Hou Hsiao-hsien
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Hou Hsien (born 8 April 1947) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
He is a leading figure in international cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement, as an auteur.
In 1989, he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his film A City of Sadness (1989), as well as the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015).
In a poll of American and international critics put together by The Village Voice and Film Comment, Hou's The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Hou was named "one of the three most influential directors of cinema" in a 1998 New York Film Festival world critics' survey. In the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' list of the best films ever made, a City of Sadness came in 117th place.
Personal life
Tsao Pao-feng, one of Hou's film Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), is Hou's wife. Yun-hua is their one daughter. Hou Fen-ming, who was portrayed in Hou's film A Time to Die (1985), was played by Tien Feng.
Hou, despite the fact that he rarely speaks out about politics in public, is a promoter of the disbanded Democratic Action Alliance (), which advocates for Chinese unification. "I was born in mainland China," Hou said in an interview, so I will always be Chinese, no matter where I am." Although Hou has often been regarded as the "quintessentially Taiwanese filmmaker" in the West, the Taiwanese political journal New Bloom reports that his personal politics contradict how his films are portrayed by Anglophone commentators.
Life and career
Hou Hsiao-hsien was born in Meixian District, Guangdong, in 1947 to a Hakka family. Later this year, Hou's father took over as Head Secretary for Taichung City. The remainder of the family joined him in Taiwan the following year, and the Taipei Educational Bureau was appointed in 1949. Hou was educated at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts.
Hou is best known for his austere and aesthetically rigorous dramas dealing with Taiwanese (and occasionally larger Chinese) history throughout the twentieth century, particularly by considering its effects on individuals or small groups of characters. For example, a City of Sadness (1989) depicts a family trapped in the local Taiwanese and the newly arrived Chinese Nationalist government after World War II. It was an historic broaching the long-awaited February 28 Incident and the ensuing White Terror. It became a huge critical and commercial success at the 1989 Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Lion award, making it the first Taiwanese film to win the top prize at the prestigious international film festival.
His narrative is elliptical, and his style is characterized by extreme long takes with minimal camera movement, but actors and space within the frame are cast in a tense manner. He improvised to arrive at his final form of his scenes and his actors' low-key, naturalistic acting. His compositions are defocused, and images between shots do not follow a definite temporal or causal narrative logic. His photography has developed a sensuous presence in the 1990s, partly because of his relationship with cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bin. Chu T'ien-wen, the renowned author of Chen Kunhou's 1983 film Growing Up, has been Hou's most consistent screenwriter since the mid-1980s, a partnership that began with the screenplay. In several of his films, including The Puppetmaster (1993), which is based on Li's life, he has also played revered puppeteer Li Tian-lu.
Top awards have been given to Hou's films from prestigious international festivals, such as the Venice Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the Nantes Three Continents Festival. At the Cannes Film Festival, six of his films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or (best film award) to date. In a poll of American and international critics put together by The Village Voice and Film Comment, Hou was named "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s.
He wrote two songs on Dust of Angels, a film he made.
He directed Café Lumière (2003) for the Shochiku studio in honor of Yasujir Ozu's centennial; the film premiered at a festival in Ozu commemorating the centennial of his birth. In Hou's typically indirect way, the film explores issues reminiscent of Ozu: tensions between parents and children, as well as the transition between tradition and modernity. Shu Qi and Chang Chen's 2005 film Three Times is a newspaper distributed in the United States. It contains three stories of love set in 1911, 1966, and 2005.
Hou started his first Western project in August 2006. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), filmed in France, is the tale of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. Juliette Binoche, the film is the first part of a series of films supported by the Musée d'Orsay and celebrities. Hou produced the 3D short film for the Taipei Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China in 2010.
Hou has also had some acting experience, appearing in Edward Yang's 1984 film Taipei Stories as the lead. He starred in Lung, a former minor league baseball star who is now operating an old-style fabric company, longing for his time of glory. Lung is estranged from his mother and struggles to find his way to Taipei. Hou also appeared in the 2013 Chinese comedy-drama film Young Style, which focuses on a group of teenagers in high school.
Hou received the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015).