Hou Hsiao-hsien

A young woman becomes the fourth concubine of a wealthy man and soon realizes there's fierce competition for his attention and the associated privileges.

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.

Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.

In the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.

A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an ap...

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

This family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.

Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime.

What are you willing to give up in exchange for fulfilling your dreams?

Beigang teens A-guo and A-douzi fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day. One day, they accidentally grab a bag with guns and drugs, and head for Taipei looking for Brother Jie, a friend in the underworld there.

A collection of twenty short films by twenty different directors, all about Taiwan.

A man suffering from a serious illness decides to go to Japan to look for his father who abandoned him 50 years ago.

A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.