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Actor Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Age: 78 (1947-04-08)

From: Mei County, Guangdong

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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.

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The Assassin 2015 ( 6.4)

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.

Millennium Mambo 2001 ( 6.973)

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

To Each His Own Cinema 2007 ( 6.5)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Actor Hou Hsiao-Hsien JR.

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Modelling Me 2002

A Made-For-TV film as part of the non-commercial film project Sleepless, by Vertov Industries