppeteer Li Tien-lu narrates the story of his own adventurous and troubled life in this telling docudrama. From Li's early days as a child learning the craft to...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Kuei-Ying Hsu · Annie Yi · Hsi Hsiang · Jack Kao

Plot A Taiwanese rewrite of Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, the Hou Hsiao-Hsien film GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE stars Jack Kao (a veteran of several Hou films) as Gao, the head of a...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Shu Qi · Jack Kao · Tuan Chun-Hao · Chen Yi-Hsuan

Plot Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2001, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao. She's young, lovely, and aimless. He's a slacker. Cigarettes and...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Shu Qi · Chang Chen · Mei Fang · Shu-Chen Liao

Plot The film follows a timeless couple in love as, enacted by the same performers, they take on different identities through three separate periods. In "A Time for Love," Chen (Chang...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Yo Hitoto · Tadanobu Asano · Masato Hagiwara · Kimiko Yo

Plot Imagine enjoying a coffee. Now imagine having a coffee and transforming your mood, forgetting all that has happened previously, resetting yourself to be able to move on to what you...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Kenny Bee · Ling Chiang · Jing-Kuo Yen · Ling Wu

Plot Da-Nian is a young man from Taipei. He goes to a remote village and works as a substitute teacher. He and Su-Yun, another teacher at the school, fall in love....

Direction Sylvia Chang · Cheng Yu-Chieh · Chen Wen-Tang · Ko-Shang Shen

Cast Chia-Jui Kou · Tsai Ming-shiou · Chi-Wen Hsieh · Riva Zhang

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Juliette Binoche · Simon Iteanu · Hippolyte Girardot · Song Fang

Plot A little boy is followed around Paris by a strange red balloon. Meanwhile, his mother struggles to keep her puppet theatre and home life on track.

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien · Wan Jen · Zheng Zhuang Xiang

Cast Chi Chen · Chiang Hsia · Te-Nan Lai · Yang Tan

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Shu Qi · Chang Chen · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Ethan Juan

Plot The film is set in 8th century China during last years of the Tang Dynasty. The film centers on Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi), an assassin who is directed to slay...

Direction Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cast Kenny Bee · Mei Fang · Anthony Chan