Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: Hóu Xiàoxián) (born April 8, 1947) is a retired award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.

Filmography

• 2025Mongrel — Executive Producer
• 2024Daughter's Daughter — Executive Producer
• 2023Be with Me — Executive Producer
• 2023Old Fox — Executive Producer
• 2022I Remember — Producer
• 2022Salute — Producer
• Twisted Strings — Executive Producer
• 2020Keep Rolling
• 2020The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams — Producer
• 2018Baby — Executive Producer
• 2018Father to Son — Executive Producer
• 2017Missing Johnny — Producer
• 2015The Assassin — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2014Paradise in Service — Executive Producer
• 2013Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above — Executive Producer
• 201110 Plus 10 — Director
• 2011Hometown Boy — Producer
• 2011Return Ticket — Executive Producer
• 2010One Day — Executive Producer
• 2010Taipei Exchanges — Producer
• 2008Flight of the Red Balloon — Director, Writer
• 2008In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship — Voice, Director
• 2007Reflections — Producer
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — Director
• 2007the electric princess house — Director
• 2005Three Times — Director, Writer
• 2004Café Lumière — Director, Writer
• 2001Millennium Mambo — Director
• 2001Mirror Image — Executive Producer
• 1999HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• 1998Flowers of Shanghai — Director, Executive Producer
• 1998Goodbye South, Goodbye — Director
• 1996Why Don't We Sing? — Producer
• 1995A Borrowed Life — Executive Producer
• 1995Good Men, Good Women — Director
• 1995Heartbreak Island — Executive Producer
• 1993The Puppetmaster — Director
• 1993Treasure Island — Supervising Producer
• 1992Dust of Angels — Producer
• 1991King of Chess — Producer
• 1991Raise the Red Lantern — Executive Producer
• 1990Sunless Days
• 1989A City of Sadness — Director
• 1988All for Tomorrow — Producer
• 1988I Love Mary
• 1987Daughter of the Nile — Director
• 1986Adult Game — Director
• 1986Dust in the Wind — Director
• 1986Soul — Boy-Boy
• 1985My Favorite Season — Writer
• 1985Taipei Story — Lung, Screenplay
• 1985The Time to Live and the Time to Die — Director, Writer
• 1984A Summer at Grandpa's — Director, Writer
• 1984Out of the Blue — Writer
• 1984The Bike & I
• 1983Ah Fei — Writer
• 1983Growing Up — Screenplay
• 1983That Day, on the Beach — Ah Cai's Executive
• 1983The Boys from Fengkuei — Arong's Sister's Boyfriend, Director
• 1983The Sandwich Man — Director
• 1982Six Is Company — Writer
• 1982The Green, Green Grass of Home — Director, Writer
• 1981Longing — Writer
• 1981Play While You Play — Writer, Director
• 1980Cute Girl — Director, Screenplay
• 1980Spring in Autumn — Writer
• 1979Chu Lien — Screenplay
• 1979Good Morning, Taipei — Screenplay
• 1979It Was Rainy Last Night — Screenplay
• 1978Lover on the Wave — Screenplay
• 1975The Revenge of Two Exorcists — Screenplay
• LOMA - Our Home — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2021Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai' — Self - archival
• 2016Dragon Girls! — Himself
• 2016The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse — Self
• 2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema — Self
• 2013Past Present — Self
• 2012A Special Day — Self
• 2010I Wish I Knew — Self
• 2009Let the Wind Carry Me — Self
• 2008My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story — Self
• 2007Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class — Himself
• 2004Métro Lumière — Self
• 2002Our Time, Our Story — Self
• 1998Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema — Self
• 1993Talking with Ozu — Self
• 1993When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang — Self
• Golden Horse Awards — Self