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Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1947)

12.37body-of-work score · ranked #60 of 2631 directors · 13 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
April 8, 1947 · Meixian District
Nationality
Taiwan
Work
actor, film director, singer, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
張皓安 · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    A City of Sadness悲情城市Must-See #191

    1989 · Taiwan, China · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1990 #1 · Venice Golden Lion winner 1989 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #157

    2.775 citations
  2. 2
    Flowers of Shanghai侯孝賢Must-See #370

    1998 · Taiwan, China · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1998 #1 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1999 #1 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #225

    2.054 citations
  3. 3
    The Puppetmaster戲夢人生

    1993 · Taiwan, China · biography

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1993 #1 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1993 #9 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1999 #null

    1.064 citations
  4. 4
    The Assassin刺客聶隱娘

    2015 · Taiwan, China / China / Hong Kong, China · action, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2015 #2 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2015 #5

    1.022 citations
  5. 5
    Café Lumière珈琲時光

    2004 · Japan · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2004 #9 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2005 #3 · Film Comment year-end poll 2005 #22

    0.773 citations
  6. 6
    Goodbye South南國再見，南國

    1996 · Taiwan, China · crime, drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1997 #2 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.742 citations
  7. 7
    Three Times最好的時光

    2005 · France / Taiwan, China · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2005 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2006 #11

    0.712 citations
  8. 8
    Flight of the Red BalloonLe Voyage du ballon rouge

    2007 · France · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2008 #2

    0.631 citation
  9. 9
    Dust in the Wind戀戀風塵

    1986 · Taiwan, China · romance

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1989 #8 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1989 #9 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1987 #10

    0.613 citations
  10. 10
    A Summer at Grandpa's冬冬的假期

    1984 · Taiwan, China · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1990 #4 · Kurosawa's 100 favorite films

    0.612 citations
  11. 11
    The Time to Live and the Time to Die童年往事

    1985 · Taiwan, China · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1989 #10 · Kehr's annual top 10 1989 #null · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.553 citations
  12. 12
    Millennium Mambo千禧曼波

    2001 · France / Taiwan, China · romance, drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2001 #3

    0.501 citation
  13. 13
    Good Men, Good Women好男好女

    1995 · Japan / Taiwan, China · drama

    Kehr's annual top 10 1995 #3 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.362 citations

Complete filmography

All 21 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.