Hou Hsiao-hsien
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Hou Hsiao-hsien at IFFR
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The puppetmaster
Hou’s sublime film is the story of the puppeteer Li from the Japanese occupation of Taiwan up to the US bombardment during liberation.
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Jam Session – Kikujiro no natsu koshiki kaizokuban
The formidable Kitano Takeshi in the ‘making-of’ of his last film Kikujiro. Plus an unforgettable encounter with the Taiwanese master H
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Reflections
Debut film by Taiwanese talent, Yao Hung-i, the former assistant director to Hou Hsiao-hsien. That the influence of the great teacher is recognisab
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Three Times
Three love stories in three different eras (1966, 1911 and 2005) in Hou’s characteristic, philosophical and aesthetic style. The different co
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Cute Girl
Hou Hsiao-hsien started his unsurpassed career with three commercial, melodramatic trivialities that were intended as vehicles for the now almost f
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Le voyage du ballon rouge
Imagine that a French director who doesn’t speak a word of Chinese wants to make a Taiwanese film, then you would politely advise him against
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The Assassin
Hundreds of martial art films have been made in the wuxia genre over the years, but the Taiwanese master of the modern Chinese outlook on life give
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Growing Up
Written and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Growing Up tells the tale of a recomposed family: a man from the mainland and his native Taiwanese wife. M