Hou Hsiao-hsien is noted Taiwanese filmmaker who has been creating films since 1980. He is well known as a pioneer in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement during the 1980s and 1990s. His autobiographical "A Time to Live, A Time to Die" (1985) was his first internationally successful film. Hou's "A City of Sadness" (1989), "The Puppetmaster" (1993), and "Flowers of Shanghai" (1998) are some of his best known work.
