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Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hou Hsiao-hsien is the 1,627th most popular actor (down from 935th in 2019), the 547th most popular biography from China (down from 397th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Chinese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hou Hsiao-hsien ranks 1,627 out of 13,578. Before him are Thomas F. Wilson, Claire Bloom, Anne Heche, Michelle Trachtenberg, Henry Calvin, and Matt LeBlanc. After him are Marianne Koch, Tracy Morgan, Fritz Wepper, Tomas Milian, Jenna Dewan, and Amrish Puri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Hou Hsiao-hsien ranks 213. Before him are Jacob Bekenstein, Petra Kelly, Muhyiddin Yassin, Antonio de la Cruz, Nobuo Kawakami, and David Patterson. After him are Jaume Cabré, Jeff Lynne, Karol Dobiaš, Kōzō Okamoto, Aleksander Krupa, and Mia Martini.

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In China

Among people born in China, Hou Hsiao-hsien ranks 547 out of 1,610. Before him are Na Moon-hee (1941), Wen Zhengming (1470), Shiing-Shen Chern (1911), Zhong Yao (151), Shen Zhou (1427), and Zhu Shijie (1249). After him are Fang Xuanling (578), Lo Wei (1918), Cheng Yi (1033), Deng Yingchao (1904), Ouyang Xun (557), and Cheng Pei-pei (1946).

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Among ACTORS In China

Among actors born in China, Hou Hsiao-hsien ranks 14. Before him are Yuen Biao (1957), Run Run Shaw (1907), Yoshiko Yamaguchi (1920), Shih Kien (1913), Zhou Xuan (1920), and Na Moon-hee (1941). After him are Cheng Pei-pei (1946), Joan Chen (1961), Ti Lung (1946), Roy Chiao (1927), Kenneth Tsang (1935), and James Tien (1942).

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