Leading director of Taiwan New Cinema, known for long, still takes. His 悲情城市 (1989), set around the 228 Incident, was the first Chinese-language film to win at Venice; 刺客聂隐娘 won him best director at Cannes in 2015.
《 Bēiqíng Chéngshì 》 shì Hóu Xiàoxián de dàibiǎozuò.
'A City of Sadness' is one of Hou Hsiao-hsien's signature works.
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His semi-autobiographical 童年往事 (A Time to Live, A Time to Die, 1985) was shot in his old family home in Fengshan, Kaohsiung, with Hou himself narrating. Its boy hero goes by 阿孝, his own childhood nickname, said the Hakka way.
