Hou Hsiao-hsien – MRQE

Qian xi man po

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The beautiful Vicky drifts through her empty life in the neon-lit Taipei, maintaining a pointless relationship with her loser DJ boyfriend, Hao-Hao, and an unsatisfying career as a nightclub hostess. As her romance becomes increasingly strained, she decides to take up with Jack, a caring but criminally connected businessman. But this new relationship can’t change Vicky’s aimless nature, and her future remains as doubtful as ever.

Bei qing cheng shi

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.

The Assassin

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.

Le Voyage du ballon rouge

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d’Orsay, ‘Flight of the Red Balloon’ tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s first Western film. It is based on the classic French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.

Zui hao de shi guang

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Kôhî jikô

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm’s length, whether it’s her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who could be the father of her unborn child. Yoko seems most at home when she’s riding the train, speeding around the city with only her thoughts to entertain her.

Hai shang hua

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.

Ni luo he nu er

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

Lian lian feng chen

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.

Tong nien wang shi

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan.