Hsiao-Hsien Hou

Hou Hsiao-Hsien was born in Guangdong, China, in 1947, and the following year his family moved to Taiwan. He studied directing at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and was an assistant to Li Hsing and Lai Cheng-Ying. In 1980 he made his first feature film, Cute Girl, and in 1983 he attracted critical attention with The Sandwich Man, which placed him as a representative of the Taiwanese New Wave. A City of Sadness earned a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989, while The Puppet Master received the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1993. His later films, including Millenium Mambo (2001), were also screened at Cannes. As a producer, he was responsible for such classics as Edward Yang’s Taipei Story (1985) and Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern (1991). In 2007, he won the Critics’ Award in Valladolid for Flight of the Red Balloon.

Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid