Biography
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter. Born on 8 April 1947 in Mei County, Guangdong, China, he moved to Taiwan as a child and studied at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts. He is a leading figure in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.
His films include The Boys from Fengkuei (1983), Taipei Story (1985), The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985), Dust in the Wind (1986), A City of Sadness (1989), Flowers of Shanghai (1998), Millennium Mambo (2001), Three Times (2005) and The Assassin (2015), on which he also received a screenplay credit. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for A City of Sadness and the Best Director award at Cannes for The Assassin. Hou retired after The Assassin, his final feature.
